The Picard ManeuverIt's an acquired taste
BearOfaTimeGuess someone remembers Kojak
Do you remember how Telly Savalas held and puffed on his cigarette as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the 007 film from 1969, “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”? The man made choices, man.
I wonder if the lollipop was because Telly was trying to quit?
I wonder if the lollipop was because Telly was trying to quit?
Or Gintama
kubicaYou can dip it in the ashtray for extra flavor.
It tastes like grandpa!
He said the ashtray, not grandpa’s urn…
RealFknNitoGrandma uses the same jar for both…
I don’t know if I’ve had this brand but I did always enjoy a root beer tootsie pop
magnetosphereI respectfully disagree. I’d rather have one of these than an actual root beer.
JimboWhat, you don’t like your liquorice drink?
LapGoatsassafras
Them fightin’ words. Root beer is the best coke.
Root beer is the best coke.
What in the deep south is this
Lol some of us like root beer
I was objecting to calling root beer coke lol
If it’s fizzy, it’s coke around here, you must be one of those soda or pop people I’ve heard about
jballsThere’s a concept called “learned good aversion”, which is just a fancy way of saying when people eat something and get sick shortly afterwards, people tend to avoid that food in the future. It makes sense from a survival perspective. If our ancestors ate a berry that was poisonous, they’d stop eating that berry.
This can suck as well though. If you eat your favorite food and then get sick from something else, then you can naturally start to not like your favorite food any more.
As a result, when patients are about to start chemotherapy, doctors might give them something like root beer flavored candy. That way, cancer patients will associate being sick with root beer candy rather than whatever they had for lunch that day.
Candy as a scapegoat in the prevention of food aversions in children receiving chemotherapy - PubMed
The effectiveness of a method for reducing the incidence of chemotherapy-induced learned food aversions was examined. Candy (coconut or rootbeer Lifesavers) was used as a scapegoat and given between the consumption of a meal and the administration of chemotherapy to determine whether this would lead …
HipsterTenZeroAww, that’s kind of sweet. Good looking out, docs.