The Carbonated Beverage and Things Named After Earls Before the End of the Year Thread
fixmypcmike
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So apparently the Daz3D store will be switching to a different carbonated beverage and possibly meat/cheese/produce inside some variant of starchy grains by the end of the year. Thoughts?
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I'll bring the beer.
Hmm. The old Daz store has left me hungry for more and yet has turned my stomach with rotten sales that don't work. Perhaps the new starch will make the sales really stick to what they advertise, and the new beverage will wash away the bad taste if that doesn't happen. I'm cautiously optimistic. I mean, could it get much worse? (I hope I didn't jinx anything.)
I heard on the grapevine they are getting a new forum software
There hasn't been a fount of information but I'm hoping the changes will be pretty vanilla.
Can I press you for more grape details? Do you think it will ferment into anything?
Well, if they sandwich the changeover between 2 big sales, I'm sure everyone will celebrate their sparkling success.
I want to know why I search for Coca-Cola and get results for cola but I search for cola and get results for dForce hair.
Ok, I give. WTF?
This thread only makes sense if you're also familiar with the shenanigans in this other thread: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/422651/new-store-software-before-the-end-of-the-year#latest
*Edit- Blame @Taoz - it was his idea lol : https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5838406/#Comment_5838406
why does every hamburger come with stiletto pickles?
and chicken breast plate?
The question is, will this conversation be allowed to contain discusion of bread-based contain concoctions that are traditionally served with the top slice of bread and/or bun seperate from the rest of the item, examples of which would certainly include bruschettas, eggs benedict, the classic presntation of the "chili size", or McDonald's daring but ultimately ill fated experiment in "the hot stays hot and the cold stays cold" physics, the McDLT? I have to ask given that bare buns are already pushing the boundaries of what we're normally allowed to show in the forums and showing something topless is almost certain to cause the mods to faint. Because, honestly, I'm not sure if there's much point to this thread if we can't be completely open-faced about it.
Tea. Earl Grey invented it. Earl wants to know approx. where in the other threasd the instructions are because inspite of lockdown he is not bored enough to read the entire thread. Also, Is Earl Grey the same Earl as the one about the redneck that was into karma?
Actually, it was probably like this, except with tea and bergamot.
They don't. In the U.S. pickles have long been traditionally served as a cheap side to sandwhiches in lunch counters and delis... probably because they kept forever without refrigeration, are very cheap and fast to produce, and have a strong taste that helps clears the pallette. As a result, when fast food became a beig thing, many burgers and chicken sandwhiches eventually came to be served with pickle on the side or on the sandwhich itself, though it may be either sweet or dill, and sliced or in the form of a relish. In California and New Mexico (Burger Time, Lotta Burger), though, you can find green chile being used nearly as often, while in Texas (Whataburger) it's often sliced jalapeno peppers. And then there's Australia where beet root is often the prefered addon, and Japan, where your burger may come with teriyaki and egg, fish roe, or anything else that happens to be trendy at the moment, including the surprisingly tasty squid ink. On the other hand, the Australians DO serve pizza with pickles...
Odd. In the store I get no responses for Coca-Cola, even though a prompt appears for Coca-cola bottle, but I get a lot of drink items for just cola.
Ok, now I wish I didn't know and wish I had never asked. Please carry on. Just know I hate every one of you with a white hot rage and am plotting my revenge which will invole traing legions upon legions of molerats. I don't how they will be involved yet but legions of molerats just seem correct.
What is that, that freaky thing?
Yes, that's right, that's a naked mole rat!
Come on now, hear the girlies sing,
Listen to the Naked Mole Rap!
(real song.)
What are the ages of those nude mole rats and are they showing any necked shoulders.
ha ha ha ha ha ha! (oh wait, were you serious?)
If past experience is anything to go by, of course they'll try to do the changeover in the middle of a major sale.
Meanwhile, on the subject of beverages, has anyone else tried, or do you remember, Purple Passion (north eastern U.S.). Rock Creek soda (Washington DC area), Faygo (limited national U.S. distribution) or Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray celery soda (national)?
KEGGER!!!!
My Palpal statements inform me that this is, in fact, pretty much every day. :P
Did someone say mole rats?
Let's see... all of the guys are in oversized armor that they can't move in but it looks great... all of the girls are in chainmail bikinis with high heels and one shoulder pad... and nobody has any weapons because they all missed the 4-hour sale. I'd say the only hope is if the mole rats are planning to get here by waiting at a bus stop.
Purple Passion Heard of never tried. In my high school we stuck with Bacardi 151, Rock Creek soda, yes, also played in the park. Faygo Yes, several flavors, Dr. Brown, only Doc Brown I know was on Back to the Future.
Me? Never!
(but the changeover will most likely happen over a long-weekend when there are no staff about AND during a new form of sale idea
)
Passiona was a soft drink apparently Schwepps still makes it but I have not seen it
Passion Wine was the alcopop equivalent of the 80's was still around a few years ago but not seen it lately either but are other passionfruit flavoured beverages interestingly Passion Pop which is definitely not a softdrink
I would like Diet Squirt and Fresca to comeback. I don't like high fructose corn syrup type of sweetness. It tastes different with no metallic component.
My understanding is that Earl Gray owned a tea plantation located in not a prime area, with poor soil, and the resulting tea was sub par and the plantation a failing business. But next to his plantation was a bergamot (orange/grapefruit-ish) grove. Desperate, he pressed the oil from the bergamot rinds and added it to his tea and voila a product that would sell!
Also, not the tea Earl Gray, but another Earl Gray, was the guy who owned my family's house about a hundred years ago. Not that we knew him but we knew of him. (Small town, everybody knows and knew everybody for generations) But my mother was so taken by the name being the same as her favorite tea, that she named her gray cat Earl Gray as an embodiment of Earl Gray's ghost, that she accused of haunting the house with creaks & groans (i.e. the house or ghost made creaks & groans, not my mother's accusals).
And those were my two Earl Gray stories.
I think tea might have been a thing before Earl Gray in Japan and China
Emperor Shen Nong
According to Chinese legend, the history of tea began in 2737 B.C.E. when the Emperor Shen Nong, a skilled ruler and scientist, accidentally discovered tea. While boiling water in the garden, a leaf from an overhanging wild tea tree drifted into his pot.
... and to think how differently things could of gone if it were the cannibis leaf