# RE>Peace: Stories within *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 10 Oct 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Michael Straight *10 Oct 1997, 08:38* > On 10 Oct 1997, Tony Ellis wrote: > Looks like it's time for me to eat a BIG slice of humble pie. In > responding to Rostrum's questions about Peace, I cheerfully rubished his > suggestion that Weer's company made orange drink out of potatoes. I was > writing from for work, and I should have known better than to respond > without doing any checking. When I got home I looked up the > factory-visit section of the book, and - sure enough - Weer's company > appears to make its orange drink out of potatoes, something I never > realised before. This seems so bizarre, I'm inclined to think it has a point. Maybe a satire on Pringles (or potato chips in general) in that they start with a potato and end up with something not very much like a potato? I can't find it now, but I seem to remember that Weer connects in his mind the big orange logo of his company with the orange Mr. T uses in Mr. Smart's story to consider how easy/hard it would be to poison fruit. So maybe it's just a "you never know what's really in there" sort of theme. -Rostrum ---