Our most favorite Italian restaurant serves a few flavors of Sanpellegrino. Of course, it costs an arm and a leg to have at the restaurant. So it’s very seldom that we order any.
I have noticed that the new Co-op I’ve been shopping at in the Big City carries a wide variety of Sanpellegrino flavors. It only costs half and arm and half a leg. I often have thought, “Oh, that sounds so divine!” as I have walked passed the displays of Sanpellegrino and wistfully imagined a day when I could walk into the store and just buy a six pack and not care how crazy expensive it is. Well last week they had it on sale and the price dipped below a dollar a can. So, I splurged and bought three individual cans in three different flavors: grapefruit, pomegranate orange, and blood orange. Yesterday I decided to pop one open and give one a try.
For no particular reason I poured the pomegranate orange flavor. Man, I tell you. It. Was. Good.
It was a dog-chewing-a-bone good.
It was sunny-Sunday-morning-breakfast-in-bed good.
It was first-kiss good.
It was free-ice-cream good.
It was you-just-won-the-lottery-and-are-going-to-Disney-Land good.
It was I-don’t-care-crows-are-pecking-my-eyes-out good.
Yeah.
It’s that good.
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I have not tried the other flavors yet. As my budget does not allow me to kick ’em back like they are going out of style I will save them for when I have time to savor them adequately. If they are as good as this flavor, I will begin to understand why people apparently are willing to pay such outrageous prices for sparkling juice.
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