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"I hope you all get tickets!" was all the flamethrower, who tossed heat for the Bombers in the 70s and early 80s, was able to say before ducking back into his car, which was surrounded by admirers screaming his name.
Coke should hire Sparky Lyle for a promotion and make sure he talks to everybody.
RC Cola was always my favorite. I have a soft spot for Shasta since they were HQ'ed in Hayward, CA when I was a kid. My granndma used to buy the lemon-lime and diet cola by the case in those corrugated 4 inch high boxes with the indentation of the cans on the bottom. Man, thinking of Shasta makes me go all gooey with nostalgia. I can almost feel the texture of the rubber ball I used to throw against the wall of my grandma's house when I was pretending to pitch for the A's in the World Series. If I got wild and threw a pitch too low the ball would bounce over my head into a lemon tree behind me and the "other" team would win and I'd have to slink off the patio in shame.
"Oh, no! No, don't do that! You're supposed to be tasting it!"
"Hall of Famer Goose Gossage now in the square pleading with the crowd for... for some kind of sanity."
"Uh-oh... and a barrage of Pepsi now knocking Goose unconscious."
"Wow. This is, uhhh... this is a black day for baseball."
So you and Kyle Farnsworth do have something in common.
Ha! I was going to make a Farnsworth joke, too. We both can blame our failures on poor managing.
PEPSI MAX is the diet cola that REAL MEN drink, with BACON.
Andy Rooney was the Jerry Seinfeld of his day, in terms of observational humor.
But man, it's worth killing a LOT for. I quite literally drink far, far, far, far, far more of it than I do water.
couldn't get it when i was a kid living overseas, so when we would come home on leave each summer, we'd drink a couple a day.
So yeah, if they went and bought Pepsi just so they could pour it onto random objects, I guess that increased sales right there.
Still trying to figure out what the hell happened here.
i've heard amazing things about mexican coke - which apparently uses real sugar instead of fructose - but does anyone know the lowdown/how to go about getting your hands on some?
Perhaps, but: they used to have this jingle that went
"No caffeine (dah, dah)
Diet Sunkist (Diet Sunkist)
No caffeine (dah, dah)
Diet Sunkist (Diet Sunkist)"
over and over and over again. And come to find that a few years ago they added caffeine.
I have probably drunk a couple of tanker cars' worth of pop in my life, but I rarely do anymore. I can't handle caffeinated pop; the sugar in non-caffeinated pop will certainly kill me if I drink any more of it. And there are very few good diet decaf sodas. Fresca (original or black cherry) is OK. So is diet-caffeine-free Dr Pepper. And I actually like Fanta Zero, orange flavor. But try finding these at a typical convenience store.
Recently on whim I bought a bottle of diet Orange Crush, no caffeine, and I really liked it. Well whenever I read the label, the second ingredient after water was high-fructose corn syrup. There was something like 50 calories a glass. No wonder it tasted good, but that's a pretty lardifying "diet."
And did'ja' ever notice how ...
Macs are better than PCs.
Cats are better than dogs.
Legs are better than breasts.
That is all.
i just recently picked up a case of vanilla coke at sam's club. i was shocked (in a very, very good way) to learn they still made it.
these are the only two i have a strong opinion about, and man are those opinions strong:
cats and dogs are equally awesome, but in different ways.
nothing against legs and breasts...but neither hold a candle to asses.
I've got legs.
i've heard amazing things about mexican coke - which apparently uses real sugar instead of fructose - but does anyone know the lowdown/how to go about getting your hands on some?
Kosher Coke, if you can find it, uses real sugar. It's available in New York around Passover. Coke in Latin America tastes much better than here, IMHO, because of the sugar and I don't give a #### what those corn syrup propaganda ads have to say about it.
Parkersburg, WV was rotten with RC when I lived there between 1985-1988. Not sure why, but it was in all kinds of places, even fast food restaurants that I'm sure had deals with Coke or Pepsi at the time (must have been a rogue franchise thing). Anyway, I can tell you based on considerable experience that RC sucked in multiple, profound ways. Truly vile stuff. And don't even get me started on Diet Rite or Teem.
My point is that I suspect the RC love here is based on that particular irrational esteem many of us have for that which is rare, fleeting, and nearly forgotten. Like Priazzo at Pizza Hut and Alf and stuff.
Alf is back. In pog form.
today would seem like the perfect time to stop in some places to see if anyone has any left if it weren't for the weather.
your point is taken, but that's a little bit like writing off hamburgers because you're not impressed with mcdonalds.
You mean I'm NOT supposed to be stuffing them up my own ass?
edit: also, the legs line is just from Seinfeld. I won't begin to pretend I can choose between the two. It's like trying to decide between Dwayne Murphy or Mark Ellis. It can't be done. (No, I don't care if that comes off as unintentionally homoerotic.)
Well, not if we're talking Church's Fried Chicken, here.
"Dublin Dr Pepper," made with sugar, used to be a rarity in Texas, something you could only get at or near the factories where it was made in small batches. It is now pouring into supermarkets at a great rate. Costs a lot more than corn-syrup Dr Pepper, though.
It tastes like ----ing --it.
Flush it down the toilet,
and get rid of it.
If you drink Coke
then you are in luck.
Don't drink Pepsi Cola,
'cause Pepsi Cola sucks.
Pepsi Cola, Pepsi Cola, Pepsi Cola,
sucks my -ss!
Coca Cola, Coca Cola, Coca Cola,
rules the world!
Don't drink Pepsi Cola,
'Cause Pepsi Cola sucks
-- "Pepsi Cola Sucks" by Dangerous Darrinn
An RC Cola, a honey bun and a can of Vienna sausages. (but I was a field hand).
My point is that I suspect the RC love here is based on that particular irrational esteem many of us have for that which is rare, fleeting, and nearly forgotten. Like Priazzo at Pizza Hut and Alf and stuff.
RC had the vending contract with Auburn University at least through my freshman year (and I think a little longer). Some RC products are still around a bit in central MA because the local beverage company (Polar) has a bottling contract for Diet Rite.
Drink enough cola, and you'll also have breasts.
I was guessing Ian MacKaye and Minor Threat. (With a rebuttal from CM Punk.)
Hey, I'm a scrappy white guy, too, so that should be good for a 10-year MLB career!
I don't know how to get your hands on Mexican Coke (apart from going to Mexico), but the Jones Soda Company (no relation, unfortunately) does a cane sugar cola which is lethally sweet.
Stick with the fine Columbian.
It's funny that Colombian coke is so much easier to get than Coca Cola with sugar in it.
edit: Damn you straight to hell BL.
edit edit: And I guess I owe you an RC.
It's sold here in California.
the jones soda company does a lot of things, none of which has ever sounded especially appealing to me.
Actually, Andy Rooney was always a poor man's Henry Morgan.
unfortunately, Jones's cola is terrible.
I already stocked up on Kosher Coke last week though.
I really can't argue with this. I like a lot of their other sodas, but I can't handle the lethal sweetness of their cola. It was more just to point out the existence of a company which was still using proper sugar in their cola.
I'm also unwilling to inflict their Thanksgiving sampler pack upon myself.
Diet sodas are primarily composed of pesticides and earwig honey, and should be avoided by all right thinking people.
/Gaelan
Depends on where you live, but in suburban Chicago, most Mexican groceries (as well as Caputo's and Valli) carry it.
They also carry Jarritos; I recommend the lime and grapefruit. Sugar and natural flavoring - can't go wrong.
You can buy a case of mexican coke for 36 dollars excluding taxes and crv.
Not that I drink them too sweet. Coke Zero is about the sweetest I can handle.
I don't know if it was "better", but since it was "different" it made it enjoyable to drink for the 7 days.
BTW, Coke >>>> Pepsi
The most disappointing phrase I hear in restaurants is "We serve Pepsi. Is that okay?" when I order a Coke.
I'm shocked and appalled.
(that do you Lassus)
When I was 20 years old and living on a salary of $18.36 a week, my breakfast was bacon, eggs & RC, my lunch was a coconut cream-filled cake and RC, and my dinner was a can of Campbell's Beans 'n' Ground Beef and RC. And there was no f*cking way that that menu fit for a king would have worked with Coke or Pepsi. It just wouldn't have been right.
The WSJ did an article about this a couple years ago, it is illegal, but Coke, its bottlers and the Gov't doesn't do too much to try and stop it. I suppose there's not enough volume to get them excited. Obviously Coca-Cola uses the corn syrup version because it is cheaper and Americans don't seem to mind corn syrup over the cane sugar.
I couldn't let this thread-winning entry pass without extending a laurel and hearty handshake to its author. Congratulations, sir.
Amen.
I cut back my soda so that I can keep my beer consumption up to a healthy level as I age.
There is a bottler in Texas that uses cane sugar instead of corn syrup in their Dr. Pepper. You can even order it online but it costs a fortune to ship it.
The best non-sugar, non-caffeine sodas:
Diet Dr. Brown's Diet Cherry and Diet Cream Soda
Diet A & W Root Beer
Sprite Zero
Diet Canada Dry Cherry Ginger Ale
Diet Sierra Mist
Diet 7up kind of sucks.
Macs are better than PCs.
Cats are better than dogs.
Legs are better than breasts.
Well, you're right about Macs.
If I'm going to drink that many calories, it will be in the form of wholesome, nourishing alcohol.
This was precisely my reason for forcing myself to develop a taste for Diet Coke after college.
Have you tried varieties of Fanta Zero? The orange one is my beverage for when its too close to bedtime to have a Coke Zero.
They seem to now be in supermarkets now. I live in Cincinnati, so I figure that if I can get them here, you can find them anywhere. Look in the section with all of the other Mexican food items, and there is a good chance you will find them. They are a bit pricey, though.
And if Jones Cola is very sweet, I suppose I should try it. The whole reason I like Pepsi much more than Coke is because it's sweeter.
(Oh, and although Pepsi > Coke, Cherry Coke > Cherry Pepsi.)
A conversation while I was in high school circled the subject of giving up soft drinks. My friend's house was famous for being permanently and inexhaustibly stocked with soda of all varieties (what an oddly spelled word!). His decision to abandon it as a drink was met with due incredulity. 'What about Bargs?' I asked. 'That's different. It's Bargs.'
Cherry Coke is basically the best beverage created by man.
Flawed. Phlegm issue.
No soda, no sugar, a little honey, definitely no freaking high fructose corn syrup. Diet soda is the worst drink devised by humankkind.
But to each his own.
THe birthday girl's last name, BTW, is Vecchio.
Not so much, no.
I'm not sure if importing products with sugar in them is covered by the tariff, so I'm not sure that there's anything other than shipping charges preventing Mexican soft drinks from overrunning us. That would be... um, sweet.
You forgot Diet Caffeine-Free Mountain Dew (although it's disturbingly unavailable in wide swaths of the U.S.).
This makes me want to go out and buy some Coke. I love the taste of fear.
Of course the real reason that US soft drinks use corn syrup instead of sugar is because of the price. Why is corn syrup cheaper? We can thank the sugar cartel for that, the price of sugar in the US is something like 2-3 times what the world price is. This is done with lots of tariffs on importing sugar. They get away with this because people think to themselves, "How much sugar do i buy, it's no big deal..." We're stuck with corn syrup so that American sugar companies can get rich. Incidentally, this is also why ethanol in this country is a disaster. Anyway... rant off...
I'm not sure if importing products with sugar in them is covered by the tariff, so I'm not sure that there's anything other than shipping charges preventing Mexican soft drinks from overrunning us. That would be... um, sweet.
The corn industry is hella lot stronger in America than the sugar industry. They're the ones who are getting billions of dollars in subsidies.
Interestingly enough... it's Barq's.
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