Today's featured beverage
The Prickly Pineapple celebrates life's simple pleasures. In keeping with this, today's featured beverage is a throwback to the fifties with an easy effervescent update.
Directions:
1. Measure desired amount of Tang powder into drinking vessel of choice. The PP recommends two and one-half to three tablespoons per eight-ounce glass.
2. Add club soda to achieve desired volume.
Ah yes, Tang. Now in Mango flavor and Sugar-free. Loaded with vitamins A and C, as well as tricalcium phosphate and enough preservatives to endure the test of time. Not only does its taste ("like oranges, but with a flavor all its own") continue to thrill the palates of children and beverage connoisseurs around the world, but its diverse utilities—from keeping America's dishwashers sparkling clean to easing pain and suffering—prove Tang a most potent of potables, a superhero of softdrinks.
What's your favorite Tang-colored memory?
Raise a glass of sparkling Tang and celebrate with us. It's just fun!
Directions:
1. Measure desired amount of Tang powder into drinking vessel of choice. The PP recommends two and one-half to three tablespoons per eight-ounce glass.
2. Add club soda to achieve desired volume.
Ah yes, Tang. Now in Mango flavor and Sugar-free. Loaded with vitamins A and C, as well as tricalcium phosphate and enough preservatives to endure the test of time. Not only does its taste ("like oranges, but with a flavor all its own") continue to thrill the palates of children and beverage connoisseurs around the world, but its diverse utilities—from keeping America's dishwashers sparkling clean to easing pain and suffering—prove Tang a most potent of potables, a superhero of softdrinks.
What's your favorite Tang-colored memory?
Raise a glass of sparkling Tang and celebrate with us. It's just fun!
posted by CamoBunny at 10:57 AM
2 comments
2 Comments:
Hot Tang and Russian Tea. We used to boil water and add a few spoonfuls of powdered Tang to it. (Now you can use a microwave!) Nice sweet hot drink for a cold dark day or night in the village. Then one day in elementary school my mom almost got us addicted to "Russian Tea," just the powder! My friend and I came home from school and there was Tang in a ziploc bag, no wait, there's something brown in it and white. Mom said it's Russian Tea. The brown stuff was instant tea (the kind that came in a jar and had commercials that left me confused--why in the world would people want to drink cold tea?) The white stuff was powdered lemonade. She made some for us. We drank the hot drink, liked it, and of course wanted to try it straight. For the next week it was becoming a fad in class to lick your finger, dab it in the powder and repeat and to finish your bag by the end of the day without the teacher discovering it or our orange fingers. Our "addiction" quickly ended when rumor got around class that eating Tang straight is just like eating sugar and that it'll give you tapeworms.
I doubt the commercials got very far out of Alaska, but the Father of the Iditarod (the 1000+ mile sled dog race from Anchorage to Nome, goes through my village), the late Joe Redington, Sr., endorsed hot Tang in the commercials. I thought he must have gotten that idea when he came through our village.
Excellent, excellent stories. I have now learned that you can drink Tang hot, that Kirk is a Simpsons fan, and the reason that puffintoad flits around like a hummingbird on crack is because of the Tang burnout phenomenon. I have also learned that injecting a Tang—methadone solution intravenously is not recommended.
Just kidding, puffintoad. You don't flit around like that. But I felt like the Tang thing should explain something. Then again you three in that room always liked to eat things raw or straight up: instant oatmeal, pasta, Russian Tea... perhaps a new theory is in order.
I have no Tang stories. I just sit here with my fresh baked biscuits drinking sparkling Tang from a wineglass and am quite, quite content.
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