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Do you need help cleaning yourself?

 

I love the coconut but it has to be super ice cold. Like, almost straight out of the freezer.

If it gets close to room temp, it's straight garbage trash.

 

Smirnoff Ice > LaCroix coconut aka suntan lotion water

 

this is just what coconut in general tastes like.

 

Is this an offer?

 

grapefruit is the only la croix flavor you need. not that apple cranberry fusion bullshit or that cran rasberry shit

 

I have never seen such an involved conversation about sparkling water this is why I love this site

 

grapefruit is the only flavor that I've tried where I thought "ok, I can see why this is a drink"

 

It's probably my favorite.

We currently have mango, which is also pretty good.

(And Black Cherry and Watermelon Waterloo.)

 

it is interesting how some of those fake fruit seltzer flavors work well and some don't work at all
I am insanely boring this isn't interesting at all

what I guess is interesting is like all the factories are in New Jersey
Flavorists, Experts in the Field of Natural and Artificial Flavoring, Work in Top Secret New Jersey Labs-www.njmonthly.com

 

Same! I was like 'oh okay we'll see what the fuss is about' and it was a good replacement for soda for me

any cherry flavor is my fav so i think i need to check out this black cherry waterloo (Waterloo? seriously? isn't that british slang for bathroom?)

 

I find it interesting too.

Like the weird melon/cucumber thing that one of those has ... horrible. Just horrible.

 

I never expected to see Big Dipper mentioned in this thread.

 

Pamplemousse

 

I have no idea. Maybe? Loo? I just know it cause of Napoleon.

It was an impulse purchase, by the register, Hannah was getting some wine and I saw it and was like fuck it I totally wanna carry these two things all the way back home take my prime card.

 

not boring! I wonder about this shit too. like hundreds of people in labs making fake flavors. i wonder if they're as passionate as this dude

 

However they got those nasty Harry Potter jelly beans to taste so perfectly disgusting blows my mind.

 

The science of making "natural" coloring for food ... creeps me out.

Like the yellow "natural" color for Goldfish crackers. Pretty sure that's some weird shit.

 

Lime, tangerine, and mango. I die happy

 

Zima, baby!

 

Red food color commonly comes from bugs!

 

The Quest to Make a True Blue M&M

The team of color scientists hovered in their white coats and hairnets, staring down at a clear plastic box full of strangely colored M&Ms. “They look like pebbles, ugly little pebbles,” said Rebecca Robbins, the color-chemistry manager for Mars Chocolate. She propped open the lid to show off a muted array of gray, tan, mauve, pale purple and sickly pink chocolate nuggets. Each attenuated shade was the disappointing outcome of an early attempt by Mars to replace a bright, artificial dye with natural pigments extracted from algae, roots, seeds and other parts of plants. Not a single piece of candy in this tackle box of failure looked edible — let alone tempting.

Noticeably absent was any M&M that even vaguely resembled blue, the most coveted, and hardest to find, of colors. Blue is a rarity among plants and animals. When it does occur in nature, it often isn’t truly blue, but rather a trick of diffraction, or the scattering of light, which is the case for bird feathers, sky, ice, water and iridescent butterfly wings. A blueberry is actually more red than blue when you mash it. “Unfortunately, you can’t just grind up a peacock feather,” said Robbins, a petite woman with a Ph.D. in organic chemistry and the empathic, wide-set blue eyes of a small-town bartender, with what sounded like genuine regret.

This is super interesting though.

 

I DON'T WANNA KNOW THIS.

 

You Know What Makes Great Food Coloring? Bugs