Weird Drinks: Pepsi White vs Pepsi Green!
Behold, I present to you, a death match between two exotic Pepsi flavours, gathered from around the world!
In this corner…
Pepsi Green
I got this little gem at a 7-11 in Thailand, where it’s all over the place. My friend who lives there absolutely hates it, and can’t understand why the locals “are obsessed with it” (she says with disgust). I’m not sure how I feel about it, or even if it counts as a cola. Everyone I feed it to says the taste is familiar, but they can’t quite place it (check out the heated internets debate on the subject). My kid sister says it tastes like Dr. Pepper. I also taste mint, with a hint of a floral bathroom air spray (or maybe just it’s the putrid green colour that makes me think of bathroom products talking).
Wanna know more? Check out Pepsi Thailand, which has got to be the slowest loading corporate website in the entire known universe. I wrote this entire post before it finally loaded. Go you, Pepsi Thailand!
Once the novelty wears off, I give it 6 Mehs out of 10.
In the other corner...
Pepsi White
Good old eBay provided me with this questionable limited edition beverage from Japan. Guess what the White refers to? Yogurt! But it doesn’t actually taste like yogurt. At all. (Maybe this is a good thing?) I was expecting that it would taste like calpis, but it actually tastes kinda spicy. According to the “The Japan Marketing News” it has “a deeper, more memorable flavour.” Metafilter says it tastes like “malted battery acid.”
I do like the smell though, which smells like a cordial I had as kid in New Zealand called witches’ brew (any kiwis remember it?).
Overall, I give it a 5 Good Thing It’s Limited Editions out of 10.
So, Pepsi Green … wins! (if you can call being less gross winning…)
No wai! We’re gonna be on the radio!
Dear Perth Readers,
Apparently some folks over at ABC Perth like our blog (and I’m a bit of a fan of the ABC myself. Go public broadcasting!)! So, they’ve invited me to be a guest their afternoon show to talk about some super serious important business: tuna cupcakes and other weird and crazy food. So tune in to 720AM around 2:40 this afternoon.
Extra bonus, it’s a call in show (this should be fun!)
Love,
Kate
Why I love Austin, Reason #1
BREAKFAST TACOS
Eggs, potatos and chorizo from Taco Shack
Cheap Eats: 25% off at New Outback Jacks in Northbridge
Some of you may remember my battle with the 1 kilo of steak plus 1 kilo of wedges at Outback Jacks (if you eat it all, you get it for half price plus a free tshirt). Well, if you live in Perth, now you too can try their insane challenge on the cheap - even if if you fail, which you will - at their new restaurant in Northbridge, thanks to this nice ghetto email coupon that they sent me for 25% off the final bill, plus a free Corona for the challenger (like that will really help…). Of course, if the challenge doesn’t tickle your fancy, you can get anything else off their menu for 25% off too. It’s good until March 31, and I figure you can just print out as many as you want until then and go get fat on steak for the next two weeks. Good times.
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Extreme Food Dating: Lava Stonegrill
A mere few blocks away from my old home in Mount Lawley there exists a restaurant where they bring you a stack of raw meat and a rock that was supposedly thrown out of an erupting volcano. This rock is heated to an insane temperature - hot enough to make your face sweat the entire meal - and delivered to you at your fancy white linen covered table so that you might cook your food upon it. Reservations are a must.
I had been curious about this place - the Lava Stonegrill - for a while. But it wasn’t quite quirky enough for Extreme Food Dating. It just sounded like a variation on Korean BBQ. Then, a friend of mine took some girl from the internet on a date there and liked it (and the date worked out well…). He reported back that they had along with the beef and chicken stacks of raw meat, they also had a game platter, featuring crocodile fillet, venison steak (although, I feel I must tell you that they promised me “venison” on the menu), wild boar and kangaroo steak, all served with a bush tomato chutney. Sold!
For extra bonus fun points (but not intentionally), the date was scheduled to occur during a brief period when I was on a some rather innocuous medication that, despite its supposed innocuous nature, had the side effect of messing with my head (if you have ever tried old school anti-malarials, it was something like that, but more of the daytime weirdness and less of the sleeping weirdness).
So, the date started out well (at least it seemed so to my foggy brain). We arrived at the grill - it was packed and swanky and somehow fully stocked with hot gay waiters. Despite their hotness, these waiters kinda sucked at waiting in a timely fashion.
I mean really, how long does it take to prepare food that I cook myself?
This is something I’ve noticed that is annoyingly common with Perth cafes and restaurants. Even with no one else in the cafe, it often takes them a good 5 minutes to take the cookie out of a jar, put it in a bag and charge me for it. One time I waited 15 min just to get a pre-made sandwich warmed up.
As advertised, the plate of uncooked meat and a sizzling lava rock came with the tomato chutney, and some other delicious yet unidentified dip type thing. The waiter hurriedly told me what each piece of meat was, and then scurried away, and I immediately forgot what everything was, except for the one that looked like chicken (the rest were all red meat) - that one was crocodile. When I finally hailed the water down again to ask which meat was what, he claimed they had been reorganized and couldn’t tell me. So, my dear readers, I cannot give you much of a review of each meat, other than the crocodile tasted like chicken. Surprise.
This was $34. I had to order the steamed vegetables on the side - another $7.90. Some readers might remember the kilo of steak and kilo of chips I had at Outback Jack’s, all of which were a mere $36.
When I was done the cooking, I wanted the hot rock to go away because they made me feel like I was going through menopause. I’m not sure if this was from my crazy drugs or the heat of the sizzling plate before me. But either way, you can imagine its not so pleasant to have a sizzling hot rock cooking your face while you’re trying to enjoy your dinner.
All and all, overpriced and underserved. Also, more craziness next time please.
First Weird Drinks video review: Ginseng D!
David C. Fono reviews the somewhat scary Ginseng D mystery drink.
Update: Smart Energy Blood Orange & Chilli not recalled
I was kinda excited when someone named Amelia reported in the comments that a Coles employee told her that the Smart Energy Blood Orange & Chilli had been recalled. This was all I needed to prove that those skinny little cans were filled with chilli flavoured danger and insanity. So, I emailed Spring Valley to ask what was up, and after about a week they replied:
Dear Ms Raynes-Goldie
Thank you for taking the time to contact us regarding our Spring Valley
Blood Orange and Chilli Smart Energy Drink.Please rest assured that we have no concerns with this product. It is
supplied to smaller retailers only such as Petrol stations and Convenience
stores.Once again thank you for taking the time to contact us and we trust this
has been of assistance to you.Kind regards
CADBURY SCHWEPPES PTY LTD
I was kinda relieved since I accidently bought a can the other day, thinking it was the Blueberry flavour. And not being one to waste food, I drank it with some spicy pizza, whilst fearing for my life. Now I’m glad it was safe, but, it still tasted mega-ick.
WTF? Tuna Cupcakes?
When we founded this site, a big part of the naming process was finding things we liked that would never, ever be eaten in combination. Or at least that we couldn’t picture eating together. Or at least that we couldn’t picture eating together except for on some kind of hilarity-inducing dare.
Sadly, if finding an impossible combination was our aim, we fail, fail, FAILED, because it turns out that tuna cupcakes are positively delicious. Hellebelle, a friend and occasional TunaCupcake.com commenter, pointed us to a recipe for tuna cupcakes within a few days. And then when I posted my comfort food dare, she brought it up again. So I went for it, guys. I totally went for it.
Oddly Comforting: Concoction
What could the four ingredients pictured above possibly combine to create? Only the most ghetto fabulous comfort food ever.
Now, I’m not sure exactly how far back this recipe goes, but I’m going to have to say that it must be connected to Jesus or perhaps some kind of saint, because what emerges when you combine cabbage, tuna, potato chips, mayo, and a secret ingredient (a tiny bit of onion) can only be described as heavenly. Or Concoction ™.
Just joking… kind of. I grew up on this stuff. My grandmother used to make it all the time. It’s delicious. But convincing anyone else to eat it has been problematic. Which leads me to this new column on TunaCupcake.com–Oddly Comforting. You send along your recipes for the weird comfort foods/concoctions you grew up with, and I’ll make them. Your part of the bargain: make mine (and the others we post over time) and tell us what you think. So first up… Read more
Weird Drinks: Spring Valley Smart Energy Blood Orange & Chilli
What’s more disconcerting than an energy drink flavoured like blood oranges and chillies? A blood orange and chilli flavoured energy drink that doesn’t actually have chillies in it. Spring Valley has a new line of “Smart Energy” drinks featuring such a flavour (so new, they aren’t even on their website yet. That, or they’re just lazy).
As a fan of chili chocolate, I was pretty excited to try this drink. Chillies create a warm, friendly burning in your mouth. This, however, causes scary chemical burn in your throat that is probably not unlike battery acid, or self induced acid reflux. It’s a more palatable, more fruity version of the worst energy drink I’ve ever had - Cocaine, which is more like a pepper spray-based drink than an alternative to street drugs. It was so vile that I couldn’t have more than one sip.
The artificial chilli flavour of this Smart Energy drink makes me suspect that they came across it by mistake, and decided to turn a flaw into a feature. “Oh, it’s crap, this is supposed to taste like orange, but it makes my throat burn!” “Just say its chilli flavoured! The kids will go crazy for it!” Or maybe, as my friend suggested, it’s just a guise to get rid of some gross chemical that was taking up room in the Spring Valley factory.
There is one plus side to this drink. Even though there are no actual chillies in the Blood Orange & Chilli drink, it does contain yerba mate, a plant popular in South America, where it is prepared like tea and often served instead of coffee. It’s more potent than coffee but makes you less jittery. Perhaps this is why the drink produces a nice buzz, despite its not so great taste.
But I can’t help but notice that the other supposed flavour is not just orange, but blood orange. Perhaps it’s a subtle suggestion of what will happen to your throat of you drink too much.
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