More imported sugary (well, corn syrupy) goodness

[slycat]

Today at work, we took receipt of an order from American Soda which was made up of 24 bottles of (German) Jolt Cola, 12 bottles of Vault, 24 bottles of Sioux City Sarsaparilla and of course 24 bottles of Root Beer, also by Sioux City.  Only 12 bottles of the root beer and sarsaparilla and the 12 bottles of Vault were mine as it was an order for a couple of us in the office :).

The Sarsaparilla tastes suprisingly like root beer in my opinion, but still distinctly different from the root beer fo the same brand.  Both are quite delicious... tough to call it but may just be second place to IBC in my opinion.  The Vault drink was pretty nice.  I got it because I remeber having a drink called Surge back in 2002 when I was in the states which later got discontinued.  However, Vault is effectively the new version of Surge and I think it even tastes better than the original did.  However, it also has a very high caffiene content, and so I was kinda hyper after finishing a bottle.  Although this could have been due to the sheer amount of sugar consumed in the day :P.

Comments

[m-tiger.livejournal.com]

I love Vault. This past week and this, tthere's a 10 for $10 sale on Coke products at a store near where I work ($1 a 2-liter bottle!), so I've been downing a bottle of Vault each day during lunch. :P

[slycat.livejournal.com]

That's pretty impressive when effectively I'm paying ~$3 (inc taxes) per 20oz bottle...

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

You can get a UK version of Saspirilla in various places in Yorkshire and Lancashire. It's really nice and not disimilar to dandelion and burdock :)

[slycat.livejournal.com]

I've had Bundaberg's Australian Root Beer (on sale in Waitrose) which tastes more like sarsaparilla apparantly. Not seen any stuff actually sold as sarsaparilla tho.

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

My late great uncle introduced me to the drink when I visited him in Lancashire :)

I remember that you could buy root beer in Mcdonalds at one point ;)

[slycat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, apparantly so, however I'm too young to remember that it seems :)

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I never tried it as I thought that it was beer made out of roots...

[slycat.livejournal.com]

Well if you like sarsaparilla, you should like root beer. Next time you're in London, pick up a bottle from CyberCandy :)

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I have had it post-Mcdonalds and enjoyed it. I'll get some next time I go to CC :)

Pawnote: Does anyones else remember a Russian soft drink called 'Meer' that was available here for a short while in the late 1980s? It tasted a bit like Benedictine spirit :)