On Thursday, I headed over to Cub to get some must-have items for Friday which included multi-grain bread w/o high fructose corn syrup (who the fuck would have thought that bread would include that horrid shit?)
While roaming the store, as is required during any shopping trip, I came across something that piqued my interest… Six-packs (kill the dolphins!) of Diet Swiss Creme soda. Growing up in PA we had a swiss creme soda made by the Crystal Beverage (along with Cherokee Red, Crystal Club Cola, etc) and it was one of my favorites. I rarely got my hands on it but when I did, whew — it rocked. I actually remember loving Cherokee Red just as much but I have a feeling that with all the negative publicity that NDSU has received over their mascot, Crystal must have changed the name to something more politically correct for 2007 by now…
Anyway, the flood of memories that entered my mind as I spied these six packs were numerous. While this was diet and obviously not in the same blue can (see here for an example), it might just do. I bought a single six-pack and also nabbbed a 12 pack of Jones Diet Black Cherry and threw that into the cart as well.
I got as far as the parking lot before I had cracked open a warm Diet Swiss Creme can. Kim asked “warm?!” Well, the taste was almost nearly the same as I had remembered — even in diet. I took a quick look over the can and noticed something that had to be a mistake! A can of soda that has 0 grams of sodium! WTF? Is it really possible to have carbonated and flavored beverages without sodium? This proves it’s true!
I finished, with Kim’s small help, the sixer by 9 PM on Thursday. By 5pm on Friday, I had bought Cub out of dolphin-killing six-packs and had a stocked fridge full of these tasty drinks.
I talked to my mom on Friday and asked if she could round up any Crystal created Diet Swiss Creme for me for our trip out there this December. It’ll be a long time w/o my favorites available here in MN if I can’t get my hands on them although this particular version is produced under the authority of the Dr Pepper/Seven Up bottling group, so it might be possible for me to nab some out there as well.
Since I haven’t had a beer in just under 90 days and while Yuengling is readily available in PA I probably won’t be consuming the usual amount I normally do to make up for their stupid decision not to ship it here (are you listening you assholes?) so I have to come up with a suitable replacement :)
The next time you’re in Cub, leave that dolphin-killing sixer of Diet Swiss Creme on the shelf and I’ll be happy to swoop in and make room for it in my own fridge. Trust me, you’ll be better off with beer :)
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