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IF WE’VE LEARNED one thing
from our orange soda taste test,
it’s this: Our taste buds need to
seek psychological counseling.
Certain foods take special residence in our childhood memories,
but they never make the cut into
our adult lives. (It’d be weird to
see a Wall Street suit-type sucking on a Go-Gurt while berating
someone on his Bluetooth, right?)
Orange soda is one of those foods
that just never made the transition to adulthood, for whatever
reason — we’re guessing it’s because Adult You is more healthconscious than Child You, or be-
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cause it looks unprofessional to
show up to a meeting with a neon
orange tongue.
So because we don’t drink it
regularly anymore, orange soda
evokes powerful associations with
our early years. Memories so powerful that they cloud our judgement of what “good” orange soda
is. Basically, what we’re saying is
that the psychological link to our
childhood has murdered our ability to decipher good from bad. Do
you really like Fanta, or does it
just remind you of a time when
you could run around the kiddie pool naked, before you had to
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09.22.13