Category Archives: Food & Drink

World Cup and beer

By question | Published: June 25, 2010
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

By question | Published: March 12, 2010
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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