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59 ,( 1984)35-142
 * D. A. Kazhdan & S. J. Patterson, Metaplectic forms, Publications Mathématiques de l'Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques

The Incompatible Food Triad is a puzzle to find three foods for which any pair will taste good together, but all three together will not. The puzzle is believed to have originated with the philosopher Wilfrid Sellars, and has been spread by some of his former colleagues and students, including Nuel Belnap and George W. Hart.

In 2007 the puzzle was featured on WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show.

False solutions
Given three foods that do not go together, it is usually because two of them don't go together. For example, Richard Feynman's famous example of accidentally requesting milk and lemon in his tea is not a solution. While tea and lemon do go together, and tea and milk do go together, milk and lemon do not go together. For this solution to work, milk and lemon would have to go together as well.

According to George W. Hart, most attempted solutions tend to overlook one of the three pairs. Issues of personal taste and preparation complicate the issue, as combinations some consider acceptable sound unpalatable to others, and problems such as milk curdling with the addition of lemon juice can potentially be overcome if a cheesemaking process is employed.

Possible solutions
In a posting on its website after the puzzle was aired on the WNYC radio show in New York; Beer, 7Up, and Whiskey was given as a solution with the statement that beer with 7Up makes shandy, beer with whiskey makes a boilermaker and whiskey with 7Up is a 7 & 7, but the three together would "make you sick". Other possible solutions from viewers included:
 * pie crust, raspberries and spinach
 * chocolate, peanut butter and chicken

J.J. McHenry
John Joseph (J.J.) McHenry was an Irish Physicist and president of University College Cork.

Early life
McHenry was

Career
He got his batchelors at UCD in 1917 and masters in 1918 at U Cambridge. His DSc in 1931 at NUI. He served as president of the UCC Philosophical Society.

McHenry material from sources
Professor John Joseph McHenry, M.A., D.Sc., F.Inst.P. was Professor of Physics at UCC 1932-1964 and at the age of sixty-seven became president of UCC 1967-1978.

He was also Vice-President of the Philosoph in 1967. He threatened to resign as Vice-President of the Philosoph if the Society went ahead and sent a letter to the Pope complaining of the ban on Catholic students attending Trinity College, Dublin.

Professor John A. Murphy has described McHenry as "A distinguished professor of experimental physics (who had unsuccessfully contested the presidency in 1954), McHenry was a man of considerable presence, dignified and courteous (if a little glacial), with considerable gravitas. But, quite simply, he was too old all the more so at a time of radical change" [The College]

In the late sixties he sat on the Commission on Higher Education, alongside Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (then Chief Justice, and later President of Ireland) and Sir Herbert Butterfield, the noted Cambridge historian.

He was president of University College Cork from 1964 to 1967.

Murphy, John A. The College: A History of Queen's/University College Cork 1845-1995. Cork University Press: Cork. 1996

REMARKS BY WP EDITOR AUTHOR
Name of page is John Joseph (J.J.) McHenry He is mentioned on the following pages: John McHenry McHenry (name) University College Cork UCC Philosophical Society Edward Francis Fahy J.J. McHenry John J. McHenry

Strangely there is no MGP page.

Vol. 55 (1952/1953), pp. 51-59
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 * J.J. McHenry and S. Twomey, Condensation Nuclei Produced by Ultraviolet Light Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 * Photograph of dignitaries at the inauguration of President John J. McHenry, University College Cork
 * Gallery of Irish Mathematicians
 * Professor John Joseph McHenry Archives of the UCC Philosophical Society
 * Vice-Presidents of the Society Archives of the UCC Philosophical Society

John Joseph	McHenry, John	1917	UCD [J Nolan?] {M&PHY}	1918	U Cambridge	1931	NUI (DSc)