{"id":1427,"date":"2011-12-05T17:47:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T22:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2011-12-05T17:47:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T22:47:48","slug":"what-a-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=1427","title":{"rendered":"What a twist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearing the end of our ComicCon adventure, Stephanie was getting a little thirsty. We&#8217;d been there several hours and hadn&#8217;t stopped for sustenance since leaving home. We were about to head out to find a refreshment stand when I saw this baby at a kiosk.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.torrentialequilibrium.net\/images\/lempep1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was surrounded by other, potentially much healthier foreign beverages, but I was determined to get me some foreign Pepsi. They were ridiculously expensive at $3.00 a can, but hey, at least it was something to write about. The Pepsi Twist was streets ahead of the terrible, terrible <a title=\"This is not speculation\" href=\"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=152\">Pepsi Lime<\/a>, but it still wasn&#8217;t great. It was more like drinking a 7up with a splash of Pepsi, rather than the other way around. Not bad, overall, but I certainly wouldn&#8217;t spend three more dollars on another can. A six-pack, maybe. I&#8217;m assuming it&#8217;s pretty much the same thing as the North American version of Pepsi Twist was, but I haven&#8217;t seen that stuff in forever, and don&#8217;t recall ever trying it back when it was available.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.torrentialequilibrium.net\/images\/lempep2.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t read a lick of this because my knowledge of the Japanese language is extremely limited, but I&#8217;m pretty sure it&#8217;s telling you that this stuff is going to kill you. That or it&#8217;ll give you a serious case of the diabetes. But then again, isn&#8217;t that the case for all soft drinks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearing the end of our ComicCon adventure, Stephanie was getting a little thirsty. We&#8217;d been there several hours and hadn&#8217;t stopped for sustenance since leaving home. We were about to head out to find a refreshment stand when I saw this baby at a kiosk. It was surrounded by other, potentially much healthier foreign beverages, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=1427\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What a twist!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foodstuffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}