Drink me!

Nantucket Squeezed Nectars Half and Half

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Ever since those adventurous camp days spent playing with the soda machine, blending such unorthodox cocktails as orange/Coke/7UP/root beer (mmmm), we've appreciated playfully daring beverage mixtures. That's why the latest from Nantucket Squeezed Nectars -- Half and Half, half lemonade and half iced black tea -- screamed "Drink me!" so compellingly from the shelf at the local Store 24.

A Nantucket Nectars spokeswoman told us that since lemonade and iced tea consistently seem to get lumped into the same beverage category anyway -- not a soda, not a warm caffeinated beverage -- the company figured, what the hell, why not make the marriage official. And since both iced tea and lemonade have been such big sellers, it seemed that mixing them might increase the cash flow.

This sweet, tangy, not-from-concentrate fruity beverage may not have the punch of that other famous mixture, the black and tan, or the meant-to-be-together feeling of peanut butter and chocolate. But the real perk to this union lies in its caffeine strategy: it provides that finely tuned, tasty half-hit for the oh-so-necessary late-afternoon nip.

-- Nina Willdorf

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