Never drinking pop again.
So, this week I’ve been much quiet, mostly because I promised T that with the vacation would come the locking up of the laptops. Well… I locked up the two work ones (yes, I rotate between three laptops. Very confusing.), and I’ve been poking my head into this one just to stay on top of email, but for the most part, I’ve been using it as a very expensive MP3 player. 
But, I made a discovery today that I had to share. In the past year, I’ve pretty much given up all drinks other than water. I used to drink a lot of milk and juice, but I gave up milk over the summer and haven’t really had much desire to go back to it, and I found out that some juices have more sugar than a chocolate bar, and quite frankly, I’d rather the chocolate. That being said, over the holidays, my eating habits went all to hell, and I enjoyed a few too many extra value meals at, well, all of the fast food joints in the ‘hood. I’ve never liked colas, so I’ve always stuck to the sweet, fruit-flavoured drinks (orange, lemon-lime). One of these orange drinks didn’t get finished and sat on my bathroom counter for a few days. (Please don’t ask why I had a drink in the bathroom. It’s gross and I think that it found its way into the bathroom is probably why I never finished it.) It turns out, if you leave one of those cardboard-wax cups full of liquid for a few days, they leak. Badly. So, my bathroom counter had orange stains all over it. A lovely complement to the entire bottle of Benetint I also spilled on the same counter. (dammit!)
So today, I went in, armed with my Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, a truly wonderful product for klutzes like me, and scrubbed away. The Benetint – a product made specifically to stain – came off immediately. The orange pop? Not so much. I scrubbed my way through almost the entire Magic Eraser, and the stain lingers. Faintly, but it’s still there. Now, if that stuff will leave that kind of stain on my extremely old and ugly laminate countertop, what the heck is it doing to my insides? I don’t even want to think of it. But I’m pretty sure that will be my last orange pop.
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Oh, it’s the dreaded orange food dye. It’s rather like the dreaded red food dye. Pure evil. One night, just after Timmy’s came out with the cappacinos, hubby and I got one of each flavour, at that time French Vanilla and English Toffee and found them very incredibly sweet. He is diabetic and had no business drinking them to begin with. We left them sitting on the counter over night, came out and dumped them the next morning. The sludge and stuff on the bottom was gross. Kinda like when you make hot chocolate but don’t stir it right. Only thicker.
I don’t think I’ve ever had another. Although, I have to admit I really am rather fond of their hazelnut hot smoothies. And they have more calories.