Tuesday, March 14, 2006

I dont generally do text, but this is quite brilliant.

From today's Guardian:

Sunny Delight burst on to the market in 1998 and reached the league table of top brands in 1999 by selling itself as a healthy drink, although its original recipe was only 5% juice with plenty of sugar and water as well as vegetable oil, thickeners, added vitamins, flavourings and colourings.

The health watchdog the Food Commission accused then owners Proctor and Gamble of a con for selling it from fridge cabinets. In 1999 paediatrician Duncan Cameron reported a new and alarming condition in the medical journals: Sunny Delight syndrome. A girl of five had turned bright yellow after drinking five litres a day. She was overdosing on betacarotene, the additive used to give the drink its orange colour, and the pigment was being deposited in her skin.

The marketing dream turned to a nightmare: by coincidence television adverts at the time showed two white snowmen raiding the fridge for Sunny D and turning bright orange.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/0,,1730387,00.html

Saturday, March 04, 2006



That Hector Guimard was quite a genius
(Paris)


That German friendliness seems to have spread to Paris
(Paris)


Carter in 'Jee-had' mode at the Great British Beer Festival.
(London)


Nothing special, but I quite like this picture.
Man, I was so happy to get out of this country. Ridiculously dull.
(Ireland somewhere)


It constantly amazes me how westerners turn EVERYthing into a tourist attraction. This is a bloody stone that supposedly gives you 'the gift of the gab' if you kiss it. People come from all over the world, climb up a castle, stand in line and kiss a stupid stone. Yeesh.
(Somewhere in bloody Ireland)


The man who made regurgitation an art form. Brilliant.
(Killarney, Ireland)


Not that this picture is of any interest to anyone, but it's so cool, I had to put it in.
(Cliff of Moher, Ireland)


Political correctness at the Guiness Brewery. Sheesh
(Dublin)


A really nice restaurant in an otherwise dull city
(Dublin)


We had this cat for precisely two days. Monty and Janine thought it would be very funny to name him Leo. It wasn't.
(London)


That's reassuring to know
(London)


I thought this was wildly amusing. Turns out, so did Channel 4
(London)