Old Scratch wrote:
"Oh yah?
What about ""Rivets"", a soft drink with REAL RUST in it!
Brought to you by: Scotland! Leave it to the Scots, eh?
Now... I don't know how authentic or popular this ""drink"" is, or even if they're still making it... but there were barrels of the stuff at a Scottish festival I attended a few years back.
Being of Scottish descent myself, I just had to buy one and drink it. I felt morally obligated.
Well, let me tell you... it was... AWFUL.
But I felt so much closer to my ancestors, it was worth it. And the EMT who came with the ambulance... she was real pretty, so that was nice too.
Okay, no. There was no ambulance involved, really. But it did actually have ""iron oxide"" in the ingredients list. I'm not kidding.
Can anyone verify that this substance still exists?
-- Scratch
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""We do disagreeable things so that ordinary people here and elsewhere can sleep safely in their beds at night. Is that too romantic? Of course, we occasionally do very wicked things.""
- John LeCarre, ""The Spy Who Came in from the Cold"""
