I'd rather be drinking.

[mmymoon]

I have come across not one, but TWO strange beverage-related instances today!


Item the First:
Bigelow Tea "Calm-a-Sutra" Scholarship

I'm turning into an old lady prude, but I find there something... inherently unnerving combining the words "scholarship" with ANY version of Kama Sutra, even a supposedly clever pun/play on words that has nothing to do with, you know, graphic sexual positions. I mean, it could be an adult scholarship, but still... it kind of gives me the creeps...


Oh well, at least most of their teas are gluten free... wait, what? (Thank god I'm really not very fond of flavored teas, so I won't be too sad to miss "Thanksgiving Stuffing Spice" limited edition tea.)



Item the Second:
Dungeons and Dragons Jones Soda

And I continue to be a bad mean not-cool-enough geek, because all I think when I see the D&D Jones Soda is "Hmph, we're COOL OLD-SCHOOL geeks, not like those MTN DEW drinking WoW-tie-in losers. We have handmade artisan sodas that taste like pretension and social isolation. We drink them while playing ON A TABLE-TOP."


Amusing Aside:
Does... anyone know which "side" of Mountain Dew won? (I doubt they'll actually announce anything, like all promotional "competitions" that ultimately end in stalemate.) Not that I'm biased or anything -- FOR THE HORDE -- but quite frankly, that red-orange Horde stuff was delicious and wonderful, while the nasty blue Alliance stuff...

Well..

Let's just say that if you have to throw up after drinking Blue Mountain Dew, it's a rather inhuman experience.


EDIT:

V:TM SODA TASTES LIKE ABSINTHE, CLOVE, AND TEARS

Comments

[sinderellah.livejournal.com]

There was a promo thing at work called "Saving Lives Takes Balls" whereby we gave out doggie Kong balls for donations. Somehow this also promoted spaying/neutering, while attempting to be humorous but also offending people.

[blackravenwyrd.livejournal.com]

I know that in Japan you could buy FF Potion drinks.
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Potion_(Energy_Drink)

Sadly this would never sell well here in the states XD

[twotone]

I suspect the Alliance won. :/ I *think* Alliance players outnumber the Horde.

On the other hand, there were way more Horde cakes on Cake Wrecks' WoW Sunday Sweets (ie pretty cakes), so maybe not...?

[dollsahoy.livejournal.com]

Any respect I may have had for Mountain Dew *snerk* evaporated years ago when I found a Mountain Dew bottle from the 1970s. The graphics involved a hillbilly and a pig and possibly an outhouse. Dude, extreme.

[mythosidhe.livejournal.com]

Hahahahaha, seriously? Please tell me you have photographic evidence posted somewhere...

[dollsahoy.livejournal.com]

If I still have the bottle, it's at my Dad's house two states away, but I found this: http://www.goantiques.com/scripts/images,id,1867062.html#image2

[mmymoon.livejournal.com]

Um... guys... what did you think "Mountain Dew" uh, WAS? Traditionally. There's a reason there's a hillbilly on it...

Phft, though, I don't generally have respect for sodas -- the nineties and EXTREMENESS would be more destructive than hillbillies, for me, and MTN is NOT THE ABBREVIATION FOR MOUNTAIN ANYWAY -- but I thought the WoW thing was kind of cute. "Okay, we admit it: Radical sports kids don't actually drink this. People who sit on their computers do. FOR THE HORDE!"

[mythosidhe.livejournal.com]

Oh lord, that D&D soda is the most hilarious thing ever. I might have to buy some for Gil for his birthday....