Bubly – Grapefruit

Not a bad grapefruit flavor at all—it’s subtle, but as I said before, with grapefruit, you want it to be subtle. Am I a broken record here? Grapefruit is everyone’s favorite sparkling water, whether or not it’s got a French name. Talking about French—I was trying to think of a way to describe the otherworldly color of this can, a standout feature, here, and it just occurred to me that it’s a metallic version of French salad dressing. That weird orange you never see in nature, unless you include dumpsters as part of nature. I suppose it’s the uncomfortable mix of several garbage items into a sickly orange mess. Maybe that’s why you never see French dressing anymore—it’s a thing of the past! And what made it French in the first place? The other place I’ve noticed this particular orange (I mean, the not-metallic-version of it) was in the Sad Sack comic books, which were about a hapless sailor who constantly gets into trouble. There were always some misadventures involving gross bucketfuls of slop, or garbage, and I’ll never forget it—they used pretty much this shade of orange to depict it!

No. 123 – 9.17.25