The Power of Chicken Noodle Soup.

Now, remember that basic experiment involving a lightbulb, a beaker, water, and salt? The teacher would stick the wire end or whatever was attached to the lightbulb into a beaker of water. Nothing happens to the lightbulb. Then salt would be dumped in, and the conductivity tester lowered into the beaker again- and voila, the bulb lights up! This is an experiment showing conductivity of ions.

A few days ago, however, my chem prof pulled out a real packet of Lipton Chicken Noodle Soup in lecture. On the lecture slide projected showed the list of ingredients, in order, starting from the top, with the first two being..
Noodles
Salt
...... I don't think the rest matters much at the moment. Because I can feel the burn of salt on my tongue just by thinking about it.
Now, he proceeds to do the lightbulb experiment just like the one I described above. Beaker+water= lightbulb doesn't light up. Okaaay. (unsurprised) Beaker+water+quite a substantial amount of table salt= the lightbulb gives off a weak yellow glow. Okaaay. (not impressed) The chem prof reaches behind the podium and whips out another beaker, filled with LIQUID LIPTON CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP. WHOA. Unexpected!! (fully attentive)
Says he, holding the lightbulb appartus poised over the beaker+chicken noodle soup, "I think you better put on some sunglasses," in his Parisian accent. And promptly sticks it into the beaker.
Dude, it was like someone had turned on the lights! It felt like that blazing lightbulb lit up that darkened auditorium of capacity 700 ppl- comparing this with the beaker+water+salt, it felt as if the former lightbulb barely gave off any light! You might have heard that Chicken Noodle Soup is good for you. I can say with absolute conviction, Not this. You do not want this in your body.
And if chicken soup is good for your soul, I bet Lipton's will shrivel yours up like a prune. Baked and dried, man, baked and dried.
Ahhh, Chemistry lectures are pretty interesting and amusing right now, especially with this professor.