right? omg. i have this vape cartridge that is LIME flavored. lime flavored pot. it’s pretty disgusting. what if i just want POT flavored pot? i think all the fruit and cereal flavored things are just to get the kids hooked on it. it’s pretty insidious.
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I wonder if they would be equally confused by people who order ice cream flavors they do not, themselves, prefer. When I was a bartender, I served a vast number of drinks that were not to my taste, or that I actively disliked, but what did I say? Enjoy your drink! What’s the point of judging other people on shit like that?
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I think it just comes back to Sugar Sells. The conventional wisdom is sweet stuff sells better than non-sweet stuff. Even for healthy things: I just read somewhere people eat a higher proportion of fruit now.
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I’d raise both my eyebrows if the old timer asked for one of those rosé and fruit juice cocktails that sorority girls drink because you can’t taste the alcohol, still served in a jam jar because hipster ethos.
Because I’ve spent time in a mental hospital or three, I’ve drank pruno. I wouldn’t order it in a bar though, although maybe I should just to see the bartender’s reaction. However, I have ordered a ginger beer that tasted frighteningly similar to something I’ve whipped up myself. Didn’t care, still drank it.
I like alcohol that tastes like alcohol, coffee that tastes like coffee, and pot that smells like pot. I don’t smoke tobacco, but if I did, I’d prefer it to smell like tobacco. Barring that, I’d smoke pipe tobacco that had strong fruity overtones but was still obviously tobacco.
Also, looking around me at the weirdoes on the train this morning, my facial hair is completely unironic and all my clothes look like they cost as much as they actually cost. I’m not one of these people who shows up to their six figure tech job in full-on grizzled old time prospector cosplay when there’s an honest four generations between them and a speck of dirt underneath a fingernail. Now get off my lawn.
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I’ve heard that apples are being bred to have more sugar.
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Luckily, there’s enough different varieties of apple that that’s not going to be universally true.
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Yeah, I guess a “some” needs to be in there somewhere.
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Check out this list of not very Irish St. Patrick’s Day drinks…
They look good… just, none of them seem to have any ingredients from what’s traditionally imbibed in Ireland…?
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Who doesn’t think of tequila and poblano peppers when preparing their corned beef and cabbage.
I’d drink any of them, but that Matcha Flip has me concerned.
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The first two recipes, they’ve seemed to confuse St Paddy’s Day with Cinco de Mayo. The next two showed a bizarre fascination with St Germain elderflower liqueur and matcha powder. The last one was a green screwdriver, which I thought was mildly interesting.
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The Baker in our family is making 4 loaves of round Irish soda bread:
but with a six-pointed star cut into the top instead of a cross. 
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So long as there wasn’t a Bible in it.
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I’m making good choices already. 
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I’m way late to the party, but when I think of that color and that texture, especially with the acidity, that’s a solid NOPE from me.
…you could probably make it with OJ with the pulp, just to really mess with people.
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In a quest to find a cocktail for a picky drinker, I made up a small batch of homemade grenadine following this recipe:
Pretty simple, and tasty results. I ended up tweaking a “Jack Rose” recipe using it and came out with something they actually liked:
.5 oz grenadine
1 oz fresh lime juice
1.5 oz straight apple brandy (Laird’s)
.5 oz 100% apple juice (no sugar/water added)
Subbing a little of the brandy for the apple juice toned down the alcohol taste enough for them to enjoy the result.
Now I just need to find some other recipes that use some of the same ingredients to try to optimize a mix of options. I’ve tried an “applejack flip” so far, which wasn’t bad but came out just tasting like eggnog with brandy, which might be better for holidays…
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As one does. After pulling out the bottle of orange flower water, the bottle of pomegranate molasses and, of course, the pomegranate juice.
That’d be a next day sort of thing for me (provided everything was Amazon Prime)
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I did actually end up getting the orange flower water (and a bottle of rose water as a package deal) and the molasses via amazon. The juice was a problem because, although I swear the order was marked as Prime shipping for the next day, it then ended up telling me a few days later that it wouldn’t be arriving until July 7th or somesuch. So I cancelled it, and then found a bottle of 100% pomegranate syrup, not from concentrate, no water/sugar added, at the grocery store to get it done.
Next up, I need to figure out a way to get hold of plain passion fruit juice (or the fruit to make it) so I can experiment with some of the other syrups on my list to try…
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We call that a John Daly
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