Recently I’ve started buying ginger ale, and I was quite surprised to learn that it’s Canada Dry’s default beverage. That is, the can, bottle or box doesn’t say C.D. Ginger Ale, it’s just Canada Dry. When the old ads said “Drink Canada Dry”, I thought they were urging you to drink any of their fine carbonated products–be it plain soda, tonic water, ginger ale, or whatever. But evidently Canada Dry without further elaboration means “ginger ale”.
What odd things have you just become aware of?
Actually I have a can of Diet Canada Dry right here, and it does indeed say Ginger Ale. It’s just in relatively small letters – in one of the bubbles just below the “shield” logo.
I only recently discovered the arrow in the FedEX logo, though, so I’m kinda embarrassed about that.
That the Arby’s logo is a hat, not the top of a penis.
I always assumed they wanted you to keep drinking until the entire country ran out of liquids.
Part of me wants to say, “How the hell could you not see that? Are you blind?” but I have to admit that two little things I learned (right here on the board) were the ‘X’ in the Fed Ex logo and the fact that pineapples grow on bushes, and not on trees.
It was the SDMB that taught me that “bible-thumping” and “bible-bashing” are about the same thing. I always thought that “bible-bashing” meant criticizing the bible, not promoting it.
Canola oil does not, in fact, come from some obscure plant called the canola, but is, rather, rapeseed oil. Canola is a particular type of rapeseed oil, and stands for Canadian oil, low acid.
(A quick google search reveals that, while wikipedia maintains the “Canadian oil, low acid” origin, many others list it simply as a portmanteau of “Canada” and “oil”.)
Emily Post, the etiquette writer, was also a big motoring enthusiast when the automobile was first developed. She was one of the first women to drive across both Europe and America.
Arby’s (say it out loud)=R.B.=Roast Beef.
I just noticed that :eek: Thanks for pointing it out 
It’s Canada Dry Ginger Ale, as opposed to golden ginger ale, which is very different. If you live in a place serviced by the Buffalo Rock bottling company (I don’t know what you might find them under elsewhere), try a Buffalo Rock ginger ale—it has a much, much stronger and more ginger-y flavor. Dry ginger ale was invented during Prohibition to mix with moonshine (or other alcoholic drinks, I guess), and so it has a much less pronounced flavor than golden ginger ale, which was the original drink.
Valete,
Vox Imperatoris
ETA: This is a Buffalo Rock (a Southern bottling company).
I learned this on the job,
I was told by a boss to go out and buy some corn oil. A lot of our customers add it to our resin to facilitate release, after curing, from a mold.
I bought Canola oil - hey, what’s the difference, right?
I got a proper scolding. “That oil is too unsaturated, you fool! You foolish fool! Their parts will stick to the mold!”
“Well, what is Canola, exactly?”
“Um…get to wikipedia! Fool!”
I vaguely remember the thread where this was dicussed, but the intellectuals in Deicide disagree with you (and whoever it was that told you that).
Also RB=Raffel Brothers, as in company founders Forrest and Leroy Raffel.
You’ve seen it! You can’t unsee it!
Wait, what? Your original assumption is entirely correct.
Joe
Cool little interview with the creator of the FedEx logo - and yeah, I just saw it too, but the interview makes me feel better about that.
When I was growing up here in central Alberta, we always had rapeseed crops. When I moved back here in 2006, we now had “canola” crops. I assume it’s the politically corrected name. WTF was wrong with rapeseed?
I just learned that the “range roads” and “side roads” in Alberta refer to the actual legal address. :smack:
So as long as I have a County map, I can always find someones house. It’s so much easier then " 2 miles south of the old Miller place, then 1 mile east." 
Sorry- had to laugh at that. Try picking pineapples and you will realise what a bastard they are.
America’s Roast Beef, Yes, Sir!
