You know, I’ve never liked the taste of domestic Dasani. I assume they probably use the same formula as the British version, which means I’ll really never drink it again:

First, Coca-Cola’s new brand of “pure” bottled water, Dasani, was revealed earlier this month to be tap water taken from the mains. Then it emerged that what the firm described as its “highly sophisticated purification process”, based on Nasa spacecraft technology, was in fact reverse osmosis used in many modest domestic water purification units.

Yesterday, just when executives in charge of a �7m marketing push for the product must have felt it could get no worse, it did precisely that.

The entire UK supply of Dasani was pulled off the shelves because it has been contaminated with bromate, a cancer-causing chemical.

Oh good—a crap product that’s dangerous for you too!

I actually prefer drinking water to most other beverages. My Brita pitcher is in constant use. I also drink a great deal of Arrowhead (because I buy it by the case of bottles with the sport-tops, which I keep in the car) and Crystal Geyser. I don’t much care for Evian (or, as my sister put it: “We drink domestic! None of that imported stuff!”).

From Reuters:

Deep-Fried Chocolate Sandwich Sells Like Hotcakes

LONDON (Reuters) – Chocoholics seeking to indulge their passion this Easter will appreciate a British hotel chain’s diet-busting chocolate sandwich, which boasts the added attraction of being dipped in batter and deep-fried.

Ramada Jarvis introduced the delicacy last month and said on Wednesday the calorie-heavy dish had become the fastest selling dessert on its menu.

“We were surprised it has become so popular, although it is very tasty,” said the chain’s director of food and beverages Debbie Walter.

The sandwich is particularly popular in Scotland, traditional birthplace of the mother of all deep-fried desserts, the battered Mars bar.

Mindful that Britain, along with other Western countries, faces an increasing problem of obesity the hotel chain also offers less fattening desserts.

“The chocolate sandwich is not something if you are on a serious calorie-controlled diet, but we do offer alternatives,” said Walter.

Ramada Jarvis has 65 hotels in Britain, but only 36 currently offer the waist-expanding dessert.

Actually, Zingerman’s Guide to Good Eating: How to Choose the Best Bread, Cheeses, Olive Oil, Pasta, Chocolate, and Much More (a book I highly recommend, by the way) has a recipe for a grilled chocolate sandwich that is very much like a grilled cheese sandwich. Strangely, I have not tried that recipe out yet. Their recipe for chocolate pudding, however, is to die for. (Although the recipe says it contains 8 servings, take my advice and make it 12 or 16 servings. I couldn’t finish a 1/8 serving, and I’m a card-carrying chocaholic.)

Thirteen things not to do when you go to see The Passion of the Christ.

My favorite:

Complain about the subtitles. Comment from time to time that you didn’t know this was a “foreign film”. Once or twice, laugh hysterically after a random line in Aramaic and exclaim, “That’s not what he said!”