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[Victoria Waterfield]

I mean, I bet we all have moved on from some of our stuff from a decade ago.

(or at least, we should have)

*wears hat for Darlene*

[wombat]

http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/eat-and-drink/articles/portland-soda-works-geeks-out-on-pop-september-2014

[AugustWest]

http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/eat-and-drink/articles/portland-soda-works-geeks-out-on-pop-september-2014

"crafts intricate sarsaparilla- and cola-inspired flavor puzzles"

I am not a violent man, but that description makes me want to punch both Onstad and the pissant who wrote that sentence directly in the throat. 

[wombat]

Yeah yeah but...

Onstad says he turned to soda after years of heavy drinking. But he was soon disappointed in his nonalcoholic beverage options. “I’d be having a $150 dinner and it would be, ‘Do you want milk or Diet RC?’” he remembers. “I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’

This is an actual problem that needs a solution.... or maybe it did a few years ago. Now, restaurants I go to that charge that much usually have bartenders who are willing to make fancy nonalcoholic drinks. Sometimes they'll even have one on the menu. It's easy for them to do now since the trend is to having all kinds of handmade syrups and fresh ingredients like ginger and mint and so on.

[wombat]

I managed to kind of miss the sentence you mention on first reading, this was the one that made me want to punch someone:

Lightly bitter kola nut gets dressed up with spicy lemongrass, holy basil, and cold-press coffee, plus a few “top secret” flourishes.

But that's not the sentence as much as the excruciating trendiness of the actual recipe.

[robocop]

SO and I are planning a Portland trip before the end of the year, and I've already colored my request to tickle my tongue at one of the serving establishments. I do wonder if they'll sell full bottles for keeping, or if it is on tap only.

OT: Also, Hi Everybody! Been lurking in the 4 years since joining TOUAMB and my last posts. Still searching high and low for a copy of the existing cookbook. The PDF is neat, but I wanna feel it in my hands. I think the fact that not a single one has popped up on eBay is a testament to how dear they are held.

[jaydub]

Hi Robocop, welcome to less lurk mode.

[ianmalcolm2]

and i thought i was winning lurk mode.

[pmcd9]

Hey, coming out of the woodwork here. What's up homies!!!

[wombat]

What this board needs is more lurkers who go to Portland and drink soda and report back.

[pmcd9]

What this board needs is more lurkers who go to Portland and drink soda and report back.

Werd!

[wombat]

If you miss those Onstad turns of phrase, couple of these blog posts for his company are entertaining
https://www.popart.com/blog/chris-onstad

However, I happened to find these because he tweeted yesterday about his last day of work, so I guess there won't be any more?

(I didn't know where to put this, so I put it here in case he's going in for soda full time.)

[Arachno-capitalist]

If you miss those Onstad turns of phrase, couple of these blog posts for his company are entertaining
https://www.popart.com/blog/chris-onstad

So does this mean I can hire him to print a cookbook? I wonder what the going rate is. I got my pdf printed at Staples for a couple dollars, but that is a sorry excuse.

[wombat]

That man is on some kind of caffeine infused butterfly trail. He's jumping more than a cricket on a hot-plate. That man is wearing himself some eldritch-cursed dancing shoes. Even when he sticks himself in one place he vibrates at the frequency of cats and dogs.

None of this is necessarily a bad thing.

thank goodness because I thought you were describing me.