My Encounter With Mandeep

It has been a long, long time since I've written a real blog. Since the pandemic days, in fact. But this warrants it. So there I was, going about my usual afternoon busywork at the AVN compound, when I hear a call from downstairs: "Hello?" I thought I heard my co-worker moving in that direction to see what was up, but then a few minutes later: "Hello?" Looked like it was gonna be up to me. So down the stairs I plodded, and immediately found myself face-to-face with a short, pudgy, balding man seemingly of Indian descent, whom I will call "Mandeep" for the purposes of discretion.  "Hello sir, is there somebody I can talk to here? This is the AVN?" he asked me. "Well yes, what do you need?" I asked. "I have traveled so far, I just need to talk with somebody who can help me," he implored. "OK ... what's happening? What's your question?" I persisted. "I want to find out how can I get into the industry?...

ALERT: DR. PEPPER ZERO HAS ARRIVED

I can't even pretend otherwise—this is a monumental happening in my sad little world. I literally made a public plea for this YEARS ago, and now, in the year of our coronavaccine 2021, my prayers have suddenly and miraculously been answered out of the clear, wondrous blue. Yes, as you can see below, DR. PEPPER ZERO SUGAR is a very real, not at all imaginary product that I have held in my own grubby hands and poured gleefully down my Pepper-hole, as I call it:


As far as I can tell, this is not a replacement for Diet Dr. Pepper, but rather an added, separate alternative. And as much as I never thought this possible, I am here to say on the record that it is in fact better. It actually tastes MUCH closer to regular Dr. Pepper. In other words, it's kind of a miracle in a bottle.

But wait ... where does this leave my beloved, holy grail beverage DIET DR. PEPPER & CREAM SODA? Oh, this is where things get even more insanely, orgasmically incredible: The Dr. Pepper gods have gone and created DR. PEPPER & CREAM SODA ZERO SUGAR!!!!!!!!! (They did it with Cherry too, but one thing at a time here.) 

OK, so I have NOT had the undoubtably jizz-tacular pleasure of sampling this yet, but it seems to be abundantly available, so rest assured I will very soon. And I'll report back.

In the meantime, all I can say is this is shaping up to be one unexpectedly fabulous year for the ol' Scrog. Here's to hoping things continue on this trajectory. 




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