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November 18, 2012 wrote: Then the pharmacy was along the east side of the store, and the NDA now had something to do with a drug. The pharmacist had a bottle of dark-brown liquid with a glass dropper attached to the lid. Ze opened up the bottle and squirted some such that drops of the drug landed all over the place, some of them in my mouth. It tasted bitter. I didn't want to take the drug yet, so I didn't like that ze was doing this.

October 18, 2020 wrote: Then there was a part where I had some type of candy. It was sort of a yellowish color, a bit of a brownish yellow maybe, and each piece was a slightly-rounded square that was thicker around the edge (kind of like some elevator buttons I've seen...). They came four to a package, arranged left-to-right, and all of them were different flavors; having new flavors and being surprised by what flavors you got was part of the point of this candy. There was a list of what flavors were in there, but it didn't say what order (intentionally), and many but not all of the flavors were, like, unpleasant smells. I ate the first one, which was some sort of toffee-related thing that smelled and tasted good, but then I smelled the others and was less sure I actually wanted to eat them.

chridd wrote: ↑Sun Mar 02, 2025 10:39 am many but not all of the flavors were, like, unpleasant smells