Your own COLA Recipe!!

Brew it yourself Cola! The 7x formula -

NB. 1 batch of 7x formula will produce three batches cola syrup, or approximately 54 litres of cola.

Step 1: 7x formula:

Using food-grade essential oils, assemble 3.75ml orange oil; 3ml lime oil; 1ml lemon oil; 1 ml cassia oil (nb. reduce cassia content for next production); 0.75ml nutmeg oil; 0.25ml coriander oil (6 drops); 0.25ml lavender oil (6 drops); 0.25ml neroli oil (optional/removed due to high cost).

Using a measuring syringe, measure out the oils into a glass or ceramic container. Keep covered to avoid volatile oil fumes escaping. Then dissolve 10g instant gum arabic (equivalent to 22ml) in 20ml water (low calcium/low magnesium, Volvic is good) with one drop vodka - Cube uses Zubrowka. (Be aware that total quantity of vodka will be 0.0007ml per litre of Cube-cola).

Place the gum/water/vodka mix in a high-sided beaker - stainless steel or glass are best. Using a high-power hammer drill with kitchen whisk attachment, whisk the gum mixture at high speed while your assistant droppers the oils. Mix in steadily with the measuring syringe. Continue to whisk at high speed for 5-7 minutes, or until the oils and water emulsify.

The resulting mixture will be cloudy. Test for emulsification by adding a few drops of the mixture to one glass of water. No oils should be visible on the surface. You now have a successful flavour emulsion, which should hold for several months.

Step 2:The mixers

This makes two allied concentrates, Composition A and Composition B, which can be stored separately before being mixed into cold syrup with the addition of sugar and water.

Composition A

Mix 30 ml double strength caramel colouring (DD Williamson Caramel 050) with 10 ml water. While stirring, add 10ml 7x flavour emulsion (oils/gum/water mix).

Composition B

Mix 3 tsp (10ml) citric acid with 5-10ml water, then sieve in 0.75 tsp (2.75ml) caffeine. Mix thoroughly using a pestle and mortar until caffeine granules are no longer evident. The mixture may behave erratically, turning either white or clear for no apparent reason. If it goes white, add more water. Pass through muslin or jelly bag to remove any anomalies.

At this point, A+B can be packaged separately and later reconstituted into cola syrup.

Step 3: The cola syrup

2 litres water; 2kg sugar

Compositions A & B

Make a sugar syrup (mix in a cooking pot on low heat to dissolve quickly) using 1.5 litres of the water and all the sugar. Filter if unsure. Mix Composition A into the remaining 500ml water. Add Composition B, then the sugar syrup. You now have 3 litres Cube-Cola syrup or approx 18 litres cola.

Step 4: The cola

As required, make up your cola as a 5:1 mix, five parts fizzy water to one part cola syrup. Cube uses 350ml syrup in a 2l bottle of Tesco Ashford Mountain Spring. This cola recipe is released under the GNU general public licence.

Petrol Company 'Shell' posts $27,500,000,000 PROFIT!

It's funny how the big oil companies make it seem that it's OPEC gouging us with the $100/barrel mark for oil .. it seems they are doing a bit of gouging on their own. Everytime we hear about the next new alternative fuel source based vehicle, somehow it never seems to see the light of day.. conspiracy? i'm absolutely positive. Who wouldn't want to continue posting record profits like that.. i'm sure if you were some big oil company.. you would do the same.

Love to hear your comments on this.

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What would happen if he pulled this shit on Tony Soprano?

What would Tony do?

A potential scenario for your less imaginative folk:
Businessman: Hi, look at me. I'm a business professional.
Potential Client: Just give me the f@*&@(* card!!
Businessman: No, you gotta see this dude!
Potential Client: *sigh*


How To Give Your Business Card - Funny bloopers are a click away

Why couldn't Starbucks think of this?

Kopi Coffee

Many diners opt to enjoy a simple cup of coffee. Allow us to suggest a cup of our signature Kopi brew, roasted from only the finest coffee beans freshly cast from the anus of a civet. We can verify that of all the Indonesian weasel-like creatures we fed the beans to, the ones from the civet shit tasted the best.

For your further reading pleasure: http://coffeetea.about.com/cs/kindsofcoffee/a/aakopiluwak.htm

Here's your weasel shit coffee, sir. That'll be $50.

Happy Meal a la McFilet

Golden Tigerfish

The next course may not arrive at your table in a timely fashion, unless you happen to be dining on the coast of the Zhanjiang province when this is plucked from the water.

This is a tigerfish. They are not particularly renowned for their flavor or texture, but consuming them becomes a hot ticket when they happen to be a rare golden-colored fish as featured above. Culturally speaking, the golden tigerfish is served with a complimentary side of Good Luck and Wealth, which not even the most illustrious meat pie can claim. The value of this fish comes in at approximately $75,000. It may seem a bit over-inflated, but remember that no one is going to have to dump gold leaf on it, which really makes it cost-effective.

A portion of this fortune-granting ichthyoid would cost approximately $1,651.30. When you're tipping against that cost, don't forget to factor in the irony surcharge that also comes with it.

really... no really... i said really... stop what you are doing. imagine doing this in montreal during rush hour at lionel groulx... for your american folk (i love you guys), it's pronounced phonetically: leonell (like lionel richie but with a french accent..) grew. (how the heck do i know how much he grew?! go google it)

Ummm.. trailer park home schooling?

Found this the other day while reading some old forums. I would love to make a comment, but then it would turn into an endless rant. Let's enjoy the humour (humor for you American folk) in this.