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Those who might have liked some wine with their Head of the Charles picnic drank soda and probably stewed in indignation. After all, anyone bound and determined to get behind the wheel of a car pickled simply drank. It's just too easy to empty a can of soda and fill it with straight vodka. Bloody Marys, daquiries, rum-and-Cokes, they all circulated--in tomato juice cans...
...century ago that the company turned innocuous soda water into what Berke Breathed has aptly described as "malted battery acid." Then, in the 1930s, it invented Santa Claus to tout its product. (Until then, Saint Nick had been a gruff, thin man. It's thanks to Coke that he's now a jolly bowl of jello...
These days, conversion to metric is just a vaguely unpleasant memory for most consumers. The highway signs are largely gone, and the pumps dole out gas mostly by the gallon again. The few visible monuments to metric conversion include liter bottles of soda and liquor, time-and-temperature signs that * still flash degrees in Celsius, and gram equivalents on food containers...
...cast members struggle to recall whether they had their last schnapps party in West Lafayette or East Lansing. It was definitely butterscotch schnapps. -- Could it have been South Bend? A night in Omaha (or was it Iowa City?) remains memorable for klieg lights and a good soda machine. The bus driver, meanwhile, wonders whether it was in Madison or Des Moines that he last had his vehicle washed...
...pity that the audience must wait until after intermission to hear Linus Gelber's interpretation of the Cockney manager Teddy, since there is such a temptation to duck out for a soothing whiskey and soda after the rant-athon. Teddy is the sort of conman with a heart of gold that Bob Hoskins might play, but I doubt he could do a better job of it than Gelber. Even if it sometimes sounds like he just got off boat yesterday, and his accent has more of the West Side than the West End in it, Gelber still pulls...