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1) Altoid's Dark Chocolate Covered Ginger Mints. They are definitely the weirdest thing I've ever put in my mouth. You have the typical chalky, powerful Altoids mint, with a curiously strong ginger flavor... covered in a dark chocolate coating. I didn't know whether to suck the chocolate off first & then let the Altoid dissolve in my mouth, or if I should crunch the whole thing up... or what I ended up doing, which was rolling the thing around in my mouth til the chocolate got soft enough where I could scrape it off the mint & then crunched the mint itself up. It's got some good, gingery heat to it, but I think I wouldv'e enjoyed it more if it had been a ginger gummy thing.
2) Starbuck's Pomegranate Frappucino. There's been this magazine floating around the front desk, something like The MGM-Mirage Lifestyle magazine. Basically it's a multi-paged ad published by MGM for its higher end hotels. Anyway, flipping through this, the dark red, tall, whipped-cream topped beverage caught my eye. I tried to get one last night around 1am, but the Ex's Starbuck's was closed. So when I left this morning, I stopped & got one for 'breakfast'. It's green tea, mint & pomegranate juice. Now, to me, green tea tasts like dirt. Green tea ice cream is okay, but all other types of green tea preparations taste like dirt. I was expecting this deep cup of dark, burgundy frozen beverage. Instead, I got a wee small cup of pink frozen foam that tasted like dirt someone had dropped a pomegranate into. I was at least hoping for maybe full pomegranate color & flavor w/a dirt finish. It was definitely earthy... the dirt flavor of the green tea overwhelmed the pomegranate juice, and the whole thing just tasted kind of flat & watered down.
2) Starbuck's Pomegranate Frappucino. There's been this magazine floating around the front desk, something like The MGM-Mirage Lifestyle magazine. Basically it's a multi-paged ad published by MGM for its higher end hotels. Anyway, flipping through this, the dark red, tall, whipped-cream topped beverage caught my eye. I tried to get one last night around 1am, but the Ex's Starbuck's was closed. So when I left this morning, I stopped & got one for 'breakfast'. It's green tea, mint & pomegranate juice. Now, to me, green tea tasts like dirt. Green tea ice cream is okay, but all other types of green tea preparations taste like dirt. I was expecting this deep cup of dark, burgundy frozen beverage. Instead, I got a wee small cup of pink frozen foam that tasted like dirt someone had dropped a pomegranate into. I was at least hoping for maybe full pomegranate color & flavor w/a dirt finish. It was definitely earthy... the dirt flavor of the green tea overwhelmed the pomegranate juice, and the whole thing just tasted kind of flat & watered down.
