Well dang, I guess soda can go bad

Or, this one is dedicated to my friend Alex from the IHMMB fan page

 

So, one of the I Hate My Message Board Facebook fans, Alex asked me when I was going to do another weird foods post. And the truth is, I have been neglecting it because my youngest one has become quite a handful during the day and has more or less stopped napping so it’s difficult for me to take photos. I don’t have any sort of lighting equipment, so I find that it’s best when I can take the photos outdoors on my porch on sunny days.

After a picture of my poor middle son’s chocolate covered face was distributed around the world when the chicken in a can post became popular, I am hesitant to have any “helpers” wander into the shots.

Anyway, Alex’s question reminded me how much I love doing these posts so I agreed and was going to buy something new but ran out of time while out shopping yesterday. Never fear, I had some drinks in my cupboard from a shopping trip last spring, surely those would be good, right?

 

At the top it says Big Bamboo.

Not sure why but the vanilla flavor had French writing on one side but the peanut butter did not.

As per the can instructions, I shook gently before popping the top.

I guess I didn’t shake hard enough because this is what the vanilla looked like coming out.

On the other hand, I also didn’t wipe down the tops of the cans before pouring it out even though I remember my husband telling me about some disease you can get from rats pissing on the top of beer bottles.

So I guess it being chunky style saved me from certain rat piss death because I certainly didn’t take a big chug (although I am writing this just minutes after taking these photos, so who knows what the future will bring?)

But! As I am fully committed to being a grody food blogger in my own half-assed way, I did the famous finger dip, as previously seen in such posts as pork brains in milk gravy, and had a taste.

It wasn’t bad, it wasn’t good. It tasted like some weak ass diet shake. Would not buy again, would not recommend, but if I had nothing else and it wasn’t all old and gunky-style, I would have a can.

The peanut flavor wasn’t all manky.

It tasted like a thin peanut butter milkshake, not terribly satisfying and had that not-fresh flavor. Not like it was bad, despite my sensationalistic title, just that sort of flat flavor that canned foods have.

If you are an aspiring unusual foods blogger, I would highly recommend that you not just shove things in the back of your laundry room cupboard for years on end then get desperate for a post and try to taste it. It will just make your job harder.

Sometimes you’ll even have to totally pass on opportunities like I did with this Korean drink. Note: I remember buying this sometime before we bought this house…the two year anniversary of our moving in will be 2 years this July. Notice how the level of the soda has gone down.

I decided not to try this because it seemed to be pushing it a bit, what with stuff evaporating and all, but I will have to find another bottle because barley soda can’t be missed. I mean beer is made out of barley, right? So how bad could it be?

 

Tagged as: Korean Barley Soda, McCol, Peanut Jamaican Irish Moss, Stuff what is manky, The Museum of Snack Foods I Own, Vanilla Jamaican Irish Moss