LEMONADE

[sabotabby]

I met up with my friend at Fort Book and we had a nice lunch over at the Innis café. Afterwards, I was walking home along Harbord and saw a new little yuppie place advertising $4 lemonade.

"Yeah, right," I thought. But I was really thirsty and lemonade seemed like a good idea. So in I went. The guy looked at me funny, and slammed an icy carafe of fresh-squeezed lemonade—seeds and all, and with a sprig of mint—on the counter.

I took one sip and had to admit it was the best fucking lemonade I'd ever had*. He sort of smirked, like what else was I expecting for $4?

Mmm, lemony-minty-bliss. I am such a bougie fuck.

rohmie, it was like the lemonade equivalent of that orange juice at the Bourgeois Pig.

Comments

[corvus.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the kind of stuff you get on the streets of the Holy Land.

Tasty shit!

[sabotabby]

It made me very happy.

[esizzle.livejournal.com]

huh? who still calls it the "holy land" besides the pope?

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

The crazy Jews who live there?

[corvus.livejournal.com]

I do! All the damn time. Why do you ask?

[sabotabby]

My friend S. calls it the Unholy Land.

[apperception.livejournal.com]

After the revolution, there will be no lemonade. We will all drink only water!

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

That'll have them lining up at the barricades

[sabotabby]

Not even Stoli?

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I'd say Absolut, but they've been privatized D:

[apperception.livejournal.com]

After leaving that comment, I remembered the scene in Reds where Zinoviev is sprinkling salt on the lemon and eating it.

[sabotabby]

I love Reds more and more with every viewing.

[apperception.livejournal.com]

I watched it as a teen, and it made me read Ten Days That Shook the World.

[mistersmearcase.livejournal.com]

It is one of my very favorites. We watched it once at my Russian summer program and we all laughed when he said После револусий я куплю тебе новую шляпу. (After the revolution, I will buy you a new hat.) Probably best not to admit: I think I once mentioned the vibe between Diane Keaton and Warren Beatty in a personal ad.

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

[sabotabby]

I CAN HAS?

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

I has had.
Not so tasty, but a great bottle to have on the shelf!

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

Seems bulk distributors carry it. I am meaning to get in an order for Cel-Ray[*] to bring to parties, so maybe I should get some of that too...

[*] Celery flavour soda. You can bring it to parties and weird people the fuck out. It is fun. I don't actually know much about the soda.

[mistersmearcase.livejournal.com]

I had always been curious about Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray and tried it this summer. I told my office-mate it was gross but refreshing.

[ironed_orchid]

Want!

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

Communism: Everyone gets ice cream gritty water.

[sabotabby]

Vaguely yellow gritty water.

[apperception.livejournal.com]

Which tastes like coins.

[queerasmoi.livejournal.com]

In Soviet Russia, the lemonade drinks you?

[apperception.livejournal.com]

LEMON SQUEEZE YOU

[queerasmoi.livejournal.com]

Ah-ha, got it :)

[neeuqdrazil.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, lemonade.

Now I think I want to make some!

I also want to make something with key limes - they're selling them at Loblaws this week.

[sabotabby]

Key lime pie!

[neeuqdrazil.livejournal.com]

I've never made key lime pie.

I've actually never made pastry, either, and it frightens me a bit.

Perhaps I should take lessons from your housemate!

[sabotabby]

For some reason, I think zingerella doesn't like key lime pie. Though I could be wrong. I love it but I've got no clue how to make it.

[neeuqdrazil.livejournal.com]

It's not so much the key lime part as the pastry part - I suck at pastry.

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

Why'd he look at you funny? Did you not look bourgeois enough for him?

[sabotabby]

Who knows? I sort of look like shit today, so maybe that's it.

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

Folks, I live and work for a world in which the people who look like shit today are the ones who get the lemonade. Who's with me? :)

[sabotabby]

Left fist in the air, right fist gripping the lemonade.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I pay far too much for coffee.

I can see why you'd pay far too much for lemonade, I mean isn't it refreshingly delicious... or something just as ridiculous.
And in any event aren't we all victims of the Bourgeois mentality to a certain extent?
Boo, I know.

[sabotabby]

I want a world where everyone can indulge in over-the-top luxury. I pay too much for coffee too, but at least it's shade-grown, organic, fair trade coffee.

[esizzle.livejournal.com]

mmm mint lemonade!! if bourginess is so bad, how come it feels so good? :P
hehe no but seriously, it's the system that's wrong, not the yummy yummy lemonade. No use in fighting the lemonade :)

[sabotabby]

Yes, don't blame the lemonade. Or me.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

"I like the motto: 'So natural, you could make it yourself for half the price.'"

- Why I Hate Saturn

[sabotabby]

Haha. Well, I could, I guess. It consisted of lemons, sugar, and mint, none of which are prohibitively expensive. But I would have been even thirstier by the time I got home and made myself some.

Off Topic

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

"Crap Weasel makes me sad."