{"id":47,"date":"2005-01-11T10:32:59","date_gmt":"2005-01-11T15:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stein.everybody.org\/journal\/lemon-lime-soda\/"},"modified":"2013-04-27T14:19:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T18:19:01","slug":"lemon-lime-soda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/lemon-lime-soda\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemon Lime Soda"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve always loved blind taste tests. I’m not sure why. Maybe because it fights the marketing<\/a> that convinces us to buy certain brands. Maybe its just cheap entertainment. In any case, we’ve learned that the best macaroni and cheese from a box is our local grocery store Wegman’s brand. (Take that<\/strong>, Kraft!) And the best orange juice is Minute Maid.<\/p>\n

Our latest taste test was for lemon-lime soda. That unique flavor pioneered by the uncola, 7-Up was copied by the Coca-Cola Company with Sprite, and more recently by PepsiCo with Sierra Mist. Of course, our local Wegmans has their own brand, W-Up.<\/p>\n

Without knowing which clear beverage was which, Tara and I agreed that two of them tasted very similar. When we later revealed their identities, it turned out that we had both selected 7-Up and W-Up as similar. (Judging by the name of the latter, that would seem to have been Danny<\/a>‘s intention.) <\/p>\n

The final results show that we didn’t agree on much more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Jeremy’s Picks<\/th>\n <\/th>\nTara’s Picks<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
W-Up<\/td>\n <\/td>\nSierra Mist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7-Up<\/td>\n <\/td>\nSprite<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sierra Mist<\/td>\n <\/td>\n7-Up<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sprite<\/td>\n <\/td>\nW-Up<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

7-Up and its superior imitation have a sweeter flavor that I like, but apparently isn’t for everyone. I found subject 4 (Sprite) to be tasteless at best and I can’t understand how anyone<\/abbr> would like it.<\/p>\n

So what does this mean for the Stein household? Well, I guess when we’re buying Wegmans macaroni and cheese and we need some lemon-lime soda to go with it, we’ll have to buy two! Or maybe we’ll just get ginger ale instead. Ah, but which brand? We need a taste test!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We tested 4 brands of lemon lime soda to find out who really has the best taste. The results were exciting! (Well, OK, not THAT exciting.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citizen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}