Kids These Days! And Much Ado About Retro Cola

I brought this home, and was holding this above my door when I called out to my twenty-something roommate “Hey check this out!”

She asked “What is it?”

“It’s…it’s a sign. Well, a piggy bank of the Ghostbusters sign. You never heard of Ghostbusters?”

“No. What are they?”

“80′s film. *Sigh!* You need more culture!”

Ghostbusters 3 can’t get here soon enough. The world needs to be reminded. The younger generation needs to be saved from this Twilight stuff ( the roomie is a Team Jacob fan - whatever that is).

Anyways I bought this piggy bank, which measures 9″ x9″ x 3.5″ for about 30 bones, which is 1/12th of the cost of a Ghostbusters light. It’s from Diamond Select, and I highly recommend it. I’m going to buy a shelving bracket for it to sit on.

It appears to be hand-painted, so it’s not perfect - but nothing I can’t touch up. Or perhaps I’ll bug my friend Mr. Rose to touch it up. He can paint those tiny Warhammer figures with such precision - such a masochist, if I may say so.

One cool thing is if you take the coin slot off, you can insert a light and the red portion of the logo will be translucent to light. Not too shabby.

Speaking of 80′s things, I picked up a bottle of Retro Pepsi, which is made with real sugar. It tastes pretty darn good! Somehow this 591 mL bottle only had 110 calories, which is 40 less than a regular 355 mL can of regular Pepsi. What the-?

Of course, there is a premium on sugar, and I’m guessing they used about half of what they used to when sugar was the defacto ingredient.

A friend once told me that the High-Fructose Corn Syrup currently found in colas will inhibit you from feeling full. I think he may have a case. I’ve been sipping this bottle for a few hours now and I am 2/3 of the way through it, and it does feel filling. Another reason to loathe the High-Fructose Syrup (I usually drink Diet Cola - which is also bad).

Speaking of which, you should check out the excellent documentary “Food Inc.” which highlights the rampant spread of the Glucose Fructose sugars, as well as other disturbing things in our food chain. Robert Kenner, who made the documentary, spent more on fighting legal battles with food corporations than actually making the film itself. This is the type of journalism and documentation our world needs right now.