Cape party weekend, Miracle Fruit

[juldea]

This weekend's party was hella fun, so thanks to laura47 for inviting me and ingratiating me to the people I didn't know.

We flavor-tripped! If anyone doesn't know about Miracle Fruit, you should. It's a real berry that binds to your taste buds to make sour and bitter things taste sweet. It's completely legal, non-toxic, etc etc, and these days you can buy pills of the stuff online. laura47 had several boxes shipped to her for the party, and there were trays of normally bad food that we all selected from. Some of the things I ate and their changes:

lemons tasted like the best lemon candy, sherbet lemons. I seriously put whole slices of lemon into my mouth like oranges and sucked on them, and mmm.

limes were very similar and turned into limeade-like flavors

dill pickles were ruined as they tasted like sweet&sour pickles :(

bananas tasted the same

strawberries turned into the most delicious thing ever

Babybel cheese wheels tasted like cream cheese frosting

sliced ginger was like candied ginger

Guinness turned into some kind of odd ... completely non-foul, non-beer fizzyish drink. I'm normally fine with Guinness anyway, but this was something special.

cucumbers I normally HATE, but they became a very non-offensive melon flavor

raw cranberries were so tasty I had to remind myself not to eat too many or I'd hurt my stomach

Vodka and lime juice was a sweet, tasty drink. People who drank raw vodka said it tasted like soap.

There were people taking swigs of vinegar like it was juice.

I had orange strawberry banana juice which was amazingly sweet like a kid's drink.
I know many other people tried other things, boozes and other foods, but the acids I was eating but not tasting got to my stomach and I stopped trying things for fear of feeling ill. But still! The stuff is amazing, and I can't wait to try it again. I need to try it with dark chocolate!

Um, what else. For such long nights (I got very little sleep over the weekend) there's not much to share that's not "you had to be there"... I took a (clothed) bath in the master bathroom's jacuzzi tub that has color-changing lights, and that was nice and warm and comfortable. I went on a $150 grocery run for the party. I watched people spin colored light-up poi balls. There were movies. There was a lot of chilling, sitting around chatting with people about crazy things. laura47 stressed out about her party duties and taking care of people. A guy did some awesome hand juggling with pool balls. I didn't play a single game of pool or Race for the Galaxy, which I'm still boggling about! I sat on the porch for sunrise. I bought chocolate mint Bailey's and didn't even crack it open. I watched YouTube videos and spouted memes at people. I nearly sliced the tip of my finger off cutting a loaf of bread, and still managed to take off a good disc of skin. Ow.

So all and all a good couple of days partying, a good escape and relaxation... though not a lot of sleep. Thank you laura47!!

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[goldbug.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I don't remember where I heard about Miracle Fruit before, but thanks to your review I will definitely have to try it!