Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/01/12/gin-yogurt-criticized.html
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* starts carving woodcut entitled “Skyr street and Gin blame”*
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Not even that would get me to eat yogurt.
Okay I don’t hate it really just not a taste I like.
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Rebrand it “juniper and lime with other natural botanicals”. I’d give it a shot try.
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I like the flavor just fine. It’s just that the flavor and texture feel like exactly what it is. A colony of bacteria thriving in milk. And every time I eat yogurt straight it’s all I can think about, and I can’t enjoy it.
Making shit out of yogurt is fine. And other cultured milk products that don’t cut so close to gelatinous biofilm are fine.
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Gin tastes like something you ought to clean a drain with. Booze culture is just getting weird at this point.
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Somebody seems to have forgotten his primary maths.
0.5% gin at 40 proof brings the alcohol down to 0.1% – that is, a kilogramme of the stuff will have one gram of alcohol. Get that up to a rather minimal 10 grams of alcohol and you’re trying to eat 100 kg of yoghurt.
Good luck.
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Is that accurate? 0.5% gin would give an alcohol content of something like 0.2% or less. 0.5% alcohol is what most homemade kombucha will have, and I have not heard outrage about that. Of course, if the objection is normalizing cocktails to kids, I am all in, but unless you are on Antabuse, that level of alcohol is pretty much inconsequential.
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How do you expect to make any from yogurt if you don’t eat it first?
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0.5% of the yogurt is gin, which will be no more than 50% alcohol. So the yogurt is likely 0.2% alcohol, all told. There’s more alcohol in a ripe banana.
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Maybe this isn’t the hill to die on if you want to attack cultures drinking problem. Maybe start with actual alcoholic drinks.
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the creation of alcohol inspired yoghurts seems unnecessary
The creation of all yogurt is unnecessary. So flippin what?
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Yogurt is pretty weird, but certain flavors like coffee or lemon do the trick for me.
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The introduction of cheap gin to England was the alcohol pretty much equivalent to the introduction of crack cocaine.
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Yup. A drug that is pharmacologically identical to the less-demonised upper-class equivalent, pilloried in the media due to its association with lower-class consumption.
Reminder that at the same time as the gin-scare was being hyped, the English upper classes were routinely getting absolutely shitfaced at every meal.
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Here’s an entertaining account of an upper-class 18th century meal:
From Patrick O’Brian’s biography of Joseph Banks. This was very likely the inspiration that Pratchett drew on for the banquets at the Discworld’s Unseen University.
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Nah there is an aftertaste that just is eww for me. I don’t mind a tzaziki sauce or a mango lassie. But bog standard stuff no thanks. Not so bad I wouldn’t turn down if I needed food and it was the only choice but given a choice I would go with the other option
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