{"id":176,"date":"2007-10-09T20:36:57","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T01:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/posts\/2007\/10\/09\/the-worlds-most-complicated-and-dangerous-soft-drink\/"},"modified":"2007-10-09T20:36:57","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T01:36:57","slug":"the-worlds-most-complicated-and-dangerous-soft-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/posts\/2007\/10\/09\/the-worlds-most-complicated-and-dangerous-soft-drink\/","title":{"rendered":"The world&#8217;s most complicated and dangerous soft drink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/img_9629_resize.JPG\" title=\"Ramune Lychee drink\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/img_9629_resize.JPG\" title=\"Ramune Lychee drink\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/img_9629_resize.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"Ramune Lychee drink\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Found this crazy drink at a T&amp;T Asian grocery store in Toronto: Ramune Drink, from Shirakiku.  Lychee flavour.  It must be the most complicated and dangerous soft-drink in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the instructions for opening the bottle:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/img_9630_resize.JPG\" title=\"Ramune opening instructions\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/img_9630_resize.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"Ramune opening instructions\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>How to open:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Remove the seal from the top.<\/li>\n<li>Detach the plunger from the center of the cap.<\/li>\n<li>Place the plunger on top of the bottle.<\/li>\n<li>Press down firmly with the base of your palm to release the marble.<\/li>\n<li>Throw away the seal, cap, and plunger.<\/li>\n<li>Have fun drinking Ramune!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Plungers?  Marbles?  What the hell am I getting into here?  Must follow these instructions to the letter.  Otherwise it could be dangerous:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/img_9631_resize.JPG\" title=\"Ramune warnings\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/img_9631_resize.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"Ramune warnings\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/img_9631_resize.JPG\" title=\"Ramune warnings\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"> DO NOT SWALLOW THE PLUNGER.  Throw it away immediately after opening.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Adults should open the bottle for small children and supervise drinking.<\/li>\n<li>Do not try to remove the marble from the bottle to avoid injury.<\/li>\n<li>Do not freeze the bottle or store it in direct sunlight.<\/li>\n<li>Do not consume if the marble is broken, missing or descended before opening.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Umm&#8230; maybe I&#8217;ll just have a Coke instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Found this crazy drink at a T&amp;T Asian grocery store in Toronto: Ramune Drink, from Shirakiku. Lychee flavour. It must be the most complicated and dangerous soft-drink in the world. Check out the instructions for opening the bottle: How to open: Remove the seal from the top. Detach the plunger from the center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}