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.
Creepy.
When the DM doesn't want you to metagame the Beholder fight
Ahh yea, that's the money shot.
when you can sit still, but you're a fucking plant
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.