True story. When my brother and I were kids, we could not have dinner without soda. (For purposes of personal privacy and complete avoidance of free advertising I will not cite specific product names, but if you ever happen to visit Atlanta, and some random marketer tells you to smile, you'll have a pretty good idea of the soft drink that caused a weekly dent in my mother's budget and left me with dentures at the ripe old age of eleven.) To repeat: we could not have dinner without a glass of soda; indeed, the cruel parents of friends would tell us, and thank goodness for the genetic lottery for having cast me (like Prince Charles) into the right family, that if we were their children our soda quota would be limited to one six-pack per week. Oh, the humanity.
Today, soda is a rare, rare indulgence -- provided the ingredients include cane sugar. Which is to say, life would have been much better if two things had existed, circa 1978: 1. anti-lock brakes for my Big Wheel and 2. cases of POM Wonderful Tea. Alas, both were mere dreams for some glorious future. Well, the future is now . . . and I LOVE this tea! Cheers
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