After all, in just six weeks, the average dairy cow can produce more milk than this entire farm of 130 donkeys can generate in a year. No wonder Cleopatra needed a pack of 700 just to run a bath of her fabled ass's milk. In fact, it requires 25 litres of donkey milk to make one kilo of cheese. Which helps explain why no one has ever bothered producing it â until a few months ago. It also helps explain why it instantly shot to the top of the cheese-price league table, easily overtaking Â£630-a-kilo Swedish moose cheese.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Saccharin. Saccharin is an artificial sweetener. The basic substance, benzoic sulfilimine, has effectively no food energy and is much sweeter than sucrose, but has a bitter or metallic aftertaste, especially at high concentrations. It is used to sweeten products such as drinks, candies, cookies, medicines, and toothpaste.
Scab is a technical anti-shibboleth. The preferred medical term is crust or eschar, the latter being Greek for scab. The edge of an eschar can keep a wound from closing by secondary intention. And an eschar is a sign that a wound is too dry to heal as fast as possible. Having noted that, a crust is the best nature can do in many situations.