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12.06.08 by Widge @ 3:27 am So I found out too late to put together a post on the day--but yesterday was the 75th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition in the United States. Yes, to our readers outside this country's borders: there was a time in the supposed Land of the Free when we thought it was a great idea to tell people they couldn't consume alcohol. By law. At all. Like this guy: Direct link for the feedreaders. Beware them satanic honky tonks, friends! What a dick. Categorized as: Drinks
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12.02.08 by Widge @ 3:46 pm  The Chinese Democracy saga continues. And is actually more entertaining than the album. So that's something. Anyway, Axl Rose wants an apology from Dr. Pepper, since more people were interested in their free Dr. Pepper than in obtaining the album. Wait, I got confused. They want an apology, in the form of a full-page ad in the New York Times, that Dr. Pepper was unable to deliver on their promise of a free Dr. Pepper for everybody in America because the vast teeming numbers blew out the Dr. Pepper website trying to get theirs. Categorized as: Drinks
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12.02.08 by Widge @ 2:54 am  So I went back and was looking over the original post where I first announced my knowledge of Red Bull's cola creation. And I had said I would review it when I laid hands upon it. Well, I've had a few of these thus far, so let's knock this out. I'm a Widge of my word, after all. Mostly. Kinda. True to their word, it appears the thing is all natural, caffeine taken from coffee beans, no artificial flavors, real sugar, natural flavors from vanilla, mustard seed, lime, kola nut, cacao, licorice, cinnamon, lemon, ginger, coca leaf, orange, corn mint, pine, cardamon, mace, clove and something called galangal. I think I had a cousin once whose galangal went malignant and they had to remove it. Oh, and there's lemon juice concentrate. In the cola, I mean, not in that cousin. I can see now why most colas use artificial flavors--it's probably a helluva lot easier. And cheaper. You can pay some guy off the street to go, "Yup, that's how you get cola--use that cola syrup over there." You've got to pay real money to get somebody good enough to say, "You know what's missing? Pine!" Jaysus. Okay, so here's the good news. The taste isn't bad. Of course, it's not anything that will blow you away. It's a good alternative to Coke, since, for example, they do use real sugar--something Coke isn't bright enough to do in this country regardless of a great free idea somebody gives them. But it doesn't distinguish itself from any other natural cola I've tasted. In fact, when it comes to "alternate colas," I actually like the taste of Fentiman's Curiosity Cola better. Categorized as: Drinks and Reviews
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11.16.08 by Widge @ 2:31 am  So there we are in Universal Orlando and we run across the Simpsons area. There's a Kwik-E Mart next to the attraction, although not as cool as the 7-11s they repurposed for the movie promo. But they did still sell Simpsons merch, including what I'm holding in my hands there: a Duff energy drink. How could I resist? As you can see, it's in a can that's...well, it's a Duff beer can. There's not much else to be said. They nailed the design--which makes it automatically a worthwhile purchase for the novelty of those who are fans of the show. Investigating what's inside, we find 120mg of caffeine, 25mg of guarana, 25mg of panax ginseng, 41g of sugars, 1000mg of taurine, 300% of your required B12, 100% of your B6, 50% of your B3 and 50mg of inositol. So it's a decent showing. How does it taste? Surprisingly...really damn good. No kidding. No real "energy drink" taste either before or after sipping, although it does have a strong soft drink kick to it--the same sort of kick of a Vault or Mountain Dew even though the taste is not the same. It also doesn't taste like Generic Energy Drink like most novelty drinks seem to--it has a unique flavor I haven't experienced before during my wide and reckless sampling of energy beverages. In fact, Dana Snyder, who also sampled Duff, called it when he likened the taste to Gatorade Gum. Although whereas the gum would only hold its flavor for about a femtosecond, this drink carries it. I honestly would drink this stuff on a regular basis. Perhaps I was just enjoying the taste, but it really did provide a pick-me-up for that late afternoon final push to blitz through the rest of what we wanted to see at Universal. I quite recommend it. Categorized as: Drinks and Reviews
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11.01.08 by Widge @ 3:46 pm  I'm at an anime convention in Miami. So how does one do as the Romans do in this particular version of Rome? How shall I try to fit in with this crowd? Review an anime energy drink, naturally. I was told by the guy who sold it to me that it tasted just like Red Bull; this is not a turnoff as I happen to enjoy Red Bull. Often in and in great quantities. But the good news is while it's similar to Red Bull it's got enough of a difference to make it worth drinking. Side Note: With the amount of energy drinks on the market, it's very easy to think about energy drinks as all being variations of Red Bull in the same way that George Carlin once did a routine about how all sports were just variations of ping pong. Whereas Red Bull in a glass looks like beer, Jutsu Power in a glass has a faded melony green color to it. And it's basically a milder cousin of Red Bull--it doesn't have that rough edge to the taste. It is thus very pleasant to drink. It possesses an unspecified amount of caffeine, guarana extract and ginseng. Categorized as: Drinks and Reviews
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