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Liz Cook
Personal blog · haterade.substack.comculturewriting
Liz Cook writes Haterade, a personal blog at haterade.substack.com about culture and writing. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack for humorous tasting write-ups of unusual products, such as a post about tasting Honda's spicy rodent-deterrent wire coating, as the linked post's URL slug suggests.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Rants and raves from an unserious food writer.
Most-linked posts?
- I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-11
What Hacker News says?
Reminds me of this classic: https://haterade.substack.com/p/i-tasted-hondas-spicy-rodent... You would think the auto manufacturers should shoulder the burden of making wires less delicious.
Comment linking /p/i-tasted-hondas-spicy-rodent-repelling
on “Printed circuit board substrates derived from lignocellulose nanofibrils”Submitted I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021) as a story · 1579 points
HN discussionSubmitted All Soda Yearns to Be Red as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cooking with DOM DeLuise as a story · 1 points
HN discussion