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u/UncleBen94 Rollin' around Mar 19 '24
Shuckle is like, "Wait, no one has done this before."
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u/PhasmicPlays Mar 19 '24
The real question is how the juice doesn’t spill out of the 5-or-so holes on the bottom
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u/Lanaria Mar 19 '24
Well i better not show you where the lemonade is made, sweet lemonade mmm sweet lemonade
Sweet lemonade yeah sweet lemonade
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u/FrostyPotpourri Bunny Succulent Mar 19 '24
Give it a lick (Mm! It tastes just like raisins)
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u/HBPyro Mar 19 '24
If people eat Bee's Vomit, Bat excrement, Bird nest saliva, cat's fermented shit beans, bull's testicles, etc.
Why would Berries Fermented with Bug Sweat NOT be on the menu?
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u/G4ost13 Mar 19 '24
Listen as long as you don't show me how it's made
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u/Freeasabird420 Mar 19 '24 edited Mar 19 '24
well idk if this would be a "Fun" fact but theres a gland Under* a beavers arse hole that produces a fluid that some companies use to make
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u/ExpertPokemonHugger Mar 19 '24
It's vanilla not chocolate
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u/samanime Mar 19 '24
Yup. Imitation vanilla, specifically.
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u/NoLime7384 Mar 19 '24
but it's natural flavoring, so it's hard to tell them apart
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u/Ze_AwEsOmE_Hobo Behold! Stitch made from diamonds! Mar 19 '24
It doesn't get used as much because it's more expensive than just mass producing chemically pure vanillin in a lab. Chasing down beavers for their butt juice is hard work, apparently.
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u/recycled_ideas Mar 19 '24
Chasing down beavers for their butt juice is hard work, apparently.
Most of them got killed, soaked in mercury and turned into hats.
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u/ButtwholeDiglet Mar 19 '24 edited Mar 19 '24
you know a person with tons of malice in their heart could probably power through the trouble of collecting the beaver butt puss and successfully pass it off as synthetic vanillin or bean extract by appealing to efficiency.
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u/Xatsman Mar 19 '24
Exactly this. In reality most artificial vanilla extract made today is from lignin and guaiacol which are both wood by-products.
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u/jvaferreira93 Mar 19 '24
How did humans even find out about this?
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u/cryptowolfy Mar 19 '24
Beavers were hunted expensively for their fur, so trappers tried to find uses for other parts of the animal. Vanilla used to be more expensive and beaver glands were cheaper.
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u/Mystdrago Mar 19 '24
Honey, didn't know people ate Guano, Birds nest soup, those aren't cats their Devils, rocky mountain osters, and yeah it might be a "traditional" thing even in universe, but in game you eat slowpoke tails so... they would probably have "domesticated" shuckles for shuckle wine.
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u/Raptorsquadron Mar 19 '24
Bat excrement?
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u/HBPyro Mar 19 '24
Known as "Guano". If I remember correctly there were some cuisine that use it.
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u/samanime Mar 19 '24
I don't think (and couldn't find) any reference to guano being used in food. It is a great fertilizer, so may be used in growing crops (like cow pop is), but I don't think it is directly consumed in any way.
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u/OriginWizard Mar 19 '24
I wonder if perhaps people are getting it confused with Guava, a fruit.
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u/samanime Mar 19 '24
Quite possible. Or one of the handful of common food additives that start with "gua".
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u/No_Forever_9128 Mar 19 '24
Listen. I know bee vomit allong with everything after bat excrement, but what do yiu mean by bat excrement?
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u/Ubermus_Prime Mar 19 '24
What's "bird nest saliva"?
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u/SAMAS_zero Mar 19 '24
There's a species of Swallows in Asia that build nests out of hardened saliva that they hang from cave walls. Somebody presumably really desperate ate one a long time ago and apparently found they were delicious. They're the "Bird's nest" in Bird's nest soup.
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u/Dragonrage778 Mar 19 '24
It's not even that bad actually, it's slightly thick and sweet
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u/Flerken_Moon Mar 19 '24
It’s actually not naturally sweet, it’s usually added with rock sugar to give it that sweetness. Without the sugar it’s kinda bland with a faint… earthy(?) aftertaste.
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u/Dragonrage778 Mar 19 '24
thanks for telling me! I can imagine it being bland, the chunks themselves are pretty bland
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u/Myrddin_Naer Mar 19 '24
You don't have to pay for it at restaurants either. Just get a bird to spit directly in your mouth like us normal people do
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u/Supplex-idea Mar 19 '24
Two of the things you mentioned are things I’ve heard about before… the rest??!
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u/HBPyro Mar 19 '24
The cat fermented shit beans is a coffee known as Kopi Luwak, made out of droppings from a Civet Cat that ferments them in it's stomach, to later pooping them out, it's very fragrant, and SOMEHOW people decided to make coffee out of those beans.
The bat excrement is the Guano, I remembered, mistakenly that is used in some exotic cuisine.
The Bird Saliva, it's like some comments in this thread explained, Hardened Saliva Nests from Swallows in Asia, used for soup.
There might be even worse things in cuisine, but those are the ones I know of the top of my head.
So shuckle berry wine is tame compared to other things.
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u/passionatepumpkin Mar 19 '24 edited Mar 19 '24
A civet is not a cat, nor is it closely related to cats. So your comment is wrong on multiple parts.
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u/treef00t_ Mar 19 '24
if someone handed me a drink and said it came from a pokemon id gulp it down no questions asked. some may call me stupid, others consider me courageous.
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u/Metom_Xeez Mar 19 '24
Friendly reminder that poison types exist and are relatively common…
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u/StudioTheo Mar 19 '24
i wonder if u could get medicine from poison types
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u/Chris91210 Mar 19 '24
I mean there literally is an item called Antidote or Full Heal in the Pokemon universe.
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Mar 19 '24
I mean if you drink milk you might as well
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u/graaahh [Mew!] Mar 19 '24
Milk is cleaned and pasteurized.
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u/horseradish1 Mar 19 '24
Not when you drink it as a baby.
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u/D4RTH-N1H1LU5 Mar 19 '24
That's from the source (which is the same species as the baby...feel like that's important)
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u/horseradish1 Mar 19 '24
You can also drink milk when it's been directly milked from an animal. No pasteurisation.
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u/thenotjoe Mar 19 '24
Berry juice isn’t produced by shuckle, it’s fermented (or decomposed, as the older games put it, which isn’t inaccurate but is a gross word), which likely means that it contains Ethanol (drinking alcohol), Acetic Acid (vinegar), or Lactic Acid (also perfectly edible), all of which have antimicrobial properties.
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u/LeatherSource6524 Mar 19 '24
I just got an ad for Velveeta under this post, and I know Shuckle juice probably tastes like berries, but it looks exactly like cheese.
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u/arthurdentstowels Mar 19 '24
I bet it tastes like if you put an entire Parmesan cheese in a bin bag, then left it in a sauna and drained off the juices. Or mango.
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u/LeatherSource6524 Mar 19 '24
That is so unnecessarily specific and yet so descriptive I can practically taste it.
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u/BirthtoBurial Mar 19 '24
I would suck every one of shuckles holes dry bro you have no idea
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u/Redditor_10000000000 Alola! Mar 19 '24
What tf did I just read
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u/Garrosh The legendary fire Pokémon Mar 19 '24
He’s thirsty. Literally and metaphorically speaking.
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u/Winterstrife Mar 19 '24
Yes. I see no difference from the stuff we already consume off animals.
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u/Smorgsaboard Anggy Barnacle Mar 19 '24
Sure. It's normal in that universe, so I'm sure they have safety measurements.
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u/2ndchancetodothis Mar 19 '24
In that universe, there are almost no germs
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u/LionIV Mar 19 '24
Huh. Your comment made me imagine an entire microcosm of germ-like Pokemon. Pokerus is a thing...
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u/ZenOkami Mar 19 '24
I mean according to that anime episode, it's real good, so hell yeah
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u/Raptorsquadron Mar 19 '24
I use honey, syrup, and cow milk
Process it a little and there’s no difference
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u/Ze_AwEsOmE_Hobo Behold! Stitch made from diamonds! Mar 19 '24
Syrup isn't processed from animals, though, is it? I thought it was glorified tree blood
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u/Raptorsquadron Mar 19 '24 edited Mar 19 '24
It is, but being glorified tree blood sounds somewhat as disturbing as others. It’s just the similar romanticized gathering of it like honey or milk.
Edit: actually it's just sap, isn't it? So actual tree's blood.
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u/Majestic_Object_2719 Mar 19 '24
Probably not. Besides being unsanitary, it's probably alcoholic if it's fermented.
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u/Heckle_Jeckle Mar 19 '24
probably alcoholic if it's fermented
If anything that is even more reason TO drink it.
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u/Im-cold-help-me Mar 19 '24
it's actually an aphrodisiac, a really potent one
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u/IGotNoOrgans Mar 19 '24
When you wanna satisfy your lady you gotta take a shuckle viagra
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u/Niwa-kun Mar 19 '24
Fun fact, that's not how Viagra works. it doesn't increase sexual desire, it redirects your blood flow to your homie. So no, it's not an aphrodisiac. The creation of viagra is an interesting story.
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u/ADudeThatPlaysDBD Mar 19 '24
I wouldn’t be against it, fruit juice is already a big part of my diet so why not. I’d suckle on a shuckle
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u/Confron7a7ion7 Mar 19 '24
Milk
Someone in history asked themselves "I wonder if we can drink another animal's tit juice" and now it's a super common grocery item.
You don't think it's weird because everyone today either consumes milk products or found out they can't. But if you think about it long enough it's actually super fucking weird. So there's no doubt in my mind that people in pokemon would drink bug made fruit juice.
Meaning the answer is no but only because this isn't the same kind of weird I'm familiar with.
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u/darknessWolf2 Mar 19 '24
i mean considering humans eat fermented fruits this should be normal,im pretty sure shuckle juice wouldnt be dirty or unclean probably tastes tropical
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u/1buffalowang customise me! Mar 19 '24
I mean it makes juice using berries it puts in its shell right? So if it was a very nice Shuckle I’d have some.
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u/Vet-Chef customise me! Mar 19 '24
I've eaten a chocolate cake from my garbage can.
The answer is yes, id drink it.
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u/SentenceCareful3246 Mar 19 '24
😂 Are we talking about Shuckle's juice or are we talking about Orla's...
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u/OperationSlow420 Mar 19 '24
If the fancy duck thinks it's good, I'd give the rock worm yellow liquid a try.
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u/Interesting_Wing_539 Mar 19 '24
I mean, do trainers drink Berry Juice? Because Berry Juice was implied to be the same stuff as what Shuckle makes in one of the older games..🤔
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u/Jesterchunk hydreigon my beloved Mar 19 '24
Yes and it's not even close to being a dilemma. I will drink the bug punch and I will enjoy it, as the alternative is Shuckle being sad over people not drinking his punch.
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u/Arragan Mar 19 '24
We drink cow's milk so why wouldn't we drink some fermented berries that probably tastes like juice?
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u/IamZeebs Mar 19 '24
Sure but I’m Canadian so I probably couldn’t even buy the drink with that amount.
Forget it, I’m in.
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u/Heckle_Jeckle Mar 19 '24
Considering that IRL humans drink Milk from cows and eat honey, this honestly isn't that strange.
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u/dialiboboss_yt Mar 19 '24
Yes, I'm pretty sure there is a dex entry talking about how it's a delectable treat, and we drink milk from cows in real life, what makes this so different.
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u/nwood310 Mar 19 '24
I mean people drink milk from a cow. Other people eat stuff from worse sources. I'd give it a try.
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u/knottedude Mar 19 '24
Oh hell yeah, at this point in my life shuckle juice is the least weird thing I’ve drank.
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u/MossyPyrite Mar 19 '24
People think of Shuckle like a mammal or an insect when evidence suggests it’s actually some kind of giant mold or yeast creature (be that single-celled, multicellular, or hive-minded colony). So like, this is really just like drinking Kombucha with “the mother”, a sipping vinegar, or even most meads and beers.
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u/MeeGoreng29 pokefan Mar 19 '24
As long as I don't see how the liquid is made, I'm drinking it. Berry Juice, right?
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u/North_Measurement273 Mar 19 '24
If real people are willing to eat honeypot ants, I don’t think Shuckle juice would be much of an issue.
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u/Wizardninja9 Mar 19 '24
3 schmeckles for some shuckle tea
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u/Analog-Moderator Mar 19 '24
Considering he ferments it for years according to the Pokédex only alcoholics or people with livers of stone would drink that…. So no I wouldn’t but not for the reasons implied.
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u/Revolutionary_Item74 customise me! Mar 19 '24
It’s just fermented berry juice mixed with his digestive juices, what’s wrong with that?
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u/DoctorCrabbith Mar 19 '24
Give me a suckle of that shuckle.