A1 and I were out with his friend SpiderBob in an interesting part of town the other night eating dinner at a fabulous Vietnamese resturaunt. As all good resturaunts tend to be, this was a little bit of a dive in a highly “ethnic” portion of our fair city. After we finished our fabulous food we decided to wander over to the ValueMarket in the same shopping district. SpiderBob mentioned they had a wide selection of fabulous foreign cookies at quite reasonable prices so of course we just had to see what was available.

We were wandering around what turned out to be a mecca of ingredients for Thai, Indian and Mexican cuisine when I stumbled across the most fabulous thing I’ve seen in a while. Sitting there dusty on a bottom shelf was a large (literally it is as long as my arm from elbow to fingertips) plastic bottle of Slovinian bottled soda. The soda’s name, cockta, the bottle, the most phallic thing I’ve seen outside of an adult store, much less a grocery store. For a mere $3 it was mine.

My thought was how could I NOT purchase this little wonder, it was just too good to pass up. So now sitting on my desk is a large black cockta. It’s already more than earned it’s $3 pricetag. I don’t think I’ll ever actually drink any of it, it is caffeine free, and the third listed ingredient on the label is “various plant extracts”, so really what’s IN the bottle has no value to me. I’m all about the package.