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That sounds like the story about Kim Jung-Il inventing the hamburger.
Now if the mole rat drinks the tea between two loaves of bread, is that a burger?
We would have had the Boston Pot Party?
I've never seen Cel-Ray outside of NYC. If anyone has seen it anyone between there and Chicago please let me know. I know it sounds bad but it isn't good but it is really good, all Dr. Brown's sodas are.
There's no such thing as diet Fresca, because all Fresca is diet. Fresca is a hold over from the days when diet drinks had their own special names like Tab and Diet Rite.Yes, they still make all 3 of those, though Tab is fairly hard to find these days and can only be bought in cans in handful of stores. Fresca, on the other hand, is rarely available in restaurants, but can be purchased in any supermarket easily In either cans or 2 liter bottles.. EDIT - it was pointed out to me that there is a sugar sweetened version of Fresca sold in some countries in South America. Coca-Cola briefly tried to sell this sugar-sweetened version in the U.S. under the brand name Citra, but then moved the same drink to the Fanta lineup as Fanta Grapefruit.
Diet Squirt, for some reason, seems to be increasingly harder to get the further you get from the west coast. All of my local stores in Houston stock regular squirt, and several like HEB even show Diet Squirt in their inventories, but it's a special order item only apparently. When I go to California on business, though, it's a standard item in all the Grocery stores as well as many convenient stores, so I almost always buy a 12 pk or 2 while I'm out there. My guess is that Diet Squirt isn't as common because Fresca Is manufactured by Coca-Cola and the easiest to keep in stock.
On the other hand, a grapefruit flavored drink that has seemed to have disappeared have disappeared Is Wink.
Yeah... That stuff is flippin' nasty... one step above Colonel McGassy's Natural Dill Pickle Soda or Uncle Shmegegge's Aged Diet Gefilte Fish Sparkling Beverage...
I tried that stuff once in the 80s... I can still taste it... ugh... who in the hell looks at a stick of celery and says "that'd make a good soda!"...?
"Hmmm... should I go with stale bread... or celery... or maybe this dead mouse?... Megh, celery is easier to get..."
I'm not gonna look it up, but I bet that stuff dates back to the late 1800s Brooklyn where it was sold at apothecarys as a cure for rickets or bad humors or something like that.
Purple Passion was some serious stuff. Drank it a few times, regretted it later...lol. Was grape soda with grain alcohol (which you can't get anymore here in Pennsylvania) so they don't sell it anymore. But good heavens, they packed punch!
Laurie
Pretty close. Brooklyn, 1868, though it was originally called Dr. Browns Celery Tonic, and became popular enough that there were several rival brands of Celery soda.
It's pretty common in Kosher delis and grocery stores across the country since all of the Dr. Brown products are kosher. The bigger mega-supermarkets often carry it as well... in Houston, I know it can be bought at HEB, Central Market and Spec's liquor. (For those wondering, it kinda tastes like ginger ale, but mixed with celery.)
A molerat between two buns IS a mole rat burger. The question is what condiments to use... I'm thinking BBQ sauce and horseradish ala Arby's.
I shop in kosher markets here in Chicago pretty frequently and have never seen a Dr. Browns. Maybe its a NYC/Chicago thing. Obviously NYC is jealous of us and might be unwilling to ship to us.
I do miss it after spending a particularly hot summer in Brooklyn in the 90's. I've even tried making celery soda a few times with mixed results.
I thought Purple Passion was a Canada Dry company drink along with Tahitian Treat (a carbonated Hawaiian Fruit Punch style drink) and Jamaica Cola (it was a good cola really). I helped sand and paint some of their fleet trucks in Jacksonville Florida as a 11 year old and a lot of those free drinks is what I got, work that would result in lots of trouble today but was all in good fun keeping a kid busy.
Well, the resutlts would be mixed, wouldn't they?
Worst case scenario, you can buy it online from Amazon or from BeveridgeUniverse, but I typed in Cel-Ray and Chicago and immediately got hits for a couple of delis... Manny's, Kaufmans, Eleven City and even, weirdly hits for WalMart and Target (though I'll bet that's special order only.)
Gelco's over in Highland Park (a community in eastern Los Angeles) probably sells all of those sodas.
Sorry Galco's, not Gelco's. Sodas you never heard of. And just about all of them in glass bottles.
So that's what Arby's uses. Roast "beef" indeed.
Manny's and Eleven City are on the near South Side I basically never go there. It's pretty good trip for me, and nothing I need there unless I really want a corned beef (Manny's is the corned beef place).
Kaufmans is in Skokie and again I rarely go to the burbs because I live in Chicago.
I never go to Wal-Marrt for anything ever. I grew up in the part of the Soutyh they destroyed.
I might try Target but I never thought of checking.
There are like a dozen actual kosher grocers on Devon Ave. and I shop at various of them.
Yeah, I know. Surprised me too. I remember Arby's when they had the horrible green uniforms and tall chef hats. Back in the latter decades of the last century in Florida. Ate there a lot. It was palatable. Tried Arby's again a couple years ago when they opened up here in Western NY. No green uniforms, no pretense at chefery anymore. Weird tasting meatlike globs on buns. Not even worth calling it a burger though. How can they duck up beef Au-Jus? It's sliced beef with beef broth. Where's the weird come from?
Never again.
Tea did originate out of east Asia, so who knows, it could be true. *shrug*
Did something happen to diet Squirt? I'm drinking one right now...
Apparently my local Wal-Mart and Target sell both Diet Squirt AND Fresca.
This is the Purple Passion I'm familiar with. But, I was a wild kid. LOL
Was it made in bathtubs?
Everclear makes something besides pain thinner supposedly for human consumption?
It happened when they stopped using plain whole roasts and started shipping them in these weird cook-in bags filled with a combination of gelatin and au-jus, with the roasts being "shaped" to get uniform slices. In other words, basically the same thing you get if you get roast beef lunchmeat, only it's been soaking in the jus/jello for both before and after it's "cooked" in the store. Weirdly, all of the other meats at Arby's are just shipped in cooked and pre-sliced. I think the only chain that actually uses real roast beef these days is Roy Rogers, and I can't even be sure of that since they're only on the East coast these days.
I've never seen a place selling Diet Squirt that didn't also sell Fresca (well, except for gas stations), but there are a lot of places that only sell Fresca and regular Squirt.
Okay, I'll toss in a fun one that's sure to get reactions -
Yoo-Hoo.
And not just the Chocolate variety. Strawberry Yoo-hoo has been around forever... it looks exactly like Pepto-Bismol and they also used to make both Banana and Mint varieties. Recently, though, they introduced Cookies and Cream Yoo-Hoo, Vanilla Yoo-Hoo, Choclate and Carmel Yoo-Hoo, Chocolate Strawbery Yoo-Hoo, and Chocolate Peanut Butter Yoo-Hoo. I have yet to see these anyplace except a grocery store and I'm not going to buy a 10 pack to try one, especially since I'm pretty sure that they'll be awful. (Yes, I'd try one even assuming that. Every so often you find something that inexplicably works like wasabi ice cream...)
Glucerna (meal replacement drinks made for diabetics) makes a chocolate drink that tastes exactly like the milk at the end of a bowl of Cocoa Krispies.
The local grocery chain, Jewel, selles both regular and diet Squirt and Fresca at least at my local outlet.
Can I point out that the Tea Earl was 'Earl Grey', NOT 'Earl Gray'. The casual misspelling of his title is doing dreadful things to my blood pressure. He was an Earl in England, so English spelling is applicable, not American spelling. Also his ancestral seat was in Howick, Northumberland, pronounced 'Hoik'.
All the while, the mole rat is looking back at you and asking the same question...