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flavor tripping my pants

back in june, i linked to an article in the NYT about a new phenomenon about to sweep the tastebuds of the nation: flavor tripping.

ever since i read about those mysterious and magical miracle berries, i’ve been DYING to try them, cos anything that makes all foods taste like candy sounds like my willie wonka dream come true.

lucky for me, josh turned 30! happy birthday, josh!!! and, in what i see as an act of poetic symbolism echoing the confusion and weirdness one feels when hitting this milestone, he decided to throw a flavor tripping party!

YAY!!!

guests were instructed to bring something strange to add to the tasting palette, which resulted in the most bizarre collection of party snacks i’ve ever seen:

chex mix? no. queso? nope. sardines? apple cider vinegar? CHECK!

note the presence of the onion, which is the most digusting thing on that entire table.

unfortunately, miracle berries are hard to find, even online, so josh and erica settled for these boxes of “mysterious fruit tablets”:

i’ve always wanted to eat something labeled mysterious!!! esp. with poisonous-looking berries on it!

here’s erica, a.k.a. The Pusher.

honestly, i was a little scared about putting one of those tablets in my mouth, esp. considering that none of the ingredients were listed in english. but i finally did, and it tasted kind of like… prunes.

carter and tary had actually flavor tripped before, so they popped those suckers right in like total pros.

amber and erica g. fed each other the pills, sort of like people committing suicide together. la la la!

after the tablets fully melted away on our tongues, we began to experiment with items from the table. here’s a video of some of the first reactions, mostly with “safe” items like limes.

so the candy thing wasn’t just a rumor! yessss! FYI i totally wanted to lick some wallpaper after this, but i figured that wasn’t exactly good guest behavior.

edging into more dangerous territory, tary took the plunge and tried a warhead extreme sour. EXTREME!!!!

oooh FAIL. sorry tary. nice try, but i guess you weren’t EXTREME enough.

next, it was time to get nostalgic as josh whipped out his preferred party beverage of yore: hot damn.

guess what hot damn combined with mysterious tablets tastes like?!!

hot damn.

in honor of his birthday, i presented josh with a tall boy of bud light and clamato, disasterously discovered by ray during our weekend at the schlitterbahn. you can tell he was REALLY excited to try it.

could the tablets stand up to the challenge of clam juice and cheap beer? FIND OUT!

after trifling with candy and citrus fruits, i decided to finally Get Serious with my flavor tripping and mixed together some apple cider vinegar with some louisiana hot sauce.

i know, i am totally into Living Dangerously.

i took a sip and discovered that the tablets DO make vinegar sweeter, but they don’t mask any of the *kick* of the sauce. in other words, this beverage produced my favorite reactions of the night: a brief but intense contortion of the face occuring about a second after the subject takes a drink. check it out:

(also not the massive bags under my eyes, care of bill pullman)

in case you’re wondering, NO I DID NOT TRY THE ONION. even the most potent mysterious miracle tablet is no match for the overwhelming digustingness of an onion.

LINKS

must watch video of the day. cue laughter and the onset of depression.

if you’re a fan of the office, check out this NYT profile of b.j. novak. and then try not to choke on yr own, deeply bitter jealousy.

kanye’s gonna have his own muppet show! all i can say is, the puppetry has GOT to be better than that lame-o alien doll that he talked to during his concert. perez has a clip from the new show, which explains why it’s gonna be on comedy central rather than, like, PBS.

this mad men retro wallpaper is totally awesome. you can put it on yr computer or yr iphone, then laugh at the idea that these items didn’t exist in the 1960s and people had to use monstrous instruments like typewriters.  dude, we totally lucked out.

valentino’s pugs = cutest thing ever.

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