It was August of 2012, my family planned a nice summer BBQ in the backyard, and family members arrived carrying nothing more than coolers and standard BYOB bags. I laughed at the meeting and then something off my eyes, something very.
My 7 year old nephew was seen holding (and sipping) a wine cooler. !
I snapped at her to retrieve the drinker’s drink, yanked it out of her hands…I felt pretty stupid when she yelled, “Gimme my soda!”
I looked into the bottle, and to my shock there was a small peanut in the bottle Shirley Temple Saranac was sipping. > Soda; thankfully a non-alcoholic drink. I am intrigued, beyond intrigued. Right then and there I knew I had to get this soda. As a huge junkie of unique nitro flavors, there was no way I was going to pass up an interesting flavor. I was thinking about the little one, but I knew that her tossing and crying wasn’t such a headache.
As luck would have it, her sister had brought her a package. I did not hesitate to ask for one at all.
As I was holding a bottle of fresh kale in my hand, I thought this soda would become one of my go-to drinks. I thought I would like it so much that it would become a drink that would always be fixed in the movie. Shirley Temples are a classic, exquisite drink of choice at every restaurant we’ve ever been to since I was a child. Growing up with not a whole lot of money also made many restaurant trips much rarer and rarer, so this drink was literally the VIP drink of all the drinks up to 5 years old in my inner man.
As a child, I thought this drink was the holy grail of all sodas, however as I grew older I realized I could make this magical drink on my own with some 7UP, maraschino cherries, and grenadine syrup. How on earth someone could mess up such a simple formula is beyond me, yet Saranac’s Shirley Temple Soda could do it just like this. Blech!
Taste:
Well, unfortunately there is absolutely nothing in Saranac Soda in Shirley Temple that makes this soda even remotely worthy of being called Shirley Temple. Instead of that refreshing lime and cherry jam from the real Shirley Temple, instead you get this powerfully sweet fake cherry flavored soda on top. The carbonation never comes, as this sub is carbonated to the point that it pops off the top a few minutes later.
To me, the Saranac Shirley Soda Temple tasted like a cheap melted cotton candy flavored Dumdum lollipop, with a slight hint of carbonation.
Over:
Sadly, Saranac lost this one. God only knows how to take care of such a simple snail recipe, but they did.
