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If you want a sense of the taste of malort turn a can of air upside down and spray it on a table for a minute. Then put your head into the fumes and inhale through your mouth.
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That’s not so bad. I’ve had liquors that could have been improved by a little denatonium.
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(while packing a bowl of flower for their vaporizer) alcohol is poison (sprinkles a thick layer of kief on top, which deffo isn't contaminated with metal grinder shavings)
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Jan 4, 2020 18:49
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Malort has a subtle smell of unflavored toothpaste when you open it.
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Jan 4, 2020 18:59
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Everybody trying to describe the smell and taste are kind of grasping at straws. The smell and taste are only describable as characteristic.
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Jan 4, 2020 19:01
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chitoryu12 posted:People describe Malort as "bitter", but that's like describing a blowtorch as "mildly warm." The one shot I had tasted like burning plastic. It's one of those things where you say to yourself that it can't be that bad and everyone's descriptions of "pencil shavings and heartbreak" or "swallowing a burning condom filled with gasoline" is an exaggeration, and you're one of those guys who does shots of Fernet with the bartender so you can handle something bitter! And then you realize that they were, in fact, absolutely correct about what it tastes like. This is 100% correct. Also, it doesn't just taste bad. It sticks to your mouth and throat and makes everything else taste bad for the next hour.
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Jan 4, 2020 19:10
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Congratulations! You made Alcoholic Vegemite.
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Jan 4, 2020 19:24
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I like Vegemite, but only when I'm actually in Australia.
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Talking of Australia, while it burns Scotty from Marketing made an ad. https://twitter.com/ScottMorrisonMP/status/1213330419044638722 It hasn't gone over well. https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1213381979003064321 If rightwing shitheels like Piers Moron are calling you out on it, then you've royally hosed up son.
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quote:malort chat everything said of it is true. my personal notes are “burning tires w/a hint of grapefruit” at some point this year Black Dog (gelato place) did it as a special flavor... I met some people at a party & we walked over on a whim, & they were HYPED about it, like they bought a pint & dug into it as soon as we got back to the party. never hung out w/those fuckin psychos again
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Jan 5, 2020 00:49
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Okay, I wanna try Malort now.
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Screaming Idiot posted:Okay, I wanna try Malort now. It’s absolutely worth it in the sense of having another experience under your belt, but make no mistake: it’s always worse than you think it will be. Drinking Malort is like thinking you’re going to be that one guy who can handle being waterboarded.
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setting up a complex w/massive earthworks & stone obelisks inscribed in a dozen languages to warn future denizens of earth: no, really, malort IS that bad
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THOT PATROL posted:setting up a complex w/massive earthworks & stone obelisks inscribed in a dozen languages to warn future denizens of earth: no, really, malort IS that bad Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.
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THOT PATROL posted:setting up a complex w/massive earthworks & stone obelisks inscribed in a dozen languages to warn future denizens of earth: no, really, malort IS that bad 
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chitoryu12 posted:It’s absolutely worth it in the sense of having another experience under your belt, but make no mistake: it’s always worse than you think it will be. Drinking Malort is like thinking you’re going to be that one guy who can handle being waterboarded. I didn’t realise we had marketing prodigies in here.
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Dewgy you're brilliant and i want to kiss you much
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It reminds me of that drink that got mentioned in Achewood that they described as "that isn't something you drink because you enjoy it. It's something you drink because you want to have something the police will fight you for." Whatever that was, I don't remember the drink just the phrase.
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[img]https://i.imgur.com/t1nif72.jpg%5B/img%5D][/img]ToxicSlurpee posted:It reminds me of that drink that got mentioned in Achewood that they described as "that isn't something you drink because you enjoy it. It's something you drink because you want to have something the police will fight you for." Whatever that was, I don't remember the drink just the phrase. 
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Has anyone had both R&R and this poo poo? I need side by side comparisons. e: oh gently caress, I thought it was whiskey. NVM
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I like Malort. But also drink Carlo Rossi straight out the jug, so what I know. The Walgreens in my town sells Malort.
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Lord help me, I laughed at an Achewood. "Christ, smells like someone's working on a car!"
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I was just in Chicago for work and we went to a dive bar and everyone was going on about Malort and how crazy and disgusting it was so one of my colleagues bought everyone including me a shot (most of the locals got a “Chicago handshake” which is a shot of Malort and a lager) and I tried it for the first time. It’s not even fractionally as bad as people say; I assume that’s all regional tough guy poo poo. If you’ve ever had literally any amaro it’s just a normal example in that category, fairly bitter and herbal. I thought it was decent, though not nearly as good as the actual bitter/herbal things I love like Cynar or Braulio. I guess if you’ve only ever had Miller Lite and deep dish pizza the fact that it’s pretty strong flavor might blow you away, but it’s not any more bitter or uncomfortable to drink than an average IPA. The “fight your dad” ad is pretty great, though.
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The problem with Malort is that the back end taste sticks with you for days. Also a handshake is a shot of malort and an old style, specifically.
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Someone is doing something right marketing gold jewellery in India. More than a tenth of all the gold ever mined is owned by individuals in India.
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Ironically the gold-producing states were at one point (maybe still is?) under control of the communist party.
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PubicMice posted:I don't know if it's been discussed, but I was talking to a friend about India, and I remembered this ad, which is just all kinds of That's fake, right? Surely. Surely. Platystemon posted:Someone is doing something right marketing gold jewellery in India. Yeah the biggest markets for gold right now are people buying presents for Indian housewives and Chinese newborns.
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IIRC arranged marriages are mostly an upper class thing in India (and likely the rest of the world) so basically they know their market.
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i mean, gold jewelry is a good store of value and also looks pretty, might be a useful resource jusy in case you need to leave your new husband in a hurry
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I've met a ton of 2nd generation Punjabi folks recently, I'm assuming that they're not from rich families since their parents moved to the US and seemed to have climbed up the economic ladder. Regardless they're all entering in to arranged marriages, and they seem to be quite happy with the arrangement, and they're all awesome PHD+ lefty people. I kinda just assume it's a cultural thing, but I also don't want to pry in to their personal lives and decisions.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:IIRC arranged marriages are mostly an upper class thing in India (and likely the rest of the world) so basically they know their market. Naw theyre actually still the majority. Sort of. In cities people have found ways to modernize the concept so that while youre not being forced to marry someone chosen when youre too young to remember, your parents are still deeply involved in the process of finding a suitor when youre an adult. It IS changing but familial bonds are so embedded in India's cultural heritage that it's been difficult to get rid of it entirely.
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Elviscat posted:I've met a ton of 2nd generation Punjabi folks recently, I'm assuming that they're not from rich families since their parents moved to the US and seemed to have climbed up the economic ladder. Regardless they're all entering in to arranged marriages, and they seem to be quite happy with the arrangement, and they're all awesome PHD+ lefty people. I kinda just assume it's a cultural thing, but I also don't want to pry in to their personal lives and decisions. I know an optometrist that recently had an arranged marriage. From what I understand it's really a matchmaking service between two families. Both people can still refuse to get married if they don't hit it off.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:i mean, gold jewelry is a good store of value and also looks pretty, might be a useful resource jusy in case you need to leave your new husband in a hurry Go buy a hundred bucks of gold jewelry, then try and sell it the next day then tell us how good a store of value it is. I mean it's better than gems I'll give you that.
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RagnarokAngel posted:Naw theyre actually still the majority. Sort of. In cities people have found ways to modernize the concept so that while youre not being forced to marry someone chosen when youre too young to remember, your parents are still deeply involved in the process of finding a suitor when youre an adult. Probably could use more first-hand accounts but after reading enough r/relationships there might be something to be said for cultural mores where both families are invested in making sure the relationship works.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Probably could use more first-hand accounts but after reading enough r/relationships there might be something to be said for cultural mores where both families are invested in making sure the relationship works.
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Elviscat posted:I've met a ton of 2nd generation Punjabi folks recently, I'm assuming that they're not from rich families since their parents moved to the US and seemed to have climbed up the economic ladder. Regardless they're all entering in to arranged marriages, and they seem to be quite happy with the arrangement, and they're all awesome PHD+ lefty people. I kinda just assume it's a cultural thing, but I also don't want to pry in to their personal lives and decisions. If their families were able to immigrate to the US, and they have Ph.D.'s, they probably are from pretty rich families.
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Elviscat posted:I've met a ton of 2nd generation Punjabi folks recently, I'm assuming that they're not from rich families since their parents moved to the US and seemed to have climbed up the economic ladder. Regardless they're all entering in to arranged marriages, and they seem to be quite happy with the arrangement, and they're all awesome PHD+ lefty people. I kinda just assume it's a cultural thing, but I also don't want to pry in to their personal lives and decisions. There's a weird psychological quirk that makes arranged marriages work more often than not. If you're stuck with something your brain can kind of just go "well I don't have a choice in this one, might as well make the best of it." So if you get two people arranged together that have that mentality it can make a strong relationship. The snag is that sometimes one of the people involved (or, well, both sometimes) is an abhorrent monster that you're stuck with your entire life. In other cases it turns out the people arranged together are just really, really not compatible. There's also the question of what you do with people who turn out to be gay.
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Elviscat posted:I've met a ton of 2nd generation Punjabi folks recently, I'm assuming that they're not from rich families since their parents moved to the US and seemed to have climbed up the economic ladder. Regardless they're all entering in to arranged marriages, and they seem to be quite happy with the arrangement, and they're all awesome PHD+ lefty people. I kinda just assume it's a cultural thing, but I also don't want to pry in to their personal lives and decisions. I'm in Australia and haves friends from very large and wealthy Punjabi families my age that were born here. Their marriages were all 'arranged' but it was more like you date a shortlist of potential spouses your parents provide you and marry the one you hit it off with. There's some kind of network of wealthy Sikh parents spread across the Commonwealth countries that match their kids together from what I gather.
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