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> taste like the inside of a shoe I had no idea what the author drank, but it certainly wasn't chicha.

by gcb0 8y ago

sbayona573 8y ago
It is artisanal so it varies dramatically in style and quality. I’ve had both great and diarrhea-inducing chicha.
- subroutine 8y ago
  Did you have chicha prepared the 'artisanal' / traditional way described in the article... This part—the chewing—plays a key role in the fermentation process, since enzymes from saliva convert the starch to sugar, which, when combined with wild yeast or bacteria, eventually becomes alcohol. The preparers then spit the resulting juice into a clay pot, where it ferments for several hours. After that, voila: Chicha is born Chicha is spit?!?
  - philipodonnell 8y ago
    Few concepts have been found to be independently discovered and adopted across the history of disparate human civilizations. Don't kill members of your own tribe. Incest is bad. Find a way, any way, to make booze. :-)
qubax 8y ago
And how does the author know what the inside of a shoe tastes like?
- cholantesh 8y ago
  How does anyone know how shit tastes? Obviously they aren't being literal.
  - overcast 8y ago
    Why can't they be literal? Shoe leather isn't poison. People involved with tasting, familiarize themselves with all kinds of flavors that aren't food, so they can describe what their smelling/tasting. The wine industry is a good example. How do I know what dirt, grass, dog biscuits taste like? Because I've tried them. Chewing on a piece of leather isn't exactly some unheard of feat.
    - kbutler 8y ago
      Interesting. I know what dirt, grass, various weeds, and even dog poop taste like because I did a lot of weed cutting with powerful string trimmers in high school. The "Weed Eater" brand name is more literal than I like to think about. Not things I'd choose to taste, or that I'd want to compare with something I willingly put into my mouth.
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  - rfinney 8y ago
    The breakfast of champions. Ask Philadephia Eagle fans: https://nypost.com/2018/02/05/eagles-fan-thinks-eating-horse-poop-is-cool/ https://nypost.com/2018/02/05/eagles-fan-thinks-eating-horse...
- joncrane 8y ago
  Probably shared a podium with Daniel Ricciardo.
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- nkrisc 8y ago
  Smell is a suitably decent hint at what something probably tastes like.
- toomanybeersies 8y ago
  Have you never tried a Shoey? [1] They're very popular in Australia. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_from_shoes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_from_shoes
ingenieros 8y ago
She exhibits the same type of eurocentrism in that single line as the copywriting on those dreadful propaganda posters.
- PhasmaFelis 8y ago
  Most alcoholic drinks are an acquired taste. There's nothing Eurocentric about finding unfamiliar alcohol offputting. She doesn't rant about it, she's not even all that negative; she just didn't like it.
  - ingenieros 8y ago
    She had chicha in one single spot(in La Candelaria no less)and this entitles her to make such a tone-deaf blanket statement that all chicha must therefore taste like that? If she didn't like it or was grossed out from learning how it's made she could have worded things differently. Instead she chose to be a snob and look down on an indigenous beverage which has miraculously survived a European conquest and the subsequent years of cultural indoctrination.
    - Dirlewanger 8y ago
      She's most likely some upper middle class privileged white woman "journalist" (used very loose) who thinks she knows everything about a place because she spent a week there.
      - PhasmaFelis 8y ago
        The entire article is praising chicha's cultural value and lamenting its passing. I'm struggling to understand why one sentence--"Frothy and milky in texture, the corn-based, alcoholic brew tastes a bit like the inside of a new shoe"--apparently turns it into vicious imperialism. It's not even that negative! The inside of a new shoe isn't a smell I associate with deliciousness, but it's not really unpleasant. I feel like you're demanding that she lie and say it was the best thing she ever tasted.

> taste like the inside of a shoe I had no idea what the author drank, but it certainly wasn't chicha.

by gcb0 8y ago

> taste like the inside of a shoe I had no idea what the author drank, but it certainly wasn't chicha.

sbayona573 8y ago

It is artisanal so it varies dramatically in style and quality. I’ve had both great and diarrhea-inducing chicha.

subroutine 8y ago
Did you have chicha prepared the 'artisanal' / traditional way described in the article... This part—the chewing—plays a key role in the fermentation process, since enzymes from saliva convert the starch to sugar, which, when combined with wild yeast or bacteria, eventually becomes alcohol. The preparers then spit the resulting juice into a clay pot, where it ferments for several hours. After that, voila: Chicha is born Chicha is spit?!?
- philipodonnell 8y ago
  Few concepts have been found to be independently discovered and adopted across the history of disparate human civilizations. Don't kill members of your own tribe. Incest is bad. Find a way, any way, to make booze. :-)

qubax 8y ago

And how does the author know what the inside of a shoe tastes like?

cholantesh 8y ago
How does anyone know how shit tastes? Obviously they aren't being literal.
- overcast 8y ago
  Why can't they be literal? Shoe leather isn't poison. People involved with tasting, familiarize themselves with all kinds of flavors that aren't food, so they can describe what their smelling/tasting. The wine industry is a good example. How do I know what dirt, grass, dog biscuits taste like? Because I've tried them. Chewing on a piece of leather isn't exactly some unheard of feat.
  - kbutler 8y ago
    Interesting. I know what dirt, grass, various weeds, and even dog poop taste like because I did a lot of weed cutting with powerful string trimmers in high school. The "Weed Eater" brand name is more literal than I like to think about. Not things I'd choose to taste, or that I'd want to compare with something I willingly put into my mouth.
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- rfinney 8y ago
  The breakfast of champions. Ask Philadephia Eagle fans: https://nypost.com/2018/02/05/eagles-fan-thinks-eating-horse-poop-is-cool/ https://nypost.com/2018/02/05/eagles-fan-thinks-eating-horse...
joncrane 8y ago
Probably shared a podium with Daniel Ricciardo.
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nkrisc 8y ago
Smell is a suitably decent hint at what something probably tastes like.
toomanybeersies 8y ago
Have you never tried a Shoey? [1] They're very popular in Australia. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_from_shoes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_from_shoes

ingenieros 8y ago

She exhibits the same type of eurocentrism in that single line as the copywriting on those dreadful propaganda posters.

PhasmaFelis 8y ago
Most alcoholic drinks are an acquired taste. There's nothing Eurocentric about finding unfamiliar alcohol offputting. She doesn't rant about it, she's not even all that negative; she just didn't like it.
- ingenieros 8y ago
  She had chicha in one single spot(in La Candelaria no less)and this entitles her to make such a tone-deaf blanket statement that all chicha must therefore taste like that? If she didn't like it or was grossed out from learning how it's made she could have worded things differently. Instead she chose to be a snob and look down on an indigenous beverage which has miraculously survived a European conquest and the subsequent years of cultural indoctrination.
  - Dirlewanger 8y ago
    She's most likely some upper middle class privileged white woman "journalist" (used very loose) who thinks she knows everything about a place because she spent a week there.
    - PhasmaFelis 8y ago
      The entire article is praising chicha's cultural value and lamenting its passing. I'm struggling to understand why one sentence--"Frothy and milky in texture, the corn-based, alcoholic brew tastes a bit like the inside of a new shoe"--apparently turns it into vicious imperialism. It's not even that negative! The inside of a new shoe isn't a smell I associate with deliciousness, but it's not really unpleasant. I feel like you're demanding that she lie and say it was the best thing she ever tasted.