"Since I Hate the State That Reddit Is In, I Figured I Would Post Something to Piss Everyone Off"

Remember when pop punk bands used to write songs that had excessively long song titles like that? Yeah, I guess I'm bringing it back.

Anyway, ever since this sub became a fucking apocalyptic disaster where the most low effort shit-posts have become commonplace, I've spent more time coming on here to troll dumbass motherfuckers instead of actually posting the shit I've been mixing. So here's something I've been coming back to over the last few weeks, it's simple but enjoyable, and I've messed with it over the weeks to be where it is today, as well as adjusting it to be tasty in a pod device, I'm adding both recipes here.

Regular Recipe / ATF Link

• CAP Sweet Strawberry at 2.25%
• FA Strawberry (Red Touch) at 2.75%
• FLV Sour Apple at 1%
• VT Fizzy Sherbet at 1.5%

Pod Device Recipe / ATF Link

• CAP Sweet Strawberry at 5%
• FA Strawberry (Red Touch) at 4%
• FLV Sour Apple at 4%
• VT Fizzy Sherbet at 3%
• CAP Super Sweet at 1%

Okay so let's talk about how this recipe works.

CAP Sweet Strawberry / FA Strawberry - I've talked about this pairing before, and there isn't a whole lot to say about it. CAP Sweet Strawberry is a great flavour to build a solid candy strawberry, except that it's slightly artificial on it's own. That's where FA Strawberry comes in. While this is also a sweeter, more candied approach to strawberry, it does have a more rounded and full bodied flavour that brings some realism and complexity to CAP Sweet Strawberry. Both of these, together, work so beautifully together, and I think you should use this instead of the TPA Strawberry Ripe/Strawberry combo. I just find this works better. And the percentages can be adjusted and swapped depending on your tastes. For more candied flavour, push the CAP higher, but if you want something more subtle and "realistic," then push FA higher.

FLV Sour Apple - I absolutely love this concentrate. It's one of the best ways to add "sour" to a recipe, in my opinion. If you keep this one below 1%, you hardly get any apple flavour at all. It just adds this tart suggestion to any recipe. However, even at 2%, you don't get a whole lot of apple flavour, it just sort of adds this ambiguous tart fruit flavour to the recipe, as opposed to just the tartness. However, going much higher than that seems to bring about some strange bitterness and slightly floral flavour to the mix. Think the way eating Granny Smith apple skin would taste like, that's kind of what you get with FLV Sour Apple above 2%. In here, I'm using that slight apple flavour to boost the brightness from VT Fizzy Sherbet, while also allowing that tartness to give some more punch to the strawberries.

VT Fizzy Sherbet - this concentrate seems to be confusing a lot of people. Maybe not as much anymore, but it definitely did at first. This is NOT a sherbet/ice cream flavour. In other parts of the world, fizzy sherbet actually describes what we in America would call Pixie Stix. Those tubes of pure sugar and food colouring. And what we get with VT Fizzy Sherbet is a citrusy version of a pixie stick, essentially. However, I have found that the citrus aspect of this helps allow this concentrate to sort of bend into being a base for some sort of 7-Up or Sprite type soda. Which works really well in this recipe. If you're looking for a citrus base that has just the slightest note of effervescence, VT Fizzy Sherbet is for you.

Steep Time - this is good off the shake, but something happens after two days where it becomes even more enjoyable. I still can't quite figure out what happens with the mix, but the whole thing just becomes more bright and potent, and for me, has become really addictive.

That's it, fuck all your dumbass "recipe dumps" that just look like low-effort drafts of profiles you were trying to build, fuck all your posts about "help me mix the best recipe ever even though I don't care to do any work myself," fuck you.

Hope you enjoy this if you mix it up. If not, that's cool too.