Summer Flashback

So winter has returned to Redmonton, just in time to be official, next week Dec. 21. Brrrr -14c, but no snow. There is more snow on the ski hills, thanks to snow machines. So looks like a brown winter. Which gets me wishing for Summer again.

So I made a new drink this week, Orange Crush and Papaya juice. The juice is 100% not concentrate. Mix it 1/2 and 1/2 with Crush, not Fanta, not some generic orange pop (yech). And actually to be specific Diet Orange Crush which is made with Splenda (tm) not Aspertame or the other carcinogenic sweetners.



The flavour of the the Diet is like the old time Orange Crush** I grew up with which was produced here localy by Wild Rose Bottleing Co., a company originally owned by Bill Hawerlak, and his ethnic partners, he was the first Non Anglo Mayor of Edmonton, but that is a story for another day.

Anyways, great drink. If you want mix in Vodka, or White Rum, or Tequila, or not, and viola Summer returns in a glass even at -14c.

**And lastly but thankfully, nothing is known of the origins of the name Orange Crush. A truly wonderful name that became a slang term for an infamous defoliant used in the Vietnam War, a nickname for the Denver Bronco’s defense, a song and, sadly, a mixed drink that contains no Orange Crush but rather Vodka, Triple Sec, Orange Juice and yes, 7up.