Pepsi Gets Peevish

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An opening volley in the Vanilla wars is a feel-bad jibe

C’mon, monkeys, dance!” That sounds like Mr. Burns (Homer Simpson’s boss), rubbing his hands together with glee as he watches some hapless nuclear-reactor workers get injured. But instead, the line is uttered by a bored guy in a cheese store as he and his buddy flip the power on and off for a Pepsi Vanilla machine across the street—the very same machine into which two desperate, doofy guys have already dropped their money.

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