TIL about the Guarana plant, which looks like a cluster of eyes when ripe. This is fitting because it's full of caffeine.
TIL about the Guarana plant, which looks like a cluster of eyes when ripe. This is fitting because it's full of caffeine.
I miss Guarana sodas, it has been almost 20 years, used to be my favorite when living in South America.
Are you in the US? Bawls is a Guarana soda sold here. Can’t find it locally very often (Meijer, sometimes) but you can order directly from their website.
Yes, the name is stupid; still my favorite soda.
Never had it, but considering the Wikipedia article says that it can have more than twice the caffeine of a coffee bean, it must keep you wide awake.
There was one in the US called Bawls that I drank a lot in the 90s. It was really good.
Edit: Turns out it still exists. https://www.bawls.com/
Soft drinks and tea made from it are delicious.
If I remember correctly, Brazilian indigenous legend is that a woman had a miraculous child, the baby died, and some days after burial from one of the eyes sprouted a guaraná plant, from the other sprouted false-guarana.
Thanks. I'm not finding much info about false guarana, but this is apparently what it looks like:
Searching in Portuguese might help?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=falso+guarana&t=fpas&iax=images&ia=images
This makes me think I need to find some Bawls.
Wonder if I can grow it in zone 8b.
When the DM doesn't want you to metagame the Beholder fight
Creepy.
when you can sit still, but you're a fucking plant
Ahh yea, that's the money shot.
you failed to mention how delicious it is
That would be because I've never tried it. But I am taking the word of you and others who have posted on that point.