My Hero - Zero

As someone who absolutely detests most diet soda (pop) I am pleased to announce an actually palatable carbonated diet cola.

Coke Zero

It's so much like the older version of Coke (before Coke-Classic, and the "New Coke" of the mid-1980's, I had to do a double-take.

My local Meijer grocery store handed out dixie-cup size samples of the newest "pause that refreshes" and I was stunned. Diet you say? HA! I had to go read the ingredients:

Coke Zero:
Carbonated water, caramel color, phosphoric acid, Aspartame, potassium benzoate...

Diet Coke:
Carbonated water, caramel color, Aspartame, phosphoric acid, potassium benzoate...

Is the jockeying of one ingredient the difference? Who knows, but I can tell you that the one think I really miss about the original coke is that it was not as sweet at the newer versions. This diet-treat seems to capture that cripsness.

So - once again Coke - +1
Way to go!

maybe it's just me...

Freaks, Geeks, and Taco Bell

Now and then we watch videos at work during lunch. We're in the Freaks and Geeks series right now. Also, some of us went to Taco Bell today.

I got about $3 worth of stuff off of the value menu. It's pretty good - considering. I think that the bell should be more honest and simply list their entres by the order of their ingredients, bottom to top:

1) tortilla, beans, meat, cheese, lettuce, tomato
2) tortilla, meat, beans, cheese, lettuce, tomato
3) tortilla, beans, cheese, meat, tomato, lettuce
and so-on

Seriously, I'm expecting a new commercial and mascott to do something like this:

Hey, hey, hey!
There's something totally new from Taco Bell!
Now we've put the lettuce and tomato under the beans and meat, but on top of the cheese to create a completely new taste sensation! It's seriously so much better than the tomato under the cheese thing we tried last month or last year's disasterous beans, beans, beans, lettuce and cheese! Don't miss it! Get down to your local Taco Bell today and get your cheese, tomato, lettuce, beans and meat, all on a tortilla! And don't forget a side order of tortillas and cheese!

It's no "On the Road" by Kerouac mind you, but it would be so much more honest.

maybe it's just me.

ahhh the power of cheese

I returned home from a bachelor party, parked the car, cleaned up some wood chips around the walk and picked up the mail. After a brief constitutional I adjourned to the kitchen where I began to sort and shred today's junk mail and important communications. The Calvin College Spark stared bleakly up at me from the kitchen counter. The happy ginning faces of the student atheletes were jaded by my own tired eyes and an impending sense of doom...

DOOOM!!!

.... articles about the athletes...
.... articles about PETRA (better known as Pres. Byker's ....)
.... page 5
oh the humanity!
Say it ain't so!


I love cheese...
Hat's off to you guys!

I'm going to get me a slab o'cheddar.


on the other-hand,
maybe it's just me?

to the winners go the pizza

After winning a softball game the team decided to go to Pietro's Back-door Pizzaria (yes, we make all the required off-color jokes about the name). They do this "pizza party" deal for large groups.
Unlimited:
-Salad (simple itallian salad)
-Breadsticks (very hearty)
-Pizza (keep 'em coming)
-Soda-pop (Pepsi products... beware)

All that for $6.95/person.
When it's a party of 20-something, it works pretty well.

Now here's where I fell.
After all of that, I stopped at McDonalds on the way home for a small Vanilla Shake for $2... WHAT WAS I THINKING? Like I needed that?
And the price? I could have bought a 1/2 gallon of ice-cream for that. Is that stupid or what?

maybe it's just me...

Breakfast Cereal

Man!
Sometimes I'm completely overwhelmed by the craving for a good (bad) sugar-cereal.

Boo-berry (a cousin to Count Chocula)
Quisp (haven't seen this one in years)
Frosted Flakes
Cocoa Crispies
Cap'n Crunch - Crunch Berries
and the High Exaulted Poo-bah of them all...
Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch

Saturday morning cartoons, a big bowl, a gallon of milk and a coke-slurpee if you can get one. Add to that some Wonder Bread and I'm set for the day.

maybe it's just me...