I'm pretty sure this is the real reason my taste for spicy food advanced so far after I became a parent.
It's nice to have a snack that the kid won't loot and empty.
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≥70% is the way. Yes, I have kids.
My toddler has loved dark chocolate since they were like one when we first offered sweets, sometimes this doesn't work out lol
i genuinely genuinely don't get this, like is there a joke, I'm missing? it seems like the most random mundane exchange
My interpretation is that she doesn't actually like the taste of dark chocolate all that much, but she gets to have it all to herself since no one else likes it. She enjoys one of the very few things she gets to have all for herself.
Kids don't generally like dark chocolate. It isn't really a new or groundbreaking joke, but it is a joke. I make the joke often when I buy something my partner doesn't like or vis versa.
I think it wasn't very clear what it was trying to convey. But yeah, after explanation it makes sense.
lindt makes a dark chocolate with orange and almond that I'm borderline addicted to
If they make dark choc cherry, I'll be all over that shit. XD
Wow, bold Radiohead statement.
I might almost consider if we were to pretend OK Computer was their debut, but even that just don’t feel right. I still love most of what they’ve put out since then and they can still kick it on stage.
This is pure ragebait for a certain (my) demographic and I love it.
I thought the consensus was that they were like the Beatles, in that they initially made more mainstream songs (that they’re semi-embarrassed of today) in order to have the freedom to make better, more creative music later in their career.
I have no opinion.
Those early Beatles songs are nothing to be embarrassed about.
I’ve viewed it as artistic progression, plain and simple, similar to the Beatles, but I think we’re basically saying the same thing.
I kind of split the Beatles into before and after Revolver. Revolver is a truly brilliant album that also acts as a nice bridge between the two major eras that I think of the Beatles run. Their Beatle-Mania Pop Sensation era culminating (masterfully) in Rubber Soul on one side, their Concept era on the other. And Revolver an era unto itself; the Beatles Fully Embrace Getting Weird era.
I feel like OK computer represents a similar point in Radiohead’s artistry to Revolver.
But in both cases, I think these are more milestones in their artistic ability than an intentional shift leveraging their previous success. But I’m not sure you meant that this was intentional on their part, so I may just be agreeing with your nonopinion in a ruminative meandering way.
I can get behind this. I don't listen to any Radiohead from before OK Computer if I can help it.
Unusual for Dad, he's a pretty conventional dude.
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Shoutout to all my peeps who are the only one in their family to like mint chocolate chip ice cream!
Disgusting. Have as much as you like.
........do people not like mint chocolate chip?
I mean, it's not my number one, but I DO like it.
I don't like mint in sweet food at all. It reminds me too much of toothpaste.
I would rather lick a frozen sock.
Sorry, I ate the last frozen sock last night after work. Rough shift. Needed it.
I don't trust anyone who dislikes this.
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Got 99% dark choco lately. It's actually pretty good. They should add some salt tho.
Cats shouldn't eat chocolate, it's poisonous to them.
Funnily enough, hardcore liquor doesn't seem to affect them much.
I was 21, and poured myself a shot of Bacardi 151. This is a liquor so strong they stopped making it because people were going to the hospital. Jack Danials whisky is 80 proof. Bacardi 151 is 151 proof. So just barely shy of being twice as strong as Jack Danials.
Anyways, I pour myself a shot, and don't drink it. I get up, go to the kitchen to see if I still have any gatoraide left.
I come back with 2 bottles, and my shot is gone. I'm like "......I know I didn't drink it....." and I was failing to think of a reasonable explaination for what just happened. Then I see my cat looking at the end of the table looking guilty. I was like "OH GOD NO!!!!"
But it was 4am. There are no vets open at 4am.
I was like "Well, I don't know what to tell you. Even if a vet were open, I'm waaaay too drunk to drive right now. You better just stay alive, you sneaky little shit. Oh....I don't mean that. I don't want that to be the last thing I say to you. Come here, let me hug you."
And she vomited all over me. And I said "Hopefully thats good. C'mon, lets go feed you some more food so you can vomit more."
She wouldn't eat. I stayed up until 7am, called the taxi place (because this story was in 2003 before uber), and told them I needed an emergancy taxi. And explained why.
The vet saw her, and said one shot of alcohol wasn't enough to kill a cat. I explained how strong this stuff was, but he said she wouldn't die.
She did however hate all noise for the next day, and prefered darkness. And then I realized "oh my god, my cat is legitimately hung over....."
The day after that she was fine. And I never left open alcohol near her ever again. Not even beer.
Funnily enough, hardcore liquor doesn't seem to affect them much.
Unless you're playing Dwarf Fortress!
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedesign/comments/66ql32/why_dwarf_fortress_started_killing_cats_a_bug/
doesn’t seem to affect them much
cat pukes and has legit hangover
Happens to me all the time too
You better stay alive, you sneaky little shit
It doesn't seem to affect me much.
I got nerd sniped by 151 being "nearly twice as strong" as 80. Not because 151 isn't 160, but because you can't get stronger than pure ethanol at 200 proof. (Other alcohols, additives and dehydrating agents notwithstanding.)
From a certain perspective then, 200 proof would count as infinitely strong, and that's reflected in the difficulty that exists in distilling pure ethanol. This is a lot like the amount of effort required to reach light speed, so maybe "relativistic" mathematics is required here.
Sooo, from this particular ~reference frame~ perspective, 151 is about "twice" 91 proof, and "twice" 80 proof is about 138, assuming I haven't messed up the calculations.
And if my even sketchier algebra is right, 151 proof is about 2.324 "times" 80 proof.
(This would have been a lot funnier if 151 had turned out to be exactly "twice" 80 under this system, but alas it is not.)
They also can't taste sweetness.
Maybe 2 years ago my partner had to explain to me that most people actually prefer milk chocolate, so when i buy dark chocolate as presents it's not actually appreciated.
I've always preferred dark chocolate because it's just so obviously better, and presumed everyone else did too. Finding out that most people like worse chocolate was quite a surprise🤷
I love dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate, all of it. I don't get the elitism over a matter of taste.
Most dark chocolate I've had sucks the moisture completely out of my mouth and leaves just bitterness. It's not an enjoyable experience at all. Cacao percentage plays a role, but anything north of around 75% I can't stand at all.
Yeah, that's too much. Try around 50%. I mostly enjoy it cause it's a lot less sweet. I'm much more sensitive to sweetness than as a kid.
Yeah there's a big difference between 70 and 80 for sure.
80+ is still is a 'sometimes and small amounts' thing for me, but many 70s and anything <60 taste just as sweet as milk chocolate to me
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Pablo Honey isn't even in their top 5 albums
That's black licorice for me. The stuff with licorice and anise in it. Everyone else hates it, I love the stuff.
Here it's very common to have children like it. Not super young ones (who prefer a pure diet of French fries and ice cream). E.g. Haribo Lakritzschnecken or Drops in the Netherlands.
I don’t like black licorice, but I like a few candies that are not very popular among people I know, which leaves more for me!
- Peeps
- Candy corn
- Cadbury cream eggs
- Sweethearts (Valentines Day)
- Peppermint bark, although this one isn’t as controversial
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