Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

I had a Brita filter at the end of its life, and a bottle of Barq’s Cream Soda, and wondered what would happen to the soda after it had been filtered. Unlike a normal person who would leave that curiosity unanswered, I conducted the experiment and photographed it so you don’t have to ever do this to see what it’s like.

Here’s what happened:

Not too much happened to the colour, so before taste testing the new drink, I had Ashley pour the drink through the filter again.

When it had run through and the last drop was ready, I slurped up the now bland drink. Before being filtered it was sickly sweet, and after the filtering it was more bearable, like it had been diluted. Since the filter was mostly dry before the experiment, it probably didn’t have much water in it to dilute the Barq’s. When I ran the filter under water after, the drips were pink for almost a minute, showing I suppose the gross amount of red food colouring they stuff into the drink.

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Flipping through my photo album, I encountered the first picture I ever took, back in 1985 in Nova Scotia. I wasn’t quite the steady-shot that I am today, blurring this portrait past the headache eyestrain threshold:

Here’s an interesting shot too from 1981 of Wood Mountain, SK

[Top is north.] Many of those buildings are gone, including the Pioneer grain elevator in the top corner. A few new buildings have popped up in place of others, or in what were then empty lots, including my parent’s home which isn’t pictured because it showed up 5 years later and off-frame to the left.

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Basil’s blog has an open trackback “picnic” day, so I’m linking to his article and in turn that blog will link here.