{"id":3896,"date":"2022-12-14T08:49:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T04:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3896"},"modified":"2022-12-14T08:49:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T04:49:06","slug":"pilk-will-not-make-the-christmas-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3896","title":{"rendered":"Pilk will not make the Christmas list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest sensation to hit the Internet these days, of course, is &#8220;Pilk,&#8221; the unholy combination of Pepsi and milk touted by, among others, actress Lindsay Lohan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Grasping at straws,&#8221; is how I&#8217;d describe that one.<\/p>\n<p>Drinking straws, no doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Also known as a &#8220;dirty soda,&#8221; the pairing of soda and milk has been around for some time. I mean, we all tried mixing things together when we were growing up, right? In those days before YouTube kept us occupied? To me the Pepsi-Cola company, here, is just trying to monetize what&#8217;s basically a baking soda volcano&#8211;a neat trick but not much else.<\/p>\n<p>For a hundred years Coca-Cola has been the beverage of Christmas, no question. Remember when Fuller drank Pepsi in the original\u00a0<em>Home Alone<\/em>?\u00a0That faux pas should have made him the one they left at home. On purpose. (And remember in\u00a0<em>Home Alone 2<\/em> when every five seconds someone is either drinking a Coke or looking at an advertisement for a Coke? Yeah, that&#8217;s no accident.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pilk&#8221; is a desperate attempt by Pepsi Inc. to horn in on Coke&#8217;s holiday territory. I&#8217;m not falling for it.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty years after being a child star and decades into her grownup stardom Lindsay Lohan is still bringing it.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;ll take a Christmas miracle to save <em>this<\/em> one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest sensation to hit the Internet these days, of course, is &#8220;Pilk,&#8221; the unholy combination of Pepsi and milk touted by, among others, actress Lindsay Lohan. &#8220;Grasping at straws,&#8221; is how I&#8217;d describe that one. Drinking straws, no doubt. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3896\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3898,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions\/3898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}