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Sunday, January 10th, 2010 09:06 pmI'm tasting a bottle of Swedish "Christmas Soda", Julmust, which I bought at World Market. The flavor is interesting - it tastes a bit like red wine to me (I don't like wine), but pleasant - slightly sweet and spicy instead of sour, slightly bitter, and without an alcoholic taste. It is less sweet than regular soda. The label says it has only 9g sugars per 8 fluid ounces, but 22g carbohydrates. Can that be true? What would the non-sugar carbohydrates be? The ingredients are: carbonated water, sugar, natural color (caramel), natural hops flavours, natural malt flavours (produced from barley), citric acid, flavours (natural and artificial), preservatives (sodium benzoate).
I like cola better, but this is quite drinkable too.
Oh! And it foams like beer when you pour it in a glass!
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Another drink I got at World Market is "Glögg". You're supposed to mix it half and half with either water, or water and vodka, rum, or red wine, and heat it. I mixed it with hot water. It tastes like the German Glühwein to me. Unfortunatly, one of the evenings I was drinking it, my throat started feeling scratchy and I ended up coming down with a sore throat and then a cold. So now my mind correlates the drink with unpleasantness, even though the drink most likely had nothing to do with it.
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I bought myself a Flossgrip floss holder, as I was getting bothered by having floss wrapped around my fingers, cutting into my skin and fingernails whenever I flossed. The flossgrip is great! You can use your own floss with it, and it reduces the amount of floss you need. You can floss with one hand!
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At Halloween-time, I bought a short string of purple solar-powered LED mini-lights at Target (similar to these). I've got them wrapped around a tree branch near my house door, with the solar panel/battery in a nearby hanging basket.
I also bought a crackled glass ball on a spike, with solar-powered LEDs in the glass ball (similar to this). It has multiple colors and cycles through them. It starts shining when it gets dark in the evening and stays lit for a few hours - it only has a double-AA size rechargeable battery in it, charged by a small solar panel. The purple lights have a larger battery and solar panel and stay lit for longer. They are both very pretty and neat.
I like cola better, but this is quite drinkable too.
Oh! And it foams like beer when you pour it in a glass!
.
Another drink I got at World Market is "Glögg". You're supposed to mix it half and half with either water, or water and vodka, rum, or red wine, and heat it. I mixed it with hot water. It tastes like the German Glühwein to me. Unfortunatly, one of the evenings I was drinking it, my throat started feeling scratchy and I ended up coming down with a sore throat and then a cold. So now my mind correlates the drink with unpleasantness, even though the drink most likely had nothing to do with it.
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I bought myself a Flossgrip floss holder, as I was getting bothered by having floss wrapped around my fingers, cutting into my skin and fingernails whenever I flossed. The flossgrip is great! You can use your own floss with it, and it reduces the amount of floss you need. You can floss with one hand!
.
At Halloween-time, I bought a short string of purple solar-powered LED mini-lights at Target (similar to these). I've got them wrapped around a tree branch near my house door, with the solar panel/battery in a nearby hanging basket.
I also bought a crackled glass ball on a spike, with solar-powered LEDs in the glass ball (similar to this). It has multiple colors and cycles through them. It starts shining when it gets dark in the evening and stays lit for a few hours - it only has a double-AA size rechargeable battery in it, charged by a small solar panel. The purple lights have a larger battery and solar panel and stay lit for longer. They are both very pretty and neat.