Made in Everett: Cascade Ice Carbonated Water
Where ya been? It’s 2018 and carbonated water is the rage these days.
The market is swelling as every major beverage company is trying to get on what I (a mere consumer) can only interpret as a wave of carbonated water fanaticism.
The cultural phenomenon is made manifest on the internet as social media swells with memes roasting the living daylights out of LaCroix.
Is LaCroix that pretentious? You know people been drinking this stuff for years, right?
The weird thing about these “carb waters” is that most of them ain’t nothing but plain water and CO2... and something labelled as “natural flavor.”
“Natural flavor”is sure a nebulous term. Could mean a lot of things. Which is why I’ve recently become a huge fan of Cascade Ice water beverages.
Before we go any further, let me be clear that I’m not being paid to endorse this product. Nobody is flying me around in a jumbo jet or coming by my house to fill my (nonexistent) kidney-shaped pool with carbonated water.
But, yeah, to be clear: I’m open to such offers.
I’ve started favoring Cascade Ice because a lot of their cans have a big circular icon on the front that says “certified organic.” That cues me into the fact that there are actual organic compounds in all that fizzy sipping. Right on. That, in my mind, puts them a cut above the competition clattering in the marketplace for consumer dollars.
Recently my wife, an observant person, pointed out that Cascade Ice is made here in Everett. I Google searched and, sure enough, they’re near Boeing and they distribute to grocery stores throughout the nation.
Like Boeing, or Funko, or Pocock shells, Cascade Ice makes nationally-recognized products right here in Milltown.
Cascade Ice! In Everett! I guess I’ve been supporting local this whole time without even knowing it. My wife said, why don’t you write an article about them, telling your readers that this is going on in our city? And so I did. And you’re reading it. Now you can support local, too.
I looked into the Cascade Ice website a bit closer and I see that they offer 30 flavors of water. Not all of them are organic. Some of them have sugar added. Their blog also has recipes for snacks and cocktails. And their social media is surprisingly lit and regularly updated.
Cascade Ice. Drink it and taste the Everett flavor. No... it’s not gritty. It’s surprisingly refreshing!
CASCADE ICE IS AVAILABLE AT ALL MAJOR GROCERY STORES.
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Richard Porter is a writer for Live in Everett.
