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AlbieQuirky posted:It's broiled egg whites, asparagus, and squash. With cinnamon. eh i'm still on board
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rndmnmbr posted:I just stumbled across all four of the new Lays chip flavors while on break, and decided to taste test them instead of working. Photos and commentary later, when I'm not phone posting, but in brief: greektown gyro = beef ramen noodle. My favorite thing about this chips, which I haven't tried, is that they seem to taste completely different to everyone
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Aesop Poprock posted:My favorite thing about this chips, which I haven't tried, is that they seem to taste completely different to everyone The reuben ones taste remarkably reuben-like to everyone I know that has tried them. The others, though, yeah. I can see someone getting "beef ramen noodle" out of the gyro ones, though to me, they just tasted like weak gyro seasoning. Not in a bad way, though.
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Aug 28, 2015 21:47
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They taste like tzatziki and beef to me
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Aug 28, 2015 21:50
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So I did something stupid. I tried the Lay's biscuit and gravy chips. In a moment of self-loathing I went to Subway for lunch. While grade Z lunch meat was tenderly being slapped on a wheat bun, I noticed the restaurant was featuring all of the new flavors. Already committing myself to an afternoon of regret and indigestion I grabbed a bag of the biscuits and gravy flavor. Biscuits and gravy. When done right, it is the fatty, spicy mother of all hangover cures. Just bake off a nice fluffy biscuit, then fry off some sausage and make a cream sauce in the drippings with a heavy hand of black pepper then top with a dash of Tabasco. It seemed strange to try and re-create the taste of something that relies on dense, doughy, creamy textures on something that is inherently crisp and thin. The chips themselves were standard Lay's thin chips. They were coated in a white powder with ominous black flecks. The taste was weird. Sage was the flavoring that they relied on to get across the sausage and it was the predominant taste with each chip. They used milk and buttermilk powder in the "dust" so each bite left a thick, slightly sour, coating sensation in my mouth. There was really no pepper or heat in the chips, which they definitely needed. If you told me they were Thanksgiving stuffing chips I would have believed it, as the sage was so predominant. Overall they weren't horrible, and moderately approximated what they were aiming for. I didn't have any lingering taste in my mouth after the meal. The chips do need a little pepper or heat or something to cut the salty/fat content. 4/10, would eat drunk.
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nowhinezone posted:4/10, would eat drunk. Hell, that describes 90% of the poo poo I've seen in this thread
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KakerMix posted:It looks so determined. Maybe because it's still alive.
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cash crab posted:OH MY GOD. I love that this required multiple trips to complete that... thing. I mean, would, but still. You scare me sometimes cash crab.
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Okay, so on my lunch break, I found a display with all of the new Lays flavors. So I grabbed one of each, plus a friend and her twelve year old son, and wasted an hour taste testing that I should have been working. Oh yeah. First up: New York Reuben:  To me, it tasted beefy, but lacking in the proper nitrate taste of corned beef. Definite notes of ketchup and pickle relish, with an unpleasant sourness that must have been an attempt at sauerkraut. Yeasty finish. My friend stated that the yeasty rye-ness they were going for was unpleasant and overwhelming, and that the chip was overall far too heavily flavored. Her son said it tasted like an overdone sandwich. On a 1-10 scale: me, 4, her, 2, her son, 3. Next: Greektown Gyro:  It straight up tastes of beef ramen noodles, and not even the good ones, but the cheap off-brands you buy at the Dollar Store. Both she and her son agreed, with her also noting an aftertaste of sour cream. None of us cared for it at all. Me, 1, her, 1, her son, 2. Next: Southern Biscuits and Gravy:  She was the most excited for this one, having heard rave reviews. It certainly smells just like biscuits and gravy. She said that there was a strong sage taste, like cheap breakfast sausage, and a slight creamy gravy note, and that it wasn't bad but not as good as she had hoped. I noted the creamy sweetness of properly made sawmill gravy, muted tones of sage but no meatiness, and all of it basically overwhelmed by the taste of potato. Her son gave no comment, but immediately devoured the rest of the bag. Me, 3, her, 6, her son an obvious 10. Last: West Coast Truffle Fries:  Right off the bat, it smelled like sour cream and onion. The flavors of SC&O were muted to me, but there was a definite earthy, mushroomy flavor that I can only assume was truffle (having never tasted a truffle myself). She noted the earthiness as well, but said that the SC&O flavor was strong as well. She also said that she was leery of it before, but having tasted it she could see herself eating an entire bag. Her son stated that it was just a chip to him. Me, 5, her, 9, her son, 3 So, overall, she liked the truffle fries, her son loved the biscuits and gravy, and I was overall sadly disappointed with all of them. Now, on another note, my favorite part of this taste test:  Full Throttle Blue Demon. The energy drink from Coca-Cola set up as the rival to Mt. Dew Amp. I've drank these for years, ever since they first came out. Of a special note, it's missing that energy drink aftertaste, what I call "Flintstones Vitamins Taste", that other energy drinks have. Since it doesn't include guarana in it's formulation, I'm assuming that the Flintstones Vitamins taste is from that. That aftertaste turns me off of any other energy drink. It's very sweet, with an almost floral nose, and a decided cactus taste. Refreshing. If they would cut the caffeine, bottle it, and sell it at the price point of other sodas, it would easily be my absolute favorite soda. Highly recommended.
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rndmnmbr posted:Full Throttle Blue Demon. The energy drink from Coca-Cola set up as the rival to Mt. Dew Amp. I've drank these for years, ever since they first came out. rip rndmnmbr
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Aug 29, 2015 01:17
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I only drink Monster Unleaded because I like the taste of cough syrup while also having an energy crisis.
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rndmnmbr posted:Chip trip report I never thought I would see a review of potato chips written like a fancy beer menu, but here we are. Well done!
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rndmnmbr posted:Full Throttle Blue Demon. The energy drink from Coca-Cola set up as the rival to Mt. Dew Amp. I've drank these for years, ever since they first came out. Of a special note, it's missing that energy drink aftertaste, what I call "Flintstones Vitamins Taste", that other energy drinks have. Since it doesn't include guarana in it's formulation, I'm assuming that the Flintstones Vitamins taste is from that. That aftertaste turns me off of any other energy drink. One of the gas station chains around here used to have regular Full Throttle on the soda fountain, and whenever i needed to go to work early I'd get a 44 ounce for a dollar. It's probably taken a year off my life, but it was cheaper then buying two cans.
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The last time I drank an energy drink was to in hopes of getting hopped up for a graveyard shift and all it did was make me nauseous for 24 hours and also actually made me sleepier. Thanks 5 Hour Energy.
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Aug 29, 2015 02:03
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Did you drink it 6 hours beforehand?
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Dabir posted:Did you drink it 6 hours beforehand? on the off chance this is some legit thing and you're not meming me here, no I swigged it right before the shift. I pretty much immediately got a headache and nausea from the flavor even after washing it down with water and dry heaved through the entire shift.
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Aug 29, 2015 02:13
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Aug 29, 2015 02:39
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ErIog posted:
would taco pizza is legit
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Rickycat posted:would I think most would, but I just like how non-standard pizzas wig the pizza Mussolini's out.
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ErIog posted:
That's basically a big tostada though :???:
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ErIog posted:
Take off those Lego tires and we have a deal.
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pandaK posted:The last time I drank an energy drink was to in hopes of getting hopped up for a graveyard shift and all it did was make me nauseous for 24 hours and also actually made me sleepier. Thanks 5 Hour Energy. 1. 5-hour energy is bad and doesn't work. 2. How much caffeine do you take on average? Your body's probably not used to all those stims at once. I had a similar reaction to you when I first drank and energy drink, now I can drink 16 oz of Red Bull and then go to sleep afterwards. 
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Chard posted:I miss Jolt Cola It isn't just you, BTW. Neo_Crimson posted:1. 5-hour energy is bad and doesn't work. Also, I have the caffeine tolerance of a large rock.
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rndmnmbr posted:CHIP TRIP  I love AFP effort posts so, so much.
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The mug cake made me think of this: (protein powder gingerbread mug cake with I think tofu) and that was next to this:  (peach cobbler with a cinnamon/textured vegetable protein crumble atop, in blended tofu "cream" sweetened with stevia)
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ErIog posted:
Taco pizzas are relatively standard at a lot of pizza places now so they're not exactly exotic, but anyone who puts black olives on anything related to tacos or nachos is a barbarian
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Neo_Crimson posted:1. 5-hour energy is bad and doesn't work. They work perfectly for me.  pandaK posted:on the off chance this is some legit thing and you're not meming me here, no I swigged it right before the shift. I pretty much immediately got a headache and nausea from the flavor even after washing it down with water and dry heaved through the entire shift. Sorry they totally hosed you up instead of working though. 
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Aesop Poprock posted:Taco pizzas are relatively standard at a lot of pizza places now so they're not exactly exotic, but anyone who puts black olives on anything is a barbarian FTFY
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My go-to night shift solution was to slam a Full Throttle as soon as I clocked in, a Five Hour Energy chased with another Full Throttle at 2 am or so, and one more Full Throttle chasing four ibuprofen at 5 am. This plus two liters or so of Dr. Pepper throughout the night. e. And if we were out of Full Throttle, then Monsters as fast as I could chug them, doing my best not to taste them.
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Neo_Crimson posted:1. 5-hour energy is bad and doesn't work. They're really just a shitton of niacin in liquid form (with a cloying fruity taste to mask that delicious niacin flavor) designed to induce something called NIACIN FLUSH  Some people get a boost from it, but most people just feel uncomfortable and warm for a while after drinking one.
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5-hour energy flavor review: Grape: the saddest, worst grape. Like eating a fake grape from a plastic floral decoration. Berry: Worse than grape. Far, far worse. Like someone once described a strawberry to a cannibal. Pink Lemonaide: Lemony, but with a pink urinal puck aftertaste. Lemon-Lime: Lemon Pledge. Tolerable, if only just. Sour Apple: neither sour nor apple, but you can believe the flavor did indeed come from some sort of tree Fruit Punch: Red Kool-Aid, thinned with bleach. Orange: Not bad. Actual orange, not artificial orange. Pomegranate:  All accompanied by the burning chemical flavor of aspartame, in doses that came full-circle back from cancer-giving, becoming chemotherapy from the wrong direction.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:They're really just a shitton of niacin in liquid form (with a cloying fruity taste to mask that delicious niacin flavor) designed to induce something called NIACIN FLUSH No idea what is in them, but they are a godsend for me and the only thing that keeps me awake enough to work but even enough to make good decisions, unlike the unfortunate night I ordered and drank 10 shots of espresso in a single go. And amusingly, my GF gets super super red and flushed from drinking one, which lead to an amazing fight one night when I was convinced she was drunk when she was supposed to be driving us home.
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rndmnmbr posted:5-hour energy flavor review: These are my go-to wilderness backpacking "morning coffees" and I regret nothing other than they make my tremors worse for a bit.
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I just finished my trip through all four of those chip flavors with today's lunch. I'm impressed that everyone else is getting flavors like sage and ramen out of these things. To me the biscuits & gravy one just tasted like sour cream & onion. The Reuben one just... I don't even know what the gently caress. I couldn't come up with any adjectives. The biggest failure of all these flavors is that I couldn't remember a drat thing about how they tasted, even five minutes after the fact. I'm no snack food chauvinist, but I know it's possible to make chips more ambitiously than this. I've had Tim's Cascade Chips, dammit. And I wanted to like these. They sure did make the bags look like there was tasty stuff within. But it was all just so bland and underwhelming. They made me not want to eat chips anymore. God dammit Lay's  Oh well, back to not getting chips with my Subways I guess
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Okay, so my last post about no pizza rules was bullshit, admittedly. Here's some real content:    modedit: Use smaller images so you don't break the gently caress out of the tables! Somebody has a new favorite as of 14:59 on Aug 29, 2015 |
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ErIog posted:Here's some real content: Are those Cicadas?
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Bina posted:Are those Cicadas? I have it on good authority they are some variety of silkworm.
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ErIog posted:I have it on good authority they are some variety of silkworm. Silkworms tend to have little nubby legs. Those look like long spindly legs. I'd totes eat Cicadas. They are plentiful when they hatch and breed, and can only imagine people have resorted to also eating them when they emerge. Every 13-17 years, I believe. Bina has a new favorite as of 05:09 on Aug 29, 2015 |
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