{"id":4023,"date":"2010-06-07T16:18:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T20:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=4023"},"modified":"2010-06-07T16:18:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T20:18:24","slug":"the-worst-drink-in-america-is-masochistic-but-cheerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/06\/07\/the-worst-drink-in-america-is-masochistic-but-cheerful\/","title":{"rendered":"The worst drink in America is “Masochistic, but cheerful!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember when I posted a short item about the worst beverage in America<\/a> saying “Thank goodness this chain isn\u2019t in operation anywhere near here”? According to Drew Halfnight<\/a>, I’m not keeping up with the times — it’s apparently available in Canada.<\/p>\n

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But how does it feel to drink one? A spokesman for Tim Horton\u2019s, which sells Cold Stone products in 40 locations across Canada, told me: \u201cIt\u2019s apparently delicious.\u201d But I know a thing or two about ice cream — I inherited a mean sweet tooth — I wanted to experience it for myself.<\/p>\n

So, I zipped down to the nearest Cold Stone Creamery location — #2533 at Yonge and Eglinton in Toronto — and handed over $5.19 plus tax for a taste of death. The \u201cGotta Have It\u201d size — 24.5 ounces — is not available in Canada, so I ordered the next best thing, a 20-ouncer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The things people will do just to get a story . . .<\/p>\n

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The taste is intense: a saccharine blast of sugary chocolate, sugary peanut butter and just plain sugar, which engenders a third, chalky undertaste. But it only takes a few sips of the stuff before the sugar totally numbs my palate and I can\u2019t really taste anything except richness. I\u2019d liken the overall drinking experience to slurping up melted Ben & Jerry\u2019s ice cream with a little homo milk thrown in. Masochistic, but cheerful!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember when I posted a short item about the worst beverage in America saying “Thank goodness this chain isn\u2019t in operation anywhere near here”? According to Drew Halfnight, I’m not keeping up with the times — it’s apparently available in Canada. But how does it feel to drink one? A spokesman for Tim Horton\u2019s, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,74,66],"tags":[377,156],"class_list":["post-4023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-food","category-health-science","tag-conspicuousconsumption","tag-fail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-12T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4025,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023\/revisions\/4025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}