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Pour me a Tab
This may be kind of Nicole Richie of me, but I really like Tab Energy drink.
By “like” I don’t mean “enjoy consuming.” There are two things I appreciate about Tab Energy, and flavor is not one of them.
First, it works. Possibly, Tab Energy is eating its way through the lining of my stomach even as we speak, but I am wide awake right now. It’s a tradeoff.
But more importantly, I find Tab Energy glamorous. I know this is hard to imagine, but when I was a child, there was no such thing as Diet Coke. I think there were a few low-rent pretenders, but Tab was really the only game in town when it came to diet sodas.
Not that I, in the sugar-laden innocence of youth, drank diet sodas. But I was aware that grown ladies did. They enjoyed a Tab after their aerobics class, or maybe while out with their girlfriends at a restaurant with exposed brick walls, where they would order a Tab with their salad. (Note: At the time, I disliked all vegetables, but still approved of the concept of salad.) Back home at their apartment they would pour themselves a Tab over ice. And their apartments would always include wicker furniture, potted plants, thick carpeting, a hefty collection of Olivia Newton-John albums and huge, fluffy cats. It goes without saying that they would also have a waterbed.
Tab Energy is my romantic notions of adulthood distilled and captured in a slender, pink can. I’ll never be as cool as the girls of the ’70s. But at least I’m alert.
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By Ellen
March 27, 2006 10:28 PM | Link to this
So perfectly put. I always pictured Tab as That Girl's drink of choice.