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"Morning, everyone!" said Summer, perhaps a bit too cheerfully, but that was starting to be par for the course for her classes these days, wasn't it? She stood at the front of the classroom with several little disposable cups scattered around in front of mysterious unlabeled pitchers of various different beverages. So already, you knew this was going to be...fun.

"I have very recently fallen into a bit of a wealth of beverages that prove that food crimes are not just a thing of the past: there are many of them alive and well and happening today, even outside my own kitchen. A lot of these come from the synthesis of artificial flavors and chemicals that allow food scientist to do things like make a soda taste like grass or bacon or s'mores. Which begs the question: just because you can, does it mean you should?

"Odd pops, however, are indeed thoroughly modern, but, as we learned last week, ancient people could sometimes do some weird stuff to beverages, too. Granted, their reasons typically had a lot more to do with the fact that easy access to clean and uncontaminated water was a rarity and adding things like vinegar to you drink was a good way to kill off bacteria that would make you sick, where there are arguably absolutely no benefits to consuming a ranch-flavored soda, but I digress.

"I thought, since I have all these modern weird sodas from a mysterious benefactor," who she will happily blame for all of this should anyone complain...and she expected at least someone to complain, "I thought we'd do something a little different today. Blind taste tests, on a variety of different different drinks, and the goal is for you to figure out: Ancient Beverage Crime? Or An Abomination from This Day and Age, Happening Right Under Our Very Noses? And we'll just see where that takes us."

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Liz wondered for a few moments if this would be something she'd be safe to try in class and she did hover near the drinks for a bit as she debated.

"I don't suppose there's really any safe ones for me to try?" she considered, tilting her head slightly as she tried to figure out if she did actually want to try one.

"Technically speaking," Summer noted, "I'm pretty sure none of these are safe for anyone to be drinking. But...."

She took a moment to consider what the options were, and rearranged a few cups to move them forward for Liz.

"These should be fine," she decided, which included all of the sodas (but not the meat seltzer, that just seemed cruel) and the posca. Everything else? Summer had no idea, but it just generally seemed to err on the side of caution with those.

Liz hesitated and then reached over to pick up one of the drinks, that turned out to be the s'more soda and took a tentative sip, "I think this one is the s'more soda?" she asked and then took another mouthful, blinking as she could really taste the chocolate, apparently she was really having a craving for chocolate and it didn't matter that it happened to be in a soda.

"Oh," then she remembered what the purpose of the activity was, "is this something that is more modern?" she tried.

"It is," Summer confirmed with a nod. "Although, fun fact, we do have evidence of marshmallows that trace back to ancient Romans, Greeks, and Egyptians. But the s'more itself didn't start making an appearance until much later."

Look at her! Retaining information she'd googled and sharing it in class like a real teacher over here!

“Oh, I didn’t actually know that about marshmallows,” Liz admitted as she placed the now empty cup down and wondered if it would be weird if she asked for more.

“Um…I don’t suppose you have any more of the s’more soda?” she tried.

It was really a good thing she hadn’t eaten any of the maggot cheese the other week.

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This whole class was a terrible idea, Liz, why were you like this?

Summer just sort of looked at her for a moment before shaking her head, and figuring that, honestly, at least s'mores soda wasn't all that bad.

"I've got a few bottles of this one," she assured her. "They're yours if you want 'em, and I can probably see about stocking some more at the store, too. At least for the next few months."

"I would like that thank you," Liz smiled, "I didn't expect to end up liking it as much as I did,"

She did consider trying the other ones but maybe one was enough for one class, otherwise she would probably want leftovers of them as well.

"...okay, now I can't help but wondering," Summer said, after a moment, "if just regular s'mores would also quench the craving, or if it's just going to be the s'mores soda..."

Liz tilted her head as she thought about it, “I’m not too sure, I really liked the chocolate in the drink, it might just be chocolate I’m having a craving for,” she considered.

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