Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Made from the best stuff on Earth

To Flop's sadness, Snapple has yet to devise a gooseberry-jicama tea. But they just did something almost as good -- caused fruit juice mayhem to spill all over Union Square. (The debacle is well documented by the authoritative New York site, Gothamist.) It was a marketing effort gone haywire, and I can only hope that candidates from The Apprentice were responsible. If so, they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law; if not, this was pretty funny.

More photos here. This picture conveys the enormity of the doomed popsicle.

Addendum from Flop:
Just wanted to point out this chirpy press release. It, uh, leaves out a few key details.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

you mean popsicles MELT IN THE SUN? holy shit!

we can only hope that jim rose is safe.

Anonymous said...

LA Times headline writers clearly enjoy the cabbage-based fun in this space. Its headline on this story: "Giant New York Ice Pop Is An Even Bigger Flop"