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  • FRIDAY JUNE 24 2005 10:00 PM

Snapple's Popsicle Mishap

A publicity stunt and world-record attempt by beverage behemoth Snapple went horribly wrong on Tuesday, resulting in Manhattan's Union Square being flooded with sticky, sweet, strawberry-kiwi flavoured goo.

Snapple had been attempting to break the world record for the world's largest popsicle, but found that doing so in summer weather meant the giant ice pop melted much more quickly than they had anticipated.

"What was unsettling was that the fluid just kept coming," Stuart Claxton of the Guinness Book of World Records told the Daily News. "It was quite a lot of fluid."

Sounds like my last date.

 

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Gitsie

Gitsie

I'm lost
June 2004

JUN 24, 2005 10:05 PM

hahahhaa ew that stuff is so sweet ...yuck

pk47

pk47

I'm lost
December 2003

JUN 24, 2005 10:10 PM

apparently they never heard of december

daveglss79828

daveglss79828

Miami, FL
January 2004

JUN 24, 2005 10:14 PM

marketing exec: "it's genius, durring the hot summer we'll have a huge popsickle! that sun thing is just a myth anyways!"


dirtyground

dirtyground

Chicago, IL
August 2003

JUN 24, 2005 10:44 PM



Sounds like my last date.



ZING!

stellartrane

stellartrane

Austin, TX
February 2003

JUN 24, 2005 11:07 PM

they obviously did not factor in the correct calculations:

if x = the heat factor

and y = icepop

z = goo

x + y delinated by z

ahh, I see, mathmatical calculations cannot teraform such tangents within a matrix. It's impossible to determine the melt factor.

brett_bretterson

brett_bretterson

Goleta, CA
April 2005

JUN 24, 2005 11:16 PM

Oh god, Kiwi-Strawberry Snapple?! I think I just puke a little bit in my mouth right now.

omg_zombies

omg_zombies

Burbank, CA
June 2005

JUN 25, 2005 01:09 AM

J_Dizzle said:
I think I just puke a little bit in my mouth right now.


hahahha

seriously though a large popsicle made of snapple? how fucking retarded.

malkav11

malkav11

Saint Paul, MN
July 2003

JUN 25, 2005 01:46 AM

Y'know, it's been averaging around 95 degrees here in Minnesota. I'd imagine New York wouldn't be significantly cooler. That's, what, over 60 degrees above freezing? And they want to make the world's largest popsicle....hmm. Let us think..

thefreak

thefreak

NEWSWIRE

Gardner, MA

JUN 25, 2005 04:12 AM

Well, let's look @it this way. Now there's something in NYC that's more of a horrible mess than the Yankees.

ZING!



-TM

RoxieHart

RoxieHart

Philadelphia, PA
January 2005

JUN 25, 2005 06:01 AM

all these zingers and talk of popsicles are getting me alittle excited!

SecondBest

SecondBest

Brooklyn, NY
December 2003

JUN 25, 2005 06:53 AM

LOL nice comment...

crispy

crispy

NEWSWIRE

Philadelphia, PA

JUN 25, 2005 07:18 AM

Paraphrasing David Letterman: "They came close to the record, but the largest popsicle in New York is still Hillary Clinton."

punksnotdead

punksnotdead

USA
October 2003

JUN 25, 2005 09:22 AM

Important to note: they did have an "ice consultant " on hand. That guy must be sitting around right now thinking "It was only a matter of time until that bubble burst and everyone found out that i'm an idiot." I hear his absent job position has been filled by a thermometer.

Oracle

Oracle

Courtenay, BC
September 2003

JUN 25, 2005 09:35 AM

so did they get the record for most icky fluid in union square?

Cherie

Cherie

Providence, RI
October 2002

JUN 25, 2005 09:38 AM

Kiwi Strawberry Snapple is so effin' good. Yummy. love

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