Things which taste better in their artificial form than the real thing

Rhubarb & custard

  • Agree
  • Disagree

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But wait, fried eggs?

  • Artificial
  • Real
  • Eggless life
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Definitely tastier than real mice.

Agree on rhubarb, disagree on custard

Rhubarb (independent flavour)

  • Agree
  • Disagree

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Custard (independent flavour)

  • Agree
  • Disagree

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Try telling that to snakes

Go on, try.

Our garden only gets sun in one tiny corner - definitely not enough sun to have a decent grassy lawn. So if we wanted grass weā€™d have to get artificial (or win the lottery and have turf replaced every six weeks)

:smiley: banana oil!
This is great

Have a bonus banana article

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This is not the banana thread

Oh, that changes EVERYTHING!!!

Is this the ā€œthings that taste better to snakesā€ thread? Well, is it?

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:frowning:

Yeah, as always thereā€™s a caveat that sometimes needs must.

My mate with the fake lawn has shares in brewdog and is also a bit of a Tory. Now, Iā€™m not saying you have to be a brewdog-sponsoring Troy to have a fake lawn. Iā€™m just saying thatā€™s what the science is telling us :wink:

:smiley: amazing.
ā€œis not a formally adopted dose measurement.ā€
Well, it should be IMO.

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tbf Rob, the thread doesnā€™t specify

Cheese & onion

  • Synthetic
  • Real

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I love a cheese and onion sandwich, but if someoneā€™s offering crisps round Iā€™ll spurn cheese and onion and go for salt & vinegar

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Additional banana fact especially for @ma0sm:.I once did a presentation on this paper in a literature review meeting

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.200803189

Which is basically that a bunch of nerds realised that their packed lunch bananas fluoresce under UV light and that they fluoresce more if theyā€™re riper, so letā€™s see if we can get a paper out of that.

How did it go down?

Watermelon

  • Real
  • Synthetic

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Synthetic vanillin and actual vanilla taste very very similar, if that helps at all. Also a ludicrously simple molecule.