If I were to count exactly how many Snapple drinks that I have drunk in my lifetime, I would probably wind up with a single digit number.\u00a0 I have nothing against the beverages; I just haven’t had that many of them for whatever reason.\u00a0 Regardless of my limited experience with them, one thing that always intrigued me about Snapple drinks is not the drink at all but part of its packaging.\u00a0 Snapple drinks come in glass bottles similar to milk bottles that were once used to deliver milk to people’s doorsteps.\u00a0 Thus, topping them are metal caps.\u00a0 Under these metal caps are “Snapple Real Facts”, interesting little bits of trivia that aren’t much but are a lot more than most bottles are willing to do.\u00a0 Some of these facts include, “6. Camels have three eyelids,” “8. a bee has five eyelids,” “30. Fish have eyelids,” and “21. peaches are members of the almond family.”\u00a0 While all of these will grab a person’s attention momentarily, they might not interest someone enough to lead them to actually look a little bit further into the matter at hand and check the legitimacy of these so-called “facts”.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I call them this because many of them, plainly and simply are completely nonfactual.\u00a0 An example of a false “fact” is “20. Broccoli is the only vegetable that is also a flower.”\u00a0 This is simply untrue and easily disproven given the tiniest bit of research.\u00a0 One can easily find that artichokes, cauliflower, West Indian peas are all examples of vegetables that are also flowers.\u00a0 Another fact that’s untrue is #23 which claims that San Francisco’s cable cars are the only mobile national monument, but this is untrue for a number of reasons.\u00a0 First of all, it is not a national monument at all; it is a historical landmark.\u00a0 These two designations are very much two different things.\u00a0 Secondly, there are quite a number of historical landmarks that are, in fact, mobile.\u00a0 On every front, this “fact” is simply not a fact at all.\u00a0 These “facts” can’t even stay consistent with each other.\u00a0 For example, one fact, #399, claimed that the U.S.’s first capital was New York (which is true) while another, #662 attributed the same claim to the city of Philadelphia (which is not true).\u00a0 While these “facts” are only meant to be fun bits of trivia that a person can share with their friends, they should still have a responsibility to be factual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If I were to count exactly how many Snapple drinks that I have drunk in my lifetime, I would probably wind up with a single digit number.\u00a0 I have nothing against the beverages; I just haven’t had that many of them for whatever reason.\u00a0 Regardless of my limited experience with them, one thing that always … Continue reading “Snapple Facts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3234,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions\/3234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}