Let's talk about nitroglycerin

[misto]

making something have "roughly as much utility" as something else is very nearly giving up on having it at all, because why have two different things that do the same thing? well, apart from all those other things that also already do the same things as each other

what it needs is a funny and or clever original use for it that other chemicals shouldnt impinge on.

if explosive tomatoes and hurled rainbow melons werent already staple foods i would suggest nitroglycerin impregnated melons or coconuts, but alas

and as for turning drinks into explosives, the shit served at the bar is often deadly enough already, whether swallowed or thrown

maybe it could combine with enriched msg and butter and cholesterol and porktonium and omnizine (the nitroglycerin here serving to help keep your heart functioning) to turn a spaceman into a sort of blubber hulk