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Thomas Dolby Update!
He’s coming to the twin cities! Earlier this week a friend mentioned that he had added a date in St Paul for May 21st. Earlier in the week I still couldn’t buy tickets so I’m hoping I can fix that this weekend. The show is going to be at Station 4 in lowertown.
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B100 at the pump!
This just in: Good News! Biodiesel B100 will be offered at the pump tomorrow at the Pump-N-Munch on Lyndale and 63rd in South Minneapolis from 10-2 on Saturday April 29th. More information about the group producing this can be had at www.tcbiodiesel.com and www.biodieselblue.com. Unfortunately I couldn’t wait for a fill up yesterday and since I hadn’t heard any solid details I went ahead and did my first fill up at a Holiday in Bloomington.
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Sugar content
Something interesting from comparing the bottles I have on my desk right at this moment: Soda OZ Calories Sugar Berries & Cream Dr. Pepper 20 250 65g Bundaberg Australian Ginger Beer 12.7 170 40g Snow 12 112.5 25.5 White Rock Organics 12 120 30
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Also found this afternoon
Target’s Archer Farms line of food products now has a “premium” soda available, at least in the Twin Cities market. I saw 4 flavors today at a non-SuperTarget close to work: Sarsparilla, Ginger Beer, Strawberry Creme, and Diet Peach. I picked up a 4pack of all but the Diet and should have had a chance to taste all of them by the weekend. The ingredients do list sugar instead of HFCS, so I have some hope that it might be at least drinkable and if it’s done by the same people who make their “Italian Soda” line of beverages there’s a strong chance there will be at least one good flavor in there.
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Found in the wild…
So while I was filling up the fuel tank for the first time on my new-to-me 2003 VW Golf GLS TDI, I ended up having to go into the store to pay for the gas. Looks like the modern convenience of the card reader hasn’t made it to the diesel pumps yet. Anyway, while in the store I figured that I’d take a look for anything new and lo and behold they had bottles of Berries & Cream Dr Pepper.
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Passion Orange: Suprisingly good
I tried the White Rock Organics Passion Orange today at lunch and was really very pleasantly surprised. It’s not as sweet as the very good Red Peach, which in turn is not as sweet as the horrible Raspberry Creme. I do have to admit that the initial flavor was sort of odd, but the finish and subsequent sips showed it to be a very well put together flavor. Some nicely sour passion fruit notes with the barest orange/citrus is an unexpectedly combination and the lack of over-the-top sugar makes for a really excellent soda.
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7UP changing forumla’s again
I’m actually really pretty excited that 7UP is changing their formula again. I thought the change in the mid-90’s to make it taste more like Sprite was a bad idea. Hopefully this will be a better change rather than a worse one. Now if only they would switch back to sugar!
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From the maker’s of Sioux City sodas: White Rock Organics
While doing some quick soda shopping before a couple of friends stopped by to play some boardgames, I ran into some new bottles at the local Kowalski’s that looked interesting. White Rock Organics soda comes in 3 flavors: Red Peach, Raspberry Creme, and Passion Orange. I got a 4 pack of all 3 flavors and have so far tasted very mixed results. The Red Peach is actually incredibly good. It is more sweet and intensely flavored than I would normally like, but the carbonation is light enough and the cane sugar they are using is fairly decent quality so the flavor is at least very good.
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Jargon of a sub-culture
I was struck while reading a blurb in Variety about the new Star Trek movie that I must be going through the same thing anyone who is not a techie goes through while reading have the things I follow on the net. Consider the following phrase: Deal reflects ParPar’s bullishness on “MI3,” which launches worldwide next weekend, and underlines the goal of Paramount chief Brad Grey and Gail Berman to re-energize the pipeline via high-profile tentpoles while revitalizing the Par brand with top-tier talent such as Abrams.
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Google Calendar
So Google finally released it’s very long awaited Calendar and it’s pretty good IMHO. Wanna see how busy I am? http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/nathan.stohlmann@gmail.com/public/basic or http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/nathan.stohlmann@gmail.com/public/basic