-
Which one of these drinks is more processed?
The Coca-Cola Company spent $114 million in recent years expanding its juice bottling plant in Auburndale, Fla., and developing a high-tech process for homogenizing juice, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. The operation includes use of satellite imagery, a 1.2-mile juice pipeline, and a complex “Black Book” algorithm which helps juice-makers manage weather patterns, predict crop yields, and measure acidity and sweetness of the crop — all to achieve absolute consistency from batch to batch.
-
Looking for a new cocktail to add to your repertoire? If you’ve got a taste for adventure (or a foot fetish), you might consider heading to Canada’s Yukon Territory. There, in Dawson City, you’ll find a little bar called the Sourdough Saloon, which, according to the Wall Street Journal, has been slinging cocktails that feature a very strange ingredient: Human toes.
Wait, real toes? Yes, pickled and plunked into your beverage. The drink, commonly known as a Sourtoe, is the remnant of a tradition that began in 1973 when one Capt. Dick, a riverboat captain, found a severed big toe preserved in a jar of pickles. During a drunken night with friends, Capt. Dick invented the drink by dropping the toe into a beer glass full of champagne, and coining the accompanying rhyme: “You can drink it fast, you can drink it slow. But the lips have gotta touch the toe.” Today, for only $5, Sourdough Saloon patrons can have a toe added to any alcoholic beverage of their choice. “Now, that’s what I call an artisanal ingredient,” says Kristin Iversen at Brooklyn magazine.
