A throwback to decent taste
Mmmmm, sounds lovely indeed!
So I went to the Wyoming paper and posted there too. WTF.
But will the Mountain Dew have a picture of an outhouse? And a guy with a gun? And will their slogan be “It’ll tickle yore innards”?
Posted by bikerbob
05/07/2009 at 06:00 AM
Drew makes me laff. Ha. Youngster recalls the taste in 1982?
I’ll tell ya when Coke was king. I recall 1952. How’s that? And those great ICE COLD bottles. I think they were 8oz. Then Pepsi came out with 12oz and a catchy jingle.
Pepsi-Cola hits the spot, 12 full ounces that’s a lot. (and I forgot the rest of it but watch. Drew will post it.)
It ended with .. Pepsi-Cola is the drink for you.Ginger Beer? They have that here.
bikerbob - I remember him. Total stereotypical hillbilly. He did the Yahoooooo thing ages before Yahoo.com. I also remember when Fresca was so sour it would turn your teeth inside out. And when Dr. Pepper had enough prune juice in it that you could taste it.
Sorry Peiper. My Pepsi advertising campaign memory stops at “You’re in the Pepsi Generation” I think. I do remember Coke’s “I’d like to teach the world to sing” campaign, and the Normal Rockwell style print ads they used to run in the magazines, especially the ones with Santa. But that’s about as far back as I go.
We have ginger beer for sale, but it’s a very small brand, maybe imported. And it costs a lot. But ginger is not very expensive. It’s another one of those things that Americans seem to get short shrift on, like how much cocoa goes into regular chocolate, how much alcohol is in your hard liquor, and how Europe and Asia always seem to get the Japanese motorcycles with the real engines.
Drew a very interesting post. When I lived in the US it always baffled me why so many foodstuffs had cornsyrup in them. Cakes and biscuits (cookies) etc. I don’t blame the US for supporting farmers, the EU do exactly the same. BTW ginger beer is also cockney rhyming slang for men who like other men! On the topic of ginger beer they sell this in the UK. It has about a pound of sugar per can! My teeth hurt just thinking about it.
Lyndon, the reason the US uses so much corn syrup instead of sugar, is that the price of sugar is TWICE the world price. So candy makers are moving out of the country. See
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8381
Posted by bikerbob
05/07/2009 at 01:00 PM
Bob interesting stuff. I figured the low price of corn syrup had to be artificial. However my point is the EU do exactly the same. They subsidise the growing of sugar beet. In Britain they grow this crap in Lincolnshire. In my youth before Britain was taken over by the gangsters in Brussels, no one would grow sugar beet, because it would never compete with cane sugar. When Britain still had trade agreements with our Commonwealth partners sugar was cheap, but once we had signed up to the Common Market (as it was called at the time) we had to shaft our former trade partners. Now they pay farmers to grow sugar beet using tax payer cash at the expense of sugar producers in the Caribean. Madness.
Having grown up on the Mexican border in South Texas I can’t count the number of cases of Mexican Coke I’ve had to drink. It always tasted smoother and richer than what was being bottled up the street from my house. I miss those days of $2.00 bottle Tequila, $1.50 a carton for cigarettes. And I won’t dwell on the Little cantinas in “El Luce Rojo” district.
Yeah the Coke was great as were some of the Mexican Sodas, too.
"Gangsters in Brussels” Has a certain ring to it like, a death knell.
Lyndon ... Man that really is interesting but holy cow. Talk about convoluted. Am I using the correct word here?
How do they actually justify what you rightly call “madness.”
05/07/2009 at 08:12 AM
05/07/2009 at 12:45 PM
