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<\/p>\nI was thinking about long lost loves the other day.<\/p>\n
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? \u00a0Decades? \u00a0A generation?<\/p>\n
I walked over there, telling myself “there’s just no way”, setting expectations nice and low.<\/p>\n
But is was true; it was that long-lost love. \u00a0I 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. \u00a0Just as beautiful as ever.<\/p>\n
Nesbitt’s Orange Soda is back:<\/p>\n
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I haven’t seen Nesbitt’s on sale in over 30 years. \u00a0It 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. \u00a0The soda was a light, crisp, naturally-flavored concoction that was infinitely better-tasting than any other orange pop. \u00a0Forget Fanta; club Crush; especially be rid of “Minute Maid”, the brand that the Coca Cola Company replaced Nesbitts with. \u00a0Sickeningly sweet, it was an abomimation…<\/p>\n
…especially against the dry, sweet perfection of Nesbitt’s.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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Nope.\u00a0 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)<\/p>\n
I bought three.\u00a0 I drank one.<\/p>\n
Precisely the same.<\/p>\n
My daughter – who doesn’t like orange pop – had one too.\u00a0 “This is the bomb”.\u00a0 That means its good…<\/p>\n
It’s more than the bomb.\u00a0 It’s like finding the first love of your life, thirty years later – and it’s even better than it was back then.<\/p>\n
Mmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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