{"id":6451,"date":"2009-11-02T08:58:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T15:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=6451"},"modified":"2009-10-31T14:55:55","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T21:55:55","slug":"vanilla-is-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/6451","title":{"rendered":"Vanilla is blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B001SAXYPE?tag=stevemehallo-20&#038;camp=213381&#038;creative=390973&#038;linkCode=as4&#038;creativeASIN=B001SAXYPE&#038;adid=0PDS2889MYKAYYZ5D17Z&#038;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/BLUEhalvah.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Something weird happened between now and the 1970s. Vanilla turned brown. Or beige. Or something like that. <\/p>\n<p>I remember Shasta Creme Soda used to come in a metallic blue can. A lot like their <a href=\"http:\/\/img171.imageshack.us\/img171\/7353\/536883053c087f5b8e1jy9.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">cola can,<\/a> but more of a turquoise blue. To find something vanilla, all one had to do was look for the blue packaging. It was a design standard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B001SAXYPE?tag=stevemehallo-20&#038;camp=213381&#038;creative=390973&#038;linkCode=as4&#038;creativeASIN=B001SAXYPE&#038;adid=0PDS2889MYKAYYZ5D17Z&#038;\" target=\"_blank\">Joyva Halvah<\/a> (above) still gets it. They still use their old can design.<\/p>\n<p>Vanilla was blue. Something happened and it isn\u2019t anymore.<\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Vanilla is blue\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/6451\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something weird happened between now and the 1970s. Vanilla turned brown. Or beige. Or something like that. I remember Shasta Creme Soda used to come in a metallic blue can. A lot like their cola can, but more of a turquoise blue. To find something vanilla, all one had to do was look for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,50,54,47,53],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-6451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culinary","category-design","category-design-history","category-flom","category-thoughts","tag-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6451"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7024,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451\/revisions\/7024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}