The No Subject Thread - The Bear and Badger

afgavinstan

Inversely, I'll rattle bags of smoky bacon crisps but I don't like actual bacon lol

LivDiv

I like grape flavour stuff but I agree it doesn't taste like grapes or even wine.

Cherry is similar, cherry flavoured things are really maraschino flavoured which is made using cherries but not really the flavour of raw cherries. Love that as well.

SpaceGazelle

DrewMerson wrote:

I love grapes (who doesn’t?) but I am not a fan of grape flavoured stuff. I don’t find it pleasant, partly because it does not taste (to me) like grapes. I put it alongside most crisp flavours; there’s a general consensus of what a particular flavour should taste like, it’s just not related to the taste of said thing.

Wine says hello.

SpaceGazelle

Fake banana is good although it tastes nearly, but not quite, entirely unlike banana.

handsofblue

I think the fake banana taste was actually based on what bananas used to taste like. We have an inferior tasting banana now.

GooberTheHat

You might, but I certainly don't, thank you very much!

handsofblue

I think this is one of those cases where others are the best judge.

poprock

I grew up thinking I didn’t like coffee, thanks to trying shitty coffee-flavoured chocolates in the ’80s.

g.man

Meanwhile in Tesco…

EvilRedEye

handsofblue wrote:

I think the fake banana taste was actually based on what bananas used to taste like. We have an inferior tasting banana now.

Yeah, this is true. The old bananas got a disease apparently.

Kow

I don't like grapes.

Dark Soldier

Just locked myself out and had to wait an hour for my dad to come round with the spare key. Absolute boss.

Diluted Dante

Did he bring grapes?

Moot_Geeza

He said he would but he welched.

handsofblue

EvilRedEye wrote:

handsofblue wrote:

I think the fake banana taste was actually based on what bananas used to taste like. We have an inferior tasting banana now.

Yeah, this is true. The old bananas got a disease apparently.

Our current banana stock isn't doing that great either.

Pseudoscot

Tastes better with codeine in it.

Pseudoscot

Apparently

davyK

If you think Coca Cola tastes like cola then you should try Fentiman's Curiosity cola. Like drinking Haribo.

DrewMerson

afgavinstan

davyK wrote:

If you think Coca Cola tastes like cola then you should try Fentiman's Curiosity cola. Like drinking Haribo.

See also: fritz-kola

MattyJ

DrewMerson wrote:

The best tasting bananas I ever had were tiny ones in Japan.

They were so sweet. Delicious.

I think banana-flavour is closest to an over-ripe, deep-yellow-largely-masked-by-black-spots banana, rather than a last-hints-of-green-only-just-faded-away bright yellow banana, which I tend to prefer.

I think you'll find they are averaged sized and perfectly satisfying.

Gremill

DrewMerson wrote:

The best tasting bananas I ever had were tiny ones in Japan.

They were so sweet. Delicious.

I think banana-flavour is closest to an over-ripe, deep-yellow-largely-masked-by-black-spots banana, rather than a last-hints-of-green-only-just-faded-away bright yellow banana, which I tend to prefer.

Goddamn, that's a lot of fingers. But I guess that's normal for Aberdeen.

I can tell you, to the day, where I had my first taste of coffee.

DrewMerson

Moot_Geeza

MattyJ wrote:

DrewMerson wrote:

The best tasting bananas I ever had were tiny ones in Japan.

They were so sweet. Delicious.

I think banana-flavour is closest to an over-ripe, deep-yellow-largely-masked-by-black-spots banana, rather than a last-hints-of-green-only-just-faded-away bright yellow banana, which I tend to prefer.

I think you'll find they are averaged sized and perfectly satisfying.

Lol

Matt_82

Just had a bit of a rammy with a couple because they were standing by while their dog was running at me, jumping up and barking. It just kept running round me and they did nothing. I gave them plenty of opportunities to do something but they weren't interested. I even heard the woman say to the guy that, "he's gone totally mental". Still, fuck all.

So I gave them a good old fashioned piece of my mind. After telling them to get it on a lead since they can't control it, the guy was adamant that if the dog hasn't bit me, then there's no issue. Fucking clown. Anyway, after me telling them that allowing their dog to do that was totally unacceptable, they quietly put it on a lead and scuttled off.

afgavinstan

Fuck sake. Last night I heard a man on the phone to someone in the corridor giving it "... It's an absolute disgrace they won't even let us bring the dog in to see her" as in, a fucking hospital. Nah mate, allergies and other people's trauma over incidents they may have had just disappear once you come in our front door. Idiot.

handsofblue

You Scots have some lovely phrases. Rammy, spooly peg... Adding to my dictionary every week!

But yas, feckless owners do my head in. I know my dog is a menace. She didn't used to be, used to be pretty good about coming back. But then she got confident. And then she developed a strong need to herd (harass) other dogs, specifically the ones that are chasing after toys. Catching a border collie is HARD, so she isn't an off lead dog anymore.

It's not hard.

Here's another one: people who walk next to roads with their dog off leash. There's a pack of 5 or 6 nearby that are stunningly well behaved when walking together. But just takes one to dart off and there's a whole load of people's days ruined.

Kow

Yar, I squished a dog a couple of years ago. The owner let him out the front door without the leash and he darted straight out between parked cars and under my wheels. Luckily, the owner immediately recognised it was totally his fault but I still had to hang around while the dog died, which wasn't very nice for anyone involved.

davyK

Matt_82 wrote:

Just had a bit of a rammy with a couple because they were standing by while their dog was running at me, jumping up and barking. It just kept running round me and they did nothing. I gave them plenty of opportunities to do something but they weren't interested. I even heard the woman say to the guy that, "he's gone totally mental". Still, fuck all. So I gave them a good old fashioned piece of my mind. After telling them to get it on a lead since they can't control it, the guy was adamant that if the dog hasn't bit me, then there's no issue. Fucking clown. Anyway, after me telling them that allowing their dog to do that was totally unacceptable, they quietly put it on a lead and scuttled off.

I'm afraid if I thought there was a risk of a bite then I would have lost my toe up its arse. That makes it an issue.

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