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Taxes got your blood boilin’?

Cool off with a Nestea! 

Only 59 cents-No Deposit-No Tax.

At the time of this writing, Portland Meteorologists have predicted nice weather for this weekend. 

Time for Ice Cream!!!

At Peterson’s, our ice cream may not be as entertaining as this fella’s, but on a nice sunny day our ice cream is equally delicious!

This is our friend Terry. He works the night shift at Michelle’s Piano Co. here in downtown Portland. Terry has lived in the Portland/Vancouver area for about 12 years now, and says he likes living here because it’s a fairly clean city compared to most.

Working the night shift can be a daunting task, and to help get through those long nights, Terry doesn’t mess around. He goes straight for the hard stuff, as evidenced below.

Terry throwing caution to the wind.

Coffee House Roasters “Hi-Rev”® Cappuccino contains something like 101 mg of caffeine per 8 oz. serving. So it definitely packs a pretty good punch. And for those 2 or 3 people out there that don’t do the caffeine thing, there is also French Vanilla and Hot Cocoa to warm up your innards. Which will come in handy when we start getting cold weather again here in the NW.

And if you do decide to go for the Hi-Rev® Cappuccino, perhaps you will hear a song like this bouncing around the inside of your skull, as I often do, after consuming mass quantities of caffeine.

If you find the events of the day leaving a bad taste in your mouth. We would like to provide a solution. Yes we know it won’t fix things in the long term. But what’s wrong with living in the moment sometimes?

So without further adieu, here is a little eye candy to sweeten up your day, or night….

Oreo Moon Phases is a great way to learn about our Moon. Education never tasted so good.

Designer Oreo Cookies for the elitist in all of us.

Fried Oreo Cookies for the inbred elitist in all of us.

The History of Candy respectively.

Candy Critic, the name says it all.

Candy around the World.

Gummy Handcuffs for the adventurous. 

The Great Gummi Bear Project.

KitKats of the World UNITE!

Candy Bar Wrappers Galore!

GumArt, chew your way to fame!

And what better way than to end with a Rainbow?

Although we do not sell loaves of bread, we do sell chances at winning some, and this Saturday’s Powerball Jackpot is NINETY TWO MILLION DOLLARS!!!  UPDATE: TWO HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS!!! Can you imagine winning that? Even after taxes that’s a lot of Benjamin’s! So why not drop a buck or two on your favorite numbers. You never know…..

If you decide to purchase a Powerball ticket on a Wednesday or a Saturday, be sure to do it before 6:29 p.m Pacific time. That is the cutoff time on drawing days.

And if you win, you can buy a bakery. That way you’ll never run out of bread in more ways than one.

From time to time we will be spotlighting some of the products that we carry in our stores.

On this particular occasion, we would like to turn your attention to a new product from “HOTLIPS”.

HOTLIPS Soda

Quote from the HOTLIPS Website:

“HOTLIPS Soda is real fruit soda pop. Ripe, fresh locally grown fruit is cooked in open kettles to bring out the flavors, seeds are filtered out (but not fruit pulp), water, pure cane sugar and organic lemon juice are added, it is carbonated and put into bottles. It’s that simple. No small percentages of real fruit. No shortcuts, supplements, artificial flavors, concentrates or trickery. And no corn syrup.

Because HOTLIPS supports local farmers they can stay on their land and farm. Our food is better that way but so is culture, community, land and economy. We have so much to lose if the small farms go away. Not only the delicate, unusual varieties of fresh foods, but the health of land and people, tradition and artistry. We lose habitat, glorious landscape and a sacred relationship to our place. We forfeit the pride and responsibility of stewardship. That’s too big a price.

Throughout the year HOTLIPS captures the tastes of the Pacific Northwest. Early summerstrawberries, then raspberries and blueberries. Late summer boysenberries and blackberries. The nights cool, apples and pears ripen. Flavor nuance in HOTLIPS Soda varies from batch to batch depending on the varietal, the heat of the day and cool of the night. Creating Connoisseurs of the young and old, as they compare batches, seasons, years, equalizing food snobs and kids.”

If you haven’t tried it yet, you are missing out. This has to be the yummiest soda ever to pass through me lips yo. It tastes like you are drinking pure raspberries or blueberries or whichever you choose.  And the idea of using locally grown fruits and berries as ingredients just makes it taste especially yummy.

Here is a video clip with an interview of one of the co-owners of HOTLIPS, David Yudkin, giving a little 411 about HOTLIPS Soda.  Credit for the video goes to GardenGuy06, producer of the “Garden Time” tv show.

Visit the HOTLIPS Website here.  http://www.hotlipspizza.com