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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.

What an odd question, given that you are replying to exactly what they are on.

Now that's a healthy personality.

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.

Nurse? Nurse! They've escaped again. Yes, you'd better bring the dried frog pills and the big net, but maybe we can tempt them back with the smell of shudder garlic and caramelized onion coffee.

I live with the consequence of buying two drinks, usually. Maybe not with $45 meals.

Bro just drink something else. Maybe a broth.

Me neither, I just pick chocolate. I related hard to Troi.

No Terry's Chocolate oranges for you I guess?

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.

In particular, blueberry is a highly sought after tasting note in Ethiopian coffee.

But Ethiopian coffee hasn’t been as good as it was 10 or so years ago unfortunately.

A classic Orange Joe.

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There was a coffee shop in Pensacola, FL called Leisure Club that had an orange latte. Shit was absolutely amazing. They made their own syrup for it, so idk what the secret was, but I was there all the time until I finished college.

Probably oleosaccharin rather than juice

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.

At a similar age I was at a buffet restaurant with some friends and had a similar thought about 7-up and chicken noodle soup.

That restaurant must have fucking hated us.

I'm on Lemmy. Crushing up shitposts and snorting 'em. 😤

Is coffee not a broth? 🤔

I've put orange peel in the top of a mocha pot before to get the same effect

I was going to say Bovril, or I guess I should have said stock.

I mean, living with the consequences doesn’t mean you have to drink it. Having to buy a second drink that you know you like is still living with the consequences.

That logo… looks like the worlds worst formula1 track, or the large R is doing horrible things to the little R.

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

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.

I mean, I think it’s supposed to be PCR (Pilot Coffee Roasters) as a single line basically. But yeah, that’s totally fair.

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

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

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

the joker when he has to eat a custard pie

Disgusting

My hypothesis is this is tolerable for iced coffee but it would be too much with hot coffee. I feel like the scent alone would be too strong.

Sounds good, lemmy try that too

I would have to wash the taste off my mouth with a shot of brandy, a line of gunpowder and a cigar

This is such a good idea but I think my picky autistic palette wouldn't be able to handle it :(

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.

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.

I'm the same way, but only because I would get beat by my dad for not finishing my food.

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.

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.

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 !

To be fair the sushi place also does some hibachi dishes and noodles, and what i had gotten that time was this fancy ramen they do. I remember it only because that was the day I saw superman 2025 and i really loved that movie ;3

Sonic at one point had a big ad campaign that you could put anything you want in any drink. I bought a strawberry slushy with chocolate syrup in it.
Took one drink, cringed, and threw it away.
Not my proudest moment.

Solid and timely film!!

I had an orange latte once it was pretty good only I asked for less sweet and unfortunately all thr sweet came from the orange syrup apparently so it was barely orange at all. Like mfer I asked for orange if I wanted less orange I would have said less orange

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

Protip: pistachio beer tastes like sadness.

My experience with pistachio beer was mild horror. Like being unsure where you left your keys and taking more than a minute to find them.

Terry loves chocolate oranges.

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.