You spend the day hacking away inside a pitch-black, kilometer-deep tar hole, breathing in exposed coal and methane.
We're doing a blackstrap molasses, which has a very deep black tar flavor to it, with our caramel.
"My testicle was horrendously swollen, almost to the size of an orange... Chemo was a continuous cough, hacking up chunks of mysterious, tar-like matter from deep in my chest".
There are countless places to step, but very few of them are on the right path and often you don't know you've slipped until you're waist-deep in tar.
"More and more unconventional 'frontier' assets are being booked on the balance sheet, such as deep-water and tar sands," said Natasha Lamb of Arjuna Capital.
Like almost any youngster, my love of dinosaurs was deeper than a tar pit and wider than the Cretaceous.
I kept sinking deeper and deeper into the La Brea Tar Pits until finally I slipped under.
In Canada, tapping tar sands deep underground consumes half a barrel of water for every barrel of bitumen (viscous oil) produced, according to the Alberta government.
The rising cost of producing those additional barrels of oil in places like tar sands, deep water, Arctic explorations is going to push up the price to the end user in those countries that don't subsidise.
Or, describing the wretched Fag Ash Devine: "Her skin was the colour of Golden Virginia and when she breathed deep you seen the tar come bubbling out her ears".
Shell is keen to present itself as a responsible company that is trying to tackle climate change but critics say its commitment to tar sands, deep water wells and Arctic exploration are at odds with this stance.
