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The worst switched drink I can recall is a restaurant giving me tonic water instead of Sprite. I'd never had tonic water before, so I didn't know what the gently caress.
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Cross posting from the UK thread. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-38838653 A police force carried out a controlled explosion on a "suspicious" car outside a station, not realising its own officers had parked it there. A bomb squad was called after concerns about an unattended Vauxhall Corsa at Workington police station, Cumbria. Roads around the building, in Hall Brow, were sealed off and an explosion carried out at 08:00 GMT. The force blamed "an internal communications error" and apologised to the owner. Cumbria Police said other officers on duty were not aware colleagues had parked the car outside the station after helping its owner, who had taken ill. The building was evacuated, a 100m cordon put in place and the vehicle blown up.
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I saw a soda called Vichy in the local stop 'n' rob, and decided to grab one to try since it looked like a nice tonic/soda water. The cashier glanced at it and said "You like that stuff?" and I truthfully said I'd never tried it before. "It's really weird and salty." she helpfully told me. In the back of my mind I'm thinking "We'll yeah, all tonic and soda water is a little weird and salty" But I replied I'd let her know how I liked it. Yeah, I wasn't prepared. Vichy water tastes *exactly* like bicarbonate soda dissolved in water. I can understand maybe having a little juice glass full to settle your stomach, I can't imagine drinking and entire 20oz soda bottle full of it. Extra schadenfreude: I was making chocolate bark and when I was done I had a few extra bits of baking chocolate so I put them in the empty milk chocolate chip bag. This has unwittingly surprised both my husband and my 10 year old.
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Feb 2, 2017 18:39
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Can a ten year old tell the difference between milk and baking chocolate?
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Feb 2, 2017 18:41
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azurite posted:The worst switched drink I can recall is a restaurant giving me tonic water instead of Sprite. I'd never had tonic water before, so I didn't know what the gently caress. Are you sure it wasn't just the Sprite mixture being off? Because I'm having trouble imagining how this could ever happen. But yeah, fountain drinks in restaurants are mixed from a big thing of carbonated water and giant bags full of weird syrup poo poo, and if the syrup poo poo runs out and nobody notices or the line gets clogged or something you just end up with vaguely sour carbonated water. For colas and stuff it's easy to tell, the color comes out way lighter (eventually clear) but with white soda the only way to tell is for someone to complain.
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Feb 2, 2017 18:55
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JoelJoel posted:I once drank about half a cup of apple juice that was in the fridge in two big gulps and nearly threw up on the floor. It was actually soup broth! Hey don't sign your posts.
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Feb 2, 2017 19:00
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Outrail posted:Can a ten year old tell the difference between milk and baking chocolate? Most likely. Milk chocolate tastes like watered down poo poo.
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Feb 2, 2017 19:00
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Powaqoatse posted:Most likely. Milk chocolate tastes like watered down poo poo. And baking chocolate tastes like death, so they're pretty distinctive
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Feb 2, 2017 19:02
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Trig Discipline posted:Hey don't sign your posts. 
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Feb 2, 2017 19:12
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Powaqoatse posted:Most likely. Milk chocolate tastes like watered down poo poo. Nah, milk chocolate is creamy and tasty. Dark chocolate is a topping.
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Feb 2, 2017 19:16
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I did something similar to the ketchup on the straw except it was a packet of lemon juice that I poured down the straw of someone's milkshake.
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Feb 2, 2017 19:18
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VanSandman posted:Nah, milk chocolate is creamy and tasty. Dark chocolate is a topping. Dark chocolate is a topping, BAKING chocolate is bitter and extremely unpalatable raw. It's meant to be mixed with sugar when baking.
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Feb 2, 2017 19:19
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hamsystem posted:I did something similar to the ketchup on the straw except it was a packet of lemon juice that I poured down the straw of someone's milkshake. You're a monster. +1
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Feb 2, 2017 19:26
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I've had baking chocolate and it didn't really taste bad at all  Maybe a little less sweet but definitely edible.
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For some reason I doubt your standards for, "edible".
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TheStampede posted:For some reason I doubt your standards for, "edible".  
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Outrail posted:You're a monster. In my defense I bought the shake and the guy was a complete dickhead. Best money I ever wasted though.
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If you put baking chocolate in your mouth you'd know it real drat quick. Like anything else you're not supposed to eat, you can find videos of people trying to eat it on the youtubes. Saint Freak has a new favorite as of 19:48 on Feb 2, 2017 |
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Feb 2, 2017 19:45
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Saint Freak posted:If you put baking chocolate in your mouth you'd know it real drat quick. There's sweetened and unsweetened baking chocolate. You guys may be talking about two different things.
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I’ll take baking chocolate over Hershey’s any day of the week. It’s an acquired taste, but no harder to acquire than a taste for black coffee. Platystemon has a new favorite as of 20:01 on Feb 2, 2017 |
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Feb 2, 2017 19:57
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang posted:I saw a soda called Vichy in the local stop 'n' rob, and decided to grab one to try since it looked like a nice tonic/soda water. The cashier glanced at it and said "You like that stuff?" and I truthfully said I'd never tried it before. "It's really weird and salty." she helpfully told me. In the back of my mind I'm thinking "We'll yeah, all tonic and soda water is a little weird and salty" But I replied I'd let her know how I liked it. Sounds like that was Nazi drink you were expecting.
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Feb 2, 2017 20:30
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Isn't one of the reasons they have to add so much sugar to chocolate is 'cause it's naturally extremely bitter, since it's an alkaloid? Tastebuds, always looking out for our safety. 
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whiteyfats posted:Isn't one of the reasons they have to add so much sugar to chocolate is 'cause it's naturally extremely bitter, since it's an alkaloid? Yep. My friend works at Chocolate Kingdom in Kissimmee and I went on her tour, part of which involves letting you taste pure chocolate liquor straight from the ground beans. It's hideously bitter and almost impossible to consume more than a toothpick's worth. Chocolate was thus very unpopular when first encountered by the Spanish until they started adding sugar and milk.
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Feb 2, 2017 20:58
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chitoryu12 posted:Yep. My friend works at Chocolate Kingdom in Kissimmee and I went on her tour, part of which involves letting you taste pure chocolate liquor straight from the ground beans. It's hideously bitter and almost impossible to consume more than a toothpick's worth. Chocolate was thus very unpopular when first encountered by the Spanish until they started adding sugar and milk. Yeah, a while back I've picked up a variety of very dark chocolates with a high cocoa content to give them all a try. Anything up to the 70%-area was fine, 80%+ was alright but something of an acquired taste, but at 90%+ the stuff is basically just pure bitterness with little in the way of actual taste.
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chitoryu12 posted:Yep. My friend works at Chocolate Kingdom in Kissimmee and I went on her tour, part of which involves letting you taste pure chocolate liquor straight from the ground beans. It's hideously bitter and almost impossible to consume more than a toothpick's worth. Chocolate was thus very unpopular when first encountered by the Spanish until they started adding sugar and milk. I was in Oaxaca and saw the whole process for table chocolate, once roasted and crushed, you get this black syrup that looks like Hersheys, except its about a thousand times more bitter than coffee. They then add bags and bags of sugar that basically just absorbs the syrup's color, and put that into molds. "Table" chocolate is a hard, dark and bitter chocolate which you dissolve in milk to make hot cocoa that's really good.
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Feb 2, 2017 21:24
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raw, unsweetened cocoa is delicious. it really isn't much difference from drinking coffee.
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Feb 2, 2017 21:32
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most mass produced chocolate is the result of child labor. children's tears give chocolate its distinctive flavor.
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im pooping! posted:most mass produced chocolate is the result of child labor. children's tears give chocolate its distinctive flavor. This is wrong. They aren't children, that's just how big a fully grown Oompa Loompa gets
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3XSxzL1plo
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Railing Kill posted:Sounds like that was Nazi drink you were expecting. vichy water n 1. (Cookery) (sometimes capital) a natural mineral water from springs at Vichy in France, reputed to be beneficial to the health 2. (Cookery) any sparkling mineral water resembling this Often shortened to: vichy Take it up with the French.Edit: OOOOHHHH that was a *pun*. God that took a while. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang has a new favorite as of 22:06 on Feb 2, 2017 |
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Feb 2, 2017 21:56
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Krabboss posted:raw, unsweetened cocoa is delicious. it really isn't much difference from drinking coffee. You probably weren't consuming truly "raw cocoa" if you think it's in any way comparable to black coffee. Pure chocolate without any sweetener whatsoever is so bitter that it's completely unpalatable. You were almost definitely drinking something with some kind of adulteration.
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang posted:vichy water I wasn't being literal. Vichy has some other... associations. Like, the only thing most people outside of France know it for. But whatever. It wouldn't be SA without pedants unraveling jokes. Edit: Got it? Sorry for the  . I'll be herr all night.
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Saint Freak posted:Like anything else you're not supposed to eat, you can find videos of people trying to eat it on the youtubes. "Come on that can't possibly be true." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytYVuOhr-sE "Okay, that's one, but surely there can't be a video of a person eating-" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w388uc7ssc "There has to be something people won't eat on video!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRWULX2G-Xo Huh. (First video features some lovely bad parenting for people who want something to derail the thread with....)
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Random Stranger posted:"There has to be something people won't eat on video!" how is this video not called "ASMRby's"
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Perestroika posted:Yeah, a while back I've picked up a variety of very dark chocolates with a high cocoa content to give them all a try. Anything up to the 70%-area was fine, 80%+ was alright but something of an acquired taste, but at 90%+ the stuff is basically just pure bitterness with little in the way of actual taste. High-cacao chocolate is an acquired taste in the sense that once you start getting into it, it's hard to stop. I've got a shelf full of single-origins at home that I slowly work my way through over the course of months or years. The differences in flavor profile between them are some wild poo poo, like tasting wine or scotch but without the cost and with a much easier learning curve. I can't even stomach milk chocolate anymore, really. Here's a ten-page article that I like to reread every year or two, it's the story of Noka Chocolate—a reputedly super-high-end chocolatier that ended up being exposed (largely through this story) as a couple of scheming fraudsters. It's a fantastic read and actually on topic for this thread, so enjoy. http://dallasfood.org/2006/12/noka-chocolate-part-1/
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I was looking at some luxury chocolate once and noticed that, by weight, it was more expensive than silver.
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im pooping! posted:most mass produced chocolate is the result of child labor. children's tears give chocolate its distinctive flavor. Actually Hershey's uses children's stomach acid.
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