Word: sodas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...events and the sniffy phrases of oenology became part of the language. Even plebeian beer has long since acquired its own stout band of connoisseurs. By contrast, little attention has been paid to the fine points of enjoying America's own proud indigenous beverage-ubiquitous, multi-flavored, effervescent soda pop. To remedy that omission, California Novelist Earl Shorris (Boots of the Virgin) has set down some obiter dicta in San Francisco's Sunday Examiner & Chronicle. Tongue firmly in cheek, he sounds a clarion call to those who prefer pop to other drinks but feel that it is socially...
...obviously has spent long hours practicing what he preaches. He has elevated the previously ignored and mundane act of soft-drink selection into a fine art. With hors d'oeuvres, for example, he advises Squirt, or a dry cola like Royal Crown; with oysters, Bitter Lemon. "Any white soda pop," he suggests, goes well with chicken. Orange Crush, on the other hand, is "particularly nice with duck or goose." Red meat, of course, demands either Coca-Cola or Pepsi-Cola. Dr. Pepper is splendid with game. A celery tonic or chocolate phosphate complements corned beef and pastrami, although...
...subtleties to be mastered. Bottles, Shorris urges, must be opened at the table just before their contents are consumed (decanting is "unnecessary and even harmful to the beverage"). He acknowledges that neophyte pop enthusiasts prefer their drinks chilled to the freezing point, yet notes that "serious drinkers prefer their soda pop cold in the mouth, but not ice cold." He advises devotees to avoid smoking while sampling, but admits that a mellow root beer enhances the flavor of a good cigar. "To see the delicacy of a light, joyous celery tonic smothered by a cloud of gray smoke," Shorris laments...
...mood of the two men became ever more amiable. When Nixon twitted Tito for ordering a Scotch and soda at a morning meeting, Tito, 78, replied: "When you get older, whisky is much better for the blood than milk." Tito even changed his own plans and decided to accompany Nixon on a visit to Kumrovec, where Tito and his 14 brothers and sisters (none of whom survive) were all born in the same bed in a white stucco house. Asking Tito to walk among the villagers while photographers and newsmen watched, Nixon said: "We've got to get this...
Insert finger, tug and quaff: in those few seconds, the aluminum ring atop a pop-top can of beer or soda fulfills its function and becomes instant junk. Garbage men hate the rings because the sharp edges can cut. So do barefooted hippies and strollers on the beach. So do conservationists, who lament the litter. To at least one man, however, pop-top rings are a source of inspiration and income-and the raw material for a revival of a medieval fashion...