The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Atazhaia Or, turning it around, it's hard to find tar-taste anything elsewhere. This may have a historical reason; Finland was a major tar exporter for a long time. So a lot of places smelled like tar, and had a surplus of the stuff.
Of course it'd find its way into food somewhere.I don't mean this entirely as a joke: Doesn't all salmiakki taste like tar? I haven't had a lot of salmiakki, but the stuff I have had tasted like tar and looked like the stuff Alex had.
Serious question: have you tasted tar or do you just assume that it ought to taste like salmiakki?
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@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Serious question: have you tasted tar or do you just assume that it ought to taste like salmiakki?
The latter. Have you? Does it not taste like salmiakki looks and tastes?
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@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Atazhaia Or, turning it around, it's hard to find tar-taste anything elsewhere. This may have a historical reason; Finland was a major tar exporter for a long time. So a lot of places smelled like tar, and had a surplus of the stuff.
Of course it'd find its way into food somewhere.I don't mean this entirely as a joke: Doesn't all salmiakki taste like tar? I haven't had a lot of salmiakki, but the stuff I have had tasted like tar and looked like the stuff Alex had.
Serious question: have you tasted tar or do you just assume that it ought to taste like salmiakki?
Tar tastes nothing like salmiakki. I’ll eat salmiakki, but tar’ just for sniffing. (tar, gasoline, and clean skunk... top three favorite smells)
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@M_Adams said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
gasoline
@M_Adams said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
top three favorite smells
Mmmm....
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska There was a period of time in which my sister drank coffee with salt (intentionally). Apparently she tried it on Cyprus or somewhere and liked it.
Is she sure they weren't playing a practical joke on the foreigner?
A local delicacy is something that nobody who lives anywhere else is crazy enough to eat.
I thought they were pranks they played on visiting tourists.
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It works exactly the same way as the Koopas from Super Mario World work.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Plus, kids can cook.
(I remember helping my mom out before she passed away when I was 7)
Clarification: the number of children who have eaten snails as a dare is several orders of magnitude higher than the number of children who know how to cook anything more fancy than basic scrambled eggs. Yes, there are exceptional children who are more similar to much older people than to their peers in a couple ways, but the coronavirus thread is .
Also, French toast. I made a cake from scratch at some point <= 10. I probably had some help. But I was allowed to use both the oven and stove with minimal supervision.
Speaking of which, I know I mentioned in another thread about catching my hair on fire...I forgot one, we had a gas stove and needed a match to light the oven. Once I waited too long between turning on the gas and lighting it and have puff of hot air/smoke blow into my face. My face was fine but all of my hair in the front was singed.
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@jinpa No. They're worlds apart. Salmiakki (the chemical molecule) is a salt. It tastes a peculiar kind of salty.
Whereas tar tastes like more like a combination of thick pine smoke and armpit.It doesn't help that half of all salmiakki in the candy isle has some other flavor mixed in. Usually menthol, xylitol, tar, peppermint, chilli pepper or something else extreme. If the package mentions "good for your throat", you can bet it tastes like a yeti dropping.
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa No. They're worlds apart. Salmiakki (the chemical molecule) is a salt. It tastes a peculiar kind of salty.
Whereas tar tastes like more like a combination of thick pine smoke and armpit.It doesn't help that half of all salmiakki in the candy isle has some other flavor mixed in. Usually menthol, xylitol, tar, peppermint, chilli pepper or something else extreme. If the package mentions "good for your throat", you can bet it tastes like a yeti dropping.
I kept thinking this was licorice that you were talking about. I am so confused.
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa No. They're worlds apart. Salmiakki (the chemical molecule) is a salt. It tastes a peculiar kind of salty.
Whereas tar tastes like more like a combination of thick pine smoke and armpit.It doesn't help that half of all salmiakki in the candy isle has some other flavor mixed in. Usually menthol, xylitol, tar, peppermint, chilli pepper or something else extreme. If the package mentions "good for your throat", you can bet it tastes like a yeti dropping.
I kept thinking this was licorice that you were talking about. I am so confused.
No. But after seeing the Wikipedia redirect from Salmiakki to "Salty Liquorice", I can see the confusion.
Let me state it plainly and explicitly then:
Salmiakki is a salt. More specifically, it is a (non-toxic) variant of Ammonium Chloride . It can be bought by the kilogram as a powder from the chemical factory, and some candy aisles carry it as a powder mixed with a bit of sugar.
It has nothing to do with liquorice, which is "flavoured [...] with the extract of the roots of the liquorice plant".One possible source of confusion is that, althought the basic salmiakki salt is white, the end product is usually (but not always) colored black with additives, to prevent it being confused with mints. Liquorice came to Finland much later, after the convention of black colored salmiakki-taste candy was established.
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@acrow Xylitol has almost the same taste as saccharose - it's just sweet. You only taste the difference if you eat some pure xylitol in which case you get a very faint trace of mint.
And there's no such thing as a "variant of ammonium chloride" - it's just the stuff, only in food-grade purity.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@acrow Xylitol has almost the same taste as saccharose - it's just sweet. You only taste the difference if you eat some pure xylitol in which case you get a very faint trace of mint.
Except that stuff is pure poison to my pooches.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
cut off your bones and buy an oar
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I doubt they would. Most cats consider their feeders rather useful.
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Yeah yeah, that thread is
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@obeselymorbid I don't even have to move from my bed. My work starts at 11AM. And I've been late everyday since beginning of April.
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@topspin Tried a Google Hangout call the other day. It said my browser was unsupported and gave me a list of 3 "supported" browsers to try. I got the exact same message and list on all 3 of those browsers in the list. It didn't even work on Chrome!
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“It’s completely intuitive!”
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My niece is a teacher and posted this on Facebook:
Dear Parents,
If you're going to do your kid's work for them during remote learning, at least remember to put THEIR name on it, not yours.
Signed,
An Amused TeacherYes, it really happened.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Yeah yeah, that thread is
It's OK, that thread got this picture posted to it a while ago.
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@JBert this is my current life. One more week of meetings. Except they're mostly about next year. When I won't be at that job.
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@JBert said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
They left out the one I always get: "Have a look up my nose". The only advantage to the placement that causes that is you don't get to see how messy some people's houses are since the upper two-thirds of their face fills the entire screen.
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We need to have a talk with the marketing dept