X-Factor Dragon-Fruit Pepsi

I gained a limited edition can for my collection.  The X-Factor Dragon-fruit Pepsi.  It's a horrific product, really.  It tastes like Pepsi with fruity cough syrup someone impishly spiked it with while you weren't looking. Not fun.  My wife agrees it tastes horrible and was surprised when I trucked home from the store with a 12 pack of it.  "Dude," she said, "We tried that and it tasted horrible."  And it did.  But that was before I started collecting soda cans.  I mean, the X-Factor Pespi clearly says "Limited Edition" so, duh, obviously I need it for my collection.

Oh Simon, you liar...

Now, what provides the can with an additional hoot is that I recall sitting on the couch with my bride watching the X-Factor where they premiered the flavor, you know, sowed the advertising seeds to make folks buy, buy, buy.  And I remember Simon Cowell and Britney Spears cracking open the soda cans and taking sips.  Then Simon says, "It's good.  It's really good."  Oh Simon, Simon, Simon, you make a living being the guy who tells THE TRUTH on your music shows and you expect to fool us with your simple compliment?  Simon says buy and we do.  Just a big game to him.  Of course, Simon is a money man, and knows how to sponsor a product.  The man darn well knew that soda was like carbonating a cough drop.  But you have to admire him for it.  He got millions to take that sip and drop a positive adjective.  But me, I get zilch from Pepsi so I tell it like it is.  The soda tastes like a cola stain on a pharmacy shelf.  But, the can is all right.  So I'll keep it.

Dragon-fruit X-Factor Pepsi 2013

No Crystal Clear Can? Blame the Commercial

Since I blogged about the Crystal Clear Pepsi cans I don't have yesterday, I thought it would be spiffy to locate a Crystal Clear Pepsi commercial to post.  On youtube, that wonderful collective attic of film, I located one.  For those of you who don't have thirty seconds to waste on advertising for a product that no longer exists, here is a quick play by play of its awesomeness.

We see the bold statement that "RIGHT NOW SOMEONE IS TRYING CRYSTAL CLEAR PEPSI" along with a face of Caucasian a person (clear, right?) taking a sip of a clear liquid....this person's pupil dilates (presumably) because of it's incredible taste...(get it? the eye goes crazy because this product is something you can really "see")...we see flashes of lightening showing how the flavor "strikes"...cut to a clear liquid being poured to form into a Crystal Clear Pepsi Bottle...a row of dominoes fall upwards in a line (I always associate soft drinks with dominoes so this was a good move by Pepsi)...words float through the sky...now a man in a red Speedo is flying/diving through the sky and fluffy white clouds...more words...we see a lady dressed in white sitting on a white chair enjoying Crystal Clear Pepsi...the lucky wench...and then we see bottles of Crystal Clear Pepsi relaxing at the bottom of a tub of water...AU-MAZ-ING...it's like, dude, there is nothing in the bottle at all!  And yet the commercial just told me there really is!  Whoa.  How could not enough people be interested?  I mean, like I said, dominoes make me want soft drinks, but flying guys in Speedos seals the deal.  But, as always, I guess I'm an outlier.  So sad.

Make 7-Up Yours

Thinking about the Make 7-Up Yours Campaign made me chuckle several times today.  I thought I'd look for an ad and post it.  By the way, the comedian is Orlando Jones and his website can be found here.  Seriously, this was one of the greatest advertising gags in history.

You can still find 7-Up Yours T-shirts at thrift stores.  Those babies are gems.