We hit the Store and hilarity ensues.

As a surprise, I turned my Bride loose in M and M World.  After that it was, “Let’s do Coke”.  I was hoping to visit the Coke museum but was informed by the manager that it had been taken down THIRTEEN YEARS AGO.  We don’t get to the strip much.  I “glamored” him with the “WE JUST GOT MARRIED” and he fessed up an order of “Tastes OF the World” on the house.

Tastes of the World

Back in the Day [ed note: Read- When the MUSEUM WAS OPEN], TOTW shot out from the wall in arcing fountains of ten and twenty feet.   All of the products that are sold around the World.  You placed your cup in the stream and took a taste.  For the feeble hearted, there were your conventional soda machines banked along the wall as well.

Nowadays, “Tastes” come on a tray.  Two trays actually.

 

THE TASTE TEST

TRAY ONE

1. INCA COLA- PERU     Andy: “Good”. Jamie: “Good”. Rosie: “Tastes like bananas.”    Walt: “Yeah, bananas.”

2. SUNFILL BLACKCURRENT- MAURITIUS  Andy: “WTF?”. Jamie: “Tastes like cranberries”. Rosie: “Tastes like soda water.”    Walt: “Yeah, cranberries.”

3. STONEY TANGAWIZI- TANZANIA  Andy: “Tastes like Sprite”. Jamie: “Sprite”. Rosie: “Tastes like Lime-Ade.”    Walt: “Tastes like Sprite with wood in it.”

4. FANTA MAGIC- ESTONIA   Andy: “Blackberries.”. Jamie: “Yep, blackberries”. Rosie: “Tastes like pomegranate.”    Walt: “Tastes like Gluwein from Germany.”

5. VEGITABETA- JAPAN   Andy: “Oranges.”. Jamie: “Orange”. Rosie: “Flat Orange Soda.”    Walt: “Tastes like dish water.”

6. SPARLETTA  SPARBERRY- ZIMBABWE  Andy: “Bland.”. Jamie: “Strawberry”. Rosie: “Raspberry.”    Walt: “Strawberry.”

7. SMART WATERMELON- CHINA  Andy: “WATERMELON.”. Jamie: “WATERMELON”. Rosie: “WATERMELON.”    Walt: “WATERMELON.”

8. KINLEY LEMON- ENGLAND  Andy: “Really sour lemonade.”. Jamie: “Lemon”. Rosie: “Lemonade.”    Walt: “Tastes like shit.”

TRAY TWO

 

1. LIFT MANZANA- MEXICO     Andy: “Tastes like Grape Kool Aid”. Jamie: “Mild Blackberry”. Rosie: “Tastes like blackberry.”    Walt: “Yeah, blackberry.”

2. FANTA KOLITA- COSTA RICA   Andy: “Club Soda”. Jamie: “Club Soda”. Rosie: “Tastes like cough syrup.”    Walt: “Yeah, cough syrup.”

3. BIBO PINENUT  Andy: “Pineapple”. Jamie: “Peach”. Rosie: “Tastes like a pineapple.”    Walt: “Tastes like SOAP.”

4. CIEL AQUARIUS- MEXICO   Andy: “A hint of fruit.”. Jamie: “Yep,Fruit”. Rosie: “Tastes like grapes.”    Walt: “Tastes like dirty dish water.”

5. SUNFILL MINT- DJIBOUTI    Andy: “Tastes like bubblegum.”. Jamie: “Minty”. Rosie: “Tastes like mint tea.”    Walt: “Tastes like Scope mouthwash.”

6.  SMART APPLE- CHINA    Andy: “Tastes like SOUR APPLE.”. Jamie: “Sour apple”. Rosie: “Tastes GREAT!!”    Walt: “ACKKK!!!!:(.”

7.  BEVERLY-ITLAY    Andy: “Taste like TURPENTINE!!!”. Jamie: “GAK!!!”. Rosie: “Tastes LIKE TURPENTINE!!”    Walt: “PAINT TASTES BETTER!!!!”

8.  BIBO  KIWI MANGO- SOUTH AFRICA    Andy: “Taste like a bad orange”. Jamie: “Flat Kiwi”. Rosie: “Tastes like Kiwi.”    Walt: “Peach.”