I really hope this fortune comes true. Oh, what’s that you say? It’s not actually a fortune but a saying? Well, whatever. I hope it comes true anyway.
If you want the rainbow, you have to tolerate the rain.
My favorite Chinese restaurant in Tucson just keeps delivering the hits in the fortune department.
Here’s some insightful advice I received in a fortune cookie yesterday:
Well, why not? Admit it—you’re intrigued.
Touché, fortune cookie. Touché.
At about this time last year, I had my first taste of Dr. Pepper made with real cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup. I enjoyed it so much that I wrote about it. It’s hard to describe in scientific terms, but cane sugar tastes more like sugar than corn syrup—it’s more sugary, if you will.Well, having been in Mexico for the past week, I knew I couldn’t possibly come home empty-handed. That is, I couldn’t leave unless I was bringing some of the One True Soda back with me. Now, I couldn’t find any Dr. Pepper, but as a general rule, Mexico and Coca-Cola are closely intertwined, and rumor has it that one was founded by the other.
On our last day in Nogales, right before we left, we found a Coke distributor who was willing to sell us cases of the good stuff. And cases are exactly what we bought. I picked up 24 bottles (500-mL each, which is about 17 oz) for roughly $24, which seems like a pretty good deal in retrospect. Vince bought his own assorted case with half Coke and half Fanta, Manzana Lift, Squirt, and Sprite.
At the time, the joy that only cane sugar can provide was clouding our thinking, and we failed to remember that the trunk was already packed with sleeping bags and everyone’s stuff. No worries, though. After 30 minutes of unpacking and shuffling bags around, we finally decided to remove the bottles from their crates and cram them into every spare crevice the trunk had to offer. With all 48 bottles tucked in and nestled snugly, we took off for the border.
Other than a 2-hour wait, we didn’t encounter any problems while crossing back into the States. To my surprise, smuggling a load of Coke into the U.S. from Mexico was much easier than I had previously imagined.
Mmm. I sure do love bacon, but I’m not exactly what you’d call a bacon enthusiast. Thankfully, some other people are, and they make homemade bacon, bacon cupcakes, and bacon cookies. Mmm.
We headed to T.G.I. Friday’s after we won our game tonight (by forfeit—the best way to win), and our waiter was so cool that I decided to dedicate an entire post to him. We were at the Friday’s on Broadway, and our waiter’s name was Lee. He was friendly and accommodating from the minute we sat down, and he seemed to take a genuine interest in the reason we were celebrating (win by forfeit—the best kind).
He brought us an extra menu when we were short one, extra dipping sauce when we asked for it, and even an extra margarita glass—with the margarita shaker topped off—so that a couple people could share. Most importantly, Lee made us laugh, and I think that’s crucial for people who are in customer service. Anyone can write down orders and carry out plates of food, but not everyone can go above and beyond to make customers happy and keep them coming back.
I left Lee a 25% tip, and I usually only leave 15% if the service is decent. Keep up the good work, my man.
It’s so bad, it’s got to be good. And I don’t know why, but I just can’t stop watching it.
Let’s hope my dentist doesn’t read this post, or else my premium might double the next time I go in for a cleaning. It would be worth it, though.
Someone at work ordered a couple cases of Dublin Dr Pepper (there’s intentionally no period after “Dr”), and so I tried a bottle—yes, bottle!—of it today. If you’ve never had this stuff before, you’re missing out on the true essence of Dr Pepper. Oh, and cane sugar, too. Lots and lots of pure cane sugar.
According to the website, this is why Dublin Dr Pepper is better than the lame Dr Pepper you can buy in stores:
Dublin Dr Pepper is still made using the original sweetener, pure cane sugar. In the 1970s the price of sugar rose and soft drink companies started panicking because it was getting too expensive to produce their drinks using sugar. Virtually everyone switched to high fructose corn syrup because it was much less expensive.
The decision was made at that time to keep using the pure cane sugar, regardless of the extra expense. The Dublin Dr Pepper Bottling Company is the only Dr Pepper bottler that has always used pure cane sugar to sweeten the drink.
Run, don’t walk, to the online store, where you can buy the original mojo in cans or bottles. Shipping will nearly double the cost of the order, but it’s a small price to pay for the most amazing liquid substance known to man.