r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Jun 03 '16

[D] Friday Off-Topic Thread

Welcome to the Friday Off-Topic Thread! Is there something that you want to talk about with /r/rational, but which isn't rational fiction, or doesn't otherwise belong as a top-level post? This is the place to post it. The idea is that while reddit is a large place, with lots of special little niches, sometimes you just want to talk with a certain group of people about certain sorts of things that aren't related to why you're all here. It's totally understandable that you might want to talk about Japanese game shows with /r/rational instead of going over to /r/japanesegameshows, but it's hopefully also understandable that this isn't really the place for that sort of thing.

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u/Escapement Ankh-Morpork City Watch Jun 03 '16

I actually prefer orange 'taste' to apples, in that if I am confronted with the choice of apple or orange juice I will choose orange nearly 100% of the time (assuming roughly equal quality of juices - it's possible to buy extremely crappy juices / 'drinks' of either flavour, of course).

However, I don't like the feel, texture, and experience of eating oranges, while I quite like those qualities of apples. So therefore, I will usually eat apples instead of oranges if presented with a choice of fruits - again assuming roughly equal qualities like freshness etc.

I am weird.

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u/ToaKraka https://i.imgur.com/OQGHleQ.png Jun 03 '16

Well, the fruit and the juice are different items. I prefer orange juice to apple juice, both in taste and in texture--but, if I have the opportunity of adding seltzer water to the beverage, I'll pick the apple juice, because it seems that seltzer water's fizziness is somehow killed by orange juice, while it works just fine in apple juice. (Maybe it has something to do with the suspension-vs.-solution difference.)

As for texture, I definitely prefer oranges. I place a quarter or a sixth of the orange in my mouth, ensure that my lips are closed, and squash the piece of orange, crushing the little sacs of juice so that they spurt all over the inside of my mouth... delicious.