My wife and I were discussing matching sparkling beverages to shirt colors (don't ask) and I mentioned that I'd need to find some grape soda* ** to match my Purple Stride t-shirt.
"Where would you find grape soda?" she asked. My quick dad joke: Oh, at a vending machine near a junior high school.
Of COURSE I needed to check and see what today's grape soda landscape (landsgrape) looks like. I check walmmmart dot com and - wait, seriously? They have no grape soda available at my local affiliate?! Shipping only?!?! What sort of maniac ships grape soda?!!!!! Making things worse, my local Walm would be glad to sell me strawberry soda, always the worst possible fruit-flavored pop?***
Fredd Meyyer, too: No grape soda except some sort of foo-foo prebiotic stuff that's three bucks a can.
At last: Saifwhey has twelvers of either Crusssh or Sunnnnkystttt brand grape soda. I don't need it, but it is reassuring. The world can go on spinning.
*I'm totally on team "pop" rather than team "soda," but "grape pop" is too monstrous a phrase for me to even consider
**I have not consumed grape pop, or for that matter any pop, in probably a decade? Maybe longer?
***Though the phrase and concept is dignified by its awesome appearance in "Burn Rubber on Me"
