Yesterday, I bought a bottle of Crystal Head Vodka. I bought it because I thought the package was far too cool not to own. Now I’ve read more about the vodka — it’s filtered through Herkimer diamond’s for Pete’s sake — and this morning finally learned what is really inside:
“We have this package in which we have chosen to enclose joy in the form of vodka,” says pitchman Dan Acroyd at about the 5 minute mark in this promotional video:
Really? I didn’t realize I was buying joy when I opted to spend $55 at the BC Liquor store but that makes me feel much better! Yes, I really spent that much on this unique bottle and it was all because of the bottle. Though to be fair, when I do drink cocktails, vodka is my spirit of choice. I just don’t expect to be able to tell the difference between this “quadruple distilled” vodka and my usual Smirnoff.
This stuff is banned in Ontario because their liquor board thought it was too appealing to youth (well, duh.) which is, if you ask me, a really stupid reason to ban something. Why? Because as soon as you ban it, and especially for that reason, more youth will want it because it’s been banned! Sigh.
The craziest thing about all this? I just keep hearing the Super Bass-o-Matic 76 pitch in the back of my head. In fact, one of the comments on the above video was that the viewer thought this was also satire but now believes Acroyd to be “batshit crazy.”
I love it when a celebrity lets their freak flag fly. Awe Some.