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| - The great scholar George W. Bush once delivered the wise words "Fool me once, shame on you.....you fool me you can't get fooled again"....apparently this one along with many other of his sayings were unfortunately untrue.
I ventured here nearly a year ago when they took over a previous smoothie joint and the decor and general feel looked very promising and after trying some concoction with berries, kiwi, and some citrus, I thought it was fairly one-dimensional, maybe a tad watered down, and had no desire to invest in a punch card for return visits. Fast forward to today when I needed a pick-me-up before jumping on the highway for my half hr commute home from work. With 20 yelp reviews averaging 4 stars, I figured it couldn't be half bad, right? By no means am I a smoothie snob, since I've had my share of overly sweet, watered down, improperly proportioned mixture of fruits, or too much additives like yogurt or vitamin supplements, and I've been completely OK since it's all mostly healthy stuff compacted into liquid form involving less effort on my part and fairly palatable.
Walking in, I noticed there was a large poster advertising a "seasonal pumpkin smoothie perfect for the fall!" which was strike 1. Strike 2 was when I asked about the all fruit smoothies made with fresh fruit and the guy behind the counter was like "Oh, you don't want to try those since they taste too sour"......let's take a step back and think about this....we're not talking about catching salmon right off the coast or farm raised chickens here, this is fruit you pulsate into a blender with ice and perhaps some sweetener, shouldn't one be able to find some decent fruit down the street that has some resemblance to the fundamental taste of sweet? Now as I'm about to pick one of their standard ones with frozen fruit juice, he then talks me into trying his personal favorite..."the Islander" with fresh guava, peach, pineapple, and passion fruit? Kinda ambitious since none of these fruits are necessarily available or in season. Had I not been anxious to rush home and get my smoothie on the go, I would have immediately returned this concoction and had him personally taste my smoothie not to necessarily prove a point, but to have him swallow a mouthful just so he could empathize with my experience. Pretty sure the island this smoothie was named after was Antarctica since there was nothing resembling a fruit flavor in this beverage and the predominant flavor was crushed ice. Vitamin water would have tasted like a milkshake compared to this watered down mess that was "1 lower" if the Spinal Tap volume knob had a measure for sweetness. There were chunky bits of fruit that I could not identify as anything within the description and reminded me of the rough core of an unsweet pineapple or the white rind of a watermelon....completely unpalatable on any level. I imagine when the Nazi guy chose the wrong cup in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, his reaction may have been the same as when he took a sip of the Islander (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtcZv89Hspk). It's one thing to be duped for picking the wrong item on a menu, but when you go for what's considered the premium stuff (fresh fruit) and get the personal staff endorsement (the Islander), it is pretty inexcusable for something that can be made at home with a blender and an accessible supermarket of any level of quality.
I shalt not be fooled again...
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