Sunday, June 1, 2014

Theme Day- Zest

I took the coward's way out... sort of. Today, June 1, 2014 is Theme Day across the CDP (citydailyphoto) community. Zest is this month's challenge. I didn't think long about this one. I checked out my backlog of photos, and I'm not kidding in my crazy, demented way I could have made everyone of them fit the theme's parameters. Too many choices. I wasn't going there. The Carling Black Label brewing company has a beer called  Carling Zest, one of those fruit-flavored beers that I usually steer clear of, but it was nowhere to be found on local shelves. 
So I settled.
I'm coming clean.
Believe it or not, Mom actually bought this stuff.
It was one way her dirty, little urchins would 'come clean'.
Zestfully!

22 comments:

  1. Yeah, I had to buy 8 bars of the stuff so Birdman could take this photo. We're going to be zestfully clean around here for a long time, whatever that means.

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  2. Oh right! Now I remember Zest soap, from the America of my youth.
    Did they really promise we'd be "zestfully clean"? haha

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  3. Ah, Birdman, I have more faith in you now that you have come clean.

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  4. how funny... i wondered if anyone would use the soap ... well done .. hey Elenka, i would have snapped a shot in the supermarket ... ;)

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    1. Oh no....Birdman has made it clear...HE has to be the photographer. That day, I was doing the errands, he was mowing grass......
      What he really wanted was the Carling Zest beer, but after going around to 3 stores and not finding it, I made an executive decision and got the soap.
      Not the suds he hoped for...

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  5. I use cocoa-butter and shea. The label is not Zest, though. Good post, and not the lazy way out at all!

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  6. May the zest be with you, with or without fruit flavour!

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  7. Lol! What a brilliant take on the theme!

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  8. i love zest! :) and now i'm singing their jingle. :)

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  9. ha, now i'm singing zestfully clean! and not cowardly at all, pretty clever!

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  10. I didn't know this was still around! Good one, Birdman.

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  11. I remember this soap! I think this is a great choice for the theme.

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  12. I love it! We used that soap growing up too!

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  13. We still use Zest soap. Not this type, but the green or white bars. Now you know why I'm so full of zest. And yes, I know what some folks have said I'm full of and it wasn't zest so you need not comment about that. OK? :)

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  14. I thought about this myself!

    I can only use Ivory. My skin tends to get irritable with other soaps.

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  15. You're not fully clean, unless you're zestfully clean!

    I've never seen the shea butter variety. But my gran still uses the traditional green bar that smells really zesty!

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  16. I didn't think they made this anymore. Nice one.

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  17. Sending Elenka off to get it? Birdman! Have you no shame. Hmm, I think I already know the answer.

    I used Zest soap faithfully for years, not because it was any better than any other, but because it was made by Procter & Gamble. I got a full tuition, four year P&G scholarship to college, so I only use P&G products. Fortunately, they now make a far better soap for an old faht like me.

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  18. Damn. That's what I would have posted if I'd gotten around to it. Maybe with some lemon peel shavings.

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  19. So you got, literally, the perfect zest!

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  20. How neat to actually find something with the word 'zest'. Perfect!

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