GRGR(6): English Candy & American Root Beer

[Richard Romeo]

hey man, ya talkin 'bout me bread and budder (to quote a certain wabbit)

The best root beer is MUG IMHO--love love root beer.

...and egg creams, a brooklyn speciality (the best)

rich


>From: Lars Frehse <improfane at flashmail.com>
>To: Lorentzen / Nicklaus <lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de>
>CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: GRGR(6): English Candy & American Root Beer
>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 13:39:07 +0200
>
>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!
>
>


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