A Japanese 10-year-old has become the youngest person authorized to prepare “fugu” pufferfish — a delicacy that can kill if its poisonous parts are not properly removed.
Fifth grader Karin Tabira passed a test this summer that means she is now certified to slice and gut the fish for consumption.
She recently used her new skills to serve a platter of paper-thin slices of fugu sashimi to the governor of southern Kumamoto region where she lives.
Sounds similar to people trying to get me into alcohol, never liked it much, but everyone always keeps pushing it as if I need to “learn” to drink it.
Fucking no. It’s disgusting. I like my occasional light alcohol drink but I ain’t chug down litres and piss it, and my money, away because it’s “cool”.
I’m fine with some alcohol, but some people are like that specifically with beer with me.
I just don’t care for it. I keep getting the “you just haven’t had the right kind of beer!” line and then I try their suggested beer and I do not like it.
Some people can’t accept that you just don’t like the taste of something they enjoy. But it happens in weird ways. No one tells me I just haven’t had the right banana yet when I tell them I don’t like bananas.
Different people have different tastes, and some folks are just not going to like certain flavor profiles.
Within beer though, there is so much variety, I’d be shocked if there wasn’t at least one beer out there that you’d thoroughly enjoy. It’s just not likely worth the effort of finding that one.
Yeah I thought I didn’t like beer because each year on our camping trip I’d try one but it just tasted like piss. Then one time at a work thing my supervisor ordered a black and tan so I got one to and it was pretty good. Turns out I just liked darker beer than all the light beers my friends would get at camping. Then my beer journey started. I also learned beer on tap at a brewery tastes much much better then anything bottled or canned. After getting into beer I pretty much just got into anything fermented like kombucha, ginger beer, kefir etc
I’d love to find it because there’s a brewery in my city that has metal music playing there and I’d love to hang out there and meet people, but I never found a beer that I like, and I’d feel cheap ordering rum n coke or anything that’s not beer at a freaking brewery.
This reminds me of when I went to a restaurant with some friends and we had a variety of beers to taste. I’m not a big drinker, and have never liked beer, but whatever, it won’t kill me. So we try 5 or 6, some are better and some are worse, but there’s one that’s far better than the rest. I say, “Well, this one is almost worth drinking,” and they all respond with something along the lines of “Yeah, this one is really good.” That’s when I came to the conclusion that my perception of good and bad were on point for beer, it’s just that my standard for what I was going to enjoy was higher. They can keep their beers, I’ll stick to tastier beverages, alcoholic or otherwise.
Millennial here.
I read zoomers are less likely to use peer pressure to get others to drink. It’s also the reason why so many non-alcoholic beers are out in the market now. Really cool.
People don’t drink because it tastes good. People drink it because they like getting high and alcohol is one of the few legal drugs you can do. People who drink it because it’s the cool thing to do are being idiots.
If alcohol isn’t your thing you should probably get out there and try other drugs. The good thing about drugs is how many different kinds there are. There really is a substance for almost everyone if you look hard enough. Now if only stuff was legalized and people didn’t abuse it to the nth degree and get themselves in trouble.
Edit: also forgot to mention that brewing is probably the easiest and cheapest way to make a psychoactive substance known to man, and is an entire hobby people (such as myself) have. While lots of homebrewers spend money on fancy equipment and ingredients you don’t need to spend much at all to make alcohol that will get you drunk it can literally be done using a used plastic bottle and a fucking balloon. You can make pretty drinkable stuff with even fairly basic equipment like a hydrometer, couple of plastic or glass fermenters, yeast + nutrients ordered online, and supermarket ingredients.
