{"id":580039,"date":"2010-04-26T11:05:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T15:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rehabilistation.com\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2010-05-26T11:05:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T15:05:49","slug":"you-want-me-to-drink-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/580039","title":{"rendered":"You Want Me to Drink What?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am admittedly not the trendiest girl around.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have designer shoes or a luxury car or get my hair blown out.\u00a0 Actually, where I live getting your hair blown out means you drove with a window open, but I don\u2019t do that much either.\u00a0 The NYC crowd would have a field day with how un-cool I am with my suburban clothes and addiction to Dunkin\u2019 Donuts iced coffee.\u00a0 I am about as mainstream as they come, and for this I am generally unapologetic.\u00a0 It\u2019s who I am and I\u2019m OK with that.<\/p>\n

Although un-hip, I am quite interested in doing things to keep myself and my family healthy.\u00a0 I try mightily to get my children to willingly eat vegetables. I don\u2019t cook red meat. I choose fresh ingredients rather than food-in-a-box whenever possible.\u00a0 I am embarking on an experiment to be a vegetarian, and I recently gave up caffeine for a month.\u00a0 I am willing to try new things \u2013 within reason.<\/p>\n

There was a recent article in the New York Times<\/a> about the popularity of a fermented tea drink called kombucha.\u00a0 Apparently this tea can do all kinds of magical things like re-growing hair, calming digestive issues and curing hangovers.\u00a0 Those who drink it claim that it is quite delish.\u00a0 Sounds good, right?\u00a0 I\u2019m in! I could be the first one in the suburbs to partake of this delightful elixir!\u00a0 How do I get it?<\/p>\n

This is where things get a little hairy for me.\u00a0 Because kombucha is made by immersing a disk of bacteria into brewed tea and letting it sit, unrefrigerated, for up to two weeks.<\/p>\n

A disk of bacteria.<\/p>\n

In your tea.<\/p>\n

On purpose.<\/p>\n

I am so not down with that.<\/p>\n

I understand the benefits of probiotics.\u00a0 I eat yogurt (from the refrigerator, thank you very much).\u00a0 But, I have to admit that I wouldn\u2019t even drink the plain tea if it sat out for two weeks \u2013 and the introduction of the bacteria disk into the equation does nothing to improve the situation for me.<\/p>\n

I suppose the nature of kombucha is essentially similar to beer. \u00a0Fermented substances in a drink are not that uncommon.\u00a0 And yet, I can\u2019t quite get my head around voluntarily introducing bacteria into a completely acceptable drink like tea.\u00a0 I guess I don\u2019t brew my own beer either, although I do enjoy drinking it.<\/p>\n

There are packaged versions of kombucha available, including one made by Red Bull<\/a>.\u00a0 I am slightly more comfortable with the manufactured versions, mostly because I work under the assumption that beverage manufacturers are as terrified of being sued as I am of dying of kombucha poisoning.<\/p>\n

I am a big sucker for slick marketing and putting anything, even something utterly disgusting, in a pretty bottle and giving it a fun name goes a long way to drawing my interest.\u00a0 If I actually went out and purchased a Carpe Diem Kombucha, it would be an ultimate marking success for them.<\/p>\n

Ooooo\u2026pretty bottle\u2026.fancy name\u2026who cares what\u2019s in it?\u00a0 I must have it!<\/p>\n

I want to be cool and brave enough to jump on this bandwagon and give kombucha a try.\u00a0 But the reality is that it\u2019s probably beyond my capabilities to be that cool and brave.\u00a0 And the Dunkin\u2019 Donuts coffee is working just fine for me, thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am admittedly not the trendiest girl around.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have designer shoes or a luxury car or get my hair blown out.\u00a0 Actually, where I live getting your hair blown out means you drove with a window open, but I don\u2019t do that much either.\u00a0 The NYC crowd would have a field day with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}