uludag gazoz

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once more i find myself delving into the curious world of foreign drinks, then. indeed this has happened far more frequently than i would have thought likely, look you see. as this is the closest (or nearest) i get to doing anything particularly adventurous, well, why not. 

recently i was wandering around my nearest (closest) supermarket, Lidl, as one is so prone to do when in need of some provisions. this supermarket is celebrated for getting in all sorts of curiosities at random, making it a good deal more exciting than the other stores, sticking as they do with the predictable and the banal. anyway, on the recent trip i mention i spotted some drinks which looked fascinating. 

uludag gazoz it is called. nope, no idea what that means. i had a closer look and saw that they were not alcoholic, which put them immediately on a "maybe" list. the price was 99p per can, which struck me as rather more expensive than i would usually pay for such. however, i then noticed that it described itself as "legendary", and so decided to buy. generally speaking if you have to call yourself something then you are not that thing, rather it is a title or reference you so crave and aspire to be. 

provenance (prior to Lidl) of this drink is Turkey, going on the can. no, i don't know too much about the country, bar partially funding one of my (known) children taking a holiday there. mostly my knowledge would be limited to Midnight Express and what Spiros has told me of his encounters (predominantly short term mutually beneficial friendships) with Turkish men. neither of those, truth be told, has ever really inspired me to visit. oh hang on, that's where people go to get people to f*** around with their teeth and make them look awful, isn't it? 

since this drink was legendary, albeit in a self-proclaimed sense, i elected to break out the Boba Fett ice cubes and Bullseye tankard to give it a go. this month, November, is not a natural one to utilise ice, but everything of the quasi glacier like (or snowy ice mountain) design on the can suggested that this was to be the done thing. 

how is the drink? not so bad, actually. it has a slight tinge of sweet lemon to it, but not an overt or overwhelming one. quite pleasant really, and i would say yes, i enjoyed drinking it. there would be little chance of me seeking more out at the price i paid, but this would be somewhat irrelevant as on the visit after this one i made (to Lidl) they had no more. oh well. 

would i consider having a go at another, different drink from Türkiye? almost certainly. i could understand people going there more to drink stuff like this than have their teeth all f****d up, put it that way. perhaps Lidl (or similar) shall get this drink (or similar) in again, so i don't have to take a flight to get it. 

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