{"id":838,"date":"2009-07-07T00:23:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T07:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=838"},"modified":"2009-07-07T00:23:56","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T07:23:56","slug":"pepsi-natural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=838","title":{"rendered":"Pepsi Natural"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog\/PepsiNatural.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"172\" height=\"300\" \/>This caught my eye in Target tonight. I was looking for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountaindewgamefuel.com\/\">WoW Mountain Dew Game Fuel<\/a> (unsuccessfully, just as in the grocery store&#8230;is it really that popular?) and found Pepsi Natural instead. I only found one bottle of Pepsi Throwback and Dew Throwback so I figured I should grab this oddball while I could. <\/p>\n<p>Aside from the unusual 12-ounce bottles, it&#8217;s mellower than the regular stuff, and has about the same amount of caffeine. &#8220;Natural&#8221; means real sugar, kola nut extract, and sparkling water. It&#8217;s a nicer taste, to my palate &#8212; a little sweeter at first but then tapers off pleasantly. Weirdest ingredient: natural apple extract, for color. I guess it would be clear (or worse, yellow) without it?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pleasantly surprised to see the major companies jump on the boutique cola bandwagon, even if there are <a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/All-Natural-Pepsi-Natural-Is-Not-Really-that-Natural-107708.shtml\">plenty of party poopers<\/a>. I still miss Royal Crown Premium Draft Cola and will get <a href=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=203\">Puma<\/a> whenever I see it (which is not often, and BevMo is no longer any help to me), but this is an option that will hopefully have better distribution. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This caught my eye in Target tonight. I was looking for the WoW Mountain Dew Game Fuel (unsuccessfully, just as in the grocery store&#8230;is it really that popular?) and found Pepsi Natural instead. I only found one bottle of Pepsi &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=838\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}