Category Archives: Food & Drink

New advances in beer technology

Last year we had the full aperture can for more effective guzzling, this year we have the cup of beer that fills from the bottom: I readily admit I have no idea how this works. The company’s website doesn’t have much in the way of explanation either. The best I can figure is that there [...]

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World Cup and beer

South African Breweries has created a new type of beer can for the World Cup, in order to get cold beer into the hands of thirsty fans as quickly as possible.  No more of this open-the-beer-and-pour-into-plastic-cup business.  Just pop the entire top right off the can and go to town.  They call it “full aperture”, [...]

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Accent accident

I took this picture outside a café near my work.  Notice I wrote café with an accent, not cafe’ with an apostrophe.  I guess the sign maker wasn’t able to include accents, or maybe it was cost prohibitive and they thought no one would notice.  I noticed.  But at least they are clear about the [...]

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