GRGR(6): English Candy & American Root Beer

[Lars Frehse]

Oh, yes, and there is some pop called "Mountain Dew" too, which tasted like water
and chemicals and chemicals and chemicals and things I don´t want to know about.

Lars

Lorentzen / Nicklaus schrieb:

>  On the English Candy Drill (p. 116ff.):
>
>
>  Some English Candy might taste strange. But Fisherman's Friends don't belong to
>  it. The best thing to eat after smoking. Especially bongsmoking.
>  This English  Candy Drill episode, in its 'oversea culinaric idiosyncrasy',
>  always reminds me of my first taste of American Root Beer. Northern
>  California, summer 1980. The  other kids were buying it in the supermarket.
>  Wanted to get Coca-Cola, but then I changed my mind. Why not something new?
>  Jesus, it was hard... All the others were drinking it & pretending that
>  everything was alright. But it wasn't! This melted toothpaste with synthetic
>  imitations of herbs is the most terrible thing I ever tasted: Felt so sick &
>  dizzy! But in Rome you gotta do what the Roman man does. So I finished my can
>  bravely. You know, I have eaten really strange things in Spain, - but nothing
>  in my whole culinaric experience is comparable to that American Root Beer
>  Drill. In a letter home I wrote: "The Americans are kind of weird when it comes
>  to the way things taste, Mom. They aren't like us. It might be the climate.
>  They go for things we would never dream of. Sometimes it's enough to turn your
>  stomach, boy". Years later I tried to try it again but couldn't get beyond the
>  first sip. I guess, to enjoy it you have to be socialized in an US-American
>  cultural context.
>
>                       Prost! Kai ///::: PS: Egg Cream is terrible too!