Sunday, January 15, 2006

where have i been?! where are you from?!

1) Rootbeer shakes. The flavour is an obvious choice for A&W to serve and yet it seems i didn't know this. I had to order one. Drinking a milkshake while trekking up Cardiac Hill - what a workout. The shake was ok. Actually, it was sort of bitter. In fact, if it wasnt for the novelty of it, i dont think that i would finish drinking it. Give me a shake from White Spot or The Galley (best shakes on east shawnigan lake) any day.

2) Asking for NO SAUCE does not mean that i dont want the lettuce or the tomato. I do. Lettuce is a vegetable. Tomato is a fruit. Neither is a sauce. Geez. Where are you from?!

3) White tea. I have heard of black tea. I have heard of green tea. I have even experienced black & green tea TOGETHER. But white tea? What is that? Why so many funky new things? I'm still trying to figure out what rooibos is. I dont have time to try to decipher the meaning of white tea and where it fits in the grand scheme of things.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

HOW DARE YOU! A&W ROOTBEER MILKSHAKES ARE THE BEST MILKSHAKES THAT HAVE EVER BEEN EVEN CONCEIVED!! THEY MAKE AMBROSIA SEEM LIKE MUD WATER!!! THIS SENTENCE HAS EVEN MORE UNECESSARY EXCLAMATION MARKS!!!!
But maybe you got a bad batch... Or you're in cohoots with the devil.

As for the tomato and lettuce, what did you expect from people who are being under paid?

Never heard of white tea. Have no comment

taryn said...

in calgary they have peter's drive-in and okay okay so a few people have gotten food poisoning from them and it's pretty sketchy and it's nicknamed greasy pete's but seriously, seriously! every flavor of milkshake and the best ones ever.

i was going to talk about tea but my days of tea have kind of passed and i'm not the authority i once was.

RJ said...

White tea come from the Camellia sinensis plant. But the leaves are picked and harvested before the leaves open fully, when the buds are still covered by fine white hair. Hence the name. White tea is scarcer than the other traditional teas, and more expensive. It's similar to green tea, in that it's undergone very little processing and no fermentation. But there is a noticable difference in taste. Most green teas have a distinctive "grassy" taste to them, but white tea doesn't. The flavour is described as light, and sweet.

So I know about tea. What gives? You got a problem with that? Huh? Sucks to anyone who wrongfully accuses me of plagiarism. I'z a University Student. U to the S without the Bush, yo. I be knowin' those rules. Represent.

SMASH said...

Dear Friend of a Friend
please first note that i am currently rebelling against the tyranny of punctuation

if i had something super creative andor clever andor funny andor even mildly interesting to say i really would say it but right now all i can think is that im quite hungry and the stories of A&W despite the trauma that your visit seems to have caused you are not helping with the me not having foodness and thus i depart perhaps at a later time i will have something far more interesting to say
but until then i find your blog vera enjoyable and i look forward to your next installment

peace out homes


ps the question regarding the tea was perhaps rhetorical
either way rj is clearly a prat ;P

punctuation marks dont count when theyre in the form of faces


obviously

JV said...

gareth: i dare because it is MY BLOG. anyone who likes ambrosia clearly has questionable taste.

taryn: mmm greasy pete's. If i ever end up in that evil town of C again, i shall look it up.

RJ: please tell me that you researched that.

pete: thanks for the heads up on that one. any flavour of tetley in particular? i only have earl grey on hand. And i want to get it right because lately i've been thinking i should start my own band. I wanna play the tambourine and sing the do-wahs in the background.

alie: i dont know if i would go so far as to say that he is a prat (that seems rather harsh). However, the image of a nicely-coiffed young university boy possessing great knowledge about tea seems rather pretentious.