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Floria Tosca
01 November 2009 @ 01:01 pm
It always amuses me when an ingredients label has "natural __ flavor" on it, when the flavor in question is of something that's a composite product. Okay, so natural orange flavor would, logically, come from oranges, but what about "natural gingerbread flavor" or "natural fruit punch flavor"? I'd imagine they'd probably be made by putting a bunch of preexisting flavors together (here's your ginger extract, and here's your quintessence of molasses, and so on), but I keep picturing the manufacturers putting a bunch of gingerbread or fruit punch into a giant still.
(I have heard Monstera deliciosa described as having a "mixed tropical fruit" flavor, but from what I know about the plant, it needs a warm climate and isn't terribly productive even then, so turning it into extract would probably not be the highest and best use.)
 
 
Floria Tosca
01 November 2009 @ 11:05 pm
Have decided that my NaNo won't be "gritty social realism about coal miners" after all. Of course, in my case, "gritty social realism" would probably translate to something like: "The epic saga of a ruggedly handsome, charismatic union organizer who is secretly dying of some horrible lung disease or another and is secretly in love with his best friend."