{"id":12904,"date":"2009-09-04T10:52:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T15:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=12904"},"modified":"2012-10-17T02:31:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T07:31:53","slug":"ice-cucumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/09\/04\/ice-cucumber\/","title":{"rendered":"Flavor as Culture Specific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always fun for me to have my own gastronomical assumptions revealed. Earlier we posted a cross-cultural example (<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/07\/10\/the-social-construction-of-breakfast\/\" target=\"_self\">soup for breakfast in South Korea<\/a>) and historical examples (<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/02\/15\/the-icky-era-of-aspic\/\" target=\"_self\">mmm aspic<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/08\/05\/seven-up-in-milk-mmmmmm-wholesome\/\" target=\"_self\">7-Up with milk<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/07\/17\/the-social-construction-of-prunes\/\" target=\"_self\">prunes are for kids!<\/a>).\u00a0 On Shakesville, <a href=\"http:\/\/shakespearessister.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/god-bless-america-japan.html\" target=\"_blank\">Deeky posted this photograph<\/a> of ice cucumber-flavored Pepsi being sold in Japan:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12906\" title=\"pepsicucumber\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/08\/pepsicucumber.jpg\" alt=\"pepsicucumber\" width=\"574\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/08\/pepsicucumber.jpg 574w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/08\/pepsicucumber-499x317.jpg 499w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>UPDATE (June &#8217;10)! <\/strong><\/span>In another flavor-shake-up, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/05\/24\/pringles-flavours-of.html\" target=\"_blank\">BoingBoing<\/a> posted these Pringles from Singapore in Seaweed, Soft-Shell Crab, and Grilled Shrimp:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/sporePringles.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24370\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/sporePringles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always fun for me to have my own gastronomical assumptions revealed. Earlier we posted a cross-cultural example (soup for breakfast in South Korea) and historical examples (mmm aspic, 7-Up with milk, and prunes are for kids!).\u00a0 On Shakesville, Deeky posted this photograph of ice cucumber-flavored Pepsi being sold in Japan: UPDATE (June &#8217;10)! In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2124,1821,1800,293],"class_list":["post-12904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foodagriculture","tag-nation-japan","tag-nation-singapore","tag-social-construction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12904"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12908,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12904\/revisions\/12908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}