A TYPICAL POINTLESS TBP UPDATE

They still make TaB. And apparently ‘TaB’ is the correct way to spell the soft drink which preceded Diet Coke by about 20 years.

Of course, I’ve known about TaB’s existence for a while. I once had a parishioner who was a keeper of the TaB torch and, since her husband owned a convenience store, she was able to have a more-or-less unending supply of the stuff. I mostly recalled TaB as one of those products I used to remember seeing all the time. Eventually my curiosity got the better of me and I had to try it.

I think it tastes a lot more like Coke than Diet Coke does.

At one time I held out great hopes that TaB would fill a gap in my household; namely, that of being a soda which I could tolerate but my soda-crazed wife wouldn’t touch. And, indeed, the first time I brought home a 12-pack, she didn’t drink a one. But then all the other soda was gone, and my sinister plan was foiled.

So I guess it’s back to square one. Too bad that Jones Soda is all sold out of their Green Bean Casserole soda from Thanksgiving.