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 3 parts pineapple juice, 1 part Everclear. Video is coming, but verdict is “not terrible”. There’s a very distinct warmth/burning in your stomach, but it doesn’t wreck your mouth and throat.
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How rough is everclear? The cheapest pure grain I tried here doesn't numb the tongue enough to avoid the awful bitter aftertaste.
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Apr 23, 2018 14:06
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lol imagine living in a country where Everclear is legal. THANKS, BRUSSELS 
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Horrible Lurkbeast posted:How rough is everclear? The cheapest pure grain I tried here doesn't numb the tongue enough to avoid the awful bitter aftertaste. Everclear at 95% ABV is unusual because it's no longer at the stage where it has flavor or smell. You expect it to be incredibly strong when you open the bottle, like rubbing alcohol, but it has virtually no smell at all. It is cold when you get it on your skin, though. The taste of pure 95% Everclear is nothing but vegetal alcohol bitterness, but it's quickly overwhelmed by the sensation of chemical burns everywhere in your mouth and esophagus that it touches. Here's the video! Joey is also the lead actress for my horror film that I'm doing, and she was very excited to have the opportunity to get wasted and help me cook medieval food for the Historical Cooking thread (even though she can't cook to save her life). As you can see, she's incredibly expressive! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eY8i9lqvzk
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Apr 23, 2018 14:35
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As yiss, get medieval on your digestive tract.
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Apr 23, 2018 14:42
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Also I am really loving the Rode VideoMic for its price.
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chitoryu12 posted:Also I am really loving the Rode VideoMic for its price. IIRC ElectroBOOM swears by Rode too.
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http://henryhargreaves.com/#from-mre-to-michelin This guy took military rations (all of which you've seen in this thread) and attempted to prepare the resulting ingredients in the style of a fancy restaurant. I'm especially proud of the "black tea dust" for Lithuania.
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Is there a link to the medieval cooking thread/content yet? I’d love to read it
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chitoryu12 posted:http://henryhargreaves.com/#from-mre-to-michelin I like the idea of it but I'm disappointed they didn't use all of the MRE, make multiple courses, or show the step by step preparation. A sub-par Chopped episode. Theokotos posted:Is there a link to the medieval cooking thread/content yet? I’d love to read it https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3849384 That?
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3849384 That? [/quote] Yes! Thank you!
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https://twitter.com/ajaltamimi/status/755031427557851136
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The generic word for “meat” in Arabic is usually just in reference to some form of red meat, which is probably why “chicken” is mentioned separately. “Fizzy drinks” is probably a weird way of translating the Arabic phrase for soda. In case anybody was curious.
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Internet Wizard posted:The generic word for “meat” in Arabic is usually just in reference to some form of red meat, which is probably why “chicken” is mentioned separately. I've seen a lot of Australians and Brits insist on calling soda et al "fizzy drinks" the way midwesterners say "pop", so might just be someone from one of those countries.
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Sharabit is a fruit-flavored drink of some kind, and fasuliya is mostly beans in tomato sauce.
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Think "fizzy lifting drinks" from Charlie/Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.  The meat vs. chicken thing is present in the States, too, where health departments (maybe even the FDA?) require restaurant menus to carry a warning that reads "Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness."
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So meat is what, then? Goat?
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Phil Moscowitz posted:So meat is what, then? Goat? Probably goat or mutton.
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chitoryu12 posted:Sharabit is a fruit-flavored drink of some kind, and fasuliya is mostly beans in tomato sauce. Sharabit sounds kind of like sherbet. Is it perhaps connected linguistically but diverged somehow, like biscuits and biscotti? Like, a chilled/iced fruit drink?
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:Sharabit sounds kind of like sherbet. Is it perhaps connected linguistically but diverged somehow, like biscuits and biscotti? Almost definitely.
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chitoryu12 posted:Almost definitely. Actually, I thought sherbet was more a fruit nectar style of drink, with the chilled factor being highly variable.
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I think it's this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharbat sherbet guess is right. uber_stoat fucked around with this message at 22:17 on May 8, 2018 |
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May 8, 2018 22:14
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Sounds look much like “Shart Bat” which itself is a horrible thought
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chitoryu12 posted:MREs are always incorporating new ethnic cuisines like Mexican, Indian, and Chinese and the various regional American cuisines to appeal to a wider variety of soldiers. Honestly I've really enjoyed the new additions and adds a nice variety when I get a handful of these for a weekend.
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I actually got a new ration! Freeze-dried Norwegian according to the seller.
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chitoryu12 posted:I actually got a new ration! Freeze-dried Norwegian according to the seller. Neat! Can't wait!
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I just spent a week-and-a-half in the Estonian forests during Siil 2018 and had the "pleasure" of eating our rations again (last time was back in May of 2016, which is when my 11 months of conscription ended) From this ration #3, the dark caffeinated Swiss chocolate is great and the stroganof is also pretty good, especially for canned food. Ate it cold, of course, who has the time & patience to dick around with a kerosene stove? The worst part is the coffee - branded as "Best Coffee", comes in a teabag and tastes like dirt.  (gave this complete package as a gift (?) to my grandma for Mother's day) e: I can share a bit more of my perspective on the Estonian rations later Angryhead fucked around with this message at 10:23 on May 15, 2018 |
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This... is probably of tangential relevance, but seeing as how it's the military food thread and not the MRE thread, I happened across a BBC program, where Heston Blumenthal was tasked with the goal of tackling the standard menu of Royal Navy submarines, the results of which are said to have resulted in widespread changes across the entire British armed forces. program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZnqxW_kcJ4 source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/heston-blumenthals-slow-food-going-117411
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So they sent me the wrong ration. 
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chitoryu12 posted:So they sent me the wrong ration. That doesn't look like a freeze dried Norwegian at all. I was expecting Ötzi's northern cousin.
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chitoryu12 posted:So they sent me the wrong ration. Just don't embarrass yourself like the guy who ate one on YouTube and couldn't figure out the bread. There's a German expression, "Dumm wie Dosenbrot" - as stupid as tinned bread.
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Zopotantor posted:Just don't embarrass yourself like the guy who ate one on YouTube and couldn't figure out the bread. The bread is so weird though.
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Zopotantor posted:Just don't embarrass yourself like the guy who ate one on YouTube and couldn't figure out the bread. That's not even KiwiDude's most egregious mistake. In one video, he fucks up preparing instant ramen. He strained the noodles. I miss his videos 
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Was it Indonesian mi goreng style ramen? I grew up on that stuff and it just hurts if they try to eat it like normal ramen or they drain it out with the flavouring
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I liked how KiwiDude was like you took primitive man from a cave and gave him a MRE.
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Grand Fromage posted:I liked how KiwiDude was like you took primitive man from a cave and gave him a MRE. At least he should be able to figure out the rock, or something.
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Some Russian serial killer cannibals tried to find a new audience for their food.quote:At times, the couple tried to turn soldiers at the military academy where they worked into unwitting cannibals, slipping “canned human meat” into their food. I'm guessing they couldn't tell the difference from their regular mess hall slop.
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Well, Brace Belden said the YPG kicked out some foreign fighter they called Cannibal Steve because he would just pick up asploded limbs and start chowing down.
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Halloween Jack posted:Well, Brace Belden said the YPG kicked out some foreign fighter they called Cannibal Steve because he would just pick up asploded limbs and start chowing down. I remember there was some French dude in the 19th century who was studied by scientists (well, as much as scientists back then could "study" anybody) for his absolutely insatiable appetite. He would get the shakes and sweats if he didn't eat almost constantly, but he was of normal body size and nobody could figure out where all these calories were going. At one point he was stationed aboard a naval warship. He would try to sneak severed limbs out from the surgeon's bucket to eat, and at one point someone had to stop him during a battle from grabbing a limb that had just been blown off by shrapnel and eating it.
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Are you thinking about Tarrare?
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