December 4, 2007

Orange

I like this orange colored font on this blog or other blogs, because when I look at it, it reminds me of orange juice. When it comes down to it, I think that Orange Juice might be pound for pound the best drink on the planet. It's healthy, it tastes great, it mixes well with other drinks like cranberry or pineapple, it mixes well with alcohol. Orange juice is very versatile. it's like the Tom Hanks of drinks.

Inevitably, you're going to have to compare orange juice to other drinks, such as water. Who doesn't like water? Water is also very versatile in that you can use it to bathe, or clean up nasty spills. Water can clean up orange juice! Water can also turn into ice, which makes any drink colder and therefore better (beer excepted). However, by itself, water doesn't taste all that great. It comes cheap, but you have to use a filter to make sure that it doesn't kill you. You can mix things like powdered iced tea or Tang(!) with water, but for the most part water ruins other drinks. Watered down alcohol is not fun, neither is watered down orange juice for that matter.

Milk is good. It's healthy, it mixes well with a lot of things, even alcohol, White Russians are awesome (the drink and the race! Although calling people White Russian is probably an oxymoron. I guess you can say there are Asian Russians but I'm not entirely sure they really exist.). And when chocolate is added to the equation it's a magical experience. Yet, I can't help but think that cream is better tasting, even though it's much not as healthy for you. When I drink coffee, I try to stay with milk, but cream is tempting. Milk and Cream are like good and bad sisters, Milk is nicer, smarter, and has a lot to offer, but cream is a big slut who will probably blow you on the first date. And coffee is the nice gentleman who has to spend the next twenty minutes living with either milk or creme until it ends up entering my digestive tract.

Soda is also highly considered, because it does have the benefit of being the best and easiest combination to alcohol on the planet. but sometimes I don't like the feeling of carbonated drinks. It feels like drinking a firecracker. There's no health benefits to soda whatsoever. Then you get into subcategories like Pepsi or Coke, which is kind of like the milk and cream debate, only instead of sisters, they're brothers. And the only difference is that one brother can kick your ass, and the other brother can kick your ass just as hard.

Then there's Energy Drinks like Red Bull or Monster, which tastes terrible and has no redeeming health value whatsoever, but it can keep you awake if you're driving or have to stay up to study or if you're trying to win a bet to see who can stay up the longest. It mixes well with alcohol, especially Vodka, by masking the bitter taste. But drinking that is basically telling your heart, "Hey, I dare you to jump out of my chest fucker!" It's usually not a good idea, but that really depends on what your stance is on blacking out.

So if I had to rank these drinks, I think it would look like this:

5. Energy Drinks
4. Soda
3. Milk
2. Water
1. Orange Juice

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