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Refrigerator’s acting up. Will take my regional soda with ice. Hold the metal shavings.
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Pepsin tastes purt good. I used to like pepsin gum. Hmmm…what IS pepsin?
It’s in the same category as lithiates, chlorophyll, alkalines, and all the other faddish ingredients that infused the products of yore. I think Pepsodent gum is the last remaining pepsin product, just as Alka-Seltzer is the sole representative of the alkaline craze.
Note: I did the art this week, not EJ, which is why it’s not as good.
Drinks taste better with American Ice!
The American Ice corporation sponsors my local minor league baseball team. I don’t know their policy with respect to metal shavings though.
I’m gonna go with Mr. Pibb over Dr. Pepper in a close match, while being open to the possibility that the formulas are identical, and that my belief in Pibb’s edge is totally psychological.
there was awful Squirt – which was made up of Grapefruit
From the fim Hell or High Water (2016):
This very weekend on The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs there was also a discussion of soft drinks/soda pop/Coke, particularly New Coke.
I don’t remember New Coke tasting BAD, just that it was a bad idea.
Great stuff, James.
I can’t remember the last time we bothered with ice around here. We have hot coffee and tea. My wife will put cans of sparkling water in the fridge. She also has carrot and orange juice in the fridge. But we don’t tend to iced drinks around here.