I wanted sweets from the old days of big glass jars in the corner shop, so I bought aniseed balls and cola cubes online, because they are no where in my sleepy town.

I only briefly glanced at the weights and assumed they were about right, and in my giddy, pre sugared state I glossed over the price.

Imagine my surprise when I got a kilo of each.

I have eaten so many aniseed balls everything tastes like medicine, which I also quite like.

  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 days ago

    I really wish I enjoyed anise flavor. I like pizzelle and they are originally flavored anise traditionally and I just can’t. I have to be boring and eat the vanilla ones. The anise smells so nice but my tongue goes ??? then no more thanks it says.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    4·
    4 days ago

    I love anise. So much. Do you like the salty licorice they like in Northern Europe? I can’t get enough of that shit. Not just salty and licorice, but with a strong undertone of ammonia!

    Also, three weeks ago, I went from a country that used only stupid weights and measures (America) to a country that only partially does (Britain) and it has not been easy. I don’t care of Celsius is rational, all I know is that it’s going to be a high of 4 today and of 12 on Thursday and that means nothing to me.

    • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      3 days ago

      I live in a country where licorice basically doesn’t exist and I have to import it. I’ve let a few different people try the double-salted stuf and they can’t believe I actually like it, they think I’m insane.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

      I’m in Canada and while the metric system came in before I started school (barely), I still think a lot in Imperial. All the roads in my area are set up on a 1x2 mile grid, so anything local is in miles, while going to the nearest city is in km, and going to a far city is in hours.

      Outside temperature is in C, inside temperature is in F because that’s what the thermostat reads still. Some things make sense to me in inches and feet, some in cm and meters. My weight I think of in lbs, but the weight of a truck or something makes sense in kg.

      If I’m driving a tractor it’s mph, and if I’m driving my truck it’s km/h, and I’ve never made sense of L/100km for fuel efficiency, because the number should go UP if something is more fuel efficient, dammit, even if I do have to convert to liters to make the amount of fuel I put in make sense.

      Dammit, now I have a headache…