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RE>Peace: Stories within
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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