A visit to the dentist

It didn't go so well. Going in I already knew I had a few cavities that needed to be filled - 5 I thought. Errr that turned out to be 6 and today they found another 2, making it a total of 8! So, I begrudgingly booked an appointment to get the major ones done on the 10th of September. I didn't tell the dentist about my adventure, after hearing I had 8 fillings needed, I knew any response was not going to be pretty and after an hour of having my teeth scraped and gums prodded the diagnosis was clear "Brits have bad teeth". As much as I hate to stereotype, my own experience agrees - the dentists back in blighty are not as thorough as they are over here. The dentist I visit in Wallingford is the best dentist I have ever been to - (this view is subject to change fillings pending).

Don't worry kids, 8 fillings are not going to deter me. When I got home, I did what every adventurer should do in times of adversity... suck it up. I sucked on a Jones FuFu Berry. I was not all that into this one; FuFu I think is the made up name for strawberry as this is what this tasted like - slightly tart strawberrys. 5 out of 10 Rudys.... Meh as you say here.I have a back log of about 7 sodas to rate, I'll do those in the next update.

Remember brush your teeth twice a day and floss like the Fasemeister.

FW: This weeks drinks

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Subject: This weeks drinks
From: rudster1979@gmail.com
Date: 08/09/2009 6:02 PM

Sunkist orange float, stewards orange cream, stewarts lime soda, jones fufu berry, jones strawberry lime, jones green apple, jones berry lemonade, thomas temper vanilla cream, thomas temper orange cream and thomas kemper black cherry. YUM!

And so it begins...

In the last few weeks a lot of people have heard me talking about 'My Great American Soda Adventure', the idea was for me to taste and document the unique sodas of America. The idea came to me at the Cuban Sandwich place (Paseo) in Ballard, two friends (Dan and Nina) in the line before me were debating what drink they should have to complement their tasty tasty sandwich.

"oh man they have Squirt"
"I haven't had a Squirt in ages".... (all obvious puns intended!)

Intrigued I asked what it tasted like.

"you've never had one?It's delicious and refreshing..."

So, to cut a long story short I had a Squirt(!) and it was perfectly ballanced citrusy goodness, that reminded a lot of a drink called Lilt back in Blighty. That got me thinking, how many other sodas are there in the States that I should taste? A quick look up on Wikipedia showed that there are literally hundreds, probably more than anyone should ever drink in a lifetime. The task has been set; Taste the Unique Sodas of America. I have wanted to try my hand at this blogging malarkey for a while now - not that I care if anyone reads this, its more as a personal record of another year here in Seattle - I have just started my fourth year! Also, modern technology means I can Blog from phone whilst out and about too.

So to summarize:

• Unique Sodas of America (USA... see what I did there?!)
• Taste as many different sodas as I can whilst maintaining a balanced diet, healthy sporting activity and good dental hygiene i.e. try to make sure my teeth don't fall out and I don't get fat!
• Review and write about said sodas - maybe even have an updated top ten
  
• no Diet rubbish - if I am going to drink sodas they should have sugar in them
• Recommendations are always welcome too