Day: April 9, 2018

New Diet Pepsi Slender Cans

A few months ago Coca-Cola released five somewhat new Diet-Coke flavors in slender silver cans to attract the taste buds of Millennials. Pepsi’s marketing department figures what is good for the goose is good for the gander. So now Pepsi is releasing their version of skinny silver cans with non-original flavors. Slick!

What ever happened to turtle soup?

We do not eat turtles. Turtles eat pizza. There was a time in the U.S. where turtle soup was a popular dish. In early black and white movies, it was common to see turtle soup on a menu. The waning of the dish grew because of our affinity for the turtle being a cute creature. From Pogo’s bard of the swamp “Churchy” to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, we were conditioned to not eat turtles but to make them our pets. The peak of turtle soup came when an overpopulation of people rushed to the San Fransico area during the Gold Rush. Food was very expensive.
In 1971, The Endangered Species Act was passed and killing sea turtles in United States waters was prohibited. Granday’s and other turtle canneries went out of business.