I was thinking about long lost loves the other day.

And I walked into a grocery store – and from half a store away, I saw a familiar profile – one I’d not seen for…years?  Decades?  A generation?

I walked over there, telling myself “there’s just no way”, setting expectations nice and low.

But is was true; it was that long-lost love.  I figured as I walked across the store that it was just a trick of distance and years, but as I got where I was going, I could see that the years had changed nothing.  Just as beautiful as ever.

Nesbitt’s Orange Soda is back:

I haven’t seen Nesbitt’s on sale in over 30 years.  It was the taste of my teens; going to the pop machine at the M and H station to buy cans of Nesbitt’s for a quarter.  The soda was a light, crisp, naturally-flavored concoction that was infinitely better-tasting than any other orange pop.  Forget Fanta; club Crush; especially be rid of “Minute Maid”, the brand that the Coca Cola Company replaced Nesbitts with.  Sickeningly sweet, it was an abomimation…

…especially against the dry, sweet perfection of Nesbitt’s.

I thought “certainly this is just a baby-boomer stunt; they must have some generic orange swill poured into a bottle with a Nesbitt’s label.

Nope.  Cane sugar, natural flavor. At least the label read right (and yes, I did remember the key parts of the label from when I was a kid)

I bought three.  I drank one.

Precisely the same.

My daughter – who doesn’t like orange pop – had one too.  “This is the bomb”.  That means its good…

It’s more than the bomb.  It’s like finding the first love of your life, thirty years later – and it’s even better than it was back then.

Mmm.

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