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No! No! No! Stop it! The bad ideas topic!

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2 hours ago, blue_dolphin said:

Benton's Country Hams released a limited offering of smoky bacon scented dryer sheets for Fathers Day.  Ten individually vacuum sealed sheets bundled with a T-shirt and 3 packs of bacon for $75

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If you think that's a better idea than I do, I’m sorry to inform you that they sold out but you can find a link here to sign up to be notified of the next release:

https://www.bentonssmokedsheets.com 

 

 

 

My British brain just cannot comprehend this.

 

These are tumble dryer sheets that will make your clothes (and tumble dryer, and the room where the tumble dryer is, and wherever you subsequently store the clothes, and all clothes in said furniture, and that room as well, and then the wearer) smell of bacon?

 

And not real bacon, American bacon?!

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Margaret Pilgrim

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A truly bad idea!     I am appalled by open plan homes that make no allowance for cooking odors.    We whisk clothes from laundry area to closets in order to avoid lamb chop scented shirts!    i can't fathom anyone's intentionally imbuing clothes with farm kitchen odors!

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Tropicalsenior

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15 minutes ago, Margaret Pilgrim said:

A truly bad idea

One of the things that I hated most about being a breakfast line cook was leaving every day smelling like bacon and sausage. That was 40 years ago and to this day, I'm not crazy about either one.

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Out here in the Minnesota woods, I keep thinking about all the bears that are now out of hibernation. It's difficult enough to keep them away without wearing an attractant!

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Margaret Pilgrim

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I think also of riding city buses early in the morning while sitting next to some person who is perfumed by what they served the family for breakfast that morning.  I was always saddened that they had to go through their day With kitchen smells.   However, It was anthropologically interesting to note the different flavor profiles by culture.

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For years, I walked to work, 4-6 miles, depending in my route, through Santa Monica to UCLA. Much of my walk was in areas filled with 2- and 3-storey apartment buildings and I was often surprised how frequently i picked up the scent of bacon since I thought of it as a weekend treat.  I was kinda jealous of those mid-week bacon eaters.
Never got a whiff of it when I walked through the pricey areas.  Maybe because their houses were set back from the sidewalk or maybe they didn’t appreciate the pig as much as the rest of us!

 

 

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9-volt battery-flavored tortilla chips

 

Doritos, eat your heart out!

 

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This limited edition flavor comes from Rewind, a new brand launching in Europe, starting with the Netherlands, promising to blend “nostalgia with exciting flavors.” Most of these sound pretty normal — cheese and onion, sriracha, paprika — but their nod to the “weird universal memory” of licking a battery was guaranteed to get my attention.

 

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The 9V battery chips are limited edition, but if you’re curious then Rewind has a form where you can request a sample pack, which ships worldwide.

 

Unfortunately, though, the sample packs are on a lottery system.

 

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Want to take a trip down memory lane with our new battery flavoured snack?  You’ve come to the right place!  Just fill in the form below.  9-volt is currently on a limited run.  If you’re one of the lucky people to get a first edition sample,  we’ll let you know soon. 

 

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FauxPas

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Saw these in a local grocery the other day. 

 

Pink Barbie food does not appeal to me at all, I have to say!!!  

 

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FauxPas

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5 minutes ago, Kerry Beal said:

Whippet - the Canadian version of the Mallowmar - my favourite had the raspberry splotch. 

 

I didn't know about Whippets before! 

 

Weird, I checked the box on these things and 2 of them said "Made in Canada". I was so ashamed.  Hahahahahaha   🙂

 

 

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I did know about Whippets, my brother (as a kid) loved them and I thought they were disgusting. But when you said the raspberry splotch, it reminded me!!!!! 

 

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liuzhou

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11 hours ago, JeanneCake said:

'' licking a battery?  Who does that?  and why?

 

It only worked with this type of battery as you needed to lick both terminals together.

 

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It was done to test if the battery still had a charge or not. If it was fully charged you got an uncomfortable 9-volt shock; if dead, nothing. Your saliva completed the circuit. It wasn't that unpleasant but I sure wouldn't want to be eating 9-volt chips. 

 

 

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9 hours ago, liuzhou said:

 

It only worked with this type of battery as you needed to lick both terminals together.

 

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It was done to test if the battery still had a charge or not. If it was fully charged you got an uncomfortable 9-volt shock; if dead, nothing. Your saliva completed the circuit. It wasn't that unpleasant but I sure wouldn't want to be eating 9-volt chips. 

 

 

 

I had no idea that "9v battery" might be a flavor to humans. This comic strip showed AI's loving it - but, well, they're robots. 🙂

I'll leave the battery tasting, on chips or off, to other people.

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On 4/25/2025 at 10:57 AM, chromedome said:

Yesterday my GF watched a video by someone who'd made wine from leftover Peeps (apparently it was from a previous Easter, and just got re-upped on a timeliness basis).

Off the top of my head I'm hard-pressed to think of a topic where I'd describe myself as any kind of purist, but but there is a line where I don't think you get to call it "wine" anymore and I'm pretty sure that crosses said line.

OMG I missed this until now.  I love Peeps.  And wine.  This must be a sign.

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12 hours ago, KennethT said:

The Whippet looks like a Mallowmar... I used to love those as a kid.... but not in pink!

 

In my world, a whippet was something else -- and not a dog breed.

 

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Whippets are an inhalant drug popular among teens and young adults. They’re also known as whippits or whip-its. People have turned to Galaxy Gas as the latest form of this inhalant.

 

The name “whippets” is a reference to whipped cream canisters, which contain little chargers that are filled with nitrous oxide. 

 

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liuzhou

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I remember in the 1960s being given for a birthday or Christmas one of those new hi-tech hand held "transistor radios" or "trannies" as they were know long before that word took on a new meaning.

The ran on those 9-volt batteries and were incredibly unreliable, so we often had to lick our batteries to see if they were the problem or the tranny had died!

 

How I first heard great music.

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