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Dreams taste like Peaches?
3 years ago
Hello again fellow FA Artists, Writers, Crafters, Jewelers, Costumers and other highly creative people.
Recently I discovered a new product by Coca-Cola, called "Dream Flavor" which comes in those cute little cans like they use in airliners. The light blue cans don't say much else, except "Dream Flavor," so out of curiosity, and strictly for the experience, I bought a 12 pack. The soda itself looks pretty much like "Regular" Coca-cola, being brown in color and fizzy, but there is no strong "Cola" odor, and only until one takes a sip does the drink's very powerful "Peach" flavor tickle the tongue.
Much to my dismay, I must confess... I hate peaches! Now don't get upset. It might have started when I was a very small child, and I most likely grabbed a "Rotten" peach out of the fruit bowl. I imagine that the Coca-Cola marketing folks discussed what "Dreams" could taste like, and they most likely based their selection on the fact that biting into a good, sweet, fresh, juicy and properly chilled peach can evoke memories of warm Summer days, or the good times after the peach harvest has been brought in. So, I'm disappointed with the "Peach" flavor, and now I have to figure out what to do with the remaining ten cans.
Nowhere on the box or cans does it mention "Diet," so I figure I'm getting the full dose of sugars one might get from similar sized serving of the "Regular" Coca-Cola. If anything, I could offer the remaining cans to friends who can drink sugary sodas and enjoy eating peaches. for now, I'll stick with my Diet Coke and the fruit flavored "Sparkling Ice" drinks that are carbonated and sugar free. Of course, for my overnight (Trying to be...) Artistic sessions I have to switch to Ice Water so I can get to sleep easier, and not have my slumbers interrupted by frequent trips to the bathroom.
We finally got some rain in the hills above Pasadena. It was steadily drizzling all through Friday night and into Saturday morning. Very welcome relief from the over 100 degrees f. Temperatures of the previous ten days. I finally got a good night's sleep on Friday night and enjoyed an overnight session of high creativity into Saturday Morning. Sooner or later, I hope to get back to drawing again.
"Peace."
Recently I discovered a new product by Coca-Cola, called "Dream Flavor" which comes in those cute little cans like they use in airliners. The light blue cans don't say much else, except "Dream Flavor," so out of curiosity, and strictly for the experience, I bought a 12 pack. The soda itself looks pretty much like "Regular" Coca-cola, being brown in color and fizzy, but there is no strong "Cola" odor, and only until one takes a sip does the drink's very powerful "Peach" flavor tickle the tongue.
Much to my dismay, I must confess... I hate peaches! Now don't get upset. It might have started when I was a very small child, and I most likely grabbed a "Rotten" peach out of the fruit bowl. I imagine that the Coca-Cola marketing folks discussed what "Dreams" could taste like, and they most likely based their selection on the fact that biting into a good, sweet, fresh, juicy and properly chilled peach can evoke memories of warm Summer days, or the good times after the peach harvest has been brought in. So, I'm disappointed with the "Peach" flavor, and now I have to figure out what to do with the remaining ten cans.
Nowhere on the box or cans does it mention "Diet," so I figure I'm getting the full dose of sugars one might get from similar sized serving of the "Regular" Coca-Cola. If anything, I could offer the remaining cans to friends who can drink sugary sodas and enjoy eating peaches. for now, I'll stick with my Diet Coke and the fruit flavored "Sparkling Ice" drinks that are carbonated and sugar free. Of course, for my overnight (Trying to be...) Artistic sessions I have to switch to Ice Water so I can get to sleep easier, and not have my slumbers interrupted by frequent trips to the bathroom.
We finally got some rain in the hills above Pasadena. It was steadily drizzling all through Friday night and into Saturday morning. Very welcome relief from the over 100 degrees f. Temperatures of the previous ten days. I finally got a good night's sleep on Friday night and enjoyed an overnight session of high creativity into Saturday Morning. Sooner or later, I hope to get back to drawing again.
"Peace."
Still, though, it's so weird these "mystery" flavors, yeah? Consistently, when Mountain Dew comes out with its "Voo Dew" flavor, for instance, people say it tastes like Skittles, and I always think to myself "Well...what flavor of Skittle? Or is it just like you grabbed a handful of Skittles and shoved 'em in to your mouth and that's the flavor you're thinking of?" I dunno; my favorite mystery flavor, though, has always been the Gushers fruit snacks. I hate when they have limited runs of the mystery flavor because they wind up being amazing like these because the mystery flavor was apparently blackberry and I loved it so so so so SOOOO much! I only figured it out YEARS later when I had the Very Berry Starburst where one of the flavors was blackberry and I had that lightbulb realization moment after mulling over why the blackberry flavor was so familiar to me. So yeah...mystery flavors are interesting, to say the least. X3
AH! Sour candies are my "Weakness," but I have to enjoy them in moderation. My recent kick is a product from the Haribo people that features large, lozenge shaped candies with a crunchy outer shell and a sour gummy middle. I could go through a bag of those in a single sitting. As my mom used to say in Spanish, "You can poison me with the stuff, and I wouldn't care."
Oh yeah! I liked those "Very Berry" Skittles, especially their Blue Raspberry flavor. My greatest major regret was NEVER getting to try the "Limited Edition of OREO's "Valentine's day" cookies which were the original chocolate outer wafers with cinnamon cream in the middle. The flavor combination of crunchy chocolate and a cinnamon filling can often send me into rapture.
Finally, Haribo makes gushing gummy worms too.
Heh, yeah, I hear ya. It's something of a love/hate relationship considering afterwards everything will taste sour, but in the short-term? Worth it. X3
I've never tried the Very Berry Skittles; I might have to one of these days. Heh, yeah, chocolate and cinnamon does sound like a heavenly combination for us sweet-tooths and a dental practitioner's worst nightmare (or greatest pay day, I dunno). I swear, with the amount of flavors Nabisco has at its disposal for Oreos alone, I'm convinced they're trying to be the Baskin-Robbins of cookies.
Huh...interesting...I don't think I've seen those. I tend to be cautious with Haribo, though, after I heard about the disaster that was Sugar-Free Gummy Bears. Yeah...let's have a laxative ingredient as an artificial sweetener: what could possibly go wrong?
I did kind of fantasize if my characters "Muse" and "Notion" would enjoy the new flavor, because after all, Dreams are Muse's specialty. "Legend" being a big, bouncing teenage shape-shifter now will eat almost anything he can stuff into his muzzle.
And good that it's cooling off for you over there. Sleeping (or attempting to get to sleep) in hot & humid temperatures is pretty miserable!
I'm sure they called these new ones "Dream"-flavored because the name did exactly what it was intended to do: make you curious enough to buy a sixpack (or 12-pack) and try it.
Thanks.
persoinally I'm not fond of artifical flavours, and mixes of various fruit juices tend to taste of the strongest aroma, anyway, so why bother. here, Lipton has brought a zero sugar iced tea which tastes so artifical it's like eating the bottle... surely the drink has the same amount of nutrients.
speaking of which, in germany the labels have a list with the main nutrients per 100ml or 100g. and portions, but those vary greatly, anyway. but at least one has somethign to compare. and there are soft drinks with way more sugar than classic cola, believe it or not; and some are advertized as thirst-quenching, too. so, what do your can's labels say? or maybe check the package's wrapping.
a local dairy company offers ices coffee and iced choklit drinks in 1litre tetrapacks. the iced coffee tastes decent even if only lightly cooled and is not of the "sugar with a drop of fluid" cathegory. neither is the choklit, and even though the ingredients list doesn't tell I suspect a hint of peppermint in it. :9
a now defunct ice cream joint at the bus main meeting point used to offer ice cream made with somethign resembling them After Eight mints. if you want to COOL DOWN, try that. if you can get it, that is... haven't found it again with any other ice cream joint yet.
"What if we mix it with other products?"
-Ever wonder why the soft drinks dispensed from those "Magic" Coca-Cola drink dispensers taste kind of "Funny?" It's because the dispenser tubes have to be cleaned daily. Considering that the machines at the local Jack in the box don't receive regular maintenance, yes. The Diet Coke sometimes has a trace of lemonade or a sort of overly sweet, taste.
I really needed a coffee badly one afternoon. I have chronic asthma and one way to keep it under control is a certain amount of caffeine daily. Anyway, I stopped in a gas-station-cum-convenience-store and got a cup out of their minimal system (one unit with an extra warmer for decaf). It tasted exactly as though the employee, who spoke almost no English and clearly cared less, made it with the scrub water and cleaner he used to mop the floor.
*in before "American beer is like having sex in a canoe"*
Of course, the Brits drink their beer warm. And the most popular beer recipes in the U.S... came from Germany.
since I rarely drink beer I can't say as I never tasted beer at all when I was in London back in 85. also, I was just 13 yrs old, too.
someone once tried to find out who was first: germany with Maultaschen, italians with Ravioli, or the asians with their various pasta pockets... there was no definite winner. it seemed more like, that mankind was just ready for this dish, and developed it at the same time around the world.
Well I hope everything goes well with you and a nice quiet weekend.
Take care
I seriously need to catch up on the sleep I lost.
The best peaches use to come from Talent Ore. Fragrant crisp and a taste larger than life.
This is where I had My experience with a peaches that has past their prime. With a basket of them sitting there they had gone soft and where overly sweet with a unique tang. The first one I ate was ok and the second was somehow better. By the time I had the fourth I could not stand on my own.
I played innocent when my mum smelled one and said they where fermenting.
Crocked on peaches.....it was heaven. LOL
It must have had some effect on me as Peaches n cream is my favourite pipe tobacco.
You can also get cane-sugar Dr. Pepper here. The bottling plant up in Dublin, TX used to make it, and even bottled and sold it in the original old-style 10oz glass bottles -- but they got in trouble with the parent company for being a little too blatant about selling the cane-sugar formula outside of their designated sales territory. (Shipping a few extra cases out to individual BBQ joints was one thing; cutting deals with an entire restaurant chain to ship them the syrup itself in soda-fountain canisters, and shipping truckloads of soda bottles to major retail outlets, was another thing entirely.) I believe the bottling plant up in Temple, TX has the franchise for the cane-sugar formula now.
Keep dreamin' yall! That flavor has never been duplicated (thank Fuma)!
I am always open to trades.
On a side note, I hear tell GOYA makes a deep red, tomato with a touch of Chili drink that closely resembles human blood. I'm not gonna try it!
I enjoy fresh peaches sometimes you get a bad one...
I found myself pretty fond of it, and I still have a spare one in the fridge... so I'd help you if I could, but I'm afraid geography makes that impractical
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Thanks though, for the favorable review. I've found that pouring the Chilled, "Dream" flavored cola over cracked ice improves the flavor a bit. I still don't sense the "Trace of Hibiscus" mentioned above, though.