{"id":12765,"date":"2018-05-10T21:50:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T02:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=12765"},"modified":"2018-05-10T21:50:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T02:50:07","slug":"product-review-caramel-cooler-with-bubbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=12765","title":{"rendered":"Product Review:  Caramel Cooler with Bubbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had been anxious to try this one. I love Caribou coffee and especially caramel coolers. And the idea of square bubbles intrigued me. Although I was a little skeptical of the idea of drinking up chunks in my straw&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>How bad could it be?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12777\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12777\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12777\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/caramel-cooler-with-bubbles-R-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/caramel-cooler-with-bubbles-R.jpg 768w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/caramel-cooler-with-bubbles-R-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, if you like half drinking, half chewing a cold drink then this is right up your alley.\u00a0 Or if you like chewing on cold over-chewy jell-o this is for you!\u00a0 OR if you want a straw larger than life, you&#8217;ll want this!<\/p>\n<p>Seriously. The straw was massive.\u00a0 That should have been my first warning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12778\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12778\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12778\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/giant-straw-compared-to-pen-R-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/giant-straw-compared-to-pen-R.jpg 768w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/giant-straw-compared-to-pen-R-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12775\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12775\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12775\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/giant-straw-R-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/giant-straw-R.jpg 768w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/giant-straw-R-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why, oh, why would you need such a large straw?\u00a0 To suck up a mouthful of cold jell-o type cubes of course!\u00a0 I could feel them filling my mouth as I was drinking.\u00a0 And you know you&#8217;re not enjoying the drink if you&#8217;re dreading having to chew them after swallowing the drink in your mouth.\u00a0 Call me lazy, but I don&#8217;t want to have to work at eating my food!\u00a0 By the end I was so sick of the cubes that I was spitting them out and just trying to drink around it, which is impossible by the way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The cubes themselves were pretty tasteless, just very chewy.\u00a0 And square.\u00a0 Which makes me wonder why they didn&#8217;t advertise it as a caramel cooler with &#8220;cubes&#8221; rather than bubbles&#8230; since bubbles are round.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12776\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12776\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12776\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/square-bubble-R-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/square-bubble-R.jpg 768w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/square-bubble-R-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, nice try Caribou.\u00a0 But this one is not for me.<\/p>\n<p>Moral of the story.\u00a0 Never try new things.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 I&#8217;ll stick with my traditional, boring, tried and true, caramel cooler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been anxious to try this one. I love Caribou coffee and especially caramel coolers. And the idea of square bubbles intrigued me. Although I was a little skeptical of the idea of drinking up chunks in my straw&#8230; How bad could it be? Well, if you like half drinking, half chewing a cold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12765"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12765"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12781,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12765\/revisions\/12781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}