Glass Bottles

Today’s Perfect Moment is a cool drink of root beer from a glass bottle. Pretty simple really, but full of touchstones for me.

I found this bottle at the Dollar Tree. The Dollar Tree is running a distant second to Dollarama in the Canadian dollar store wars.  I personally don’t have a favourite, but for a time the Dollar Tree was the only place to get cherry coke–now I can’t get it anywhere unless I want the diet or zero version.

I like root beer. I know some of you out there do not, but I do.  Several people in my life have likened it to medicine.  My students have gone so far as to call it akin to drinking Vicks vap-o-rub.  I hardly think that is accurate, but if they don’t want to drink it, that means there is more for me.

As a child, whenever I went on school trips and had to take my lunch, my Mom would buy me Hires Draft root beer. I remember the can well.

Although I purchased this at the dollar store, it cost $1.25 plus tax. Was that a bargain?  No.  I could probably have bought a two litre plastic bottle for almost the same price.  At the very least, I probably could have bought three or four cans.  However, there is nothing better than drinking from a glass bottle***.  Imagine if you had to drink beer from a plastic bottle.  I can’t do it often, but once in a while, it is a worthy indulgence.

I first encountered Dad’s root beer in Japan.  After months of not seeing it, I came across the cans in a store in Kyoto.  I bought a bunch of them and lugged them around from temple to temple and shrine to shrine until I got home and got them cooled down.  Much like this purchase, they weren’t cheap–probably 100yen or 120yen–but every now and then I needed an indulgence.

I decided to put up both the French and English labels.  I wonder why they didn’t translate the expression old fashioned.  Also, once in a McDonalds somewhere between Quebec City and Montreal, I asked for racinette and nobody understood me.  One kind person said “Root beer n’est ce pas?”  Obviously I need to work on my French.

***Probably some people enjoy drinking from a funnel–but that’s another story.

 

 

Another Glass Bottle Beverage

A light post for a Sunday night.

Yes, I’m still getting ready Pho my trip, but that isn’t what this post is about. No, this post is about taking time to indulge, even when you (and by you, I mean I) shouldn’t.

I couldn’t really help myself on my latest trip to the dollar store. I went there to pick up a few last minute items Pho my trip, but came away with some chocolate caramels.  I am not sure how that happened, but I do know that they made a fantastic treat for an unusually warm Sunday afternoon.  That I paired it with a glass bottle of root beer is not commendable in any way.  It tasted good nonetheless.

 

Glass Bottle Indulgence

I shouldn’t brag about drinking pop or soda (a myriad of names for carbonated sugar water), but there is something to be said for a  drink like rootbeer.

My students hate it.  They liken it to medicine or vicks vap-o-rub.  I, however, love it.  I remember travelling great distances when I lived in Japan just to purchase rootbeer.  This case, all I had to do was leave the hair cutting place (and some of its lovely stylists) and go next door to the Bulk Barn–I know.  Who would have thought?

It certainly didn’t hurt that this version featured cane sugar and came in glass bottle.  I was looking for a little pick-me-up, and this bottle provided it.

 Additionally, there is certainly something luxurious and slightly decadent to drinking soda pop from a glass bottle.

Luxurious + Decadent + Today’s Perfect Moment