KL + MC bought us a sodastream for xmas. a red sodastream. it looks like a ferrari of carbonated goodness on our counter. i love pellegrino but i don’t love hauling the boxes of glass bottles from costco to home and then to the recycling center. and i don’t love trying to get my CRV back. and i like that they’re glass bottles, but it’s still individual packaging. so the sodastream was on our to-buy list and now we have one.

the package comes with 12 soda flavors and 3 water essence flavors. i will update as i work my way through them.

• orange – blech. tastes like cough syrup. m thinks it’s ok. she drank most of it.
• pete’s choice (who is pete?) – like dr. pepper (1.1.11 @ 11.11am: tastes like fake dr pepper, like the safeway kind. a bit too sweet.)
• fountain mist – like mtn dew (my favorite so far, but if i drink too much, it just tastes like fake sugar)
• root beer – (very good. also my favorite)
• lemon-lime – like sprite (not sweet enough. mediocre. not heinous)
• energy – like red bull (omg…we threw it away.)
• diet cola
• diet pete’s choice – good. not too sweet. mediocre. not heinous but probably won’t get it again.
• diet cran-raspberry – probably my least favorite. tastes like cough syrup.
• diet root beer – didn’t add all the syrup. Not too fake tasting. might like diet flavors better than full sugar ones.
• diet lemon-lime – ok. probably second favorite after fountain mist
• diet pink grapefruit – like fresca (didn’t like it. m liked orange better.)

• orange
• berry (1.1.11: kinda tastes like bubble gum. i added too much. too sweet. i’m not sure i’m fond of the essence flavors. will have to try again with less flavor)
• lemon-lime (i like this one. good flavor. not too fake tasting.)

i think i may want to try the real cola (good. tastes like generic cola. make sure to add a full capful), grape, cream soda, ginger ale, (they have tonic, too!), lemonade, and the mint flavor essence someday.

now the only thing we need is to import some minerals from the italian mountains and we can really have pellegrino. (ooooooohhhh, i just realized we can make homemade floats…)