"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
It's not THAT bad, but it is strange. I had a bottle and let people sample some. No one rushed for the bathroom, but no one was exactly eager for a second drink, either.
"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
^^ Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit's Bakon! Only one thing smells like Bakon and that's Bakon!
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Voodoo Doughnut is a famous doughnut shop in Portland, Oregon.
I only know this because Justice has alluded to it before; I live on the other side of the country.
one of my uni bars regularly gets good marks from the good beer guide and while i am not a beer man, they also have a fine selection of ciders (which i am v appreciative of) and are one of the relatively few places outside scotland where you can buy moniack mead. i thought mead sucked and was just something that lame wannabe "vikings" and folk-metal fans drank but Moniack is legit tasty
one of my uni bars regularly gets good marks from the good beer guide and while i am not a beer man, they also have a fine selection of ciders (which i am v appreciative of) and are one of the relatively few places outside scotland where you can buy moniack mead. i thought mead sucked and was just something that lame wannabe "vikings" and folk-metal fans drank but Moniack is legit tasty
you probably already know this, but don't get ripped drunk off of mead. There's a hangover, and then there's a mead hangover
i dont get hangovers. seriously. i've drunk entire 70cl bottles of vodka and woke up the next morning fresh as a daisy. my brother was the same way but then one night he drank enough to get alcohol poisoning and always got them afterwards, so basically i'm aiming to not do that
mead isnt the kind of thing i'd want to have more than one or two glasses of anyway
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
also Strongbow is the worst shit in the world, ever, invented by anyone, fuck strongbow, it literally tastes the way piss smells
There are much worse ciders, believe me.
I'm not sure what possess micro-brewers to sell some of the crap they do, but they sell it. And people must BUY it, cause they keep putting the crap back on the shelves.
Hopefully the other cider brewers I mentioned will edge out the (practically literally) shitty competition.
perhaps there are. (i havent tasted them.) but i particularly dislike strongbow because i had it at about age 14/15 and it put me off cider for a good while, which was a terrible thing to happen because cider is wonderful.
after i developed a taste for it i thought 'hey i should go back to strongbow, maybe my taste buds werent developed enough yet'. had some strongbow, nope, still tastes like someone picked a load of awful shit out of a town-centre gutter after a friday night, put it through a blender and then mixed it with a homeless mans still-warm piss, fuck strongbow, horrible horrible shit.
However, it's not uncommon for a sample size to be sold with a regular bottle of Remy. It's worth it for the Remy alone, a bit better than the overpriced Courvoisier and a bit cheaper, too.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
Even though I didn't take a picture of it, I can confirm sighting Early Times, in a real glass bottle, on the same shelf with actual high-priced liquors while in Japan.
It seems every country has some kind of booze that the natives find repulsive but foreigners adore. For America it's Early Times, for Australia it's Fosters, for China it's Tsingtao, etc
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
I never thought of it that way, but that's very insightful. I mean, America makes A LOT of alcohol and ships it, and I knew we had a collection of stuff that people drink that other countries ship to us and think is swill. I never stopped to consider that "Early Times" is our way of paying them back.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
I think that for alcohol, it's almost entirely about what a person wants to be seen drinking rather than how something actually tastes. This is in turn beholding to the locale, and will vary wildly; so one nation's ambrosia is another's swill and as long as Early Times is looked upon fondly in Japan, it'll be okay to drink it there despite the fact that it's bottom-shelved plastic bottled bargain booze in its own country.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Well, as someone who has a collection that would make many bars envious, there's definitely a taste factor involved. But I'd be lying if I said there's no merit to what you're saying, alcohol can be "trendy" and "upscale" just as easily as fashion, and there's a prestige in some circles that goes with being able to tell the deference between a good and bad wine or being able to enjoy scotch.
I'm sure Early Times enjoys some prestige as an "American whiskey" in Japan despite the fact that it is indeed "bottom-shelved plastic bottled bargain booze in its own country".
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Speaking of "taste" vs " prestige" I've just determined that this:
Tastes better to me than this:
Despite the later costing well over four times more.
I'll grant that the later is probably more complex, but that's not always a great thing, especially when "complex" often has to battle it out with "smooth".
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
Don't get me wrong, people's pretentious desire to look trendy and upscale while killing their brain cells doesn't diminish the fact that there's a lot of actual quality beers and liquors out there. It's just funny when you realize a person's actual intentions for their choice of drink, like hipsters and Pabst (which is a cheap beer but I'll argue that it's not a bad beer. Far from it.)
Then there's the garbage that's specifically marketed to dickwavers who make a tremendous effort to be seen drinking with, like Arrogant Bastard Ale.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Also, I posted that because California with it's non-state controlled liquor boards is the only place I can get good Chinese Rice Liquor that I'm aware of and I happened to be their recently.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Don't get me wrong, people's pretentious desire to look trendy and upscale while killing their brain cells doesn't diminish the fact that there's a lot of actual quality beers and liquors out there. It's just funny when you realize a person's actual intentions for their choice of drink, like hipsters and Pabst (which is a cheap beer but I'll argue that it's not a bad beer. Far from it.)
Then there's the garbage that's specifically marketed to dickwavers who make a tremendous effort to be seen drinking with, like Arrogant Bastard Ale.
I was never so much convinced that Arrogant Bastard Ale is so much marketed towards people who want to look like they know beer so much as it was a science experience they figured no one would willingly drink so they just tried reverse psychology on everyone and it turns out the alcohol drinking public is dumb enough to bite hook, line, and sinker.
That being said, they brewery DOES produce some decent beer, but Arrogant Bastard seems to be an attempt to cram as much hops as possible into a drink coupled with a "double dog dare" to drink the stuff printed on the label.
One of my friends invented a new drink he calls Black Daniels.
It is essentially mixing Jack Daniels with Black Velvet.
It's absolutely horrible, but it's intended purpose is punishment, rather than enjoyment, so I guess on a sadistic drinker's opinion it's actually very great.
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i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
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i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
one of my uni bars regularly gets good marks from the good beer guide and while i am not a beer man, they also have a fine selection of ciders (which i am v appreciative of) and are one of the relatively few places outside scotland where you can buy moniack mead. i thought mead sucked and was just something that lame wannabe "vikings" and folk-metal fans drank but Moniack is legit tasty
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i dont get hangovers. seriously. i've drunk entire 70cl bottles of vodka and woke up the next morning fresh as a daisy. my brother was the same way but then one night he drank enough to get alcohol poisoning and always got them afterwards, so basically i'm aiming to not do that
mead isnt the kind of thing i'd want to have more than one or two glasses of anyway
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
perhaps there are. (i havent tasted them.) but i particularly dislike strongbow because i had it at about age 14/15 and it put me off cider for a good while, which was a terrible thing to happen because cider is wonderful.
after i developed a taste for it i thought 'hey i should go back to strongbow, maybe my taste buds werent developed enough yet'. had some strongbow, nope, still tastes like someone picked a load of awful shit out of a town-centre gutter after a friday night, put it through a blender and then mixed it with a homeless mans still-warm piss, fuck strongbow, horrible horrible shit.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
wonder why
Even though I didn't take a picture of it, I can confirm sighting Early Times, in a real glass bottle, on the same shelf with actual high-priced liquors while in Japan.
It seems every country has some kind of booze that the natives find repulsive but foreigners adore. For America it's Early Times, for Australia it's Fosters, for China it's Tsingtao, etc
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Don't get me wrong, people's pretentious desire to look trendy and upscale while killing their brain cells doesn't diminish the fact that there's a lot of actual quality beers and liquors out there. It's just funny when you realize a person's actual intentions for their choice of drink, like hipsters and Pabst (which is a cheap beer but I'll argue that it's not a bad beer. Far from it.)
Then there's the garbage that's specifically marketed to dickwavers who make a tremendous effort to be seen drinking with, like Arrogant Bastard Ale.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
I just tried this. It's surprisingly decent. Though I got a headache after a few sips, so it probably isn't something I'd drink regularly.
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It is essentially mixing Jack Daniels with Black Velvet.
It's absolutely horrible, but it's intended purpose is punishment, rather than enjoyment, so I guess on a sadistic drinker's opinion it's actually very great.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis