Way back when, Coke test-marketed a drink called Surge, and I loved it. It was green, and didn’t taste like Mountain Dew, but it had lots of go to it, and as a writer who often spends the wee hours trying to stay awake in front of the typer, I appreciated that. In fact, it got to the point where I couldn’t write without the stuff, which is about the time I moved across the country and to a place where they didn’t make Surge. And then it vanished forever.

Now, six or so years later, they put out this “new” drink Vault. Well, let me tell you this: Vault is Surge. It’s just a different label. Maybe the marketing is different; now they have to call it a “hybrid energy drink”, to catch people onto it. But it’s the same stuff. And it’s good, and I can find it at my local PathMark without paying ten bucks a can on eBay. So that’s good. Or maybe I shouldn’t say that, because the stuff could vanish just as fast as it appeared…

Everyone says the diet version sucks, but I like it.