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Is this real ?
by IceWreck 5y ago
Is this real ?
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoAlmost certainly not.
- FartyMcFarter 5y agoI can believe it. There are much weirder people out there.
- db48x 5y agoAnd the bit at the end where someone calls up for a reference and ends up sending a fruit basket has the ring of truth.
- landtuna 5y agoI don't think someone in the 90s would describe someone else's tea as smelling like kombucha.
- bencollier49 5y agoParaphrased in the present, I guess.
- meragrin_ 5y agoHow about someone in 2022 describing something taking place in the 90s? That part was not in the dialog taking place in the 90s but the author describing the scene.
- sophacles 5y agoWhy not? It was a niche hippie/health-nut thing back then, but it was around. Here's a random article i found from forbes that goes into it a bit: https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinatroitino/2017/02/01/kombucha-101-demystifying-the-past-present-and-future-of-the-fermented-tea-drink/?sh=52ba4a944ae2 https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinatroitino/2017/02/01/ko...
- oriolid 5y agoAccording to my Ukrainian co-worker, back in 90s Kombucha was known as a horrible traditional delicacy similar to surströmming, hákarl or casu marzu. And yes, I have had a co-worker who drank weird smelly herbal teas and was obsessed with vitamins among other things. And a different one who had a mug that was covered with thick black crust inside and who insisted that it must never be washed.
- NikolaNovak 5y agoGiven Initrode reference at the end I'd guess not. It's more of a BOFH vibe I think
- sophacles 5y agoDailyWTF convention is to replace actual company names with Innitech and Initrode.
- probably_wrong 5y agoBased on my experience reading TheDailyWTF for a couple years now: I bet there was indeed a guy at a company who spoke about himself in the 3rd person, took off the lighting bulbs from his office (Masters of Doom talks about something similar, after all), used female names for his variables, and was fired. I would also bet that the "thanks for the tip" part is also true. I'm on the fence about the tea. Everything else is probably poetic license to help the story flow better.