On to the sodas....

Boylan's after the pretty dismal Birch Beer from these guys I wasn't expecting much. but boy was I wrong. The other's I had from these guys were outstanding:

Boylan's Cane Cola. This was one of the tastiest cola's I have ever tasted. More Coke then Pepsi and you could definitely taste the cane sugar.

9.5 Rudys


Boylan's Creme. A really good and full bodied cream soda.

9 Rudys







Boylan's Root Beer. This was a good root beer. A slight spiciness and a good after kick with a slight taste of birch. There are a lot of good root beers out there and hence i have decided that I need to do "The Great Root Beer Off". it will happen...

8 Rudys








Boylan's Orange. After the quite frankly abysmal Sunkist Orange Float and uninspiring Thomas Kemper Orange Cream I did not expect anything great from this. But I was mistaken - I was pleasantly suprised by this. The orange was still artificial tasting, but at least this tasted something like orange and had an underlying taste of cream soda

8 Rudys






Cricket Green Tea Cola. This was pretty intriguing. More green tea with a good Cola taste. A little bit of a bitter after taste.


7 Rudys







Cock N Bull Ginger Ale. A good ginger ale with a decent bite!


6 Rudys







Jones Berry Lemonade. I actually quite liked this one, it was like Lemonade with strawberry, cranberry hint.



7 Rudys






Jones Root Beer. This root beer was OK... a little lighter in taste than the better root beers.



6 Rudys






AW Root Beer Float. This was really bad... really bad. You know when you make a root beer and the all the ice cream melts and all the fizz has gone out of the root beer - this is what this is i.e. Shite.


1 Rudy


Stewart Orange Cream. This was another tasty orange soda - still of the artificial orange tilt. It was pretty refreshing too.


6 Rudys




Bundaberg Ginger Ale. This has to be the tastiest Ginger ale I have ever had. had a nice spiciness and bite and even small pieces of real ginger in there. Excellent. oh yeah and it's Australian. So, technically not a U.S.A... oh well.


9.5 Rudys



RW Knudsen Red Raspberry. This was refreshing and did taste like Raspberry - but it also tasted like apple, grape and lime since this is what they put in there to get the 'contains juice' value up to 100%.

6 Rudys



San Pellegrino Aranciata. This is an Italian Soda.. but you can get it at Safeway so we are good. This was the bets tasting orange soda I have had in the US. It really does have a genuine orange taste which is well balanced.

8 Rudys


NuGrape - The was an outstandingly delicious grape soda. Like a carbonated Welch's!


9 Rudys


That's all my soda's to date. I have a fridge full of interesting soda's coming up. Be sure to hear about them all soon!

Q. Laptop + Mountain Dew = ?

A. A new laptop. Here's how.

Maggie brought over her laptop to my house as she wanted to show me her favourite song (M.I.A -Paper Planes). She also kindly brought me over a bottle of mountain dew.



Whilst loading up her computer the mountain dew spilled on to the laptop... oh no!!








Maggie ran outside with the laptop to turn it over and prevent any damage to the flux capacitor, in her hast the laptop fell from her grasp on to the ground... BANG it was dead...






Fortunately, by some bizarre cosmological alignment, the warranty was expiring on the laptop the next day.. what are the chances??!!
Maggie, took the laptop back to Best Buy and explained her predicament to helpful Sales assistant. With a rye smile... the sales assistant filled in the paperwork and took away Maggie's old laptop.
One week later a new laptop arrived.

Best Buy warranty - 8 Rudys
Mountain Dew - 6 Rudys - not bad lemon and lime flavour a bit to syrupy!

Where have I been?

Not too far away actually... I just realised that I hadn't posted since the beginning of september... Well a few things have happened since then. I went to see the dentist twice... once to get some fillings done... whilst having this done it was determined that I need a root canal. I had the misfortune of actually witnessing this operation live when I did a work shadowing at a Dentists when I was younger... Needless to say, I soon realised that I wasn't dentist material when I almost passed out observing this. It is not a pretty operation... well at least it wasn't one back then. When I went for mine it actually wasn't that bad I have to say... just really long...2.5 hours of hell. It wasn't painful it was just hard to sit still with my jaw open for that long. The only really painful part was putting in the xray plates so I could have my teeth X-rayed... and after all that I didn't even get prescribed any decent pain killers... "If it is painful in the next few days... just take ibuprofen"... Thanks.

So, you may be thinking that the root canal will have deterred my adventure. In short, no. I have continued on quest and have tasted some interesting sodas.... they are coming up next.