What's with all the beans?

I thinks it's baked beanz! With porks!

Not even close. A hint. It's not animal or vegetable.

beans

Not quite.

Do I detect a hint of tabasco sauce?

Looks more like blood, don't you think?

nah, looks more like hot sauce and that's for dern sure

Still wrong though.

Shoggoth.

Nooope......

You guys get one more guess, then I'll spill the beans tell you.

Looks like Natto to me.

What the heck is Natto?

You don't want to know.

Look it up on Steve Don't Eat It if you want to know anyway.


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Oh jeeze! It looks EXACTLY like natto!!! *pukes* Thankfully this is a stone formation in a cave and has no noticeable smell.

Makes sense, the glistening is from the water that's causing the formation then yes? Also I guess we all got onto the food kick after reading you mention Cupcakes. The brain is funny like that.

Yep, the water does it. And that could be it about the food thing. Power of suggestion working subliminally.

Ok so everyone thinks it's beans...
Not me...looks like Mac. Shells and cheese
O.o

Another hint. It's mineral.

Well cut down a tree and call me stumped...
=3

Keep reading the comments. I've let the cat out of the bag somewhere in here. ;3

Natto?

WTF is this Natto?

Fermented soybeans that are the result of being put in jars and buried underground for extended periods of time as a way of preservation.

Ugh! I just saw a picture. So gross!!!!

Okay, I got one more wrong guess so here's the answer. It's a calcite formation in Jewel Cave in South Dakota. I'd tell you the correct name for it if I knew. *giggles* It has water drooling over it is why it looks wet. It is.

Lies it's your pet Shoggoth and you don't want to admit you have one.

Ya got me pal!

My first guess was barbeque pork and beans, but with a little imagination it does look like a high resolution image of the surface of the sun with an obvious red coronal flare in the upper left corner.

That's a mighty blown up view of the graininess if it was. People who said natto were REALLY close looks wise, though of course it's another cave formation.

You know? I believe if I ever visit a cave with marked formations, I'll take a close look at the floor. If I recall correctly, it takes hundreds of thousands of years for the more spectacular Stalagmites and Stalactites to form. Did you know some clever fellow made Mammoth Caves a musical instrument?

Never heard that about Mammoth Caves. How'd he do it?

The creator of the "Cave Organ" first tapped on each formation with a hammer to figure out it's note and tone, then rigged up the formations with relays that activated small hammers, then wired the whole thing up to a keyboard. I'm not sure as I get conflicting reports of the year, from the 1930s through to the 1960s, for when this publicity stunt was performed, but I'm certain it was done before the caves were declared a national monument. I believe it was called "The Mammoth Caves Organ" and I believe the instrument was featured in one of those Disney "True life adventures." I recall the sound being rather crystalline, and almost bell like. Of course the instrument had to be dismantled because the vibrations started breaking the calcite deposits and some fell to the floor with a loud, crystalline "Crash" during a performance.

Sounds like a ranger's nightmare, but interesting. Oddly enough I can find nothing about this by googling. Tried all sorts of ways too.

Let me have a look. I'm surprised it's not listed on the Mammoth Caves website.

Okidoki!

limestone deposits inside a cavern

and the red is an algae

This I think is iron oxide. That's what I was told the rest of the red stuff is in there.

Yay! Good one!

but not right?

The limestone deposit is right, just not the algae, I think.

Sooooooo
Half the cupcakes?
or cupcakes with no icing ?

3/4 of the cupcakes...with icing. It was a good guess aside from the algae.

Another colonoscopy huh Fangs? Did they manage to retrieve the foreign object this time?


And stop all those yogurt enemas, you're starting to look like a Travertine limestone formation up there. There is such a thing as too much calcium you know.

Oooh I know, I got that once at a truck stop in New Jersey!!

Ha ha...yes! New Jersey probably has several 'special' entrees you can buy at truck stops. Especially near those nice rivers like the Passaic and the Hackensack.