ramune
drinking "ra-moo-nay" is one of many things I do to stay a child. usually I'll try to do a handful of things each day - and being in japan it's made a lot easier given there are so many different experiences. there are far too many glum faces on the street - too many adults, not enough children.
anyway - as soft drinks go - ramune is a crazy. firstly you have to open it and I'll admit to having phoned the trouble and strife for instructions on my debut - rekindling her memories of long hot summers. first you take off the wrapper and you're confronted with a green plastic thing and a blue plastic collar covering a glass bottle. now this is where I went wrong - the instructions suggested placing part of the green plastic thing on top and pushing down hard but I had visions of broken shards of glass in my arm. obviously this wouldn't be a great idea for a kids drink so I pushed and pushed and eventually it gave way and alot of pressure was released. when I started drinking I realised I'd released a glass marble into the bottle which gets caught in the pinched neck (you can see it in the final photo). WOW - a toy and a drink. fantastic.
the taste itself is a bit like cream soda.
a toy and a drink, eh? who would have thought. and for 88 yen. a bargain.
Posted by stupot at September 6, 2005 12:50 AM
Stu
Nice post. Some people here also call it "marbu soda" for marble soda. Every heard of that one? It is fun to drink and I had the same experience as you did on first dipping into the ramune soda bottle. By the way, what does ramune mean? I believe it is supposed to mean QUOTE UNQUOTE "lemonade" soda, remonade, eventually gets to ramune soda.
YOU WROTE: "drinking "ra-moo-nay" is one of many things I do to stay a child. usually I'll try to do a handful of things each day - and being in japan it's made a lot easier given there are so many different experiences. there are far too many glum faces on the street - too many adults, not enough children.
QUESTION: I never really noticed so many glum faces on the streets here until you pointed it out. Why do you think so many adults in Japan carry around such glum faces, when life here is so wonderful and happy and rich and full of order and harmony? Why is the result of all this wonderland loveliness GLUM FACES?
Can you, or anyone else reading this, this phenom?
Posted by: MArble Soda at September 8, 2005 08:59 PM