consumer report

[gfrancie]

Vanilla coke: all that, or old cream soda.

I was catching a ferry the other day, to go to my mum's. It was hotter then hades out, I just got off of a metro bus (as you remember from an earlier post) that really tested my limit. So Just before I went to pay my fare, I perused starbucks. I didn't feel like an iced coffee drink, nor did I want to pay some obscene amount for one of their many fine iced beverages. I glanced over and saw the vending machines. "Oh happy day" *cues gospel choir* and there was an assortment of coca cola products to choose from, and I glanced and saw, "NEW Vanilla Coke" well hot damn, I had been meaning to try that for awhile. I purchased one, paid my ferry fare and sat in the waiting area for the boat to come in. Such a wonderful rituatl, opening a new bottle, the bubbles, the released pressure and the first sip.
mmmmm
Most nice. I liked the fact that the vanilla wasn't an over-welming taste, it is more of an aftertaste you receive after swallowing. It is gentle. It isn't overly sweetened either, so you don't have that unpleasant taste you get with Pepsi. (I should mention that I am a coke drinker because pepsi is just too sweet.)Plus it had the added benefit of being quite cold, so I think my experience could be made into a television commerical. Not as cheesy as a Mentos ad, but pretty darn close if we tried.
So I reccomend Vanilla coke, a nice little "fad" drink for the summer. It is smooth, not too vanilly, nor too sweet. I say rush out, buy it in cases like OK soda.

Another cool overcast day. phew.

Comments

[tlc71076.livejournal.com]

I think cream soda is right up there with birch beer, root beer, and regular beer as the most vile drinks ever made by man.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

oh that is right, you don't like that sort of thing.
what do you like then?

[tlc71076.livejournal.com]

You know, if I had the answer to that question, 95% of my problems would be solved. :)

[ekdogg.livejournal.com]

you are so vanilla

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

yeah, but damn I have great legs.

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[ekdogg.livejournal.com]

let us see them.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

you have seen them, a long time ago.

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[ekdogg.livejournal.com]

legs? nope?

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

quite a long time ago. I found some pictures someone had posted of my legs from a party.

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[ekdogg.livejournal.com]

can't recall. Will probably see them in my afterlife.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

I shall do my best to hunt them down.

[16bit.livejournal.com]

cream soda is so blech. vanilla coke isn't as bad. it's not great, though. it's gonna go the way of new coke.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

oh it is just a novelty piece that appears in the summer, like anything else. Something fun for awhile to tell your kids about later.

[jesusforaday.livejournal.com]

Vanilla coke has been around for a while. It's an olde skool fountain drink, along with cherry coke. I havn't had the new canned type, but making it on your own is really, really, really, really good. Throw in a few more reallys.

Add:
Toriani vanilla syrup
Coke

Mix and drink.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

oh I have had it a million times before. I grew up in a small town that had a soda fountain in the back of the drug store and I had vanilla cokes a million times, but I like to try out different things.
not bad I say.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

you best be not talkin' smack about coke!

hey, margaret cho is on conan, YIPPIE

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

breathe deeply!

[adele822.livejournal.com]

i didn't like it.. i don't like creme soda either so maybe thats it..

it was just kinda blah.. hehe

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

yeah it is an acquired taste.

Yo Ho Yo Ho a Pirates Life For Me

[mrhorrible.livejournal.com]

Vanilla coke rocks the casbah! Well, I guess maybe that's going a bit overboard but at they very least it doesn't make me recoil in horror. So I rate the stuff somewhere between OK and Tasty.

Speaking of fad drinks, remember the whole Crystal Pepsi thing? Or OK Soda for that matter...I actually really miss OK Soda lots of good times associated with the stuff. For some reason it always reminds me of my friend from high school who could stick his head between his legs and rest his head on his ass.

Re: Yo Ho Yo Ho a Pirates Life For Me

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

finally a man in my corner!

I remember trying crystal pepsi when it was just a prototype test, because my camp counselor's father was some biggie at pepsi so she brought us some. we thought, hrm...clear.
and OK soda was a major obsession with all of my friends.
talk about great marketing.

I'm feeling OK

[mrhorrible.livejournal.com]

Yeah the OK marketing folks sure knew who their audience was. My high school had an OK soda vending machine. The day they took it away was probably one of the lowest points in an otherwise plateau filled high school experience. Like your pals, my friends and I drank the stuff by the case. I never understood why it didn't really make it in the marketplace. I guess the OK Soda following was more of a cult following. Where Pepsi and Coke the Britney Spears and N'Sync of the soft drink world, OK Soda was more like They Might Be Giants.

As for the clear sodas...they tasted funny. Not in the way that said 'We're trying to create a new taste!' kind of funny, more of the 'Something is in my soda that sort of tastes like formeldyhyde!' kind of funny.

Re: I'm feeling OK

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

your school and an OK soda machine. Oh I worship you.
My pals at the time, would rent things like Harold and Maude, we would drink OK soda, and stay up all night.
great way to destroy ones health.

It was one of those temporary novelty things.
Give a bit of a boost to the other products in the process.

hmmmmmm

[cusackam.livejournal.com]

I like Vanilla Vodka and Coke, but the new Vanilla Coke was not appealing to me. I am normally a Coke drinker over Pepsi as well. It was just too sweet and vanilla tasting to me, but I was also in my first trimester of pregnancy so maybe that made it taste funky to me. Maybe I shall have to try it again when I am not pregnant or something.... heheheheh

Re: hmmmmmm

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

yeah, people feel rather mixed about vanilla coke.
hopefully it is just the pregnancy talking hehe

[serpis.livejournal.com]

i havent seen this in stores anywhere in portland so i havent had the chance to try it. i wonder what the deal is. back in the midwest, Sonic used to make vanilla dr. pepper's which were a staple of mine through high school.... so hopefully the coke version equals or even beats it. also, good luck with all those baby bunnies, and i think its cool of you to accompany your siblings to their play and party.... i guess it should be expected of an older brother or sister to do those sorts of things but its not very common nowadays from what i can tell. sorry to cram a bunch of replies into 1 thread.. ive been meaning to reply to more of your posts but i just get so busy. and i promise i havent forgotten about your baklava.. shit im such an ass sometimes but its not intentional i just lose focus on priorities very easily. i should do that today before i forget yet again.

hope things are going well for you. i enjoy reading your writings here. take care.
josh

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

*laughs* hey, no worries. I know you will take care of what you need to do.
well I have had vanilla coke before many times at this one soda fountain I go to. It was just interesting to see how CocaCola would handle it, when it was mass-marketed. It isn't the best, but it isn't the worse. I like it.
thank you for the luck regarding the babies. It is insane. hehe
well they are my siblings and I like to do nice things for them, besides why shouldn't I do that. They come to my shows, and support me and vice versa. It is family after all.

thanks josh. I hope you are doing well. email or something.

[rfjason.livejournal.com]

Hmm. The coffee invitation was incorrect.

Vanilla Coke?

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

was the coffee invitation incorrect? How so?
In the sense that I don't drink coffee?

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[rfjason.livejournal.com]

Yes. I picked the wrong liquid with which to entice you.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

is that so? *laughs*
Most just use bourbon and cheap lines.

If I were in charge of the alphabet...

[rfjason.livejournal.com]

Bourbon is the poor man's ambrosia.

Cheap lines are the rich man's comedy.

I guess that makes me middle-class.

Re: If I were in charge of the alphabet...

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

now that is clever.
but then it is after three, so anything is amusing.

Re: If I were in charge of the alphabet...

[rfjason.livejournal.com]

And now it's brand new day. Why don't we turn the clock to zero honey. I'll sell the stock, we'll spend all the money.

Re: If I were in charge of the alphabet...

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

amen.

Re: If I were in charge of the alphabet...

[rfjason.livejournal.com]

And now it's the end of the day.

I ate at the Maltby Cafe and discovered Omelette Zen. You?

Re: If I were in charge of the alphabet...

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

I went to a parish party, had some mighty fine food and talked to kids I grew up with.
I liked the cherry cake and the pea salad.

Re: If I were in charge of the alphabet...

[rfjason.livejournal.com]

I feel bad about those St. Paul jokes I told.

Re: If I were in charge of the alphabet...

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

no you don't hehe

Re: If I were in charge of the alphabet...

[rfjason.livejournal.com]

You're right.

Q: How many St. Paul's does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A: One. But, he'll have to swing by Damascus first to pick up some light.

Finally!

[college-boy.livejournal.com]

It's been awhile since I've read a journal that was actually interesting. I love your way with words...your journal is fun to read!

Re: Finally!

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

why thank you very much. That is quite kind of you to say.