Dragon Soda

Back in my junior year of high school, my friend Tim and I had to do a project for our chemistry class. It was to create the ideal drink by mixing sodas and other ingredients. Tim was in charge of getting the supplies while I was to write the essay portion. We didn’t want to just copy everyone else so we spent some time discussing possible combinations. We sat at lunch away from everyone so our ideas wouldn’t be overheard.

“Coke and root beer?” Tim suggested.

“Nah, some people are already doing that,” I replied.

“I was thinking along the lines of something fruity.”

“Bananas?”

“I think you’re on the right track. I’m feeling something tropical.”

I wrote down a list of things I wanted him to get and handed it over. After school, I went home and got started on the written portion. All I had to do was explain our reasoning behind the ingredients we chose. Seeing as how I don’t have to artificially stretch my wording to three paragraphs here, I can just summarize it.

The flavors that went into our soda other than bananas were as follows. Dragon fruit mango, mango, pineapple, and pomegranate. Tim was to get the juice of each of these things. Then we were to combine them with some cherry Dr Pepper. I don’t know if cherries are tropical but I figured some extra flavor couldn’t…