A New Flavor

Joe signed the lease on our apartment a little over a month ago. After the technicalities of the paperwork were over and their business was concluded, our kind Korean landlord offered Joe a celebratory drink. Mr. Landlord poured for them a thickish green liquid full of floating translucent things, and they drank in businesslike companionship of contract-signing happiness.

Ever since, Joe has been addicted to the thickish green liquid full of floating transparent things. The transparent things are slippery and nice to mush with your teeth. I myself enjoy half a glass when I'm making dinner. We go through like four bottles of this stuff per week.

What? No, we haven't found an alcoholic beverage we enjoy. This stuff is juice. Usually when you think "juice," you think grape juice, fruit juice, grapefruit juice, orange juice, apple juice. But this stuff...is aloe juice.

Sweetened aloe juice is actually widely dranken here. Drunken. Drank. Whatever. I even saw an aloe juice bottle by the side of the road earlier. There are at least three different brands, but this is the kind we like:

Note the abundance of delicious pulp!

If aloe juice seems to be out of stock at your local grocer, just ask for Guaeelchon brand aloe juice.

Assuming I interpreted that L correctly in "Guaeelchon," and that it's not an R, because L and R are the same character and you just gotta know which one is being used in your word. Also assuming that the G in "Guaeelchon" isn't more of a "K" sound, because they share a character, too. But the sounds are so similar that it almost doesn't matter.

So, yeah, ask for it. They probably just have it in the back. Shouldn't be a problem.