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Parents and teen traveling from the US through your amazing country this last week, from Edinburgh to Ballater with charming stops in Aberdeen and Dundee (during Doof, no less!) in the middle. Apart from our fryups, teas, skirlie, fishes and chips, pints, cullen skinks, pavlovas, peas and pea sprouts, baked potatoes with beans, and sticky toffee puddings, we’ve been enjoying all kinds of fabulous snacks we can’t get over there. Apart from a fried Mars bar, what else should we become hopelessly addicted to before we leave Thursday? Should we grab the aggressively grinning Snowballs from the Co-op after dinner tonight?

So in my dream, my friends were raving about this drink and were telling me how to find it. Apparently, you have to identify a secret marquee symbol on a Shoney’s-type roadside destination. We had all seen it, as it said something innocuous and vague like “YOU KNOW THE SPECIAL!” but I’d never clocked that it referred to the availability of a special drink. The beverage in question was sort of a Dr. Pepper version of Bart’s extreme slushy from “Boy-Scoutz ‘n the Hood” (S5E8) containing an overly chilled, slushified Dr. Pepper made nearly spicy via the addition of extra syrup, and all its devotees had an identical experience of giving themselves severe brain freezes and Hot Ones-esque sweats by trying to drink it too fast, so the server had to explain that you were waiving your rights to a refund once you slurped down more than two inches of slushie if you found yourself incapacitated by flavor. I tried one and it did the thing I had been warned about, but it was so delicious, I couldn’t help myself. Anyway, that’s my story about extreme slushy soda.