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Passionate, That’s What We Are.

Hi there. Been a while I know. Missed me? You did? Oh that is so sweet. I missed you too. No, you’re the sweetest. No you are. Really. No you.

So thanks to the goings on over at Project Life, my day to day existence is subject to the whims of a stuffed-toy.

Today Monkey decided I needed to organise some kind of soft-drink (soda for my US readers) challenge. No getting around a direct telepathic command, so here is…

Now in case you are not versed in Antipodean Beverage Lore, over here we have two major brands of Passion-fruit flavoured soft-drink. “Passiona” made by Cadbury’s and “Pasito” under the KIRKS label. (Though Kirk’s is really just the Coca-Cola company..)

It is, as far as I can tell, widely accepted that ‘Passiona’ is the ‘Original’ Passion-fruit drink and ‘Pasito’ is the knock off.  (I actually haven’t been able to confirm this through research, but I did find a 1952 advertisment for “Passiona” so if nothing else at least I know the Cadbury’s version has quite a vintage.)

The first thing we did was to have the fabulous Lizbt see if she could determine which can was which – using only her sense of touch coupled with any other kind of instinctual extra-sensory perception she might possess….

(King James bible to add the right amount of gravity to the proceedings…)

She guessed wrong.

Then I got her to (while still blindfolded) taste both varieties of Passion-flavored liquid joy.

She totally guessed right.

What a feeling.

Then I underwent the same grueling procedure.

I not only aced the flavour test, but immediately preceeding that I guessed which was which JUST FROM THE CANS.  I know. Your excited reading this – I’m excited typing it!

I’m so excited in this shot that I think my IQ dipped right down to that of a Capuchin monkey..

Here is a little insight into our scientific method and the results produced….

And here is the ultimate conclusion that Lizbt came to based on a detailed analsis of the raw data..

I find it hard to argue. It’s science people!

(I don’t want to hear anything at all about us having a 50% chance of being right, so don’t even start on that.)

So there you have it.

Oh, and personally I think ‘Passiona’ is by far the superior flavour. This is probably because it contains Preservative 211 and 202. ‘Pasito’ only has Preservative 211, pale imitation if you ask me…

After an absence of almost two months I really thought I should wait until I had something pretty special to make a triumphant return with. But what can you do when you have to OBEY THE MONKEY.

N.B Hopefully update on  gaming related things to follow…