Monday 5 July 2004

Pic of the day: It doesn't actually glow in the dark, at least.

Dr Pepper

Today for the first time I opened a bottle of Dr. Pepper. I have seen it mentioned enough in American writing that I was intrigued to buy it in the shop. However, it smelled really funny. Not like pepper at all, and not like cola. It has an intense sweet smell like marzipan.

Now as we know, marzipan is made from almonds and powdered sugar (at least those were the main ingredients when my mother made it) so something here is not right. I concluded that perhaps terrorists had put cyanid in it, since cyanid smells like bitter almonds. I have never smelled bitter almonds so I don't know whether they smell like almonds, but I don't think anyone not a terrorist would want people to drink this stuff. It cannot possibly be right for anything drinkable to smell like that.

I mentioned this incident to my LJ friends. They had not heard of it smelling like marzipan either, but they universally reviled it anyway. Of course, being me, I would probably have tasted it then, if not for the cyanid. Or whatever toxic substance there is that smells like marzipan. It certainly can't be intentional.