Wonderful Cake
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A coworker brought in half of his fiance's birthday cake today. He said everyone could have some.
While he went to get plates, I heard him mutter to my boss 'I almost got him to eat some, but he didn't want to use his hands.'
I didn't think too much of it.
He dropped off the plates, then walked away, after moving the cake to the cubicle next to me. I took a slice. Very nice looking cake of some yellow variety.
I took a bite. I cannot describe the taste, but I'm sure at least one other person here would recognize it. I know now why he wanted it here where it has some small chance of being eaten.
It was, he told me afterwards, a durian cake. Half an hour later, I think I still have a faint taste of it in my mouth...
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Sometimes people bring in candy and leave it in the kitchen for anyone to eat. One day there was a bowl of durian candy. Only one person fell for it.
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I take it durian doesn't taste good?
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This cake had a very small amount of durian, so most of the smell was not present. But a bit was. It was halfway between pineapple and cat urine. The cake tasted exactly like it smelled. Still, it was only a very, very small amount of durian. So mostly it just tasted like cake. But I could not make myself eat another bite.
And the flavor STICKS!
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The smell evokes reactions from deep appreciation to intense disgust, and has been described variously as rotten onions, turpentine, and raw sewage.
Citation needed?
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Apparently, my cow orker's fiance loves durian and specifically requested the cake. It is apparently 'an acquired taste' and very healthy. It is a taste I will not be acquiring. I'm not really certain how people popularized eating anything that smells and tastes that way, though.
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It is apparently 'an acquired taste'
Not unlike Marmite, Guinness and Surstrรถmming then?
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Marmite is fine. It's strange and not wonderful, but not outright disgusting. Also, he moved it to the break room. It is now all gone. Just the frosted sheet it was on remains. I'm just glad it was in cake form...
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You should get back at him by bringing in a block of casu marzu.
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If I thought I could get him to try it, I'd find some natto.
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Evil ideas thread is that way.
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Durian tastes like Durian. If you like it, you love it. If you don't like it, eating it is the worst thing imaginable.
It's kind of like anchovies in that way.
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The supermarkets that sell durian here keep them frozen to hold down the smell.
Also, durian ice creme tastes like a cross between onions and gasoline...
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It is one fruit you don't want to eat while you are drunk.
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It is one fruit you
don'tonly want to eat while you are drunk.I've had it. It's not as bad as all that, but neither is it anything I'd want to eat on a regular basis.
A bit like quinoa in that regard.
Next office pot luck: balut!
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I am thinking this might be a good revenge:
http://www.amazon.com/Haribo-Sugar-Free-Gummy-Bears/dp/B008JELLCA
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it has some good reviews, but unfortunately
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it has some good reviews, but unfortunately
Fucking boo. How am I supposed to surreptitiously smite my rivals if they do not sell diarrhea inducing gummy bears?
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These are tasty though.
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I don't know after reading what I said ... so no side affects?
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Or not.
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My roommate who eats anything tried that the other day. He managed to hold a straight face long enough to get my husband to try it; when my husband promptly spit it out he held the bag my way and waited until my emphatic refusal before admitting that it was horrible.
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We could all eat this stuff
Already covered by me. Results: nasty.
I warmed up to the Jymy ones eventually, but ended up throwing Piratos away. Unless you like the taste of salt mixed with battery acid, stay out.
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Unless you like the taste of salt mixed with battery acid, stay out.
Are you suggesting you like the taste of battery acid as long as there's no salt mixed in?
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Unfortunately in my case I have no sense of smell so I would not be protected against this.
However with my weird-ass sense of taste I'd probably like it.
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Unfortunately in my case I have no sense of smell so I would not be protected against this.
I had forgotten about that.
Were you born without one or did something make it go away?
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Born without one. On the plus side, my sense of taste, such as it is, is sharper than normal, my hearing is better than normal (at my peak I could hear 33KHz) and my eyesight is better than average (left eye still better than 20/20, right eye has an astigmatism that despite being detected several years ago is now only just at the point of being corrected by a lens in a high street opticians and the advice was 'don't bother getting glasses until you actually have problems - and bonus points I even have reduced macular degeneration into the mix, my eyes are apparently 'the eyes of a 24 year old')
All in all, I never had something that everyone else takes for granted but because I never had it, I don't exactly miss it very often - and I got advantages that I am quite satisfied with.
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a high street opticians
"high street" is some kind of Britishism I've seen repeatedly, but only understand it via usage. What does it actually mean? What we'd call "Main street" as in "main street, USA (where the shops are)" or "where the highfalutin' shops are" or something else?
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I don't know its origins, but 'the high street' is where the main stores will locate in the centre of a town. Some towns have malls and whatnot in a town or on the edge of a town, and the high street wouldn't count as part of that.
Yeah, I suppose Main Street, USA is about the nearest equivalent.
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I don't know its origins
Probably there was originally a street in some ancient town named "High street" where all the swanky shops were. :) History is frequently mundane like that.
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Alternatively, it could be to do with the fact that castles work best on hills. Who even knows?
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Alternatively, it could be to do with the fact that castles work best on hills. Who even knows?
This is more likely, especially as we have quite a few castles and shiz around here.
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This is more likely, especially as we have quite a few castles and shiz around here.
The best part is, it could be both! Streets are sometimes named after local geography.
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But, while I like my castle hypothesis, some history pedant is going to show up and explain that the central street of an old town was always raised really high to deal with sewage or something.
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Status symbol.
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The best part is, it could be both! Streets are sometimes named after local geography.
My town certainly is.
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Maybe I'm right about the castles then, since all these incredibly high people are likely to be in them, on hills.
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My hometown has a High Street and a Main Street. High Street is literally at the top of a hill and the tallest part of town, and it's residential. Main Street is a gravel road with a post office and nothing else, because the town is dying and last I knew had a population of around 130.
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Round here, 130 would be considered to be a struggling hamlet, not even a village. My โvillageโ has a population of around 10k, though it's really just a suburb.