Palmer Sunday

Well, Arnold Palmer is now gone.  I’m sure you’ve heard about it. Great, classy guy. This blog, of course, is not about obituaries. You can find those anywhere. But I needed to salute this cool man and I’ve determined how to do that. I have petitioned the USGA to designate each Tournament’s final round as “Palmer Sunday”. Stay tuned. 

Arnold leaves behind his delicious drink known as the Arnold Palmer. Unfortunately, the small can of Arnold is only 11.5 ounces compared to the normal 12 ounce beverage can and the large is 23 ounces compared to the standard 24 ounce can. I’m sure Arnold had nothing to do with the can shrinkage, noble man that he was. In fact, I bet he fought the shrinking of the cans. “Don’t’ you dare shrink those cans!”, I bet he said. He didn’t want his product to end up like orange juice, potato chips and ice cream where they keep shrinking the containers, all the while keeping the prices the same. He didn’t live long enough to see the rest of the soft drink industry go to the smaller cans. Let’s hope they don’t go there.   

Do they still have the golf stories on the side of his cans? That was an odd touch. Do you get a longer story on the 23 ounce can? They put those stories on there to distract you so you wouldn’t notice that it was a smaller can. It doesn’t take a genius to figure this stuff out.