{"id":228,"date":"2009-03-31T13:59:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T13:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyfork.com\/lemon_flavored_soda_is_perfect\/"},"modified":"2021-04-22T19:48:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T19:48:44","slug":"lemon_flavored_soda_is_perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/lemon_flavored_soda_is_perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemon Flavored Soda is Perfect for Baptisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The priest at a Norwegian church exercised some quick thinking when faced with frozen pipes and an inability to get water for a recent baptism. Turning to what was readily available, the enterprising man of the cloth opted for lemon flavored soda, and used that to baptize the child. <a href=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Metro.co.uk<\/a> reports that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/weird\/article.html?Church_baptises_baby_with_cola&amp;in_article_id=603702&amp;in_page_id=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The child&#8217;s family were only informed about the switch after the ceremony, because the priest &#8216;had a need to inform&#8217; them about the lingering lemon odour.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re assuming this won&#8217;t become standard practice, but if we were going to choose a beverage for our child&#8217;s baptism we&#8217;d totally pick Mountain Dew, and it would be the most extreme baptism ever. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><\/p>\n<table class=\"image center\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lemon-Soda.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/files\/lemon-soda.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"380\"\/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"caption\">The classy choice.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The priest at a Norwegian church exercised some quick thinking when faced with frozen pipes and an inability to get water for a recent baptism. Turning to what was readily available, the enterprising man of the cloth opted for lemon flavored soda, and used that to baptize the child. Metro.co.uk reports that: The child&#8217;s family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Daily Fork - Lemon Flavored Soda is Perfect for Baptisms<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Daily Fork - Lemon Flavored Soda is Perfect for Baptisms\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The priest at a Norwegian church exercised some quick thinking when faced with frozen pipes and an inability to get water for a recent baptism. 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