Orange Julius, Anyone?
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
It’s one thing to have a craving for something you shouldn’t have. Bad enough, for instance, when you’re trying to lose a few pounds and a craving for fetuccine Carbonara hits.* But that’s nothing next to having a craving for something you literally can’t have. I’ll never have my grandmother’s fried fish or potato pancakes again, for instance, but I have intense cravings for both at least once a month.
This comes to mind because tonight, from out of nowhere, I had a craving for an Orange Julius. I can’t figure out why; they had the same watered-down hint-of-fruit flavor that you get from, say, Gray’s Papaya. Not exactly the stuff of which nostalgia is made. But all of a sudden, I had to have an Orange Julius. (more…)