11.09.07
Posted in Soda at 2:02 pm by Cavorter
A friend who knows me well got a four pack of the “treat-sized” Jones Candy Corn soda and brought it in to work for me today. Good thing since I had not been able to find it at my local Target. A couple of notes:
- It is Yellow. (FD&C Yellow no. 5 to be specific)
- It smells exactly like good fresh candy corn.
- It is as or more sweet than candy corn
- It is really yellow.
- The flavor is not quite perfect, but in some ways that’s a good thing since it has some nice orange notes that keep it from being a complete sugar bomb.
- Did I mention “yellow”?
Anyway, fun stuff. Not recomended for daily drinking. Though if you can find some of their other holiday flavor, “Monster Mojito”, buy a case. It’s great stuff and this year’s cane sugar can only have improved it over last year.
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05.03.07
Posted in Soda at 11:00 am by Cavorter
Yesterday was a very good soda day. Jennifer arrived for our usual date night with my birthday present a few days early: A mixed case of The Sopranos soda. (Do follow that link and make sure to watch the commercial, it’s fairly funny. The timing is a bit off but it works.) I’m drinking my first bottle of the Limoncello right now, and it’s pretty good if a touch more sweet than I necessarily like. The good news is that it isn’t a cloying sweet, it’s very clean and finishes exceptionally well. I have a bottle of the Chianti with me at work today as well and I’m hoping it’s at least as good.
After we had a nice walk around the trails at Wood Lake Nature Center and then taking a Kia Rondo out for a test drive we stopped in at the original Chatterbox Pub where I noticed for the first time that they had a “Scratch” Ginger Ale which turned out to be very good. It is definitely a Ginger Ale and not a Ginger Beer since it does go for more of the sweet than the hot and spicy, but it also has a really wonderful clove flavor that adds a lot of depth and character. Very highly recommended.
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03.23.07
Posted in Food at 4:33 pm by Cavorter
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12.28.06
Posted in Restaurants at 9:51 am by Cavorter
For people I know who are closer to it than I am:
1183 Selby Ave
St Paul, MN 55104
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Posted in Cooking at 9:23 am by Cavorter
FYI - If you have never made oatmeal out of a canister before (I’ve been having a packet of the instant varieties most mornings for the past 2 years) learn from my folly: Be sure that you figure out which ingredient is which measurement. Quaker Oats, somewhat differently expected, does not list the oats as the first ingredient in the cooking directions table. But I should be very full by the time I’m done with this at least. 
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12.05.06
Posted in Soda at 3:42 pm by Cavorter
Jones soda is switching to cane sugar in 2007!
(Found on The Soda Pop Blog, who I don’t always quite agree with but most of the relatively small group of people who are covering a topic I am highly interested in are generally worth reading.)
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10.24.06
Posted in Soda at 8:52 am by Cavorter
First things: For anyone who missed it the few times it’s made it’s way around the web there is a very entertaining video produced by EepyBird.com that replicates the (IIRC) Belagio fountain in Las Vegas with Diet Coke and Mentos.
This morning in my inbox is their most recent newsletter mentioning that they’re putting up their latest video this coming Monday (Oct 30, 2006) and like all good carnival barkers and priming the pump by posting a teaser video.
That, in and of itself, wasn’t what I found most interesting. The interesting part is at the very tail end of the video where they are apparently getting some sort of sponsorship from The Coca-Cola Company for some sort of “Poetry In Motion Challenge” that could produce some very interesting entries that I’m looking forward to seeing.
The sponsorship from Coca-Cola is hardly surprising given that judging from the number of Diet Coke/Mentos videos showing up on the equally quickly propagating video sharing sites sales of 2-liter bottles of Diet Coke have got to have received at least a slight boost in sales. Given that Experiment #214 is going to use at least 250 bottles of Diet Coke, I have to wonder if there wasn’t some material help performing the experiment, given that quantity has to be at least a significant proportion of an average Coke delivery truck.
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09.26.06
Posted in Soda at 10:07 am by Cavorter
Just saw on BevNet that GUS has a new flavor: Dry Pomegranate
Given their other great flavors, and the relatively favorable review on BevNet, I hope to see it relatively soon at the local Cost Plus World Market locations.
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09.08.06
Posted in Soda at 12:48 pm by Cavorter
BevNet has a fairly positive review up of a new line of sodas with some fairly interesting flavors: Rhubarb, Lavender, Lemongrass, and Kumquat. The brand is called DRY Soda, and I only wish I could get some locally. With a mixed-case price starting at $25, plus shipping, I think I’m going to have to wait a bit before I get to try it.
I’ve actually been thinking that the people behind Snow would do a fabulous job with lavendar flavored soda.
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08.02.06
Posted in Restaurants at 1:41 pm by Cavorter
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