Lummox JR wrote:
> Pepsi was always better in glass bottles until those were discontinued.
You just brought back some foul memories for me. A few years ago, I went to Costa Rica. There, the restaurants use glass bottles and recycle them---that is, you order a Pepsi and get a glass bottle of Pepsi that you return to the restaurant afterward for its reuse.
Being outside the US, I imagine they don't use all the high-fructose corn syrup or whatever, but something about their Pepsi tasted not right, among several restaurants. I ended up sticking mostly with [glass-bottled] Fanta and [plastic-bottled] water.
However, I don't know why their Pepsi tasted so foul. Over the summer I caught wind (through my ex-girlfriend's family) of "Pepsi Throwback"---which they had come out with for the healthier alternative which was naturally sweetened instead of using high-fructose corn syrup. That tasted great but, unfortunately, I haven't seen it anywhere recently.
Maybe it was the "rice and bean diet"1 diet that threw the taste off. No idea.
1 Almost all of my meals for the 11 or so days I was in Costa Rica consisted of plain, bland white rice with black beans on top. I do remember one buffet that had some meat selection, and I piled that meat on my plate...but the meat tasted so awful I ended up pushing the plate aside and going back just for rice and beans. There was also one case where we were running late on our tour, so we didn't have time for the rice-and-bean-buffet, and got sandwich baggies. After that half the group seemed to get mild food poisoning. Speaking of which, after I got home I found a Facebook group dedicated entirely to this rice and bean meal selection. |
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