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⌈ Secret Post #6691 ⌋

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Inspired by 1 - food that you thought was going to be tastier than it actually was

[(Anonymous)]

I thought foie gras was going to be more delicious but it tastes like liver. I know, I know... should've seen that one coming. I just thought that no way it tastes that much like liver or people would hate it, right?

Re: Inspired by 1 - food that you thought was going to be tastier than it actually was

[kaijinscendre]

Basically any popular tourist food but especially Georgetown Cupcake in DC.

Also, macarons. I always think they'll be good but they just are not.

Re: Inspired by 1 - food that you thought was going to be tastier than it actually was

[(Anonymous)]

Here's a hill I will die on: the world-famous Japanese cheesecake? Is not cheesecake. It's ASS.

One of the things I wanted to do, for shits and giggles, while in Osaka was try one of the famous Rikuro-Ojisan's souffle cheesecakes. We managed to get in a relatively short line (about 10-20 minutes) at the Ebisubashi-suji location, to grab a cake and go back to the hotel to taste-test and enjoy. However, we did not enjoy.

It isn't cheesecake. It's egg souffle. Which is fine, if that's what you're expecting, but when you grow up with real cream cheese in the midwest and know that cheesecake should be equal parts cheese to egg, having a ratio of about 3 eggs to 1 cheese is just wrong. Not Cheesecake. Sorry Japan, your lactose intolerance has given you a skewed idea of what cheesecake ought to taste like. Literally the only disappointing food I put in my mouth while in Japan.

Re: Inspired by 1 - food that you thought was going to be tastier than it actually was

[greghousesgf]

Nutella.

Re: Inspired by 1 - food that you thought was going to be tastier than it actually was

[iff_and_xor]

Venison. Growing up on Robin Hood and the like, I imagined that deer would be absolutely delicious. The once or twice I’ve actually had it, I didn’t think it was anything special.

And I read about “sweetmeats” as a child and imagined some interesting sweet glaze on bits of roasted meat. Was quite disappointed to learn it was just an old fashioned term for sweets.

My mother read French books as a child and was intrigued by “tartine”. She thought it was like a little “tarte” i.e. a small pie, and was sad to discover it just meant slices of bread/toast with a spread or topping.

Re: Inspired by 1 - food that you thought was going to be tastier than it actually was

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty much everything served at a typical American thanksgiving dinner. Western food in general, with some exceptions.

So much of it is bland.

Re: Inspired by 1 - food that you thought was going to be tastier than it actually was

[philstar22]

Cheesecake in general. Not my thing. Actually, while I'm at it, a lot of cake in general.

Re: Inspired by 1 - food that you thought was going to be tastier than it actually was

[(Anonymous)]

Sprinkles cupcakes. They’re so dry and bland.

Re: Inspired by 1 - food that you thought was going to be tastier than it actually was

[(Anonymous)]

Magnolia Bakery cupcakes in New York City

It was another dry cupcake I could have gotten anywhere - guaranteed Walmart cupcakes were better tasting.

But their actual cake was so good! Moist and decadent.

Doughnuts just don't do it for me. When I was 17, I recall craving for a doughnut, and the one I got looked so big and covered in pretty icing.
But the moment I took a bite I just felt like there was something lacking. And ever since then, doughnuts just are...OK.

What is the most scared you've been by a piece of media?

[(Anonymous)]

Anything ever done it for you?

Re: What is the most scared you've been by a piece of media?

[kaijinscendre]

There is this game on steam called Cabin Factory. Absolutely terrifying to play.

Otherwise, while not jump out scared, The Southern Book Club Guide's to Vampire Hunting gave me the most anxiety I've had while reading a book.

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[(Anonymous)]

It fucked me up as a kid. I wasn't allowed to watch it so I snuck glances through a half closed door while it was on and I managed to see all of the worst scenes. I was terrified of drains (shower, toilet, storm) for a long time. Well into adulthood.

Funny enough, clowns never bothered me.

Re: What is the most scared you've been by a piece of media?

[kamino_neko]

The POSTER to A Nightmare on Elm Street gave me nightmares for weeks. Quite appropriately.

Re: What is the most scared you've been by a piece of media?

[(Anonymous)]

As a kid: The Stuff, full stop. That one fucked me up and to this day I've never watched it through to the end. I was one of those kids who sought out horror from a young age, so I don't know why THAT'S the one that got me.

Honorable mention to watership Down (cartoon)-- specifically the warren being poisoned. That was the scene that haunted me for years. (I think the book is absolutely BEAUTIFUL, I adore it, but that one scene in the cartoon shook me)


As a teen: There was a short story by Frederic March that I think gave me the CREEPS more than any other piece of media in those years, but for heart-pounding horror in the teens/college years, I gotta give it to Resident Evil 4. Horror games, it turns out, hit me a LOT more than books and movies, because like... there's no fail state to a horror movie! No matter how visceral or tense it is or how close it comes to hitting personal fears, it's never up to ME whether the main character does or doesn't survive any given encounter.

As an adult: One specific creepy pasta because the two friends' names were my deadname and the name of my best friend from childhood on to adulthood. Didn't even finish it because I didn't want something bad to happen to 'us'.
And Parable of the Sower. I read mostly horror books and yet that one is the scariest book I've read this year so far.

Re: What is the most scared you've been by a piece of media?

[(Anonymous)]

As a kid, from Ocarina of Time. When I first emerged from the town as a adult Link, seeing it abandoned and destroyed, and going out to see the town infested with Re-Dead. I couldn't play the game for a week after it happened. Then there's the Ganon fight, when it felt like do-or-die.

As an adult, from the book Halo: Silentium from Greg Bear's Forerunner Trilogy, the Precursors' speech, culminating in this. Which is funny, since The Call of Cthulhu did nothing for me, but reading this passage had me conclude firing the rings every second was the most logical solution to save the universe.

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"You drove us from our galaxy, our field of labor. You chased us across the middle distance to another home, and destroyed that home, did all that you could to destroy every one of us. A few were spared. Some adopted new strategies for survival; they went dormant. Others became dust that could regenerate our past forms; time rendered this dust defective. It brought only disease and misery; but that was good, we saw the misery and found it good.

Our urge to create is immutable; we must create. But the beings we create shall never again reach out in strength against us.

All that is created will suffer. All will be born in suffering, endless grayness shall be their lot. All creation will tailor to failure and pain, that never again shall the offspring of the eternal Fount rise up against their creators.

Listen to the silence. Ten million years of deep silence. And now, whimpers and cries; not of birth. That is what we bring: a great crushing weight to press down youth and hope.

No more will. No more freedom. Nothing new but agonizing death and never good shall come of it.

We are the last of those who gave you breath and form, millions of years ago. We are the last of those your kind defied and ruthlessly destroyed. We are the last Precursors. And now we are legion."

Re: What is the most scared you've been by a piece of media?

[(Anonymous)]

Man, I don't know. I feel it's a threeway tie.

I saw 'The Exorcist' when I was 9, and it stuck with me for months.

As an adult, the horror short 'Lights Out' fucked with me, and it has a tendency to pop back in there when I'm feeling stressed.

Also as an adult, the game 'Outlast' scared me so badly that I couldn't finish it. I had to watch a Let's Play to get the story resolution.

Re: What is the most scared you've been by a piece of media?

[(Anonymous)]

As a kid, Unico in the Island of Magic freaked me the hell out. On a rewatch as an adult, not so much, though it's still a bit disturbing in places.

As an adult... on imgur, someone shared "The Suit" from Bad Space Comics. It fucked me up for about a day. IYKYK

Re: What is the most scared you've been by a piece of media?

[(Anonymous)]

On late night television, they aired Alien when I was like nine or so and holy smokes it was terrifying, and I absolutely should not have been watching it at that age. Later, Aliens would become my favorite movie ever.

Re: What is the most scared you've been by a piece of media?

[(Anonymous)]

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. The whole series. It's hard to even pick a single story that scared me the most, but if I had to, I'll go with O Susannah because of how extra surreal it was.

Re: What is the most scared you've been by a piece of media?

[(Anonymous)]

Poltergeist made me scared of closets, open doors or closed.

Re: What is the most scared you've been by a piece of media?

[(Anonymous)]

I've been listening to 'The Magnus Archives' podcast for the past month. I don't know why, I *hate* horror, and I've never gotten on with podcasts before this.

Some of the episodes have really freaked me out - like, sleep with the lights on - freaked out.

Also inspired by 1 - what false expectations did fiction set for you?

[(Anonymous)]

Apart from food, as another thread's covering that!

Question about RPF

[(Anonymous)]

Do you think that shipping characters in something like Band of Brothers or The Crown is RPF or now?

Eurovision

[(Anonymous)]

In the US the Peacock channel will be streaming Eurovision on May 13th. I remember last year lots of notes around saying to boycott them, don't watch it. Is there still a thing to boycott Eurovision?