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[linnea]

2oz. of The Captain
1/2 the juice of a lime
Over ice, to the top with RC.

This is what I plan, and JL is right.

Fuck if I care if it's silly, I'm drinking.

A lady that I worked with in AK was craaaaazy about the RC Cola. She was from Indiana and was pissed that it was so hard to find. Whenever our grocery store would get some in, she and her husband would buy the entire lot.

Another friend of mine claims that Coca-Cola from Mexico is infinitely superior to the stuff we have here in the US, because when it's Hecho en Mexico they use sugar instead of corn syrup. I bought some Mexican cokes at the grocery store for him and I, so I'm going to nip downstairs and see if it's as good as he claims.

[theinevitable]

1. they have RC cola all over the place here
2. the mexican coke is like cheerwine in glass bottles, in that they both have real sugar (cheerwine in a bottle has actual cane sugar). I drank one once, and now I can never drink the usual stuff. I am not sure why my brain is dying, but I couldn't figure out how to state that first sentence
3. Mint Juleps FTW! (fuck the world, not "for the win")

[Nabubrush]

Man, could I ever go for a mojito right now.  Lime + sugar + mint = DELICIOUS

Recipe Link

Is there a way to make one without booze?  Maybe just add extra club soda? 

You can also make them with Sprite instead of club soda if you leave out the sugar.  Not ideal, but it will work in a pinch. 

Why would anyone try to find out?

[CortJstr]

I used to like RC when I was little, but they quality control at the local bottling plant was piss poor so you had about a 30% chance of ending up with mis-labeled diet RC instead. Lame.

With they ever invent a fake sugar that doesn't have an aftertaste like licking a monkey's ass?

[Lister]

Cola made with real sugar is *always* better than cola made with corn syrup.  It has a different texture, even.  Every now and then I consider importing a batch of real-sugar Dr. Pepper from this place, but then I remember they charge twenty of your earth dollars to ship the stuff.  So I just go to the barbecue place by work which imports it.  Glass bottles, party people.

Today I'm going to not go to the Comic Con because the mere thought of trying to handle the traffic/parking/crowds/hygiene situation gives me the creeps.  My company is having a fan event at our offices, but it may have many of the same pitfalls so I'm probably not going to that either.

[linnea]

I used to like RC when I was little, but they quality control at the local bottling plant was piss poor so you had about a 30% chance of ending up with mis-labeled diet RC instead. Lame.

With they ever invent a fake sugar that doesn't have an aftertaste like licking a monkey's ass?

I drink diet soda, mostly Diet Dr. Pepper and Diet Pepsi Max, because if I'm going to spend 140 calories on a drink, then that drink is damn well gonna be beer. I try to limit myself to one soda a day, since aspartame or sucralose is probably going to kill me in some horrible way that hasn't been discovered yet.

[wombat]

They make Coke with real sugar for passover - look for the yellow bottle cap.  We found a couple of bottles of it this year.  It has the useful effect of making me think it's not worth drinking soda the rest of the year.

But you know, there are a million Latino markets around here that might import it from Mexico... Oh dear. Let's pretend I never had that thought.

And as a matter of fact, they have lately found that diet soda is just as bad for you as real soda in some ways:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070724/ap_on_he_me/diet_soda_heart_risks_13

[Limmo]

twenty of your earth dollars 

Canned for my creating my new temporary favorite term, "earth dollars."

[jay-ell]

Why would anyone try to find out [how to make a mojito without booze]?

Because I really want a mojito, but not badly enough to risk damaging the brain of my unborn child? 

I know one drink isn't going to make the baby grow horns or anything, but I felt weird drinking a sip of champagne at my sister-in-law's wedding tonight.  Plus, pregnancy makes me super-sensitive to taste and smell, and the mere aroma of hard liquor lately is enough to make me gag. 

I suppose, however, that there are some things in life that are easier to do without than to try to find a reasonable substitute.  Like real mashed potatoes.  I love them, but I'd rather have none than end up with a mouthful of instant. 

[Nabubrush]

Well, you already have one, right?

The thing is, virgin drinks just never measure up. Can't be done. The liquor makes all the difference in the world.

[Arachno-capitalist]

add sugar and ginger ale in place of the rum.

[linnea]

Because I really want a mojito, but not badly enough to risk damaging the brain of my unborn child? 

I know one drink isn't going to make the baby grow horns or anything, but I felt weird drinking a sip of champagne at my sister-in-law's wedding tonight.  Plus, pregnancy makes me super-sensitive to taste and smell, and the mere aroma of hard liquor lately is enough to make me gag. 

I suppose, however, that there are some things in life that are easier to do without than to try to find a reasonable substitute.  Like real mashed potatoes.  I love them, but I'd rather have none than end up with a mouthful of instant. 

I completely forgot that you were pregnant. I was like, "Why would she wanna make a virgin mojito? Those would totally suck." Nabu is right that the virgin drinks don't measure up.

[AugustWest]

... my unborn child? 

Wait, did we know about this?

Stupid short-term memory loss.

[wombat]

Nabu is right that the virgin drinks don't measure up.

Right. This is why I said that a mint limeade is good but don't compare it to a mojito. It's not fair to the limeade, which is a good thing on its own but different.  Limeade with ginger juice added is excellent also.

Unfortunately there are many reasons a person might have to pass on alcohol temporarily or long term, and why is it so hard to get anything else good to drink? It's frustrating to be in a restaurant that can make ten million different alcoholic drinks, but otherwise all you can get is Pepsi or something nasty like that. (Or to be at home and find that we have twenty kinds of wine, beer, sake and hard liquor and somehow have neglected to buy anything interesting that's non-alcoholic.)

Some brewpubs make their own root beer. That's a nice thing. If nothing else, cranberry juice with seltzer and a slice of lime is something any bar can do.

I was at some kind of fusion Latin American place a few weeks ago in Brooklyn that had a long list of fruit drinks, takeoffs on those Mexican fruit juices and different kinds of mixed drinks.  Why don't more places make an effort?  It would sure make more money for them than if I - and all those pregnant ladies - drink tap water.

[Nabubrush]

Hey there, that's my raison d'être you're stepping on.