DIY Cola
Around the time I started to get interested in anarchism, I developed an “admiring from afar” attraction to the DIY scene. Anyways, I took a step closer to it today by trying to make my own Cola. Before I continue, let me just say that my expirament was a total failure. I couldn’t find some of the oils or the gum acerbic that the recipe called for. I didn’t have a container big enough for the two liters the recipe called for. And I think I used too much sugar. Anyways, what I was left with was sugar water that settled really quickly. I mixed the concentrate with sugar and Club Soda. I imagine this will go flat pretty quickly. I did come up with one glass of stuff that tasted reasonably like Cola, and I did find a restaurant supply store in the Strip that should have some gum and possibly the oils I need too. So next time, I’ll probably have some more success.
Not only was it gratifying to make something myself (even if I wasn’t totally successful, like when I tried to do limeaid), not only is the end result cheaper, healthier and better tasting, but when you move closer to the source, up the supply chain, you break yourself a tiny bit free-er of capitalism’s hold on you. I have a bad habit with soda. I drink to much of it. If I could start to make my own, I could distance myself from consumerism.
And that’s rewarding in and of itself.
