Sonic Drive-In Food Thoughts & Safety Tip
Aug. 12th, 2004 08:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterIt's funny...I really dislike Sprite (and similarly-flavored clear sodas). I mean, next best thing to abhor it. It may have something to do with 7-Up being the beverage of choice for keeping energy up (and inducing burping/vomiting) during flu times as a kid, dunno. I just find that lemony-limey sweet taste to be utterly cloying, and have a hard time drinking it even if nothing else is available.
This completely fails to explain why I like Sonic's "Ocean Water" beverage, which is just Sprite with blue coconut flavor syrup added. I mean, I should find it even more cloyingly sweet than plain Sprite since it's got the sugar of Sprite plus the sugar of the coconut...but it's like it's a whole different beverage. The citrus flavor is still there but much milder, and mitigated somehow by some effect of the coconut flavoring. All I know is, I can drink "Route 44" (44 oz cups; probably works out to about 25-30 of soda considering all the ice) cups of it with no problem, whereas I have a hard time forcing down even a swallow of regular Sprite. Weird.
Food safety tip: when eating Sonic's "cheddar peppers" (a sort of really delicious jalapeno popper-type thing that's one of the best food dishes they make), it is important to hold it with pepper side down, cheese side up, and bite in slowly. To do otherwise could cause a large glob of molten cheese to be ejected out the back or bottom onto your hands (quite painful if the cheddar pepper is still very hot), clothes, table, car seat, or floor, depending on how and where you're eating it.
This completely fails to explain why I like Sonic's "Ocean Water" beverage, which is just Sprite with blue coconut flavor syrup added. I mean, I should find it even more cloyingly sweet than plain Sprite since it's got the sugar of Sprite plus the sugar of the coconut...but it's like it's a whole different beverage. The citrus flavor is still there but much milder, and mitigated somehow by some effect of the coconut flavoring. All I know is, I can drink "Route 44" (44 oz cups; probably works out to about 25-30 of soda considering all the ice) cups of it with no problem, whereas I have a hard time forcing down even a swallow of regular Sprite. Weird.
Food safety tip: when eating Sonic's "cheddar peppers" (a sort of really delicious jalapeno popper-type thing that's one of the best food dishes they make), it is important to hold it with pepper side down, cheese side up, and bite in slowly. To do otherwise could cause a large glob of molten cheese to be ejected out the back or bottom onto your hands (quite painful if the cheddar pepper is still very hot), clothes, table, car seat, or floor, depending on how and where you're eating it.
