Who knew? In the latest Star Wars series, The Book of Boba Fett, our heroes visit the cantina in Free Town on the planet Tatoonine (where both Anakin and Luke Skywalker grew up) in Episode 6. There, on the bar, are three bottles of seltzer, one prominently displayed before theRead More →
Why is seltzer having a moment? And where did seltzer come from? These questions and more are addressed in this great new journalistic video about seltzer (and great NOT just because I am featured in it, and helped them with their history, graphs, and image/video research). It is presented withRead More →
I just learned that last year’s Reese Witherspoon film, Like Water For Elephant – sorry, just Water for Elephant – features a circus scene where the performers celebrate one of the main characters joining the circus by spraying him with seltzer bottles and smashing him with cream pies. I learnedRead More →
I see I have been posting more on the Facebook group this season, and not here. So here are two images, one to make you smile and one to make your groan: New seltzer cartoon in the New Yorker! Polar Seltzer’s newest holiday limited edition flavors: Eggnog, Candy Cane, PumpkinRead More →
I have just started looking into the relationship between seltzer and the Three Stooges. Such fun! The www.threestooges.net web site defines their “Water seltzer fight” as a routine in which: “The Stooges get into a water seltzer fight by spraying seltzer bottles in each other’s faces repeatedly. One of themRead More →
As I recently posted, a new distributor is bringing Argentinian plastic siphons to the U.S. My local shop, however, sold me old bottles – that means the carbonation was flat and could barely produce the power necessary to squirt it all out. The distributors have been great – promising toRead More →