Anyone else use Vallejo flat yellow? Sure mine smells of artificial bananas... :D
Ugh!
Quote from: mad lemmey on 07 September 2019, 08:59:44 AM
Anyone else use Vallejo flat yellow? Sure mine smells of artificial bananas... :D
If you had said it smelled of bananas, I might have had a good idea but .....
artificial bananas? That could be anything. Although, from what you are saying, artificial bananas can't smell of anything - they smell like Vallejo Flat Yellow .... which I don't have .... nor do I have any artificial bananas ...... so I don't know .... now I'm really confused. :-\
maybe it smells of Vallejo Yellow ochre .... I've got that ... don't know what that smells like ... yet .... maybe it smells of artificial cakes .... I fancy a cake .....
Whose youth did not include nasty cheap candies with "fruit" flavours that never grew in an orchard?
Quote from: FierceKitty on 07 September 2019, 12:34:14 PM
Whose youth did not include nasty cheap candies with "fruit" flavours that never grew in an orchard?
Ah! Two assumptions on your part, Kitty; the first is probably correct (knowing Lemmey's mind) and the other incorrect. The term, "artificial bananas" could mean these plastic or porcelain ones they put in shop windows or fruit bowls for decoration ... mind you, I suppose the painted porcelain ones could be painted Vallejo Flat Yellow ... and so might smell like Vallejo Flat Yellow ...... but the smell of artificial banana
flavouring, now that is something more specific .... at best,
different ..... at worst,
yeuch!. :-&
Quote from: FierceKitty on 07 September 2019, 12:34:14 PM
Whose youth did not include nasty cheap candies with "fruit" flavours that never grew in an orchard?
I'm pretty sure he's talking about the edible foam ones.
Yellow for bananas, or pink for shrimps.
Strangely moreish, but left you really thirsty.
The "artificial banana" smell/flavour is apparently based on a now rarely seen version of banana known as a gros michel. It became susceptible to disease and replaced with the now more common cavendish variety, which had a more familiar subtle flavour.
I did mean the smell of artificial banana favouring, as used in various sweets and medicines in the 1970s... blurg 🤢
HAH !!!!
Will....You're FAR too young to have experienced the smells of some of the truly awful bottled 'medicines' from my childhood.
No wonder the old Doc's used to tell us to hold our noses. :-& :-& :-& :-& :-& :-& :-&
YEEEEUK !!!
Thanks for bringing back those memories. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 07 September 2019, 03:53:14 PM
Will....You're FAR too young to have experienced the smells of some of the truly awful bottled 'medicines' from my childhood.
It can't be doing you any good unless it tastes foul.
Quite right !
I thought it was always deliberately made to taste foul so that people - especially kids - would not want to take more of it than they were supposed to?
I remember enjoying a sort of kaolin mixture with antibiotics in it (this was about '64), and drinking the whole bottle on the sly, much to my mother's alarm.
That was probably Kaolin & Morphine, back in those 'olden' days, Alexander......
No wonder you chugged the whole bottle. ;) ;D ;D ;D
There are two that I remember.....One of which is the one you have fond memories of.
The other was, I think, a remedy for bronchial ailments.
It was 'almost' black....and (now that I've been around horses for so long) smelled like matured horse widdle.
THAT was truly, frigging VILE. :-& :-& :-& :-& :-& :-&
On medical subjects.....A couple of days ago I had to have my three monthly B12 jab.
The nurse that sticks the needle in my arm is an absolute poppet......Always says, "You might feel a little scratch"......(I never do).....But this time I asked if I was going to be rewarded with a sweet.
"Phil....we used to give sweets to the children...But we can't now, in case of some sort of allergic reaction."
Good grief....But I suppose they've got to be ultra careful !!
Cheers - Phil
Next time, ask for a sticker! ;D
Or a sugar lump!
May be right. My pharmacology at that age was limited.
Aah...the old days when chemists were chemists! 'Cough Mixture' at first tasted bad but became strangely addictive...wish I had a big bottle now...probably at least 2 banned substances...but it certainly seemed to work! ;D Imphepecachuana wine...think it was for 'bad guts' (can't be bothered to even TRY to spell correctly! ;D). Pink Lint...for stings/burns etc...which DID work...you can't get it now :( ! The branded crud in 'Chemists' now, might not kill you...but you still feel like s**t! :'(
Incidentally...old 'farming' pick you up for cold, wet workers was a stock pot with aniseed, liquorice and maybe 'some' brandy added as circumstance required...warm 'em up and get 'em out again! lol! ;)
In my own days...of alcoholic experimentation...a good 'warmer' was a 'Percy Special'...Cherrry Brandy and Whisky. :) And...for 'the Runs'...'Pink Gin'...a good slop of Angosturas Bitters swilled around a large glass, (then, in theory, chucked out...it's supposedly poisonous, but if you've got the runs, you do not care!). Gin...more Gin...and if you are Navy, water...I was a wus, so lemonade! Rather nice...so used to line some up in the old, 'Last Orders' days...just in case! ;) ;D
I dropped and broke a bottle of Angostura bitters once; sad waste, but I just stood there breathing heavily for about ten minutes...divine scent.
Quote from: Raider4 on 08 September 2019, 09:43:27 AM
I thought it was always deliberately made to taste foul so that people - especially kids - would not want to take more of it than they were supposed to?
There's quite a gap between "I don't like that" and '
BLEEEEECHHHHH!!!'
And the reality...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Pinkham
When I was younger and I sprained my ankle or my wrist my mum used to wrap bandages soaked lead spirit
My wife was asking me why I was sniffing my paints the other night. Couldnt really give a an answer that didnt sound silly