Going Green

Pepsi Green is out. But you might not want a can.

The “disgusting” blob in Fred DeNegri’s Diet Pepsi can was probably a frog or toad, the Food and Drug Administration said.

DeNegri was grilling in his backyard tiki bar in Ormond Beach, Florida, when he popped open a can of Diet Pepsi, took a big gulp and started gagging, his wife, Amy, said.

He emptied out the can down a sink but something heavy remained inside. He shook the can until something resembling “pink linguini” slid out, followed by “dark stuff,” Amy DeNegri said.

But the heavy object inside the can never came out, she said.

“It was disgusting,” said Amy DeNegri, 54. “And now, what started out as a normal afternoon in our tiki bar has blown up into this crazy thing.”

The DeNegris took pictures before calling poison control and the FDA, which showed up the next day to examine the can in question and collect it for lab testing.

The couple received a copy of the completed report last week from the Food and Drug Administration Office of Regulatory Affairs, which concluded the foreign matter appeared to be a frog or a toad.

“The animal was lacking internal organs normally found in the abdominal and thoracic cavity,” the report notes.

Personally, I’d still be throwing up. Judging from the rest of the story, it does not sound as if Pepsi is handling this well at all. I’m also quite sure that the family home now has a nice, new, thick hedge in front of it.

Made up entirely of lawyers. 

Exit question: Has anyone seen Kermit lately?