ngl I think orange juice coffee is pretty good

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[–] 131 points 4 weeks ago (33 children)

I fuck with this hard. I always pick weird foods when I go to a new restaurant, stuff that I don't know what I'm getting, and if it's bad I eat it, if it's good I eat it.

I live with the consequences, and as a consequence of that, I have found some amazing meals and foods that I never would have eaten if I hadn't experimented.

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  • [–] 66 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

    "How's everything tasting, folks?"

    "... like I got what I deserved 😑"

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  • [–] 16 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

    "It's exactly what I ordered, thanks. 😵‍💫"

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  • [–] 9 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

    Was at a restaurant with a friend years ago. He had salad and they came to the table and asked "how is the salad?"

    His answer: leafy.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    You're friends with Pee-Wee Herman?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    Is that something Pee-Wee said?

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 4 weeks ago (9 children)

    Any amazing recommendations? Anything horrible to avoid? I would love to hear your experiences

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  • [–] 17 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

    my amazing surprise recommendation doesn't seem that crazy but the summer before last a new ice cream parlor opened up next to my favorite sushi place and i decided i'd get a little treat after my lunch. i had the wild idea of making not a rootbear float nor an orange creamsicle float but a bizarre fruity bastardization float with rainbow sherbet in this locally bottled lime soda. it looked radioactive and tasted like an industrial disaster but, like, in a good way.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    good work, I was terrified for the rest of the comment after you mentioned sushi right after ice cream

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  • [–] 10 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

    Not a restaurant but I feel like I've tried about everything from the fridge or pantry on a peanut butter sandwich.

    Banana fluffernutter is as awesome as it sounds. Pickles are weird but not exactly bad. Jellybeans are kinda good, or maybe I'm weird. Peanut butter pepperoni is surprisingly good. But I especially love savory applications of peanuts (like OMG a good satay) so what you should really try is curry powder and a fried egg with scallions on your PB sandwich.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago

    Normally at Vietnamese restaurants I'd always get a bahn mi, hard to go wrong with a delicious tasty sandwich, but I decided to try the pho.

    Pho is a soup made with raw meat in hot broth. It looked mildly unappetizing when I first got it, but it was one of the best meals I'd ever had in my life.

    Maybe it's more commonplace now, but where I lived, there was only one Vietnamese restaurant in like a 20 mile radius, so it was completely new to me.

    Also, Egyptian food, I found a place called kebab in Portland when I was driving through on vacation one year, and I stopped there because they said they serve Egyptian food and I've never had Egyptian food. The food I picked was called chicken kusharia.

    It was grilled chicken with a tamarind sauce on top of a bed of rice and a slightly crunchy chickpeas. The dish had the aroma of patchouli, which is not something I associate with food.

    It was an experience. From the very first bite, it was like I was very present in the moment. Each and every single bite had a new flavor, a new twist to it. There was like lemon juice and lime juice and side salad and one of the best hummus sides I've ever had in my life.

    If I just stuck with plain, ordinary fast food because I was on vacation, I never would have gotten to experience that.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

    Always pick the scariest thing on the menu.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 weeks ago* (4 children)

    Unless it's fugu and you don't have 110% confidence in the chef 😁

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    If I remember correctly most deaths in Japan happen because the deceased went to a restaurant that sells fugu liver which is illegal in Japan.

    Also I’ve tried fugu before. It’s expensive and definitely not worth it over regular sushi.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)
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    how i came to love drinking Guinness. The first drink was nasty but by the time i finished the second there were aspects of the flavor that i couldn't detect earlier that suddenly came through, and i've enjoyed it ever since.

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  • [–] 113 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    "i am living with the consequences" goes hard. major personal accountability. I respect it. props to OOP for extending mercy too tho.

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  • [–] 49 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    Good for her! I think more people need to love with the consequences of their actions.

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  • [–] 44 points 4 weeks ago

    Now that's a healthy personality.

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  • [–] 31 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    Glad she figured that one out before the gasoline fight

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  • [–] 18 points 4 weeks ago* (2 children)
  • [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    yeah so like my mind goes there too, i've had those chocolate oranges and they were amazing and i loved orange creamsicles so you'd think that if something goes good with chocolate and cream it'd go good with other things that also go good with chocolate and cream

    BUT IT DOES NOT AT ALL D:

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  • [–] 25 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    My family's motto growing up was "Eat all mistakes." It mostly applied to not wasting food, even if you messed it up. So when I baked cookies in the oven after my mom made a roast, but forgot to turn the temperature down and burned the shit out of them, I had to eat them all. Stuff like that. It really taught me to pay more attention, and appreciate when food was good, even if it wasn't my favorite.

    Nowadays I use it for a lot of things - if I decide to watch a show that ends up not being great, I'll eat my mistake and finish the season before dropping it. If I start a hobby that I end up not being as motivated to do as I initially thought I'd be, I eat my mistake and use up the materials I bought before stopping.

    It both gives me an opportunity to make sure I really don't like something before I give up on it, and also trains me to not dive too deep into something before I know whether I'm going to enjoy it.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago

    I agree with you, but with shows I would say they already eat too much time so I learned to trust my gut, if it is bad after one or two episodes, I will waste my time with something else. Maybe that's also why in general I avoid shows in recent years. I prefer self-contained content. A series were every episode is its own thing with little or no overarching plot line. Like Columbo series which I love.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 weeks ago

    Gotta punish those neurons. Little bastards must be made to learn one way or another

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  • [–] 18 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    Orange and chocolate is a thing so I can see how they might think it would be worth trying.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago

    It sure is. Reading this while eating a bit of Lindt Excellence - 70% cacao with sicilian orange... You don't really feel the orange, to be honest. But you get little nuggets of the fruit amidst the bitterness. Delish !

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  • [–] 16 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

    The thing is, some light roasted single-origin coffees can be fruity in flavour without adding anything, and they’re delicious.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    As a couple examples I’m currently brewing…

    Very fruity. And very delicious.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 weeks ago (13 children)

    I have done that with beer. I never get the same beer twice, I always get a variety.

    Protip: pistachio beer tastes like sadness.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago

    I'm generally the same. I live in a region of America with a bustling craft beer scene. I don't think I could try all the different brews around here if I tried.

    There are some exceptions. I.e., Heady Topper...I don't think it's really all that great of a beer, tbh. It's good, don't get me wrong, but I don't think it's worthy of all the hype that it gets...but damn if that hype doesn't make me want to order it whenever I see it actually on a menu.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    you havent had Indeed's pistachio ale then. heavenly flavor

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  • [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    Oh god that the exact shit I mean. The flavor of sadness and despair.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    you must be going through some shit then damn

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago*

    Yeah! I definitely went through some shit when I had that beer. Most of that shit being defined by phrases such as: Why did I buy this garbo? Who make this garbo? What were they smoking when they made this garbo? Can I buy an ounce of what they were smoking, because it must be some goooood shit. Also, I need to get the taste of pistachio beer out of my mouth, and smoking on that good stuff will definitely help.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    I don’t know. Indeed makes a fair Pistachio Ale.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago*

    When a tire company can't sell tires, it makes up a restaurant review system to get people to drive more.

    Is the jobs market really that bad that Indeed has turned to brewing?

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  • [–] 10 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

    When I was like 7, I figured that since orange soda tastes good and cocoa tastes good, mixing cocoa powder in orange soda would taste good.

    I was proved wrong very quickly and developed a phobia for orange+chocolate for a decade.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    When I was in my early 20’s I had the idea for what I called a “Cannonball,” a Red Bull with a shot of espresso. If it hadn’t tasted so bad, I probably would have died from a heart attack.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    And that was the moment she became enlightened.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    *enheavened, drinking coffee adds weight duh

    ;-)

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  • [–] 8 points 4 weeks ago

    Do most people just throw away a thing they dislike or something? Idk why it's noteworthy to commit to the decision you made.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 weeks ago

    Ironically coffee is fruit.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Worst drink I ever ordered was matcha with hazelnut sryup at dunkin donuts

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago

    I love that matcha is more widely available but maybe Dunkins matcha means that it’s too widely available? Dunkins can be trusted with few things, flavored iced coffee, iced tea …. I think that’s it. They don’t even make good donuts anymore, unless you go to the ONE TRUE DUNKINS that still makes donuts in house.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago

    Energy drink coffee

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  • [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    I let the bad thoughts in and ordered a drink that was a mix of espresso and root beer. It wasn't undrinkable, but I wouldn't order it again.

    Cold brew and Jarritos mandarin soda is actually pretty good.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago

    Cold brew, fresh orange juice, and fizzy water over ice is so odd but really good. The Jarritos would be too sweet but with real oj it tastes like smoky orange. I was so skeptical the first time I made it but it's good.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago

    A classic Orange Joe.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago

    This isn't about covfefe, is it?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    I have a, shall we say, pretty adventurous sense of taste (autism gave me the weird taste buds that don't really get taste stimulation right). I frequently order/make things all my other friends call 'cursed af'.

    But y'know what, the summer that I worked at a cafe and had unlimited time to make my own 'secret menu items' was a really fun period of experimentation. Yeah, I found some that were nasty. But a lot were fun and unique.

    Don't be afraid of new things! Unless you're the other kind of autistic, in which case, it's totally fine to stay in your comfort zone.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

    I think, maybe, if you could put a really small amount of citrus it would work. It works for Picard.

    Like squish an orange peel over the beans type of thing.

    I think I'm going to try it.

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    Yeah, a bit of orange peel squish. I can kind of more smell it than taste it in the back of the throat, but it sort of brightened the whole coffee.

    Not bad. I tried this with and iced coffee with sweetened oat milk. I may try it again.

    Really need to try it right next to some regular to see if I can actually tell it's there or not.

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