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WCT: 2216-2220 (25-29 June 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread

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Sidhekin:
I personally don't like the taste of orange juice – it's too acidic for me; I'd prefer just about any other fruit juice, or moo juice, or even water  – but orange juice is a fixture of my workplace's lunch room, and yes, my coworkers are all adults.  (Just don't tell them I admitted that.)

Coca-Cola?  Depends on the food.  With pizza, for instance, I'll insist on a caffeinated carbonated beverage.  I prefer Pepsi Max¹ or Coca-Cola Zero¹, but plain Coca-Cola is not bad either.  And yes, I think I qualify as an adult.

Different cultures, different strokes, I assume.

¹ Mind that the recipes, at least for Pepsi Max, which I tried in Spain, may vary from market to market, catering to its audience, so the versions you know, might not be identical to the ones I know.

HiFranc:

--- Quote from: Akima on 26 Jun 2012, 02:22 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 25 Jun 2012, 18:28 ---You have to be 12 years old to drink orange juice? Do we really live in a society now where you have to justify not drinking alcohol with a meal?  :psyduck:
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It's not the lack of alcohol that bothers me; water or tea is what I often drink with a meal. But OJ? Seriously? I can't imagine any food the flavour of OJ would enhance. Like Coca-Cola, it just doesn't strike me as an adult taste, and if a guy took me out on a dinner date and drank OJ, I would start to suspect he had Optimus Prime sheets on his bed...  :-D
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I could understand that attitude for an OJ flavoured sugar enhanced drink (e.g. orange squash) but, in Britain at least, OJ is an adult drink.  Also, if you're drinking because you feel hot, OJ cools you down more than water does and it helps you wake up without the crash that you get with caffeine.

OJ was mentioned as part of the Government's Five a Day Campaign but "smooth" orange juice (i.e. without bits of the fruit in) may not be as healthy as first thought.

techkid:

--- Quote from: Akima on 26 Jun 2012, 02:22 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 25 Jun 2012, 18:28 ---You have to be 12 years old to drink orange juice? Do we really live in a society now where you have to justify not drinking alcohol with a meal?  :psyduck:
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It's not the lack of alcohol that bothers me; water or tea is what I often drink with a meal. But OJ? Seriously? I can't imagine any food the flavour of OJ would enhance. Like Coca-Cola, it just doesn't strike me as an adult taste, and if a guy took me out on a dinner date and drank OJ, I would start to suspect he had Optimus Prime sheets on his bed...  :-D

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I don't mind OJ with a meal really, but then it all depends on the restaurant you're eating at. I mean, if you're at the classier sort of place then you'd be better off with tea (although I do usually stick with juice anyway) and probably have one or two alcoholic drinks if you're with a significant other.

And no, I don't have Optimus Prime sheets, but I do have a respectable anime collection (which is just as bad, if not worse...)


--- Quote from: Akima on 26 Jun 2012, 02:22 ---Wow! Jeph was really leaning on the fourth wall tonight. The way Faye was tossing Pintsize, I was almost expecting to see a basketball hoop on the wall.

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That would have been brilliant if there was a hoop. More so if Pintsize was stuck halfway through...

LTK:

--- Quote from: HiFranc on 26 Jun 2012, 03:12 ---OJ was mentioned as part of the Government's Five a Day Campaign but "smooth" orange juice (i.e. without bits of the fruit in) may not be as healthy as first thought.

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The smooth stuff is more likely to come from concentrated juice, which they dilute to roughly its previous osmolarity. You can taste the difference - the diluted stuff is indeed more sour - and I wouldn't be surprised if the health benefits were less as well. Frankly, there's nothing better to start breakfast than a hard-boiled egg and some fresh orange juice. When you're buying the stuff, look at the ingredients. If it says 'juice from concentrated orange juice', then it's diluted. Here, the fresh stuff comes in plastic or glass bottles instead of cartons.

I usually do have soft drinks with meals, cause juice is pretty expensive! I'm not sure what the preferred alternative for a dinner-date is. Does asking for tap water make a man look stingy? Does drinking tea make a man look like a sissy? Does not drinking alcohol make a man look like an alcoholic? (That's the most backwards-ass thing I ever heard, to be honest.)

Mr_Rose:
Wow, hella weird drink prejudices all up in here. Not having alcohol makes you alcoholic? OJ makes you infantile? The everloving fuck? :psyduck:

And, it's lunchtime. Plenty of places, especially cafeterias inside workplaces, simply won't serve alcohol with lunch. Or at all. Liquor licensing is hard and expensive.

As for today's comic, Jeph wrote:

--- Quote ---Totally poking fun at everybody who assumes Marten is gonna hook up with one of the interns
{emphasis mine}
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(clearly this means he's going to hook up with all three; all that remains is to speculate on order :angel: )

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