Electric Dungeon

I do think the ability to emoji-react is a net win for human communication. not only does it give you an outlet for 'I see and acknowledge this but don't have a verbal response' but it also adds a pleasing alethiometer element to things

you know that excitement when you realize you're in a location from a famous song. this is how i feel right now

So, we met up with @electricdungeon and made battery acid spaghetti. Selecting a drink was a bit difficult, but in the end, we went for a Bad Apple Monster. The original poster's idea of a cheap energy drink was probably a Monster (we assumed ungraciously, lol) and one of the photos in the reblog chain had a Monster in it, so it made sense. We went with Bad Apple because it's touhoufunny, but also because it's sour. If the gummies are sour, the drink has to be sour too, that's sort of what we thought. The gummies we got weren't anything special, just the first long multi-coloured ones that we spotted at the grocery store. We also got some smaller ones that we didn't end up using… Is that worth a mention? Well, that was it for the ingredients, we then got a plastic bowl + cutlery, found a place to sit (shopping mall food court table) and got to "cooking". Yes, in public and all… Peeling the gummies into single-colour noodles was a bit of a bother, but I got the hang of it quickly. We peeled about four and put them into the plastic bowl, poured the drink in and let it sit for a few minutes. The Monster was brown, and the gummies were more or less soup condiment-coloured, so it looked a bit like a regular noodle soup, which was funny. She was the first to taste it, and didn't seem to hate it, but said that while the taste was alright, the texture was horrible, all mushy-like, she compared it to stale, slightly rotted meat. I then had a go at it, and to me, it was rather good! Not mind-blowingly delicious or anything - it had a rather heavy artificial sweet-and-sour flavour that isn't bad taste-wise necessarily, but is unpleasantly overwhelming as a sensation - but not disgusting at all. The texture didn't seem like anything special to me either - it was more or less something like chewed up fruits, or maybe rehydrated dried apples. So I was right in the end, huh? It was fine, decently good, but nothing special. Though I do understand why the people in the reblogs hated their battery acid spaghettis! Presumably, they either let the candy soak for longer or just had it dissolve faster due to ingredient differences, and this way, the mix must have turned to mush - and since my friend there didn't like the mushiness, it could be that this particular quality is the reason for all those "don't do this" additions. Would it make sense to make a second, deliberately shitty version of the "dish" and see if I still like it? No. No, it really wouldn't. Anyway, do I recommend it? I actually don't, because that's a ridiculous amount of sugar you're going to be consuming. Granted, I ate two whole single-use plastic bowl-sized servings of it, but really, even one wouldn't be very balanced. I've only now really recovered from the sugar overload. It's nothing severe, actively endangering or even painful, don't get me wrong, but you don't want to spend half of the day feeling like a zombie, would you now.