TIL about the Guarana plant, which looks like a cluster of eyes when ripe. This is fitting because it's full of caffeine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GuaranaOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GuaranaOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
I miss Guarana sodas, it has been almost 20 years, used to be my favorite when living in South America.
Are you in the US? Bawls is a Guarana soda sold here. Can’t find it locally very often (Meijer, sometimes) but you can order directly from their website.
Bawls
Yes, the name is stupid; still my favorite soda.
Never had it, but considering the Wikipedia article says that it can have more than twice the caffeine of a coffee bean, it must keep you wide awake.
There was one in the US called Bawls that I drank a lot in the 90s. It was really good.
Edit: Turns out it still exists. https://www.bawls.com/
My favorite was Josta.
Fun fact: “josta” is a minced oath for shit in Brazil.
Josta was the best 🥺
Gods, that stuff gave me the worst case of explosive diarrhea I have ever had, seen, or heard of.
I really wish it would make a comeback. Josta was great!
Years ago I was really missing it and my wife found a Josta taste a like recipe. It was Bawls, Sobe Dragonfruit, and Pepsi.
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If you have a SodaStream at home, could just mix a large batch and not worry about carbonation loss.
Oh shit I remember drinking bawls only cus it was a funny name and my friends and I kept saying "let's go grab some bawls"
Your friendly neighborhood Micro Center often has it…
I remember being too turned off by the name to try it. It was very much of the X-TREME!!! era of marketing, which I really hated.
Maybe if I see it again, I'll try it. Thanks.
Not so much. It was milder than Coke. I guess it was quite diluted. You can buy Guaraná Antarctica online in the U.S. if you’re curious.
Antarctica is good. Can't find it in stores around me, so I order a case every once in a while.
Soft drinks and tea made from it are delicious.
If I remember correctly, Brazilian indigenous legend is that a woman had a miraculous child, the baby died, and some days after burial from one of the eyes sprouted a guaraná plant, from the other sprouted false-guarana.
Thanks. I'm not finding much info about false guarana, but this is apparently what it looks like:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/False-guarana-not-identified-found-on-Andira-Marau-Indigenous-Land-near-the-village_fig4_303023020
Searching in Portuguese might help?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=falso+guarana&t=fpas&iax=images&ia=images
If this is what I think it is, it tastes delicious (unlike guaraná). I don’t remember the name, but it wasn’t presented to me as falso guaraná.
This makes me think I need to find some Bawls.
Oculemons
Wonder if I can grow it in zone 8b.
Creepy.
When the DM doesn't want you to metagame the Beholder fight
Ahh yea, that's the money shot.
That would be because I've never tried it. But I am taking the word of you and others who have posted on that point.