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generally recommending this for those everyday moments when you just need to sit back on a mid-summer afternoon and are desperate for something to drink,
lingering alone at a small lakeside park and anticipating your senior year of high school, lonely after your day camp counselor summer job ended for the day and you have no one to hang with
though normally you'd hang out with your girlfriend, the first real love of your life, but she left you, because your best friend who was gone as an exchange student came back six weeks ago and felt betrayed that you dated the girl he liked in his absence, but what could you do, she was there and he was not—there was no pledge in any direction—what started with you taking a female friend to movie became also going to Taco Bell, then a bookstore, then another dinner, nine hours together, and you'd discovered something amazing, a gorgeous four months of delight and affection
but now she was confused, uncertain, and you were feeling insecure about this new instability that your best buddy had created by returning and your insecurity and grasping pushed her away and she linked up with him, just for a week, but it ruined things for the two of you, and you had no one laugh with, there you were alone, shivering even though it was warm and sunny, chilly with unease
and in moments like those a can of mountain dew will really hit the spot — recommended!
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thanks to @CORDUROY for the inspiration!
Mar 14, 2025
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🐊I can't think about the dark purple grape flavor of Gatorade without thinking of the time my roommate trekked to target at 10pm just to get some for her boyfriend who was sick at the time.
I have a friend who would treat herself with a yellow gatorade every so often from our dorm's vending machine. Her favorite was the cucumber lime one though, something we disagree with as I can't stand the taste.
I remember kids on the football team drinking out of the Gatorade water bottles, the ones that everyone jokes about being a nipple, making dolphin noises as they tip the cup up.
I remember asking my friend what flavor she wanted and she responded "what do you mean flavors? just grab me the light blue" because ig sometimes it doesn't taste like glacier whatever the fuck or anything it just tastes blue.
In my childhood I would always ask for the red gatorade whenever my mother wanted my electrolytes up. it tastes like comfort and of her murmuring to "not drink so fast i dont want you vomiting red on the carpet it won't come out". I didn't vomit and this whole thing isnt exactly poetry but nonetheless that is a memory that won't come out. all of this knowledge stained alongside the simple association with a sports energy drink.
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💧Hello lovely people, this is not a recommendation in regular sense, but more so an excuse to ramble about sparkling water.
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I don’t like sparkling water. Yet here I am, with a shiny green can of Lime LaCroix perched on a feminist poetry book beside me. “Why?” You ask. Because everyone in my family drinks it, and I on the rare occasion I cannot be bothered to fill up a glass, if nothing else graces the fridge, a sparkling water is what I’ll take.
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I confess, I actually am a fan of many flavors of Waterloo. I don’t drink or like soda much, but it reminds me the most of a soda, it tastes the least like the spicy medicinal whizz that is LaCroix. Bubly is somewhere in the middle, the carbonation levels are alright, but the flavors are here and there. Bonus points for the pronunciation of the name though.
I got sidetracked, but my story continues. I drank at least one every day or two, which (paired with a brief year-long stint in North Africa) led to the unfortunate accident of my family being convinced I enjoyed bubbly beverages large and small. So for my birthday, a sparkling water machine it was.
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Now, here I am with this device. A soda stream capable of (what seems to me) industrial level carbonation. Do I love carbonated beverages? Not quite. Will I become a connoisseur just for the bit of it? Absolutely.
Sprinkle recommendations for things I should bubble in the comments and report back I will.
See you again soon lovely people.
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I don’t like sparkling water. Yet here I am, with a shiny green can of Lime LaCroix perched on a feminist poetry book beside me. “Why?” You ask. Because everyone in my family drinks it, and I on the rare occasion I cannot be bothered to fill up a glass, if nothing else graces the fridge, a sparkling water is what I’ll take.
—
I confess, I actually am a fan of many flavors of Waterloo. I don’t drink or like soda much, but it reminds me the most of a soda, it tastes the least like the spicy medicinal whizz that is LaCroix. Bubly is somewhere in the middle, the carbonation levels are alright, but the flavors are here and there. Bonus points for the pronunciation of the name though.
I got sidetracked, but my story continues. I drank at least one every day or two, which (paired with a brief year-long stint in North Africa) led to the unfortunate accident of my family being convinced I enjoyed bubbly beverages large and small. So for my birthday, a sparkling water machine it was.
—
Now, here I am with this device. A soda stream capable of (what seems to me) industrial level carbonation. Do I love carbonated beverages? Not quite. Will I become a connoisseur just for the bit of it? Absolutely.
Sprinkle recommendations for things I should bubble in the comments and report back I will.
See you again soon lovely people.
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