
member of @staff, lapsed linguist and drummer, electronics hobbyist
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no supervisor but ludd means the threads any good
like the weirdest thing about it is that all of the constituent little-F flavors in The Flavor come completely unmoored from their real-world referent, except the cucumber, which is unmistakably cucumber because cucumber is the only thing that is funky in the way cucumber is. you just get a burst of completely abstract sour-sweet, then everything rapidly fades except the cucumber.
edit: I may have spoken too soon about The Flavor, at the bottom of the glass in the unmixed gatorade-heavy layer, there was a truly bizarre acrid bitterness that, again, lasted about like three seconds before disappearing completely. this stuff rules. I'm becoming Flavor-pilled.
edit 2: okay I have made three highball glasses full of The Flavor -- one poured gatorade-first, one poured mike's-first, and one that I tried sincerely to mix thoroughly -- and the last sip of all three of them has had the same acrid bitterness. I have no way to explain this. The Flavor holds its mysteries tightly.
edit 3: after finishing The Flavor I cracked a bottle of diet dr pepper, and I feel like one of those medieval peasants who ate a dorito for the first time
ok, but we only have a sample size of one for Flavortasters. Now we need to get a larger group, figure out who does and doesn't Taste The Flavor, and cross-reference that with each test subject's cilantro preference-
i tried the Flavor with a bunch of friends a couple months ago; it's strongly cucumber-centric unless you mix it about 2:1 cranberry:cucumber. the most unanimous sentiment was that pretty much any amount of the cucumber was better than drinking the mike's harder on its own