Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

It’s ground up pineapple

@bimmy-lee It sure is. Almost like feels like there's cuts in the skin, but there aren't, it just feels raw, kinda like the acidity is affecting the layer of saliva in a negative way, exposing the tender skin. Someone should probably write a thesis on that...

@NEStalgia That's not how you pronounce "better living through science" with a burned mouth...

@bimmy-lee back in Chicago now. What's one those Ohio style sandwiches. Saw one on tv. Fried bologna or something. Ahh I can't remember. I'll take anything at this point. 530pm,still no good 😢

@ThanosReXXX - There’s a kids candy here called War Heads which specialize in that sensation. They’re not even good, but they’re so incredibly sour and acidic that it’s almost a badge of courage to get one down. If you eat a bunch of them, which I did a time or two, it feels like you’ve taken sandpaper to your tongue and the roof of your mouth. Even our candy is violent.

@bimmy-lee Ah, yes. We've had those over here as well. Also (for a kid) giant, almost golf ball sized candy globes, which had dozens of colored layers on top of each other, and in the middle was, if I remember correctly (I was 10 or 11 at the time), some kind of peppery center. I do even believe there was some kind of slogan on the wrapper mentioning something along the lines of "do you dare to finish it?". Once we became acquainted with it, and knew what color came before the nasty center, most of us threw it away.

We would persuade others to try, though...
Now that I'm writing and remembering all this, I believe they were either called Fire Balls or Pepper Balls. Probably the former...

And we also had those soft, gummy-like strips, completely coated in the most sour kind of sugar crystals. They made for a good laugh, because your entire face would contract into a weird grimace...

@bimmy-lee 100% post consumer recycled plastic cheese, 80% post consumer recycled cardboard "high fiber!" crust, Roundup/Agent Orange rehydrated veggies, and "natural" "meat".

@ThanosReXXX then show me how it's done?

@ThanosReXXX fire balls were great, bit different here maybe. It was really really intense cinnamon... Probably with pepper . Never liked warheads.

Fun fact; one of my best customers is ferrara pan who makes the the atomic fireballs, lemon heads ( my personal favorite candy of all time), and red hots. They also make gummies, and other candies. But those are the big sellers. Grape heads are hard to find,but when you do, get them.

@bimmy-lee My favorite non-freshly made pizza, is this one that we can get over here:

@NEStalgia Yup, cinnamon, that was it. The outside layer was red, and they were sold (well, over here anyway) as individually wrapped. But one was also more than enough, and it would last you quite a while.

P.S.

"Bether lithing though thienth!"
(try to safely and clearly pronounce an R when your tongue or the roof of your mouth is burnt)

@ThanosReXXX - I can’t believe you have War Heads over there as I just assumed they were balls of crystallized high fructose corn syrup, food coloring, and sour #5. I know the sour gummies and fire balls as well. There’s a syrupy “whiskey” here called Fire Ball. Tastes just like them. Also, Big Americans (crispy outside - soft inside) is my new favorite thing ever. It’s like food satire!

@RedderRugfish - I think there was a fiery red War Head, but it wasn’t nearly as hot as the sour was sour. I like sour beers, but I can’t handle true sour anymore. I used to crush Sour Patch Kids at the movie theater, but those are even too sour for me now.

@NintendoByNature - Ferrara Pan is a classic candy company, lots of good stuff, especially for kids. You’re right, Grape Heads might be the most delicious candy ever. So rare. I always searched the candy aisle for them before giving up and trying something else. (Just saw your last reply to me, I’m a Hoosier, and we have a natural rivalry with Buckeyes because they come to our state and drive slow in the passing lanes, it’s insane.)

@NEStalgia - The natural meats naturally occurred in a Petrie dish.

There’s another fireball in the south. It’s a drink with Fireball whiskey (which is a spicy cinnamon like the candy), and some hot sauce in a shot glass, and you drop the glass into a warm glass of v8.
mic drop

@bimmy-lee Well, we've got a little thing over here that's called "The American Food Store", so it isn't all that hard to come by all the corn-syrupy goodness...

We've also got an American Book Store, American Fashion House, and a store called Seats and Sofas, which also sports a giant American flag as a background for its logo. If you wouldn't know any better, you might as well call it "Little America" over here...

Do they sell canned burgers

@ThanosReXXX i could actually eat quite a few at a time. Always reminds me of Sonic 3. I had a big bag of them for some reason and i remember just plowing through them while playing Sonic 3

I think I've seen that brand somewhere here. No pizzas but some product. "Big Americans", now that's funny. Though i still say American size has more to do with copious pharmaceutical use than food. Still, that's beautiful of slightly offensive.

@bimmy-lee don't be silly, synthetic meat isn't fda approved yet. It's just a bacterial mold and some hydrogenated crude oil.

@HobbitGamer v8 is inedible on it's own. I can't imagine cinnamon bourbon is going to change that. At least not while the whiskey is still in the glass....

@ThanosReXXX does the furniture store have Big BIG SAVINGS every July 4 and presidents day? It's not a REAL American furniture store otherwise....

@Morpheel You can get canned water here in Japan. After 4 years I still find that weird. Most of them have silly "Japanglish" names too.

@HobbitGamer Oh I love Fireball Whiskey! Real hard to get here in Japan though. Can usually get it in fall at the European style pubs.

@NEStalgia So, you were already weird as a kid, then...

And yes, these stores often do. And we've also adopted almost all American festivities over here, although we do not celebrate Independence Day, obviously, but the stores do use it as an excuse to entice us.

But we have Halloween, Valentines Day, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and so on and so on. Like I said: Little America. That's why even Trump knows that America and the Netherlands are such good friends...

And these pizzas are only called big, because the regular ones have the thin crusts, and aren't soft on the inside. These ones are more just like a thick flat bread with pizza toppings on them. And they only cost around $3, so every now and then, when even I don't feel like cooking dinner or eating something healthy,
I put one of these suckers in the oven.

The only good water is hose water on a summer day

I was expecting a literal can. Like tuna.

Firing on all cilinders...

Nope, not canned. They do have plastic-sealed microwave burgers, though. But you can also get these in any regular super market over here.