Thursday, February 17, 2005
When Your Salad is Soda
Sometimes new food preparations are adventures, sometimes they are just wrong. OK, mostly by "new" I mean borrowed from another culture that has been doing it for hundreds of years. Sure, Asian foods are easy targets, but consider the turducken: An innovative new millennium way to enjoy three family style roast birds without all the dishes? Or, rather, a depraved homage to Medieval days when larvae was a good thing and the royal chef's greatest challenge was how to cook things so as to make them look like something else? Oh, how far we've come.
Anyway, I had an adventure today, and it was cucumber soda. It was fabulous!
I am sure it is common somewhere, but it was the first time I had tried it. Even though I have had the V8 carrot-orange atrocity and the vaguely brothy Salad Water by Coca Cola Japan, this was new to me. I’m not sure it would be good everywhere, but it seems that they make it fresh at the Long Life Noodle place at the Metreon in San Francisco.
Do not even ask me why I was eating at a food court—but I will tell you the surprise of delightful vegetable soda was even more wonderful considering my low expectations. Further distractions from the McAtmosphere: the black and white photos of 1920’s Chinese people getting high in opium dens. I have some re-education for whoever thought that was a good idea.
Anyway, I had an adventure today, and it was cucumber soda. It was fabulous!
I am sure it is common somewhere, but it was the first time I had tried it. Even though I have had the V8 carrot-orange atrocity and the vaguely brothy Salad Water by Coca Cola Japan, this was new to me. I’m not sure it would be good everywhere, but it seems that they make it fresh at the Long Life Noodle place at the Metreon in San Francisco.
Do not even ask me why I was eating at a food court—but I will tell you the surprise of delightful vegetable soda was even more wonderful considering my low expectations. Further distractions from the McAtmosphere: the black and white photos of 1920’s Chinese people getting high in opium dens. I have some re-education for whoever thought that was a good idea.
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