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[gosling]

If, say, your exceedingly independent four year old were to attempt to make himself an impressively large volume of a version of chocolate milk (using maple syrup!) while you were busy elsewhere in the house, and then, I expect due to the weight, were to drop it, covering most of the kitchen floor, how would you go about cleaning it? It appears his culinary science experiment has created a substance of immensely tenacious stickiness, and washing it several times has been virtually useless.

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[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

When I was about 12, I had a similar accident but with Jell-O. Let's just skip the details on what exactly happened! It took many, many moppings for the floor to be not sticky. It was just a matter of elbow grease, i'm sorry to say.

Years later, my mom found red Jell-O spashes under the cabinets. We thought that was the end of it. Then I went to college, and my parents got a new refrigerator. On the floor under the refrigerator, of course, there was more red Jell-O. The moral of this story is: if you want to be done with this mess, you need to move to a new house.