Funeral food

If you read my blog regularly you will know that my office is sometimes quite topical with our lunch choices (such as Obama hot dog day and perogies on the proroguing of Canadian parliament)

So last Tuesday, I arrived to find a can of Pepsi and a mini container of Doritos on my desk.

“What’s this?” I asked my podmate Meegan.

“It’s Michael Jackson’s memorial today. So I thought we could toast him with Pepsi. And I figured Doritos went well with that. It’s appropriate funeral food,” she answered (or something to that effect because I don’t really take notes on what my co-workers say).

[Because after Thriller and before the molestation allegations, Jackson signed a record-breaking endorsement deal with PepsiCo worth $5 million — followed by a second contract a few years later worth $10 million.

The MJ-Pepsi campaigns paved the way for the kinds of large-scale celebrity endorsements we see today.

It was also during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in 1984 that set Michael's hair on fire.]

So as Mariah Carey butchered I’ll Be There, we raised our cans to the King of Pop.

Thanks for Billie Jean, ABC, and Captain Eo.

RIP — and I hope you never saw this.