Look, Seanan! We've reprogrammed the world for you!
Batya, Alex and I just made our run to the supermarket to obtain food for tonight and the next morning, as Seanans without food tend to become marginally testy and gnaw on people. ('Hom-i-ci-dal,' chants the Batya, who is reading this over my shoulder. My friends understand the need to keep me fed.)
Because this is me, this was also a run for Diet Dr Pepper, aka 'the elixir of the gods', aka 'that stuff we give Seanan so that she continues to function as a thinking human being, not as an escapee from the Umbrella Corporation testing labs'. Between the three of us, we figured we could carry enough to feed everyone tonight, feed me for a good part of tomorrow, and a twelve-pack of DDP besides. All would be well, and life on this world would could continue as it has.
Alex went one way. Batya went another. I went to the soda aisle, and there I discovered...it.
The holy grail of sodas.
Diet. Cherry. Vanilla. Dr Pepper.
Please pause a moment to contemplate this statement. Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper. How can you come up with anything conceptually cooler than Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper? It can't be done without the addition of blackcurrant syrup. (Diet Blackcurrant Vanilla Dr Pepper is never likely to come about, but if it did...mmmmmmmmmmm, I would die a happy girl.)
I bought a twelve pack of regular, as well as a twelve pack of DCVDP, and brought them both back to the apartment. The flavour is...fascinating. I can't tell whether I like it or not; I need a can fully chilled before I can tell.
Still, I am in awe.
Because this is me, this was also a run for Diet Dr Pepper, aka 'the elixir of the gods', aka 'that stuff we give Seanan so that she continues to function as a thinking human being, not as an escapee from the Umbrella Corporation testing labs'. Between the three of us, we figured we could carry enough to feed everyone tonight, feed me for a good part of tomorrow, and a twelve-pack of DDP besides. All would be well, and life on this world would could continue as it has.
Alex went one way. Batya went another. I went to the soda aisle, and there I discovered...it.
The holy grail of sodas.
Diet. Cherry. Vanilla. Dr Pepper.
Please pause a moment to contemplate this statement. Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper. How can you come up with anything conceptually cooler than Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper? It can't be done without the addition of blackcurrant syrup. (Diet Blackcurrant Vanilla Dr Pepper is never likely to come about, but if it did...mmmmmmmmmmm, I would die a happy girl.)
I bought a twelve pack of regular, as well as a twelve pack of DCVDP, and brought them both back to the apartment. The flavour is...fascinating. I can't tell whether I like it or not; I need a can fully chilled before I can tell.
Still, I am in awe.