Mt. Shasta

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Josh Feltman

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Snapped this on the way home from Portland.

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I like the area around Mt Shasta. It's east of the main mountain range, and in the rain shadow. So, get off the slopes of Shasta, and you're in desert. There's some real neat cedar growing across the rolling flats.
That area is pretty sparsely settled, too.
Rattlesnakes like it.

munk
 
Great pic, Josh:) I certainly like it better than I do this Shasta:

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Tastes like flat IBC and dirty motor oil:barf:

Jake
 
Shasta was the cheap brand my Parents would get for us kids when we went camping.


munk
 
Sweet pic Josh. Jealousy headed you're way sir.
 
Furthermore, why does every can of Shasta have dirt all around the top of it:confused: ?

I know it's a cheaper brand, but can they NOT afford to spray the tops of the cans off before they are shipped out? It's like they pay some low dollar workers to grind each and every can into a tray filled with dirt clods, soot, and cat hair.

"Grind those cans faster, men! By God, I WILL NOT be out-filthed by Vess! Not on my watch! Really get it in there. I want these people to have to run their sodas through the dishwasher to be able to drink them. They have to KNOW that they have bought THE low price alternative. The dirt...the dirt tells them that they have shopped wisely":D

Jake
 
Steely_Gunz said:
Furthermore, why does every can of Shasta have dirt all around the top of it:confused: ?

I know it's a cheaper brand, but can they NOT afford to spray the tops of the cans off before they are shipped out? It's like they pay some low dollar workers to grind each and every can into a tray filled with dirt clods, soot, and cat hair.
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Some folks call it rustic. Betcha it's popular with hippies. :rolleyes: ;) :D
 
I'd bet it's not cat hair, anyway. Rats probably like Shasta, as do flies.


munk
 
They mine the raw ore that gets refined into the various flavors of Shasta Soda from the south face of the mountain. There's a Shasta refinery in Dunsmuir that smells worse than a rendering plant.
 
Wow...talk about thread drift....

All the way from beautiful mountain scenes to the sordid secrets of soda manufactures...:D

nice pic, and thanks for sharing.
 
nice pic, I can see the top of shasta from my front porch even though it is over an hours drive from here, don't get up there much. Is a decent place for snowboarding, I like Lassen better for summer hiking though.
 
they call it mt. shasta because the crater at the summit has a ring-pull top that is a state secret. test bores have indicated the mountain is filled with an artificially flavoured cola which has crystallised in the lower regions of the mountain and is mined for the shasta refinery which converts it into other flavours. the pork flavour is not popular in the middle east so is not generally available overseas.
 
Actually, the Dwarfs mine Shasta deep underneath the mountain. They are a dark, sour, vindictive race.
They drink their own cola.




munk
 
munk said:
Shasta was the cheap brand my Parents would get for us kids when we went camping.


munk
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Feel fortunate Munk...at least there were different flavors of Shasta. After playing hard all day hiking, chopping wood and other camp related duties I only had Tab to drink. Seemed I had to suffer for my mothers diets.
DanR
 
You got me; Tab's worse.

Shasta has a berry flavor that's not too bad. The Orange is OK. And they have SUGAR.


munk
 
CallsThunder said:
Feel fortunate Munk...at least there were different flavors of Shasta. After playing hard all day hiking, chopping wood and other camp related duties I only had Tab to drink. Seemed I had to suffer for my mothers diets.
DanR
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I see Tab is making a come back. My wife started to pick up a 12 pack a few weeks ago because she is a curious thing that was never allowed soda as a child. I stopped her with firm grab to the wrist and stern "No!" I too had Tab forced upon me by my mother:D Tab always makes me think of Flashdance and Fame. I guess if i drank it I would exercise and dance around a lot too...anything to get that taste out of my mouth. Tab had the taste of the 80's. I don't know how to explain it. I'm pretty sure if you cracked open Charlie Sheen's head in that decade and then drank the contents you'd have a worthy Pepsi challange with Tab....on second thought, lets try that today. Only lets just leave out the drinking of Charlie's brains as well as Tab. This is a public service....not masochistic torture.

I also see that Tab has an energy drink out for the ladies. Nothing sounds more yummy to me than a sugar-free, mega-caffinated, nastier-than-Shasta, heart-exploding drink in a pink can:D

Jake
 
Tab does sound like an Orwellian nightmare.
Mother's can be very strange. The idea of putting my kids on a diet soda, with all the artificial sweetners, just because I was on a diet.....Was it too hard to also select a couple sixes of regular soda? Were the mothers afraid, just like Maxine Waters and Korean grociers, they'd be unable to refrain from drinking the 'good stuff' were it available?

Fresca is probably better than Tab, if you had to drink any of it.
If you just added artificial sweetner to a glass of water you'd have 99% of what a soda is. The other 1% is food color, artificial flavor, and the dirt on the top of the can.


munk
 
It wasn't that Tab was forced upon me...but at that age I hadn't discovered how great water is. Anything was better than boring ole water.
DanR
 
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