Every Friday marks one of my favorite - or shall I say flavorite - traditions that make working here at ASC so pleasant: group breakfast! At the end of the week, everyone in the office gathers in the conference room to chow down on the delicious treats that two of the ASC team have selected for the grand occasion.

This week, things became very interesting when James was in charge of bringing in the beverage.

Juice? It's been done before. Coffee? Boring; we have that all the time. Smoothies? A little too fancy, perhaps. And thus, everyone got to try something special, something new. Something so specific and unique that you'll know I can't be making it up. This week, the Actual Sizers were treated to something I can only think of calling Blue Drink.

Well, it was technically blue raspberry, if you want me to be specific. Now, if you're like me, your first thought is probably something to the effect of the following: "What...what...how do they even make that!?" Well, I did some investigating, friends, and it turns out they make it with ingredients such as high fructose corn syrup. citric acid, natural and artificial flavors, potassium sorbate, acesulfame potassium, sugar, neotame, sucralose, sodium benzoate and of course, (presumably a lot of) Blue #1. Nutritious, no!?

If you're still like me, your second thought is probably something to the effect of the following: "What does that taste like?" Again, friends, I've done the leg work for answering this question, so allow me to enlighten you. First, I have to mention that whe [removed][removed] n you pour Blue Drink into a glass, the specific color of the blue looks different than it does while in the bottle. Once in the glass, it is significantly lighter and brighter. Okay, so there's that. As far as taste goes, Blue Drink tastes exactly like a blue raspberry snow cone but without the shaved ice. It's the kind of thing where, as you drink it, you sort of wonder if your tongue is now going to become that color. It's very, very sweet, in both senses of the word - it is literally sweet (so much that it sort of makes your teeth hurt a little bit) and it is also awesome.

All in all, it's a very interesting beverage, particularly at 9 AM, but I'd say it certainly helped me to get my day going.