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Refreshments

When is this humidity wave going to end? Today i noticed at work that some envelopes started curling because of the humidity. That's how icky it is in New York.

In order to beat the heat, i tried a bottle of Lori's Lemon Tea from Honest Tea. It was really good! I love iced tea but i generally abhor the bottled stuff - i can't get past the artificial lemon and super sweetness. But the lemon tea was "just a tad sweet," as they like to say, and brewed just right. I also got a bottle of their Green Dragon Tea, which is iced green tea with lemon and passion fruit. That one was okay. I just like black tea better.

Although i love sugar, i find that i prefer barely sweet drinks. They just don't seem refreshing when they're coating your throat in sugar. Take Fanta for example: their sodas are so crazy sweet my fillings start hurting upon first sip, plus those commercials make me feel like i have demons in my brain.

GuS makes a whole line of "grown up sodas" which are less sweet. I like their Extra Dry Ginger Ale but i thought the Star Ruby Grapefruit flavor wasn't sweet enough. I'm for Jarritos grapefruit all the way. That was a perfect balance of grapefruit aroma, sweetness and refreshment.

However, nothing beats the ginger lemonade at Madras Cafe. be, P, A$, Ish and i had a late dinner there tonight so three of us thoroughly enjoyed drinking it. be even called ahead to make sure they had enough ginger syrup to make it! Ish asked for an extra hot sauce to compliment our meals and the one they brought us was awesome! It was similar in flavor to the Thai garlic chile vinegar that P made, except at Madras it was thicker and creamier. And much hotter than its pale orange color suggested! Totally yums. I love Madras. It's on my Top 5 All Star list.

Meanwhile, be broke into his 100 count Tropical Fla-vor-ice box. I don't recall all the flavors but i know there's mango and banana. I expect this box to last him about 1.25 weeks.

posted by beXn @ 11:46 PM