Today's featured beverage
Today's featured beverage is truly a must-try: Apple Sidra, from the exotic far east. Why hasn't this caught on in the United States?My first Apple Sidra memory brings me all the way back to our first family trip overseas (yes, Camodidi, when you were three) twenty years ago! The opulent hotel at which we supped was serving all sorts of elegant dishes including some sort of nappa cabbage layered dish that had a type of fancy (gasp!) cheese on it— a salty sweet creamy cabbagey delight. Surely such an establishment would serve up an equally novel beverage experience. Sparkling in our glasses like the finest of champagnes was Apple Sidra, one can split between the three of us children.
Its rich color, a deep amber, was unlike that of any other carbonated beverages we'd tried. My first sip was wonderment and surprise. Caramel and apple flavours bubbled across my tongue and danced upon my palate, tumbling smoothly down my throat to finish. I knew immediately this was not just some ol' soda; it was an experience to be savored. My little half-glass must have lasted me a half hour.
This beverage is available here if you know where to look. I have none in stock, however, for I am reluctant to delve too deeply in search of recreating that memory, lest I be disappointed. Perhaps there has been a change in the formula, for in my later experiences it has seemed a bit more tart, with an acidic (xiap xiap, for those of you in the know) and drying after-sensation that reminds me more of local sparkling apple ciders.
What's your favorite Apple Sidra memory?
Find a can. Marvel at its enduring design and logo, in that bold yellow, red, and green. Enjoy it in a chilled glass on a sunny autumn afternoon. It's good stuff.
posted by CamoBunny at 12:50 PM
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Holy moly. I don't remember the last time I saw that can. I'm getting flashbacks of Taiwan and Starfruit and mosquitos... I never knew the name of it, I don't even remember ever drinking it, but I remember the can very well. I've never seen it here in the States, anyone know where I can find it? The can also brings forth memories of CoCoRico, the coconut drink that Ed and Jeff were wild for up in Seattle, and Capr... Capra... Caplis?... something like that. White wrapper with blue polka dots. That stuff. Marble drink... Mr. Coffee...
Man oh man, memories. Beverage memories. Mmmm...
International food store. That or asian food store. It's usually next to Hey-Song sarsaparilla, CoCoRico, grass jelly drink, and those orange drinks with the little sacs of orange in it. Mr. Brown Coffee is usually just a little further down the refrigerated shelf. They usually keep the yang le duo in the fridge with the glass door. The Calpis (Calpico) is in a bottle in concentrate on the shelf.
I don't know what marble drink is. But I do know that the Calpis company put out a drink I first encountered in Japan (same trip, different country) called Pocari Sweat. Who wants to drink something named that? I was very ill in Japan, so ill that I don't know what was wrong with me to this very day (although I suspect post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis had a hand in it). So ill that I had to drink Pocari Sweat.
Dangit, I thought I was being original
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