NOTE TO SELF: Is this story kosher?
Perhaps it's just the cynic in me but I find this a little hard to swallow.
Jones Soda Co., a Seattle-based purveyor of offbeat fizzy water, is selling holiday-themed limited-edition packs of flavored sodas. What makes this story intriguing is that they are proposing a ham-and-latke-flavored soda.
Talk about trying to be everything to everyone!
Jones Sodas Christmas Pack flavors include Sugar Plum, Egg Nog, Christmas Tree and Christmas Ham. They are also claiming that their newest product will be kosher - including the ham!
Actually, the packages are divided up according to the holiday with the Christmas pack featuring such flavors as Sugar Plum, Christmas Tree, Egg Nog and Christmas Ham. The Hanukkah pack will have Jelly Doughnut, Apple Sauce, Chocolate Coins and Latke sodas.
"As always, both packs are kosher and contain zero caffeine," Jones said in a statement.
The packs will go on sale Sunday, with a portion of the proceeds to be given to charity, the company said.
Jones' products feature original label art and frequently odd flavors. Last year's seasonal pack was Thanksgiving-themed, with Green Pea, Sweet Potato, Dinner Roll, Turkey and Gravy, and Antacid sodas.
For its contract to supply soda to Qwest Field, home of the Seattle Seahawks, Jones came up with Perspiration, Dirt, Sports Cream and Natural Field Turf. The company -- fortunately or unfortunately -- prides itself on the accuracy of the taste.
Excuse me while I gag...
Jones also makes more traditional flavors, including root beer, cherry and strawberry. I dunno - call me silly but I'll pass on the ham soda.
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It's funny, how you think you know someone in the public eye as they come into your world view and then discover they have a life going on you never imagined. I was trolling the remainders section of a bookstore in Berkeley (Moe's? Pegassus?) shortly after the release of the film A Perfect Murder starting Mortensen, Michael Douglas and Gweneth Paltrow. Its a remake of Hitchcock's Dial M for
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First, that is not a typo. Nash titled these little things Limicks and without finding any hard documentation I believe these were his invention, an abbreviation of a short-form Limerick: short one line, each line short three syllables of a traditional Limerick. I read once (or did I dream it) that some have confused the Limick with a Clerihew but (nerd alert) The Limick's rhyme structure is
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Kurt Vonnegut wasn't the first author who dabbled in an invented religion as a way of expounding his character's (and his own) operational beliefs. In Cat's Cradle Vonnegut laid out Bokononism, a mash-up of various Eastern philosophies as expounded by a double-speaking guru encamped in the Caribbean paradise of San Lorenzo whose hymnal was composed of calypsos. The second chapter in the book
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This is going out to the client soon, so any feedback/criticism would be greatly appreciated.
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School finally started in this neck of the woods and in honor of that I thought I'd trot out this little lunch box surprise. A Balanced Meal by David Elzey I brought my lunch to school today With all my favorite stuff, Like French toast topped with gravy And burnt marshmallow fluff. My sandwich includes pickled eggs With jam and sauerkraut, Hot mustard and green jelly
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Maria Testa Candlewick 2005 I was originally going to bow out of Poetry Friday this week with a collection of original things that, honestly, I wasn't sure were worth the electrons. Instead I discovered a collection of poems that caught me in a funny place. The night before I was ranting on to anyone who would listen (my wife) about all the things that I hated about this country and the way
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I caught a peep at a new book due out in the spring called America At War, poems selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins, illustrated by Stephen Alcorn. The selections are grouped by the major American wars starting with poems about the Revolutionary War and concluding with poems from the Persian Gulf War of 1991. I had been looking lately for a poem about the Vietnam War that might resonate today. I
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A thought for your Friday courtesy of Def Poetry Jam and the wonderful poet Idris Goodwin.
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When I was a kid the newly created volunteer army was attempting to rebuild its ranks through advertising -- something about joining the army, see the world. In response there were counter-cultural bumper stickers and buttons (available in the classifieds of Rolling Stone or the pages of High Times or your hipper hobby shops) that mocked their attempting-to-be-with-it efforts with the rejoinder
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I realize that this week’s link round-up is very heavily biased towards 3quarksdaily, but what can I say, they are doing a great job over there, I had to stop myself from linking to more of their posts. Happy Friday to all. I hope you are enjoying August while you can, before you know it Fall will be here.
Biofuels: All You Need To Know for a Bar Conversation.
On resistance to the great Raul Hilberg.
An Obituary For Hilberg. (more…)
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and other theater poems by Ruth Krauss Something Else Press 1968 First you put an image in your head of Ruth Krauss, author of children's classics The Carrot Seed and Open House for Butterflies. Now you paint a picture in your mind of the late 1960's with hippies performing experimental theatre. Superimpose those two images and you get this odd collection of poetic playlets. Clearly some of
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Happy Friday everyone. I hope it is an uneventful weekend for you, no steam pipe explosions, no torrential rain, no visits from he-who-must-not-be-named (sorry had to get the Harry Potter joke in). Below are some links to keep you busy while you while away this summer Friday.
- -Warning, demagogues may be on the loose in your neighborhood.
- -I was so excited that I finally had room in my NYC apt for a 72″ bookshelf and then I saw this. I want one!!!
- -I can’t decide what I think of this piece on love. Cheesy or profound?
- -Submit your questions to the philosophers involved in The God or Blind Nature Debate.
- -News that is more fun than the real thing.
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I should state up front that this poem uses some colorful language, in case you're a fan of such things. Or not. In a previous life I worked at a radio station as the Director of Public Affairs programming. Basically I oversaw the non-music programming that fulfilled our FCC requirements and allowed us to maintain our license. That sounds much more important than it really was; my duties
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I'm taking the plunge and joining the Poetry Friday melee. And when I say melee I'm using the more archaic meaning of "a group of diamonds, each weighing less than 0.25 carat" both in reference to fellow poetry bloggers and with a particularly oblique reference to the subject of my inaugural post. The poem is from a collection called Song of Men which, when I first came across it, brought a
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Happy Friday everyone! Last night I saw one of my favorite artists play (and he rocked) and Sunday I am leaving for a work related trip to the UK (followed by some personal time there.) Don’t fret, due to the wonder of Wordpress there will still be posts everyday while I am gone and internet addict that I am, I will still be checking my email. I may approve comments a bit more slowly than you are used to though. (more…)
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The picture above is a detail of the illustration below. It's meant to be a Spring picture, so the robin is busy singing, still looking for his mate.
I've been working on my slice of a postcard that our Illustration for Kids group is sending out collectively as a Spring promo. I thought it might also fit for the Illustration Friday topic "green".
Sometimes it's hard to be creative, I've been feeling a bit flat lately. Spring is always a nice inspiration though, and I like this peaceful scene. I'd like to be sitting under that tree!
AND he was on the Colbert Report. I knew he painted and wrote poetry, but I didn't know he'd started his own press. He's making the rest of those pretty faces look bad.
Holy Cow! Now I really have a crush on him!
I saw an interview with him once and thought he seemed incredibly complex and - well, definitely not your average Hollywood hunk. But damn, he didn't mention ANYTHING about poetry or painting. Thanks for the glimpse at his other talents.
He's actualy only fully fluent in 4 languages-English, Spanish (he lived for 8 years in Argentina and Venezuela), and Danish (his father is a Dane). He is mostly fluent in French.He also speaks Norwegian, Swedish, and Italian, all passably. He was a translator for the Scandinavian hockey teams (Sweden, mainly, iirc).He speaks a bit of Russian (because of his latest film), and Lakota (for
I stand corrected.
the site is www.percevalpress.comAlso something of a photographer, and sometimes musician, though I gotta say I don't get his music. I guess you would call it "experimental jazz," but I would call it noise. He's about to release a classical music CD - piano pieces he supposedly dug up and played while researching his role in Good.
I do like that Hillside poem. Thanks.