Pom sent me some iced tea juice drinks to try so I will be sharing my thoughts about them over the next few days. I am enjoying liquids since my surgery; I have been unable to eat solid foods. Just can’t swallow them. Supposedly this will go away eventually…in the meantime I am sipping as many different things as possible for variety.

I do have to apologize for lack of images. I took the pictures with my camera, then drank the tea and made notes, and then I deleted the images before I uploaded them. I plead post surgery brain drain.
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O.k..Green Tea Coke. Not here. Japan….But it’s only a matter of time, people. Only a matter of time.
This is not the Enviga drink they came out with a few years ago..nope..this is seriously green tea flavored Coca Cola. Supposedly you can have the real thing and get your health groove on at the same time.
Now, I have a son that is stationed in Northern Japan so you can bet I am going to ask him to try this stuff..or maybe send me some of it. I like Coke, I just can’t figure out why they want to keep adding weird …read more

O.k…yeah. It isn’t coffee and it isn’t tea.
A few weeks ago I saw Pepsi Throwback in my local grocery store. In case you haven’t heard, several of the companies are coming out with retro-style soda (wow, it was hard not to type coke there..I call everything coke…) that is made with sugar.

Now, Dr. Pepper has always made sodas with natural cane sugar in glass bottles. You probably can’t get them everywhere but you can here. They are bottled in Dublin Texas. We have been there and it is a cool day trip. The thing is, I am convinced that corn …read more

 
O.k..so this isn’t coffee.  Or tea.  Or even hot chocolate or Italian soda…But I will tell you what it is…

 
Sometimes you want something besides sweet tea or lemonade.  This is absolutely the best slushy drink in the universe, and you can vary the juices to suit what you have or your own taste.

So, we are talking about lifestyles in bloom here at b5Lifestyles. There are all kinds of things in bloom right now and many of them can be made into beverages. How’s that for a smooth transition?

I don’t often drink cokes anymore.
Now, when I say that you have to understand that cokes is a generic word for sweet, fizzy drinks.  Here in Texas you go to the Whataburger, and they will ask what kind of coke you want.  Dr Pepper? Root Beer? Cola? Sprite?

 
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One of the big favorites at our tea room was an Italian Soda, or Cremosa. What are THOSE you ask? Only the best cold fizzy beverage in the universe, and possibly beyond. You make them at home, flavor them your way..and pretty soon you have a hot weather addiction that is almost as incredible as your coffee/tea addiction.

 
So..when have you heard that before?
I think it is lame.  When a small, socially ethical company sells out to the big monopolies…(whooops…I mean conglomerates, monopolies are illegal aren’t they?  ) and then says that it was so that the social mission can touch even more people…

Many of us put milk, cream, or half and half in our coffee and tea. Because of this I feel comfortable in the post I am about to publish being within the realm of my subject matter, ie: coffee and tea.
Ultrapasteurized milk is subjected to very high heat to kill bacteria and other microbes.