{"id":421,"date":"2003-06-13T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-13T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=421"},"modified":"2003-06-13T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-13T16:13:00","slug":"what-a-revolting-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-06\/421-what-a-revolting-idea","title":{"rendered":"What a REVOLTING idea&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a little while to go before I can get out of here for the weekend, and in between fits of disgustitude (I&#8217;ve spent the last three or four weeks spinning my wheels instead of being productive because the third-party system I support is a piece of crap!) and fits of abject boredom, I mused over the following <b>New Products<\/b> (sorry no package pictures to share this time):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Sprite Ice<\/b>. Lemon-lime MINT-flavoured soda. The ONLY place I can think this might be palatable is in a Mint Julep, and probably one laced with lots of gin. Gin IS what goes into a Mint Julep, isn&#8217;t it?<\/li>\n<li><b>Sundae Smarties<\/b>. &#8220;Eight Ice Cream flavours&#8230; in-FUN-ite Combinations!&#8221; Flavours are: caramel; chocolate; vanilla; wildberry; orange; strawberry; banana; raspberry sorbet. I can&#8217;t imagine what these might be good for. If I want ice cream flavours, I&#8217;ll eat ice cream. Smarties should taste like the yummy little chocolate morsels they are.<\/li>\n<li><b>Cherry-Flavour Dentine Ice<\/b>. This is probably the <b>worst<\/b> thing I&#8217;ve tasted in many years, and I&#8217;ve tasted a lot of nasty things in my lifetime! It tastes like cough syrup! <b>SUPER YUCK!<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font COLOR=\"#FF0000\"><b>WHAT<\/b><\/font> were these people <font COLOR=\"#FF0000\"><b>thinking<\/b><\/font> when they came up with these things?????<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a little while to go before I can get out of here for the weekend, and in between fits of disgustitude (I&#8217;ve spent the last three or four weeks spinning my wheels instead of being productive because the third-party &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-06\/421-what-a-revolting-idea\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}