Originally intended to document my experience of DeLorean ownership, focus is often radical and strange, boring and obtuse.

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Squirt

What is Squirt?I like to save things. Especially if they're odd. Sometimes I save good things, and sometimes not.

When I went to New York for my MRI, I bought some Squirt. The empty bottle had been hanging around our kitchen for over two weeks now and Suz didn't like that. She wanted me to get rid of it. I had to agree with her, as the empty bottle of Squirt wasn't odd or special enough to save despite a number of totally wacky and unusual things.

I don't know what Squirt is. It has to be one of the most bizarre drinks I've ever drank. It's an unusual citrus flavour, and it's only half-carbonated, if that's even possible. I suppose I could've purchased a bad bottle, because it tasted like it was half-flat.

But not only is the juice weird, the label is way messed up too. There are warnings about not pointing the bottle towards people's faces, and a bold declaration that it contains less than 1% fruit juice.

The list of ingredients is also surprising. It contains much of the tasty stuff that other bottled beverages have, like the ever-popular preservative Sodium Benzoate, as well as some non-tasty stuff like Brominated Vegetable Oil.

It also contains something I have never heard of: Ester of Wood Rosin. I learned from Answerbag.com that it is used as a natural stabilizer for flavouring oils in fruit-flavoured beverages. Since my Squirt was citrus flavoured, it seemed appropriate that wood rosin was an ingredient. I don't know what's so unstable about it, but I assume it's the flavouring oils even though no "flavouring oils" are listed in the ingredients. Unless you count the super-gross Brominated Vegetable Oil.

Anyway, I told Suz I had no objections to recycling the empty bottle of Squirt. Now our kitchen is less cluttered - and less weird.

7 Comments:

Blogger Martini said...

I didn't know we were allowed to 'stack the deck' so to speak. Am I allowed to ask my fellow Useless Men a question? Ooh! That should be my question! If I'm allowed.

Am I?

6:40:00 PM

 
Blogger Vicki said...

Happy Birthday!

6:52:00 PM

 
Blogger Monogram Queen said...

Not a big fan of Squirt, it's kind of grape-fruity to me.
Oh and was it your birthday??? You gotta spill so we can wish you many happy returns :)

8:32:00 AM

 
Blogger Martini said...

Thanks guys!
Patti cake, I'll remember that for next year. Or maybe I won't, because I'm sooooooooo flippin' old!

11:25:00 AM

 
Blogger Ellie Creek Ellis said...

i like the ruby-red squirt...

3:38:00 PM

 
Blogger Ham said...

Sounds a bit like Orangina - only that's healthier.


I wonder if the vegetable oil contributed to the product being named "squirt." That can't be good for digestion.

1:07:00 PM

 
Blogger honkeie said...

Oil in our sodas..what will they think of next to add to the food for flavor...cow pies????
I like squirt, but I like saying that I am drinking it better. It always gets a few ppl....
'Why yes I am having a drink, how would u like a tatste of my Squirt'
Or 'Man I spilled my Squirt all over my desk, that is the last time I cyber one handed'

12:36:00 PM

 

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