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Interesting Drink to Jumpstart Your Heart

Posted by Mark | Filed under Food

I stayed up way too damn late last night so I could fin­ish watch­ing the end of Plan­etES¹, so this morn­ing I stopped by the Ter­rapin and got some­thing to drink. My usual drink is their “Grand Canyon”, which is 2 shots of espresso, a shot of choco­late, a shot of mango and steamed milk. Today, I decided to try some­thing dif­fer­ent and while it was good; for the sake of my stom­ach lin­ing, I’m not plan­ning on ever order­ing it again. I got an Hon­est Ter­rapin Sun­rise. That’s 3 shots of piping-hot espresso lay­ered on top of a glass of ice-cold orange juice.

Nat­u­rally, I had to get this to go and to do that; they stick it in a plas­tic cup (since the major­ity of the drink is the OJ) with a lid and a straw. Per­son­ally, I think they should have used the paper cups with the sip­ping lid that most of the cof­fee drinks come in because I think the idea of the Sun­rise is to slam down the espresso & chase it with the OJ. And that idea is defeated by putting a straw in the drink that bypasses the espresso and makes you drink the OJ first. As soon as I was safely back in the office, I removed the lid and started to drink the Sun­rise as “God intended it to be drunk”. *grin*

It’s an unusual sen­sa­tion because the OJ cools the espresso and raises the acid­ity of the drink con­sid­er­ably. Also, the espresso and OJ do start to mix into one another as you drink it. This forms a layer of slightly-warm , bit­ter OJ on your tongue. It’s not as unpleas­ant as that might sound but the Sun­rise is def­i­nitely an acquired taste, which I could not rec­om­mend to every­one (unlike say the Grand Canyon which just rocks my world).

It sounds bizarre but the caf­feine of the espresso com­bined with the vit­a­min C & nat­ural sug­ars in the OJ really helps to wake you up. Of course, it’s been a cou­ple of hours since I drank it and it’s begin­ning to wear off now, which is bad. On the other hand, I’m just about ready to head out to lunch; so I should be able to pick some­thing else up to help me get through the rest of my head, which is good.

¹A very good series that starts off weak (too much comedy/slapstickishness) but ends much stronger with sev­eral very good heart­string tug­gin’ episodes. For the most part, each episode stands by itself but uses infor­ma­tion in pre­vi­ous episodes to build the story. Unfor­tu­nately, the last 6 episodes or so seem to be more tightly inte­grated and I’m miss­ing 22 & 23; which puts a mas­sive gap into the story for me. This is one that I will strongly con­sider pur­chas­ing once it’s avail­able in the US (my cur­rent copies are all fansubs).

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