bits of ink » Food http://www.bitsofink.com parchment, pixels, and parody Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:27:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Code Red http://www.bitsofink.com/2006/06/06/code-red/ http://www.bitsofink.com/2006/06/06/code-red/#comments Tue, 06 Jun 2006 20:49:00 +0000 ilan http://www.bitsofink.com/blog/?p=298 The world is going more and more crazy, and this time, at least, it isn’t my fault. I recently came across the following on the label on a bottle of Mountain Dew Code Red, a substance with little to negative nutritional value, yet one which aided a great many of my late-night coding sessions:

Contains: Carbonated Water, High-Fructose Corn Syrup AND/OR Sugar…

And/or sugar? And/or sugar?! I’m sorry, but the phrase ‘and/or’ belongs in insurance contracts, not in ingredient lists.
Then again, I suppose that there were early warning signals that Code Red was bad news. First of all, the name: it definitely violates my never-drink-anything-named after-emergency-situation-terminology policy, which I plan on sticking to much more carefully in the future.1 Second, the color should’ve been a tip-off. That particular hue is generally reserved by nature for such crucial messages as “I’m a tropical flower! Pollinate me!” or “I’m a particularly good-looking parrot! Let’s mate!” or “I’m heat vision coming from Superman’s eyes. Die, villain!”
Since I am neither Lex Luthor, nor able to pollinate much of anything, nor particularly attracted to parrots (good-looking or otherwise), maybe this isn’t the beverage for me.
You live, you learn, I guess.

“AND/OR?” Sheesh.

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1The policy mentioned above is similar to my don’t-eat-anything-that-sounds-like-an-Aladdin-character policy. This, of course, is why I do not eat Babaganoush.

]]> http://www.bitsofink.com/2006/06/06/code-red/feed/ 4 They’ve Got a Way With B-O-L-O-G-N-A http://www.bitsofink.com/2005/07/26/theyve-got-a-way-with-b-o-l-o-g-n-a/ http://www.bitsofink.com/2005/07/26/theyve-got-a-way-with-b-o-l-o-g-n-a/#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2005 08:14:00 +0000 ilan http://www.bitsofink.com/blog/?p=290 True story.
A few months ago, I was in Scranton, PA (Motto: “We’re not stupid enough to be coal miners…anymore.”), visiting family friends with my family. I woke up Saturday morning, and I was laying in bed, and I asked my brother the following question:

“If your bologna really did have a first name, and, like, you knew it, then would you really be willing to eat it?”

I believe he was speechless.

(And for those of you who have no clue what I’m talking about, look here. Cretins.)

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