Subject: Well, yes, there's a chemical cause...
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Posted on: 2014-01-09 01:02:00 UTC
But why would you put ammonium ferric chlorate (the source of the name, and the original source of the bright orange coloration) into something you would drink?
Answer: because you are not a GREETIN' WEE SPINE-VACUUM WI' THA BALLS AE A NEWBORN BAIRN!
Have you ever heard of Mountain Dew Cheetos?
http://consumerist.com/2014/01/06/mountain-dew-cheetos-are-now-a-reality-in-japan/
The world would be a lot less awsome (and weird) without Japan.
Mountain Dew Cheetos? Seriously? I've seen some weird food, but this takes the bacon-flavored cake. I… I'm at a loss for what to say.
Huh.
Like yogurt or watermelon flavoured Pepsi. No, really.
Not sure how good it would taste in practice, but...it seems like it would have possibilities.
~DF
For example, here in Italy we have cedrata and chinotto - the first is citron flavoured while the latter uses the fruits of the myrtle-leaved orange tree, leading to a taste somehow reminishing of colas but bitter.
Both are kinda good, although I'm afraid both are rather hard to find out of Italy.
Hell, cedrata is hard to find even here...
EUCH! I tried some Italian soda (proper Italian soda, mind you, not that flavored club soda we Americans make in their name) and it was bitter as all heck. Not to hate on your home tastes Sergio, but man that stuff was nasty! If other people like it, good for them, but I will be staying well away from it.
Now, Israeli soda made with honey? That's some good soda! What I had was kinda like Sprite, but much better. The Chinese stuff was not too bad either.
And that's why I prefer cedrata. Its taste is a lot sweeter.
Problem is, only Tassoni, Spumador and maybe a couple more small companies make it.
(To the point that the only one making TV and radio ads, Tassoni, uses exactly the same ad since 1982! Quite jarring on television, since the video and audio quality improved a lot in the last 30 years...)
Feh. I spit upon your pathetic sodas.
Real warriors need only Irn-Bru.
It is bright orange.
No-one knows why.
So maybe the bright orange color was linked to that, related to the orange colors of rust and other ferrous materials. Wait, no, that would explain the name in relation to the drink, and not why the drink itself was orange originally.
(after further searching) Oh. Synthetic colorings of "Sunset Yellow FCF" and "Ponceau 4R" combine to make the drink's orange color. Well, that was anti-climactic.
...
SCIENCE!
But why would you put ammonium ferric chlorate (the source of the name, and the original source of the bright orange coloration) into something you would drink?
Answer: because you are not a GREETIN' WEE SPINE-VACUUM WI' THA BALLS AE A NEWBORN BAIRN!
I clearly have much to learn in the ways of slang. I assume "spine-vacuum" would be roughly synonymous with the term "wimp", due to the typical use of the spine metaphorically to describe one's confidence and gusto, but the word "greeting" used as a derogatory adjective and the comparison of someone to a "newborn barn" are alien to me. Maybe "bairn" would have meant a different word once translated out of Over-the-Top Scottish Accent, but I'm not sure. Elaborate?
To greet - to cry, usually in a childish manner.
Bairn - infant.
I'm sort of glad that my reply to your welcome thread was never posted now, because my usual welcome-thread post title of "Greetings and bienvenue!" would have mixed poorly with the "greeting" slang term. I wouldn't want to imply you were crying childishly.
Chances are you're not Scottish, and it'd have a completely different context. No confusion on my end, I assure you.
Morbidly curious as to how they taste. My curiosity will be the death of me, I'm sure.
I feel they'd kill me if I tried them.
I need to get some of that stuff.
Sounds tasty.