Subject: Soft Drinks

• Utopia, Texas

  A burger on the deck at Bubba's is the next best thing to visiting the Hill Country

  July 6, 2000

• Re: The Curious Incident of the Frog Head in the Diet Coke

  February 13, 2007

• The Curious Incident of the Frog Head in the Diet Coke

  January 31, 2007

• $13 at La Carreta Mexican Restaurant

  August 1, 2007

• $13 at Gabby’s Barbecue and Ribs

  September 7, 2007

• The New NHL Uniforms Are Hot. Damn Hot.

  October 17, 2007

• $13 at La Carreta Mexican Restaurant

  August 1, 2007

• $13 at Gabby’s Barbecue and Ribs

  September 7, 2007

• Notes from the 2008 Southwest Foodservice Expo: Dry Soda

  June 22, 2008

• Hot Plate

  October 21, 1999

• Stirred and Shaken

  La Strada's Fast Eddy

  March 1, 2001

• Hemingway's Favorite Libation

  Bossa's Mojito

  February 21, 2002

• The Big Deal

  Vending machines are leaving Texas school cafeterias. But the mother lode of "minimal nutritional value" has hardly gone away.

  June 6, 2002

• Deconstructing Sandwiches

  Zinnante's makes great poor boys -- no matter how you eat them

  October 3, 2002

• Wings o' Desire

  March 3, 1994

• Houston Likes Its Caffeine Cold And Bubbly

  Houston, you love your caffeine, but only when it comes cold and bubbly.The second annual Caffeinated Cities survey came out today; it's conducted by something called HealthSaver and looks at caffeine use across the country.The Most Caffeinated City in America? Tampa. (Huh?) Followed by Seattle (that's more like it), Chicago, New York and LA.Houston comes in third from the top in Least Coffee Consumption, but it rules the roost in Most Cola Consumption, a category which includes regular Coke, re

  January 13, 2009

• A Band's Dissolve

  September 14, 1995

• Carbonated Cash

  December 17, 1998

• Best Reason to Join the Houston Zoo

  September 21, 2000

• Bootlegging Dr Pepper

  June 5, 2008

• Hot Plate

  Ben & Jerry's

  July 15, 2004

• Godfrey

  This comedian went from pitching sodas to selling out comedy clubs

  August 16, 2007

• Lines of Coke

  June 8, 2006

• “Family Movie Night on the Lawn”

  Catch a flick under the stars

  July 19, 2007

• What's in Your Favorite Singer's Backseat?

  John Popper, Chingo Bling and John Mayer

  March 29, 2007

• The Mink

  The Washington Apple

  March 22, 2007

• THE COTTON EXCHANGE'S

  STRAWBERRY TWIST

  November 16, 2006

• Image of the Week

  Monkey Quincy and Billy Don Ivey

  July 20, 2006

• Malibu Punch

  The Gallant Knight

  June 15, 2006

• Presbyterian

  Leon's Lounge

  June 1, 2006

• Sugar Coated

  This Baylor medical "expert" cashed in on infomercials. Now he's showing how things go better with Coke.

  May 19, 2005

• Call It What You Want

  The Texas Beach Party is off the hook

  April 15, 2004

• Best Ice Cream Flavor

  The Chocolate Bar's Creamy Dreamy Truffle

  September 25, 2003

• Game On

  Young warriors gather for battles in cyberspace

  July 24, 2003

• Best Skate Park

  Vans Skate Park

  September 26, 2002

• Near-Perfect

  Lancaster Hotel's Cream Soda

  July 4, 2002

• Economy Size

  PJ's Root Beer Float

  June 13, 2002

• Summer Love

  The Continental Club's Summer's Sister

  May 2, 2002

• Best Onion Rings

  September 20, 2001

• Stirred and Shaken

  The Hong Kong Disco's Seven & Seven

  August 16, 2001

• Stirred and Shaken

  Ernie's on Banks' Pimm's Cup

  March 8, 2001

• Holy Diver

  Atomic Opera

  June 22, 2000

• $7 at Laredo Taqueria

  Photo by Brittanie SheyWhere: Laredo Taqueria, 915 Snover, 713-861-7279. Open Monday through Saturday 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. What $7 gets you: Almost anything on the menu. Tacos are $1.50 or $2, breakfast and dinner plates cost $5.50 to $7.50. The most expensive item is $8. We had an asada de puerco taco, a spicy chicken breakfast taco and a half-liter Mexican Coke, all for $5, tax included. For two more bucks we could have added two sides but the tacos were enough to fill us up. It's easy to ac

  April 20, 2009

• The New Q: Smoke-Braising

  Photo by Robb WalshThere's no reason that you have to choose between braising and barbecuing. While working on a new backyard barbecue cookbook, I discovered that the two techniques can be combined with awesome results. Start off by smoking or grilling the meat. Next, prepare a braising liquid in the kitchen and bring it to a boil. Put an oven-proof roasting pan on your grill directly over the hot part of the fire. Carefully add the hot braising liquid to the pan on the grill and return it to a

  June 4, 2009

• Diet Cola Goes Healthy

  Photo by Robb WalshZevia Natural Cola is the first of the new stevia-sweetened diet soft drinks I've tasted. There is also a Zevia diet root beer and a diet lemon-lime. No doubt you've heard of stevia, the newly approved natural sweetener that's 300 times sweeter than sugar, with no calories. Stevia isn't a chemical like aspartame, sucralose, and the rest. It comes from a plant that's also known as sweetleaf. The new sweetener takes some getting used to. The flavor of Zevia Natural Cola is pre

  June 9, 2009

• This Week In Deliciousness

  Katharine Shilcutt ate all this chicken and did not save any for you.Welcome back to the weekly Eating Our Words round-up, where the food is well-prepared, plentiful and, more often than not, weird as all hell. To start with, Robb Walsh introduced us to the concept of a Wal-Mart supermercado, which might not go over as well as Wal-Mart is hoping, because the main competitor to the Hispanic-style Wal-Mart is the regular Wal-Mart. After some quick tacos and a tall, frosty mojito limonada, J

  June 12, 2009

• Texas Traveler: Dr Pepper Museum

  Photo by Jeff BalkeWaco isn't the first place that comes to mind when people think "road trip." Instead, visions of an ultraconservative town that was once the site of an epic, fiery battle between a cult and the United States government spring to mind. Fortunately for Waco, the town actually has much more to offer than the distant memories of a standoff gone bad and a now-vacant field. Photo by Groovehouse The entrance to the museum is around the side...One of the things on t

  June 22, 2009

• Frozen Fast Food Frenzy

  I, for one, welcome our new McFlurry overlords.It's hot as balls in Houston. You can do your best to hurry from air-conditioned house to air-conditioned car to air-conditioned movie theater / bar / restaurant / etc., but at some point you're going to be forced to spend more than 30 seconds outside. Just last night, Eating Our Words got stuck at an outside table for three solid hours because our friends are smokers, and of course smokers would cut open your still-beating heart if they thoug

  June 30, 2009

• For Flu Season: The Top 5 Comfort Foods and Drinks

  It's official: flu season is here and it's hit with a vengeance. Television news reports deliver frightening messages from the Director of Health and Human Services while we're forced to watch Matt Lauer get a flu shot on the Today Show, and our moms keep calling us to remind us to get plenty of rest and not to share drinks with the other kids in the office. So while we're slathering ourselves in Purell and homeopathic elderberry tinctures in what will surely be a futile effort to keep the swin

  October 7, 2009

• Top 5 Cheesiest Soft Drink Commercials

  Coca-Cola Hilltop Commercial Thirty years ago, Coca-Cola imagined itself as the arbiter of world peace. Let's just buy the world a Coke and everything will be hunky-dory. Today, America is often despised as a "Coca-Cola" culture, and Coke itself is blamed for the skyrocketing rates of obesity and diabetes in young people. Lo, how times have changed. On the plus side, this commercial had a catchy jingle and anticipated the mainstream celebration of diversity (cheesy costumes notwithstanding) w

  October 15, 2009