According to a company press release, Diet Pepsi created a new design for its can “in celebration of beautiful, confident women.” A marketing executive called the new product “slim and attractive.” Pepsi will officially unveil the new design this Friday at Fashion Week in New York City. If the new can isn’t your thing, no worries. Though the new can will arrive in stores in March, the old style will remain as well.
With investments in the wine industry at an all-time high from the Far East and 2009’s crop considered the best in a generation, many investors believe now is the perfect time to invest in wines. However, the BBC details a new, but potentially costly, risk of an investment: a group of companies that have defrauded wine investors of nearly 30 million pounds.
In the piece, the BBC speaks with Jim Budd, an investigative journalist who specializes in wine fraud. He claims that there are over 60 companies in the UK that he would never purchase any wine from. One investor said that he lost 50.000 pounds that he couldn’t afford to lose.
Let the buyer beware!
Via Eater, comes the news that people are eating… placenta and foreskin.
On March 17, San Franciscan chef Daniel Patterson will offer a demonstration entitled “How to Cook a Placenta.” There will be no live demonstration or tasting offered.
TV’s Andrew Zimmern actually hosts a program called “Bizarre Foods.” For one episode, he ventured into Madagascar and watched a tribe taste the foreskin of a young child. According to tradition, the child’s grandfather gets the first taste, with the skin at the tip of a banana.
I’m not sure this will evolve into a trend.
So when you bring that back to the office, remind yourself, “I’m drinking more than a bottle of wine here.” Check out the visual proof:
Not Intent on Arriving 