May
2006
A foul concoction
Our household is renowned for its fearless curiosity when it comes to trying new things. We ate frog legs,blue cheese with mandarins, fried brains, fishheads, seafood (which makes a lot of Romanians go Ewwww) and Robi loves tripe soup (which provokes the same reaction at the rest of the world). Thus, trying the new Pepsi Gold seemed mandatory.
Pepsi Gold it’s supposed to be a limited edition, made to honour the FIFA World Cup held this year in Germany. It’s advertised by Claudia Schiffer and somebody named Thierry Henry, which I presume is a huge football player, since we are talking about a footy-themed edition. They try to snatch a solitary bottle of PG from each other, until an Average Joe parts with it, asking them with a jaded voice: “Wha’, you not thirsty?” After tasting it I can’t blame the bloke though, I would sound the same if I’d appear in that commercial.
Anyway!
Robi came home today with a Pepsi Gold placed proudly on the case that contained our weekly supply of mineral water. I opened it immediately and since I was thirsty, drank a generous ammount without getting to taste it first.
That’s when the tastebuds called an emergency conferrence.
Chief Papilla: “Listen up mates, we’re in trouble. The brain is expecting to like this stuff and we all know now the taste is a lot more close to horse piss than ambrosia. Any ideas on what to do?”
A small Folliate guy: “Tell the truth?”
Chief Papilla: “Are you serious? A leucocyte I bumped into today told me she’s been waiting to taste this thing for two weeks. Can you bear the responsability to provoke her such a dissapointment?”
A lazy Circumvallate, smoking a joint: “Go with the flow then dudes .. tell her it feels real good. Yeah. We need more positive vibes … ”
Chief Papilla: “Can you lie about two liters of that abomination?”
Silence.
Chief Papilla: ” Yeah, I thought so. We’ll have to tell her exactly how bad the thing tastes then. Back to work, everybody.”
So, how bad was it? On a Scale of Evil from 1 to 10, 1 being the old man next door that yells at kids and 10 Adolph Hitler, I’d say it scores a 6. The taste isn’t even remotely cola-ish but more of a clove-and-cinnamon scented lemur urine. The colour didn’t help much to change this impression either.
Will I ever buy it again? No way, Jose. Do I recomend it? Well, if you have any annoying angsty friends you need to put into a suicidal mood, go ahead, gift them a bottle. Otherwise, stay away from it.
The words “Lemur Urine” sufficiently scared me away.
I’m a fan of Lime Coke….that’s as crazy as I’ll get when it comes to cola.
I just bought some yesterday, myself. While I didn’t have quite as bad an experience, I certainly agree I’m glad it’s only a “limited edition.”
I have no annoying angsty friends, but I enjoyed your public service description anyway.
That bottle in the photo has to be the ucliest shaped bottle I have ever seen.
Thanks for visiting my blog and commenting. I believe I have already mentioned that I think your blog is excellent.
Years ago I was very serious about 35 millimeter slide photography and used magnification and different focal lengths.
But when I started landscaping pictures I wanted them to be normal focal length so I could use them to learn from. Besides the photos of my garden I have a collection of well over a hundred pictures of other landscaping that I have taken here in Houston,Texas.
I have a one hundred and fifty dollar Olympus Camedia D-425 4.0 megapixel camera that I take all my photos with, but I only use the 3.2 megapixel setting because I want to save space on my computer. Blogger reduces the clarity even more, I guess for the same reason. My photos are actually a good bit sharper when I look at them in my own files.
Gary - I have an Olympus Camedia C-310 myself. It costs around 400 $ over here, although in America is a lot cheaper - just ask Romerican.
I forgot to add - the bottle is finished.Finally.
Oly makes pretty decent cameras, no doubt. And better prices Stateside. RO prices are a RipOff.
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I laughed my ass off at this post. You have excellent writing skills - ever considered to start a career as a professional reviewer ?
Remember Pepsi Blue? That was the worst.