Friday, December 08, 2006

Day of blogging III


Sweet sweet Grenadine....how you've added to my life.

I used to order the diet cokes - and I've moved beyond that. I'm a new man...a new creation.

"Could I have a diet coke and have it made into a cherry diet coke?" I ask innocently. You can always tell the waiters who've been around a bit - "We could add a little grenadine to it sir" "Why that would be fantastic" and life just got three steps better.

"Isn't that a Shirley Temple?" I'm asked in hushed or mocking tones. "Absolutely not! A Shirley Temple is Seven Up and grenadine - this is Diet Coke and grenadine - totally different"

"but they're basically the same thing" "Um...the Seven Up is the Un-Cola. I'm ordering a cola - the very opposite of an Un-Cola. This could be described as more of an Un-Shirley Temple than even the drink you just ordered. It's the very antithesis of the Shirley Temple."

"Oh"

And life just got a little better...
Posted by ylmurph
at 9:40 AM

6 comments:

  1. i've never met anyone before who has diet coke with grenadine...

    my friends always give me stern looks as if to say, "you can't order such a girly drink at buffalo wild wings."

    but i know i can.

    and now i know someone else does.
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  2. I think the un-shirley temple is actually called the Drew Barrymore.

    Try ordering that...
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  3. Actually, its called a Roy Rogers.

    Do you really like the taste of diet pop? Ordering a diet pop and pouring a quarter cup of syrup in it doesn't make much sense to me.
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  4. Actually, its called a Roy Rogers.

    Do you really like the taste of diet pop? Ordering a diet pop and pouring a quarter cup of syrup in it doesn't make much sense to me.
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  5. Grenadine and cola, diet or otherwise is a Roy Rogers, Did ya know you can buy Diet Cherry Coke? It's the same thing, but without the added sugar from the Grenadine.
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  6. I'm with you on the diet cherry coke. This is more a restaurant thing.

    I also like the taste of diet coke better than regular - so even if they dump a vat of sugary grenadine in - it's not cancelling out the diet part that would bug me - it's adding the deliciousness part...
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