Via lookhigh:
It is Coke
The Coca-Cola Recipe Is Revealed By ‘This American Life’ : NPR
Want to try it? Here’s the ingredient list from TAL:
Fluid extract of coca
Citric acid
Caffeine
Sugar
Water
Lime juice
Vanilla
Caramel
Alcohol
Orange oil
Lemon oil
Nutmeg oil
Coriander oil
Neroli oil
Cinnamon oil
Reblogging my unconsumption post:
Now here’s an unexpected find — a repurposing example from the 1930s — in my house:
Coca-Cola bottle caps affixed to a picture frame — holding a picture from 1941 of my grandfather!
Several months ago, I opened up the frame so I could take out the photo and scan it. It wasn’t until today, when I removed the frame’s backing again (I’m considering reusing the frame), that I noticed the metal tabs’ unmistakable red script.
I suspect my handy grandmother did the bottle-cap rigging. (My grandfather was in the Coke-bottling business.)
Definitely my cool find-of-the-day.
Related: Coca-Cola randomness and more.
You don’t see something like this every day.
During a random, first-time visit yesterday to Tim Siedell’s bad banana blog, Tim’s entry from Friday, featuring the work of Austin-based photographer Jay B. Sauceda, caught my eye. Tim had posted several photos and this description from Jay’s Web site: “Before there was vinyl printing there were big brick walls and craftsmen who covered said walls with their commercial artwork. This is my ever growing collection of those that I find while on the road.”
Midway through my looking at Tim’s post, I scrolled back up to the second photo – it’s the one pictured above – and stared at it for several seconds before my brain “clicked.” Tim’s blog didn’t give the building’s location; for me, it didn’t need to … the Hoskins Building, which I know sits near the courthouse in the somewhat small, central Texas town of Gonzales (pop. ~8,000), shows a partial view of a weathered Coca-Cola ad for my grandfather’s business!
Kinda glad I saw this – @CocaCola #WorldCup packaging
Math exercise: My cool, keyless Schlage lock (http://bit.ly/gxP5o) may be wider than the area on the door where I intend to install it. :-(
Yes, *I* intend to install it. :-)
Am scrutinizing a template I printed from Schlage’s Web site and am exercising further my math skills.
(I heart home improvement.)
Stay tuned …
