Speaking Of Soft Drinks.........

While we are still on the subject of soft drinks and the like, I was just giggling thinking of that photo I posted earlier and I thought of the time I tried to revolutionize the soft drink business. Yes, sadly its true, I saw an over-crowded market and said "Me Too!" dang nabbit! I wanted me a piece of that money filled pie. So, ever the resourceful and savvy 15 year old, I decided the only thing to do was sit down and think of a formula. The formula that was to revolutionize the cold beverage world as we knew it.

I sat down at the table and started to wonder what kind of a drink would people pay and for that matter Continue to pay for? What flavours were already out there? Should it be healthy and relatively free of sugar? All valid questions seeking valid answers. I began to panic. Thinking to my-self that I didn't know as much as I thought I did, and that possibly, I may have been getting in over my head. Maybe I should have let go of the idea before it even had a chance. I decided that I wanted it to be relatively good for you, so I thought, maybe a bit of water that is kind of fizzy with a citrus like flavour? YES!!! Sondra.....you are a frickin genius! this is gonna knock Coke and Pepsi on their collective asses! GOOOOAAAALLLLLL!!!!!! It was fool proof...I would go to the cupboard and get a glass.....I was going to fill it with water, and then get some oranges from the fridge and squeeze the juice from the orange into the water and then I 'd be rolling in all that sweet sweet cash.

I do have to say, the very first sip yielded some what less than stellar results. Undaunted, I went back to the drawing board....."Its OK" I told myself, "So what if it didn't go so well....its only your first try...I am sure the dude who invented Coke or Pepsi took thousands of tries to get it right" and I thought the solution was a bit more orange juice. I was wrong, it still tasted like watered down ass. "Damn it!!!!" I said to myself and then thought "If Fred Freakin' Flintstone can make a soft drink than so can I!!!!" what I failed to remember is that the drink Fred invented also turned Barney invisible. I decided it needed a little fizz and now that I realized that the water wasn't going to fizz on its own, I set out for the grocery store. I hopped on my bike and peddaled it all the way to the mall and picked up some club soda and some limes. I peddaled my ass back home and went back to the drawing board. Eureka! I had it! I would take 1 1/2 cups of water and squeeze a butt load of orange and lime juice in to the cup and then fill the rest of it up with club soda to give it the needed fizz and Presto! I have a winning recipe, Coke and Pepsi will bow down to me and Pedro's your uncle. I couldn't have been more wrong. Instead of it tasting like watered down ass, it now tasted like really gross tarte fizzy ass. After about 3 hours, I said screw it and poured it all down the drain. It was too much like work so I quit. That is the tale of the time I tried to revolutionize the soft drink industry.