I guess I'm going to have to die sooner than I thought.

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I mind a time, several decades back, when my sainted old mother, long dead now these many years, read or saw on TV something about the smoke crust on barbecued meats being bad for you and she informed my brother and myself we were going to have to quit barbecuing every weekend as we had been doing for years. We looked at each other, then turned to mom and said "we're gonna die." Turns out it either wasn't all that bad for me, or it hasn't caught up with me yet as I am still eating barbeque and I am still alive.

Heaven is a cook out where the pits are always running. :lol:
 

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For me the foods of choice, all things being equal, would be...
--rolled tacos w/guacamole
--pepperoni and sausage pizza w/extra cheese
--Jack-in-the-Box Sourdough Jack burgers
--Carl's Junior Western Bacon cheeseburgers
--fried calimari
--donuts

But I've had things like salmon tartar that have knocked my socks off.
So yeah, food is good.
:)

But all things are NOT equal.
Unfortunately.
 
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For me the foods of choice, all things being equal, would be...
--rolled tacos w/guacamole
--pepperoni and sausage pizza w/extra cheese
--Jack-in-the-Box Sourdough Jack burgers
--Carl's Junior Western Bacon cheeseburgers
--fried calimari
--donuts

But I've had things like salmon tartar that have knocked my socks off.
So yeah, food is good.
:)

But all things are NOT equal.
Unfortunately.

homer-guacamole.jpg


;)
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I'm surprised you didn't go with donuts...

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But then again, I wasn't aware that Homer was such a fan of guacamole.
:)

I feel about donuts, or better yet, crullers, about the same as Homie, BUT, I don't want a shape like Homie's. :D So I drool over stuff that's a) extremely yummy, and b) good for me and not TOO fattening, the way Homie drools over donuts. :D

And don't give me even ONE blueberry muffin, or it will wake up the monster, and soon I'll have to claw my way out of at least 30 lbs excess. :D

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I feel about donuts, or better yet, crullers, about the same as Homie, BUT, I don't want a shape like Homie's. :D So I drool over stuff that's a) extremely yummy, and b) good for me and not TOO fattening, the way Homie drools over donuts. :D

And don't give me even ONE blueberry muffin, or it will wake up the monster, and soon I'll have to claw my way out of at least 30 lbs excess. :D

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I unfortunately have 2 Krispie Kreme Donut stores too close by so my resistance to donuts, and their diacetyl-laden fattening effects, are too close by to avoid that melt in the mouth experience only a hot donut rolling off the assembly line is capable of giving. If I could ever create that effect in an e-juice, I'd be a millionaire!
 

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Holy crap, I thought I spotted a misspelling there for a minute.
And for you, that would be a first.

But then I Googled "cruellers" and it turns out it can be spelled either way.
So yeah, the moral of this story is to use Google a lot, because I own a fair amount of their stock.
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Holy crap, I thought I spotted a misspelling there for a minute.
And for you, that would be a first.

But then I Googled "cruellers" and it turns out it can be spelled either way.
So yeah, the moral of this story is to use Google a lot, because I own a fair amount of their stock.
:laugh:

I do *occasionally* misspell things... not very often though, you're right. I'm trying to remember the last time I read one of my old posts and found a misspelled word.... but it's not coming to me, what word it was, but that I remember thinking, OMG, WTH? and fixing it real fast. :D I'm thinking it might have been one of the homonymic words, to/too/two or there/their/they're... sometimes my fingers type with a mind of their own, and I'm not as good at proofreading as I am at spelling. :D

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Actually, I use alcohol too. Everclear. I actually use it to make my menthol drops. I crush the crystals and fill a dropper bottle with crystals and then pour the Everclear over it and it melts the crystals.......I now have menthol drops....so when I mix my eliquid, I add drops. I never thought it could be that bad since we're talking "drops" of alcohol and not like this HUGE amount..God I hope this stuff isn't in the menthol eliquid I've been buying all this time. I usually get it from either myfreedomsmokes or smokeanywhereforpennys.
 

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Actually, I use alcohol too. Everclear. I actually use it to make my menthol drops. I crush the crystals and fill a dropper bottle with crystals and then pour the Everclear over it and it melts the crystals.......I now have menthol drops....so when I mix my eliquid, I add drops. I never thought it could be that bad since we're talking "drops" of alcohol and not like this HUGE amount..God I hope this stuff isn't in the menthol eliquid I've been buying all this time. I usually get it from either myfreedomsmokes or smokeanywhereforpennys.
I think you'll be ok. The "problem" flavors are associated mainly with buttery, sweet custard type flavors. From what I understand, there are no problems with menthol.
 

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LOL! The reason I asked about the alcohol is I was watching a YouTube vape vid of a guy telling of 4 things you DO NOT want in your e liquid. One was the Diacetyl, alcohol, Caffiene and Whole Tobacco alkaloids. Now, of all of these, I think the Diacetyl is probably the worst. As far as whole tobacco alkaloids, I have no idea honestly. I do know that I bought some tobacco absolute from perfumer's apprentice a LONG time ago. It came in this small vile and it's this thick tar type substance that has a strong tobacco smell. I also mix this with alcohol but only use ONE DROP because the stuff is so strong that's all I need when I mix. 2 or 3 years later I still have plenty left....When I mix my e liquid I mix enough for about 4 days of vaping before I have to mix more. I'm afraid to mix a huge batch at a time for fear I might screw up the mix and have a big amount that I don't like, so I do it in small batches.
 

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LOL! The reason I asked about the alcohol is I was watching a YouTube vape vid of a guy telling of 4 things you DO NOT want in your e liquid. One was the Diacetyl, alcohol, Caffiene and Whole Tobacco alkaloids. Now, of all of these, I think the Diacetyl is probably the worst. As far as whole tobacco alkaloids, I have no idea honestly. I do know that I bought some tobacco absolute from perfumer's apprentice a LONG time ago. It came in this small vile and it's this thick tar type substance that has a strong tobacco smell. I also mix this with alcohol but only use ONE DROP because the stuff is so strong that's all I need when I mix. 2 or 3 years later I still have plenty left....When I mix my e liquid I mix enough for about 4 days of vaping before I have to mix more. I'm afraid to mix a huge batch at a time for fear I might screw up the mix and have a big amount that I don't like, so I do it in small batches.
I see nothing wrong with small amounts of alcohol. And it helps for better wicking. But you can use PG or water to dissolve menthol crystals. Water is also good for wicking.
 

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LOL! The reason I asked about the alcohol is I was watching a YouTube vape vid of a guy telling of 4 things you DO NOT want in your e liquid. One was the Diacetyl, alcohol, Caffiene and Whole Tobacco alkaloids. Now, of all of these, I think the Diacetyl is probably the worst. As far as whole tobacco alkaloids, I have no idea honestly. I do know that I bought some tobacco absolute from perfumer's apprentice a LONG time ago. It came in this small vile and it's this thick tar type substance that has a strong tobacco smell. I also mix this with alcohol but only use ONE DROP because the stuff is so strong that's all I need when I mix. 2 or 3 years later I still have plenty left....When I mix my e liquid I mix enough for about 4 days of vaping before I have to mix more. I'm afraid to mix a huge batch at a time for fear I might screw up the mix and have a big amount that I don't like, so I do it in small batches.
I'm not sure why those 4 substances would be singled out. If you use small amounts of ethyl alcohol, I can't see any issues with vaping it as far as health. In fact, alcohol is often vaporized and inhaled recreationally with little ill effect but it's not without risk. Caffeine inhalation is not very common but it's possible; the safety has not been demonstrated but I can attest that it works. WTA shouldn't be any more risky than nicotine as there are no carcinogens in that just other nicotine-like alkaloids. I know that in Naturally Extracted Tobacco there is some risk of getting carcinogens in the mix, but I haven't seen any data on the levels or just how much risk there is in that.
 

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LOL! The reason I asked about the alcohol is I was watching a YouTube vape vid of a guy telling of 4 things you DO NOT want in your e liquid. One was the Diacetyl, alcohol, Caffiene and Whole Tobacco alkaloids. Now, of all of these, I think the Diacetyl is probably the worst. As far as whole tobacco alkaloids, I have no idea honestly. I do know that I bought some tobacco absolute from perfumer's apprentice a LONG time ago. It came in this small vile and it's this thick tar type substance that has a strong tobacco smell. I also mix this with alcohol but only use ONE DROP because the stuff is so strong that's all I need when I mix. 2 or 3 years later I still have plenty left....When I mix my e liquid I mix enough for about 4 days of vaping before I have to mix more. I'm afraid to mix a huge batch at a time for fear I might screw up the mix and have a big amount that I don't like, so I do it in small batches.

And that guy doesn't have the first clue what he's talking about, with WTA -- it's a godsend for some people; without it, I could never have stayed smoke-free after I returned from my month-long smoke-break. Given his cluelessness about that, I'm disinclined to trust his judgment about ANYTHING.

And trust me, no one's going to just "throw in" WTA to an ejuice; the stuff is EXPENSIVE!

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