{"id":26953,"date":"2007-05-07T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/05\/07\/metromint-what-were-they-thinking\/"},"modified":"2007-05-07T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T10:00:01","slug":"metromint-what-were-they-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070507-01\/?p=26953","title":{"rendered":"Metromint: What were they thinking?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some friends gave me a bottle of spearmint Metromint<\/a> as a gift. And as it turns out, it was a mean-spirited gift.\n Let’s look at that bottle. It calls itself “pure, simple mintwater®”. What the heck is pure mintwater? Do you go to the local mintwater stream and collect it? Oh, wait, sorry. That should be mintwater®.\n With some trepidation, I took a sip. Yuck-o. It’s like drinking chewing gum. Why would anybody want this?\n But wait, there’s more. On the side of the bottle, there’s a picture of a thermometer, and the mercury reads −6°, or “extra cool.” Whatever that means. The bottle never explains.\n On their benefits<\/a> page, if you click through to “rehydrate”, it says that “the good stuff in Metromint<\/b> gets where it’s going quicker, and goes to work faster.” Huh? What’s the scientific basis for this claim? Quicker than what? And the biggest mystery of them all: What part of Metromint is the “good stuff”? I haven’t found it yet.<\/p>\n

Whatever. My point is that this stuff is awful. And I’m not the only person who thinks so<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some friends gave me a bottle of spearmint Metromint as a gift. And as it turns out, it was a mean-spirited gift. Let’s look at that bottle. It calls itself “pure, simple mintwater®”. What the heck is pure mintwater? Do you go to the local mintwater stream and collect it? Oh, wait, sorry. That should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-26953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Some friends gave me a bottle of spearmint Metromint as a gift. And as it turns out, it was a mean-spirited gift. Let’s look at that bottle. It calls itself “pure, simple mintwater®”. What the heck is pure mintwater? Do you go to the local mintwater stream and collect it? Oh, wait, sorry. That should […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}