September 27, 2007
Marijuana Is Disgusting
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We couldn't get though this article about today's bust of the East Bay operation Tainted Inc., which produced "marijuana-laced candies, cookies, ice cream, peanut butter, barbecue sauce, granola bars and brownies," without gagging. (We can't even re-read that sentence.) Why? Because the taste to pot is vile. We know that after time one starts to develop a taste for the drugs to which they are addicted, but we can't see that happening with the mary jane. Ever.
Pot pastry chefs of the world, please stop trying to convince us marijuana is a tasty, zany herb in any form. It is not. No, it's not. Ew. We'd rather choke on tarragon-vanilla pudding.
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Clearly, Brock, you have never tasted any of this stuff.
The taste of Pot is almost negligible in the formulations to be found in the year 2007.
How old r u? No one uses ground up leaves anymore...so old school!
2 bad I can't share what i eat with u without gettin' busted or something.
(What on earth are you doing getting high at noon, young man?)
You're right, it has been eons since I've eaten pot or smoked that stuff. But people say the same thing about walnuts being undetectable, and lo and behold...
I'm guessing people eat these to get high, not for a Food-Network-worthy culinary experience, eh?
Pot-laced BBQ sauce? Maybe Everett & Jones BBQ in Oakland should make that a late-night-only option.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAH!!!!!
Well, that was the whole point of Tainted's products: The taste of pot is nasty, so they masked it with copious amounts of sugar, butter, chocolate and other flavors.
Or so I've heard.
Yeah.
cough
I just don't like the taste or the smell of that stuff. The other week I was cornered at a bar by a close talker with the most heinous pot breath. Thought I was going to vomit in his drink. For the love of god, pot smokers, get some breath mints (preferably without added pot).
Just the facts...
I am a woman
I use edibles ( that might even mean, yes, BBQ sauce, on the advice of my Doctor(not a pot doc btw; as it causes MUCH less harm than smoking it.
I work full-time, and can actually focus and get real work done.
Get over the cynicism people!
I've never heard of a liquor that tastes horrible or causes bad breath.
first you diss that poor gal out in front of whole foods, now you say you don't like the taste of pot.
sfist is full of bunch of stiff narcs.
pointless banter
-oscar.
Brock, please stop what you're doing. You know what I'm talking about. Just stop it. It's really lame.
okay. sniff, sniff.
Can someone @ SFist revoke Brock's drug reference privileges? Not funny + not informative = not good content.
Learn to cook with Marijuana - that might help you!
http://recipes.marijuana.com
Bad cooking DOES NOT EQUAL bad herb!
Kindly
What-the-eff-eva, guests, I personally agree. As someone who has, on more than one occasion, "smoked / ate the stuff" I can assure you not everyone's opinion is "oh mah gah wut u tawkin bout u pozer Brock, pot is teh yummiez." It is not. Get over yourself, and admit this. I don't care how extravagant the pot-laced edible you've just eaten is, if there's pot in it, it's taste-able. And you don't need a lot of it for it to taste bad.
But then again, it's a matter of personal opinion.
Properly baked treats are smooth- like a high class vodka. You can't taste the ganja at all. If you CAN taste it, change bakeries or do some lines immediately before eating so the nose burn distracts you.
May God in heaven continue to bless Saint Alice B Toklas.
Saint Brownie Mary of SF too-she baked fucking ATOMIC strength goodies.
Brock, your're giving the pansy population a blemish over this issue. Take it like a man.
Okay, y'all. If you can taste the weed, it's because you, your friend, or the sketchy dude you bought your baked goods from was lazy. If you're trying to avoid the taste of weed (which I agree is stomach-turning!!!), you can't just throw your buds into your cake batter or what-have-you.
Here's how you do it. Bring a large, ahem, pot of water to a boil, then throw a stick of butter and at least an 1/8 of herb into it. This accomplishes many things: 1) most of the nasty-tasting stuff (like chlorophyll and other pigments) is water-soluble and stays in the water; 2) most of the fun stuff is oil-soluble, and is absorbed by the molten butter; and 3) the mixture never exceeds 100°C, so you don't inadvertently denature all the fun stuff into inert compounds.
Anyway, let it simmer for a couple hours, then let cool in your fridge overnight. You'll find the butter resolidified and floating on top of the "bongwater". Skim it off, and bake whatever you want with it. It does not have to be excessively sugary, chocolatey, or otherwise strongly flavored if you don't want. Just anything that requires a lot of butter. I suggest a huge batch of chocolate chip cookie dough; you can then bake only a few at a time, keeping the rest in the freezer for whipping up on demand. They will look and taste just like normal cookies, so it is highly recommended that you place a warning label on them and ***keep well out of the reach of children***.
I mean, this is all what I imagine you could do, if marijuana were legal. :)
Whatever, Brock. Pots is yummy yum.
In my (pathetic) defense, I'm finicky eating pretty much anything that isn't ultra-bland and boring.
I'm #16. Oops, forgot to mention that you should strain all the plant bits out after boiling, before placing in the fridge...
Brock, you need a lunch date with mystery guest 16. He/she gots the mojo down.
It's the way Brownie Mary cooked- none of that sucking on a penny medicinal taste in your mouth.
Wow. Lots of posts got deleted today.
Is this Tainted Inc. the brainchild of that rasta'd out dude who used to walk around GGPark with gourds full of completely delicious gourment ganja truffles? I loved that guy. I hope he's not going to jail.
"gourment" = "gourmet"
"Wow. Lots of posts got deleted today."
As far as I know, no posts were deleted today, haplito.
Maybe I have overactive taste buds, but I've gotten some very well-made, and very expensive pot food items, and I could still taste it. Now, mind you, I didn't taste a LOT, but it was enough for me and my highly critical self not to enjoy it.
If you do, then more power to you. I'd say it's a great way to get the high without the lung damage, but I'm old fashioned- meaning I don't have the time or resources to buy pot food- and would rather take the lung damage.
Pot in food products does not taste bad. I remember living on Grove and Fillmore, I was lazy and hungry. I double-checked the fridge - nothing of mine was in there. Double-checked the freezer - hmmm, "these cookies have been here for a while, I bet no one will notice." In a few moments those cookies were consumed. They were very tasty, didn't notice anything odd - freezer burn, maybe?
About an hour later, I was sitting on the computer when I felt as though I were losing my mind. All of a sudden my brain became very active with chatter. I went outside to smoke on this. It took me a while to remember that I ate cookies - that were obviously laced.
I'm not a fan of eating pot, it makes me hallucinate and it gives me panic attacks. But the fudge from the guy in Dolores is amazing. Oh, but you haven't tried any, so I guess you wouldn't know just how good it is. And therefore wouldn't write an article about how bad it tastes; but that would be too 'common-sensical' for SFist.
Brock, you absolutely have no idea what you're talking about. Why am I dignifying your pointless post with a comment?
Dear Guest 25,
I had a similar excessive cookie consumption drama event. I realized I was in trouble when I went for a glass of water and could see thousands of individual diamond droplets pulsating in my glass. Then I peered out the window and everything looked like it had melted candel wax on it.
It's exactly for this reason that every forward thinking cookie muncher should keep enough pretty blue valium on hand.
For non urgent situations, they mix very well with Gray Goose too.
How does everyone get pot in this city?? Even if I wanted to smoke it, I'd have no idea how to get my hands on some. I was such a cloistered geek in high school it's truly pathetic. :-(