Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 09, 2021

It’s warming your core, which is the important part.

I bet it raises the temperature of her core area by maybe 0.5ºF and that IS enough to feel better. The sugar doesn’t hurt either.

More importantly, it supplies calories which, when metabolized, generates heat.

It will warm you, just as drinking something cold can cool you.

Be careful drinking too much cold water at once, about a gallon of ice cold water can put you in hypothermic shock. Have seen it. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Even not particularly liked, we tried to warn him, but you know people that believe they know everything won’t take advice from others.

Ah, but you just showed you were listening!

Arguments about temperature aside… 0.5%?

That’s half a percent… 1/200.

And a pint’s a pound, when it comes to most liquids.

 

Cartoon proportions can be misleading…

That Thermos is shaped like a wide-mouth pint, but drawn as large as a quart, which is what many people carry at such times.

A pint … one pound of hot chocolate… would be 0.5% of a 200 pound person.

A quart would be that percentage of 400 pounds….

though it appears to have a sipping lid, more likely on a pint, I think…. but I haven’t checked lately.

People seem to carry bigger and bigger bottles of liquid.

 

Miss Plainwell is very slender.

Maybe she really wasn’t listening… or she’s not into arithmetic.

Or maybe she’s just trying to shut down his babbling

Q= m x C x delta T can figure all that out.

To express temperatures as ratios, the temperatures must be converted to Kelvins. Absolute zero is equal to -459.67F, which means zero Fahrenheit is 459.67 above absolute zero. 459.67 + 98.6 (558.27) equals body temperature above absolute zero in degrees Fahrenheit. %50 warmer is body temperature times 1.5 or 837.4 degrees Fahrenheit above absolute zero. To convert to the actual Fahrenheit scale, subtract 458.67. Therefore %50 warmer than body temperature is 377.73 Fahrenheit. 147.9 is %50 greater than 98.6 ONLY when you’re talking about just numbers, not temperature. I thought Caulfield was smarter than that, maybe he would be if he were real, but Mallett isn’t.

Where’s a physicist-physiologist team when you need one? As in, how many calories can a given quantity of hot chocolate deliver to the body versus how many calories are required to make a physiological difference versus what’s required to make a psychological difference? Also got to consider what the maximum drinkable temperature is.

Patrolling, following snowplows after a blizzard, I always carried two thermoses of hot broth for stranded motorists. Nothing with caffeine, which could cause circulation away from the body core to increase prematurely and potentially be fatal.

And, if it’s tasty, it warms your soul.

Finally, someone has come up with a way to tell that kid off.

when we were kids, our parents gave us hot cups of coffee before we had to walk the 1.8 miles to school from 5th to 8th grade (you got kicked off bus starting grade 5- Catholic school)….google’s cool, now us oldtimers can give you the exact mileage involved in our treks to school…and that was one-way, by the way

He’s thinking you will give it to him.

So – here again is where Mallet really should consider talking with people before publishing a strip like this – For one, the hot cocoa isn’t heating up the whole body – it is heating the mouth, trachea and the stomach. As those are warmed, it increases blood flow through the core which has the effect of bringing body heat to the epidermis making you feel warmer. Which is why you can “feel warmer” without having a fever.

Say the cocoa is ten degrees warmer than the stomach.   That’s ten calories per gram.   But a gram of cocoa contains about ten kilocalories of fuel.

And it gets your hands warm.

Mallett must have “heard” 50% warmer when he was “told” 15% warmer. Otherwise I don’t know what he’s thinking.

Facebook won’t let me see the log anymore without logging in. Bummer.

Another area he hasn’t studied yet.