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Tour sponsor?
> "I liked Pepsi Clear..."
> Anita, on 1992's Crystal Pepsi
>
> Well, there was one of you.
>
> What was the problem? I assume that since it
> had no caffeine, it shared
> the same mildly inferior taste of Caffeine Free
> Pepsi, formerly known as
> Pepsi Free, made famous in 1985 by Michael J.
> Fox ordering one in Back
> To The Future, and being told that he would, of
> course, have to pay for
> a Pepsi.
>
> Saturday Night Live did a good commercial for
> Crystal Gravy, which, must
> have, actually, been corn syrup, which, as a
> child, I remember using on
> pancakes, totally devoid of any artificial
> flavouring, such as maple.
>
> Coca-Cola is only selling a Diet version of its
> Lemon Cola, whereas
> Pepsi is offering both a regular and diet
> version of its lemon flavoured
> Pepsi Twist, which, tatses like some a bad mix
> of Sierra Mist and Pepsi.
>
> Vanilla Coca-Cola simply has an aftertaste,
> only instead of the
> upleasant plastic taste of Diet, it's a rather
> pleasant vanilla, which,
> our society so closely associates with ice
> cream, that people say "it
> has a 'creamy' aftertaste."
>
> Goumet soda, Stewart's Orange'n'Cream is simply
> vanilla flavouring added
> to a high qualty orange soda, trying to evoke
> thoughts of vanilla ice
> cream bars covered with orange sherbet.
>
> Coca-Cola brought Cherry Coke out in the
> nostalgia-crazed year of 1985,
> and a few years later the "Cherry Poppers"
> (people obsessed with cherry
> soda) got their way, and the cherry flavour got
> stronger, and the
> labeling has bounced all over the artisic map.
>
> Royal Crown Cola, and Pepsi still have their
> cherry colas, as well. They
> seem O.K.
>
> IBC Root Beer is second to New Ulm, Minnesota's
> 1919 Root Beer but 1919
> is only available in draft form. 1919 was
> brought to Cornerstone in, I
> think, 1997, by a beer distributor, and that
> year, unlike any other,
> lacked the oppressive heat, which sells draft
> root beer. Maybe it was
> God's wrathful punishment on the beer
> distributor;-)
>
To get this back on topic, maybe Vanilla Coke
could sponsor the next Over the Rhine Tour.
Jeff McCloud
teamccloud at yahoo_com
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