A long time ago, Jolt Cola released a series of flavors. They had a citrus (ie Mountain Dew), orange, and white grape flavor in addition to their regular coke flavor. All forms of Jolt were, of course, loaded with caffeine and sugar.
They were absolutely wonderful.
As a college student, I used to make special trips to the one convenience store in the area that carried them. Some time after I left UH they stopped selling them, which was a tragedy.
Mountain Dew picked up the mantle not long ago when they launched cough-syrup flavored Code Red. In Taco Bell you can get this icky Baja Blueberry flavored drink, but I wouldn't recommend it. More recently they released grape-flavored Pitch Black.
Somewhere in the midst of all this, they released Livewire. Outside of
Jones Soda, it is without a doubt the best soft drink ever made. Orange taste mixed with Dew-levels of caffeine and sugar make an absolutely winning combination. Since it remotely states like orange and has some orange juice in it (listed after water, high-fructose corn syrup, and sugar - a surefire mix for a good drink!), it makes a good breakfast-on-the-go.
Unfortunately, the product is apparently seasonal and it's presently being phased out. They apparently did this last year, but I never ran across the drink. When I discovered this, it ruined my next two minutes hard (thank heavens for my short attention span).
Since then, it's been harder and harder to get around town. Not impossible yet, though. Some convenience stores still have it in stock and I know where they are. But soon they, too, will run out.
I was getting lunch at a convenience store near my work that had only one bottle left. The only reason they still have it is because they had a mishap with their freezer last week and the row of coke including my precious Livewire was frozen solid. They apparently fixed the glitch because the Livewire bottle they had remaining was in convenient liquid form.
I'm not sure of the physics behind it, but frozen-the-unfrozen coke doesn't generally taste good. Something to do with the carbonation, I'd imagine. But when there's only one left, there's only one left.
Sure enough, it was flat as all heck.
And yet, even flat, this stuff is still better than 90% of the stuff out there.
You know. You probably wouldn't have to spend as long on the treadmill if you cut cokes out of your diet.
I've been soda-less for over a month now, and its really heping me feel better and stay fit.
No joke. Soft drinks are the first step to any attempt at dieting on my part. I've gone without coke in the past for month stretches and along with 86ing the fast food the difference in the way I feel is astounding.
In that sense, Livewire's temporary discontinuance will be pretty helpful in that respect.
The treadmill is not actually part of an effort to lose weight, though.
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