Most of the Mexican restaurants (the ones the Mexicans go to) around here have a good selection of the imported "refrescos". I drank only them, and beer on my many trips to Mexico and don't really want any more, although one called Yoli (rather sweet though) was quite good. It's in the same vein as 7up.
I was reading articles on WebMD last night during one of my bouts with insomnia. High fructose corn syrup can really play nasty tricks on your liver and add to insulin resistance. It's hard to avoid as they put HFCS in damn near everything now.
Maybe I should move abroad for my health...
As for drinking abroad, I was one of the few people in my unit who would go to the Turkish Air Base commissary for the local orange drink called Yedigun. It was a lot like Fanta orange, except that it had (I think) visible orange pulp in it. I'm still here, so it didn't seem to have any lasting detrimental effects.
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And they have been advertising HARD about how safe it is.
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And I thought this was going to be about ...coke-aine LOL
Yeah, I remember the coke in the bottles. vending machine at my old school used to dispense the small bottles, cold. Dinner at grandpa's in the South Bronx. They used to send me down to the bodega on the corner for a large glass bottle of coke, pepsi, and 7up. I'd always get a small bottle to take home. Crimped on tops, you needed an opener to get the top off. It tasted better then. More flavour, more fizz.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
Refined sugar (and HFCS) is pure evil. Addictive as crack cocaine, just doesn't take as long to kill.
Barkeep, give me an Elsinore--and keep 'em coming, eh?
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
What cities are on the bottom? Those are the real deal. What's the matter with Coke, anyway? All of the so-called "vintage" glass bottles aren't really. Sprite bottles had National Parks on the bottom.
All this talk of vintage soda. My favorite vintage soda (pop) machine was the one where you lifted the top, put in a nickel? dime? and ran a hanging bottle through a slot til you got it to the gate, then you pulled it up.
And, sigh, motels don't always have a bottle opener on the wall in the bathroom anymore.
Last edited by W1GUH; 09-11-2010 at 07:11 PM.
If it's a war on drugs, then free the POW's.
As far back as I can remember my dad, He always ran a pool hall. (front for his gambling habit). He had an antique Pepsi vending machine (small glass door) that had the old greenish coke bottles along with mountain dew (remember the hillbilly bottles) and a few other concoctions for a dime.....but then again maybe the coke was so old that the bottles naturally turned green :)
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