Yeah, thats why I specified it was just in the coating. Like the spangle in galvanized metal where you see grains with the naked eye.

In addition to what others people have mentioned (studies showing legitimate benefits to increased protein, greater need to ensure adequate protein intake for those with artificially reduced appetite, and just general dude-bro carnivore keto fads), a huge thing that I haven’t seen mentioned in this thread is the massive dairy surplus.

Very few people drink milk as a beverage compared to 15 years ago, so the dairy industry (with the aid of the government) is trying to get as many alternative uses for dairy going as possible.

AFAIK, that’s also how microprocessors are made; single crystals of silicon, though that’s a metalloid not a metal.

This is also a big part of why manufacturing in space has huge potential. In micro-gravity, crystal formation is less effected. I risk it’s a bigger deal for things like proteins, optics, and other non-metal things, though.

I could be wrong, but there’s a decent chance the corrosion is just following grain boundaries of the metal. When liquid metal cools, or is otherwise deposited (like galvanization), the atoms stack up into a crystal structure. Depending on the exact procedure, this process starts in comparatively many or few places. As more atoms stack up, the crystals run into each other, but they are usually not lined up right to just merge, so they have awkward borders. All the “impurities” get pushed into the borders.

The crystals are called grains, and controlling their size and shape is basically the most important factor in determining the strength of a metal. When a blacksmith quenches something, it’s to cool it down really quick so those grains are really small, which makes the metal really hard. Heat treating later lets some of the grains merge to soften the metal up a bit so it’s less brittle.

In this case, the corrosion is just in a coating, probably nickel, but the principle of having grains is the same. All the stuff that’s more susceptible to corrosion is confined to the borders.

I’m leaving the typo, lol.

It’s a restaurant chain that is almost always open to the point that there are some locations that didn’t even have locks on their doors until covid forced them to shit down.

If the power goes out, they switch to a gas only menu. If gas goes out, they switch to an electric only menu.

The food is not great, but very often the only option in a given town in the middle of the night. Sometimes, it’s what you need.