{"id":547414,"date":"2010-04-29T11:03:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T15:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519bc269e20133ed0e4e14970b"},"modified":"2010-04-29T11:03:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T15:03:26","slug":"arizona-iced-tea-might-wish-it-had-a-different-name-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547414","title":{"rendered":"AriZona iced tea might wish it had a different name these days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandfreak.com\/2010\/04\/arizona-iced-tea-might-wish-it-had-a-different-name-these-days.html\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Arizona\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834519bc269e20134803e9eee970c \" src=\"http:\/\/brandmediaweek.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834519bc269e20134803e9eee970c-200wi\" style=\"width: 200px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\"><\/img><\/a> Iced-tea maker AriZona is experiencing some collateral damage in the immigration debate over a new law in the state of Arizona. Since the law passed, making it a crime for illegal immigrants to be in the state and requires police to check citizens for evidence of legal status, opponents have called for a boycott of the state. On Tuesday, a comic writer named Travis Nichols suggested\u2014jokingly, we think\u2014that <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/travisjnichols\/status\/12959868330\" >consumers should also boycott AriZona iced tea<\/a> because it&#8217;s &quot;the drink of fascists.&quot; For whatever reason, others took Nichols up on the idea, even though the brand, now owned by Ferolito, Vultaggio &amp; Sons, is based in New York. Responding to the bone-headed criticism, Don Vultaggio, founder and chairman of AriZona Beverages, set the record straight on the company&#8217;s Web site: &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drinkarizona.com\/#recentconcerns\" >We are very proud to be an American company with roots in New York<\/a>,&quot; he wrote. No word yet if JCPenney brand Arizona Jeans is caught up in the debate as well. The company wisely changed the name to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jcpenney.com\/jcp\/x1.aspx?DeptID=67516&amp;CatID=67516\" >AZ Jeans<\/a> a while back.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Posted by Todd Wasserman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iced-tea maker AriZona is experiencing some collateral damage in the immigration debate over a new law in the state of Arizona. Since the law passed, making it a crime for illegal immigrants to be in the state and requires police to check citizens for evidence of legal status, opponents have called for a boycott of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}