@GargoyleWB (GargoyleWB) posted a new topic, subject "Canned Thai Tea". It read:

   Much to my wife's shopping chagrin, I am addicted to cheapo canned Thai Iced Tea and can't resist impulse buying it. The cheaper the better. I usually go for the most heavily-discounted illicilty-imported rusty-tin-oil-can type, the more layers of warehouse dust the better–improves flavor, I tell her.
    
    So, I'm slurping down my latest and midway through the can a little chunk of something falls in my mouth. Surprised, I take it from my mouth and take a few more swigs from the can to see if there might be more.
    
    Nope. Just the one. It is roundish, about 5mm in diameter, and looks like a well-chewed piece of Wrigleys gum. Any idea what it could be? The portion of the ingredient list that was in English didn't have anything mysterious, except “non-dairy creamer”. I'm guessing that must be it since the lump is definitely non-dairy in appearance, I think it just didn't achieve the creaming state of matter.
    
    (final note: The can didn't taste off at all, so of course I drank the rest down).

Then @Zsofia (Zsofia) said

    BLARGH SPLUTTER GRAAAAAP!
    
    Seriously, dude, you might want to put a warning in that thread title, I thought we were going to discuss brands or something!

To which @missbunny (missbunny) replied

    GargoyleWB:
    
    > So, I'm slurping down my latest and midway through the can a little chunk of something falls in my mouth. Surprised, I take it from my mouth and take a few more swigs from the can to see if there might be more.
    
    “I was eating and discovered a foreign object in my sandwich. So I took a few more bites to see if there was more unidentifiable flotsom, possibly quite disgusting unidentifiable flotsam, in there, to shortly end up in my mouth if there was, whereby I could then spit it out.”
    
    Wow that's not the way I would have tried to figure out if there was more god-knows-what in there! 
    
    I like canned Thai tea too, or rather, I used to, until 4:26 PM ET on Feb. 8, 2008. :eek:

After which, @GargoyleWB (GargoyleWB) added

    Brands? “Cylindrical container” has been my only requirement, and that's only because I'm assured of the packaging's structural integrity. I especially like the heavier gage steel cans that you can find in international markets…it makes me feel like it's protecting something important.
    
    I won't touch that cartoned stuff though, I have standards


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