The Very Many Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread XXXII

[Timsup2nothin]

Ah. Or Span-bru.

A fine Glaswegian drink, if ever I heard one. Made in Scotland from spans.

How do they make a drink out of bridges?

 

[Takhisis]

They make a drink out of iron in Scotland already. Didn't you know?

 

[Broken_Erika]

They make a drink out of iron in Scotland already. Didn't you know?

Yay! Iron helps us play!

 

[Chukchi Husky]

They make a drink out of iron in Scotland already. Didn't you know?

It was originally an American creation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irn-Bru#Early_history

 

[Takhisis]

I know, but I didn't claim it was a Scottish invention.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

It was originally an American creation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irn-Bru#Early_history

I like how that article goes on about the history and marketing campaigns for the stuff, but at no point mentions what it actually tastes like.

 

[Takhisis]

Hahaha. I was just checking exactly that. Yes. Irn-Bru tastes like Irn-Bru. Can you really describe the taste of Coca-Cola? Doesn't it just taste like Coca-Cola?

 

[Traitorfish]

I like how that article goes on about the history and marketing campaigns for the stuff, but at no point mentions what it actually tastes like.

Well, it's like how Lovecraft never actually describes what Cthulu looks like.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Hahaha. I was just checking exactly that. Yes. Irn-Bru tastes like Irn-Bru. Can you really describe the taste of Coca-Cola? Doesn't it just taste like Coca-Cola?

Sweet with a faint caramel ,citrus and cane sugar aroma.
I think. I prefer Pepsi, which tastes a bit more like cinnamon and honey.

 

[Mouthwash]

Well, it's like how Lovecraft never actually describes what Cthulu looks like.

The drink must not be so bad then, as Cthulhu was defeated by being run over with a motorboat (or whatever, I don't recall the story too well).

 

[Borachio]

Is that what Coca-Cola tastes like?

I wouldn't know myself, never having tasted it. I just knew I wouldn't like it, so I never tried.

And I'm not tempted now. I simply don't like sweet things to eat or drink, and never have.

 

[Mouthwash]

Why would you deprive yourself of a universal experience? Even if it's disappointing?

I hated Coke when I tried it. Took me a few years to grow accustomed. Now I hate it again.

 

[Borachio]

I disagree that it's a universal experience.

If you don't like sweet things and don't like fizzy things, why would you even consider trying Coca Cola?

It was never available in my parent's house, though. So if I'd wanted to try it, I would have had to go out of my way. And lay out cash of my own. Which mostly went against the grain.

Death of course is a universal experience - which I'm saving for later. I doubt it will be disappointing, though. Or indeed anything else.

 

[Synobun]

I think it's worth trying at least once. It won't hurt you or put you at risk.

I hate peanut butter and honey, but there are foods that incorporate them that I enjoy. I wouldn't know that if I didn't try them.

 

[Borachio]

Gah! Peanut butter is another one I don't want to try.

Peanuts, in their natural state, I quite like.Though it's a long time since I ate any.

I just don't want to have to open a jar to sample something that must have come from peanuts but that doesn't seem likely (judging from the smell) to be something I'd like.

Some people say you should try everything once.

I don't subscribe to that.

Methamphetamine, base-jumping, and working at an abbatoir spring to mind, for some reason.

 

[Mouthwash]

Gah! Peanut butter is another one I don't want to try.

I'm very allergic to peanuts and even I know what peanut butter tastes like. Try some things before you're six feet under, Borachio. They probably won't have meth in heaven/hell/nirvana.

 

[Borachio]

Oh, I've tried some things, let me tell you.

Some of them I've regretted very much.

 

[Mouthwash]

A few more regrets can't hurt.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I'm a lot more regretful about things that I didn't do than I am about anything that I did.

 

[Synobun]

That, and there's a difference between meth and peanut butter.

Probably.