Remember when Original New York Seltzer was the only flavored seltzer around?

I was in Lincoln City, Oregon this summer... and there it was. On the shelves.

 

Closest batch of New York Seltzer to me is about 100 miles away at a Safeway store.
ONYS – Always Be Original.
I loved the Raspberry, Blueberry, and the Root Beer.

 

Lincoln City is very pretty. I worked for several weeks there on a $10 million beach bluff mansion. The house had a parapet wall roof, and we were placing concrete blocks weighing 60 to 100 pounds along the wall. Because they weren't made to spec, we had to cut each one down to the proper size before we could place it and level it. That was the easy part. The hard part was packing those blocks up a ladder to the roof.

Saw a whale one day.

The house was amazing inside with a winding staircase lined with books. If you picked "Through the Looking-Glass," a secret room opened.

The owner made his fortune in railroad cars and spent maybe three weeks there all year. Never met him.

Mrs. Swingline and I went back a few years ago on vacation, but I couldn't find that house at all.

 

I absolutely loved the city. A welcome surprise on our trip to the region.

 

One of my best friends moved to Lincoln City about 2 years ago. If you see him, say HI for me. Thanks.

 

My sister in law got married in Portland about 14 years ago and we visited the Oregon coast for an afternoon. We ate and walked around in a really nice little town and saw some very big, cool rock formation in the shallow water on the beach. Would that have been Lincoln City? Or another town?

 

How is that? It is beer at its core.

 

Calories. They're probably closer to a vodka soda than a beer. This is a pretty good explainer: How Tax Policy Gave Us White Claw

 

Alcohol is the biggest source of calories regardless of the drink. Unless the seltzering process removes all carbs from the beer, it is going to be close to the same.

 

I don't remember many rock formations at Lincoln City, but they're all over the place up and down the Oregon coast.