Ever seen those Guinness surger things?
Basically, it's a little metal plate on a plastic stand that you plug in, put a couple of teaspoons of water on, put your pint on, then press a magic button that sends some sort of current through the Guinness making it do that lovely cloudy thing and taste roughly like it does from the tap. Brilliant. However, you have to buy special cans of Guinness especially for use with this gadget - hence the warning "Do not use with any other type of drink" (or something along those lines).

Anyway, my boyfriend owns one of these, as he is a massive Guinness fan. The day he bought it, we were on our way to a friends house as said friend's mum was away. Time to parrr-tay, needless to say. Not too long a while later, boyfriend had consumed and thoroughly enjoyed all his surger cans and had resorted to lager. Now, somewhere in his brain a little voice piped up and said "This tastes like shit. Maybe it'll taste better if I surge it. Maybe it'll taste like Guinness!".

So, on goes the water, the pint of lager, and the appliance it switched on. Seconds later, the lager has miraculously turned entirely to head with froth billowing out of it all over our friend's kitchen worktop.

Mmmmm... sticky.
( useful_idiot, Fri 5 May 2006, 20:06, Reply)