Blog Number 184

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

On Saturday I whispered into the daughter's ear that I thought we needed to make a snack run.  I pretended it was a secret and that she was to go put on her shoes and we (just her and I) would leave the apartment and not even tell the wife where we were going.  The wife could tell what I was up to so she played along.  We went to the Tom Thumb grocery store just down the road (our typical snack run destination) and proceeded to look for the desired snacks.

We usually buy a 1/2 gallon (or two) of ice cream, cookies (Oreo knock offs) and some soda.  We buy the same brand of ice cream (Blue Bunny) and the same brand of cookies usually however the brand / flavor of soda differs.  Up until know I had avoided the Tom Thumb branded soft drinks (fear of the unknown).  We opted for vanilla ice cream and (thinking that we could do coke / root beer floats) I took a chance on ye ol' Tom Thumb branded cola and root beer since they were on sale for 80¢ per 2 liter (and I have yet to try an off brand root beer that I did not like).

Wow, words cannot describe how truly awful these products are (but I will try anyway).  They both had a bite right after the swallow.  It almost tasted like pepper or a similar spice.  There was not a lot of sweetness either.  The carbonation was even a little funny (not sure how even to describe it).  Several scoops of ice cream could barely salvage snack time.  Neither of the kids appeared to understand why we would mix these two things polar opposite tastes together and since this was their first "float" experience I may have scarred them for life.  Tonight for dinner I tried some of the cola (sans helado) and wow (again)!  I will chalk the whole incident up to a learning experience.

Well I have just enough time for a quick game of Uno with the kids before bed time.  Until next time...

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon