what are you into right now?

no. i am going to explain this from memory so, if i have some facts wrong, forgive me.

mountain dew didn't have caffeine in its canadian product for a long time. they tried to put it in and couldn't get the recipe approved, because... yeah, something to do with cola having caffeine and nothing else having caffeine, except stuff labeled as an energy drink (like, ther was red bull in our 7-11 coolers while mountain dew still had no caffeine). mountain dew said it was necessary and was a flavour additive and should be allowed.

now, mountain dew has caffeine in it in canada.

Did this upset anyone?

much adew about nothing

no, it did not. soda drinkers in canada found the rule a bit strange. the change was made quietly and i'm not sure anyone noticed except die hard mountain dew drinkers, which we have fewer of in canada.

it's childish to be upset by what is necessary

that's one way to put it.

right now i'm really into

the loaded lux vs. calicoe battle.

I learned once from Wikipedia™ that in Canada, soda that isn't brown can't have caffeine in it

I don't think there's a law but in the UK caffeinated sodas are generally brown (plus Irn Bru but that's a category of its own) (plus energy drinks now but they come in distinctively-labelled cans rather than bottles)

so I was surprised when I went to the US and wanted a cold drink but since it was 10pm I didn't want to confuse my jetlagged bodyclock further with caffeine, so I bought an orange-flavoured soda rather than a Coke from the motel drinks machine, and then realised it was also caffeinated, as were all the other sodas in the machine

fruit-flavoured sodas are just not caffeinated here (Dr Pepper claims it is fruit-flavoured but it is a) brown b) mostly tastes of not-quite-cola so it doesn't count)

I found the white mountain dew!! I have been searching for non-diet Fresca for a v long time ever since they took Citra off the market like a decade and a half ago (they have Fanta Grapefruit which iirc is actually the same thing, but not available on the east coast, as well as a few other inferior bevs). It was very good but it had too much OG mtn dew taste for my liking. I could see myself buying it again though.

Also yeah 4mos expired wd be a v flat beverage.

I don't think there's a Fresca with actual sugar, is there? I thought it was always a nutrasweet beverage

that's exactly the problem ;_; R.I.P. Citra
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I am into

wok

wok it, girlfriend.

i shouldn't have promoted white out as being similar to a sugared fresca. the flavour profile is far closer to mountain dew or cheap powdered lemonade or malic acid coated sour keys than the subtle grapefruit saccharine of fresca.

i feel like you want a sugary grapefruit soda. have you ever had mirinda grapefruit? how about ting grapefruit? i was going to ask about wink but then i looked it up and it was discontinued in 2004 or went through a rebranding and now exists under a name i've never come across.

I love Squirt but it's not at all the same

you should try (lol) "neuro bliss" which has a taste I cannot quite describe but definitely has a citrus tinge: http://drinkneuro.com/products/bliss

I don't think there is non-diet Fresca just like there's no non-diet TAB.

God, I love Fresca but I always forget about it. I love TAB too but I never forget about that.

I can never remember what Fresca actually tastes like because nutrasweet gives me a nasty headache so I never have it.

It is light, citris-y and refreshing. Also, grapefruit but not at all bitter.

local history
~ghost tours~ (related)
reading bad reviews of new ben elton shows
orange dark chocolate

music that is fun and playful but still engaging/not disposable or novel (e.g. Deerhoof, Pavement, Mouse on Mars, Mu, The B-52's, etc)

I'm really into cacao nibs right now, so much so that I carry a little bag with me

like you just eat them plain? I imagine it would be like crunchy unsweetened cocoa powder.

i dunno how you do it, goon -- to me they're like crunching on broken cocoa-flavored teeth

fig balsamic cream vinegar & club soda on the rocks .
alt comics cbrz/ buying anthologies
GameCenter CX
captvty.fr, software to download french tv shows.
recycling some old ideas

Pesto
The color yellow
Shameless
Sunshine
Wearing sandals because IT'S SO DAMN NICE OUTSIDE
Young Galaxy
Did I mention pesto? I want to eat it all the time.

maps
legends
LaCroix water
Trader Joe's dark chocolate
shoegazer revival
mountain biking

"19" by Paul Hardcastle

I love the la croix coconut one.

I.... I mix them with goji berries and raw almonds. Why do I feel shameful in admitting this

I also do hot yoga, sorry guys

no shame: that's how I first came across them, in almost the exact same trail mix :)

pulling weeds
hiking

genmaicha milk tea

interests vmic

my new wok
tacos
australian true crime
bok choy

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
pizza
vodka
new delay pedal

cooking from david thompsons 'thai food'
reading 'light years'
sun sun sun finally

cooking from david thompsons 'thai food'

jealous!

dzhokhar always
siamese plants
google plus
miami base

watching recent simpsons episodes that got good reviews

interests vmic

― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux))

:D

also joseph losey movies

russian literature (chekhov, gogol, tolstoy... i've burned out on dostoevsky he is a bummer.)
kombucha
posting on ilx
reading, but not posting, on the rolling metal thread, frustrated that i don't actually enjoy listening to metal music because it seems like a cool thing to know about... a lot of minutiae.

the weather
my partner
work

vinegar in/on everything (food, toilet, etc.)

reading, but not posting, on the rolling metal thread, frustrated that i don't actually enjoy listening to metal music because it seems like a cool thing to know about... a lot of minutiae.

YES. Reading old metal threads on ILX and Metal Archives is basically all I'm into right now.

wing night at the beer bar
78rpm records of early country string bands
corner bistro twice in the last week
lawrence block's 'hit man' series (Block in general tbh; reading all the Matt Scudder books too, and a lot of the reprints via hard case crime.)
grooming our kitty cat charlie cuz it makes him SO HAPPY AND RELAXED AND SWEET.
playing with kitty cat squiggs cuz he needs to get tired out before bed or he's a terror
all the cats in general.

Adidas check my birthday kicks Gazelle suede originals:
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building stuff w/ wood
breakingbadbreakingbadbreakingbadbreakingbadbreakingbadbreakingbadbreakingbadbreakingbad
Texas true crime
absolutely worshiping yet utterly despising the Maldives
playing the twee-est game ever on iPad - "Castle Story" and loving it
the bold and the beautiful
finally coming around on this whole 'Twitter' thing
Planting TREES!
Planting WILDFLOWERS!!

absolutely worshiping yet utterly despising the Maldives

could you elaborate on this?

i want to go there so badly but its 30-35 hrs travel time each way and a roundtrip ticket is approx $5000pp ie $20K for us just to get there. Cant imagine what a sweet hut on the water would add to that.