Italian soft drinks for sale: Only dropped once.
Right as I drank, I got ninja-starred in the forehead.
The horror.
The horror.
San Pellegrino Limonata
I had this stuff while over at my pal Dino's for dinner. I think Dino made a sort of beef soup stuff, I forget the classy name for it. Beef bourgnine? Mourgnine? It's something pretty common and I feel like an ass for not remembering. Margarine? Doesn't matter as it was good and not something I'd ever seen anyone make from scratch.
He gave me a "San Pellegrino Limonata" to drink, he'd had a six-pack delivered along with a bunch of stuff from Fresh Direct I think. Or at least from a grocery. I remember because it was a big to-do about the delivery stuff as the van had a break down. Exciting times.
The limonata was classy looking. It had a tear off tin foil top, I hated the waste of it but couldn't help but admit that it's a good idea. Or at least it would be a good idea if this were the sort of soda that was sold out-of-date in discount delis, the sort of drinks that are always covered in dirt and foulness and sticky. This is an Eye-tahlian fancy drink, it'll never see the broken end of the freezer section. The foil, I think, is overkill, just there as a gimmick.
All this classy is reinforced by the tiny little drinkin' hole, more of a sipping hole compared to what I'm accustomed to. The Italians must be half camel.
I like most things that are lemon flavored, but it's an easy thing to mess up. I'd half expected to be poisoned after my first San Pellegrino drink, but was instead pleasantly surprised. Very lemon juicy, not too sweet, but still good. I like ass loads of sugar in my lemonade but was happy with this.
It burps up well, and was lemony enough to make me phlegm up but not so much as to make me miserable.
Stroganoff. That's what Dino made, beef stroganoff.
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Limonata is terrific, we can get it in corner groceries here and you describe it perfectly. But I have never had a star come out of my forehead while drinking it. You must have had a special can!
ReplyDeleteI thought you were trying to say "borg-en-yon" not stroganoff. Beef Ernest Borgnine. Delightful.
ReplyDeleteOk, looked it up. Boeuf Bourguignon. Frenchies and their fancy words.
ReplyDeleteLidian: The star didn't come out of my forehead, it was thrown by a jealous martial artist IN to my forehead.
ReplyDeleteAnon: I just watched part of The Blackhole, which has Ernest Bourgnine in it. Some Bourgnine trivia is that he has acted with more other actors than anyone else.
It was Bourguignon (or just say beef burgundy), but with Buffalo.
ReplyDeletere: the tops of soda cans: I knew someone who had done a study as to the bacteria on the top of cans of soda and the like.... believe me, you should want a top on your beverage can!
ReplyDeleteTim H i wanna Stroganoff YOU you're adorable in a low class trashy sort of way. I'm gonna sample the Limonata.
ReplyDeleteI buy the limonata in the jars and think it is fabulous EXCEPT.....the freakin cardboard packaging breaks every freakin time I get it!!Makes for sticky floors.
ReplyDeleteJars? That's pretty neat. So what, the jars come in a cardboard box and break through and break on the floor and break your heart?
ReplyDeleteI usually purchase Arizona's "Black & white" due to the minute amount of ingredients on the label and lack of High fructose corn syrup.
ReplyDeleteI took a chance with this lemon drink for all the same reasons and was by no means disappointed. Actually quite surprised, as I don't drink soda AT ALL. I really truly enjoyed this one!
ALL NATURAL, EVEN THE CARBONATION!