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Can you get bedbugs from soda? Say it’s the middle of a New York City heatwave and you pop into a bodega looking for a refreshing name-brand Ginger Ale.\u00a0Instead you come across the bottle in the photos above, staring back at you with obvious disdain for the normal expected patterns and packaging standards you’re used to seeing in the refrigerated cases across the city. Seems legit, right? Our music editor Lilly Vanek spotted this in a bodega in Harlem last week, on the shelf with the rest of the sodas.\u00a0Presumably the labels got ripped off at some point and the shop owner (or their kid), eager to not let the product go to waste, created a new one \u2014 though most branding experts will probably advise against putting a frowny face on your packaging. But bad news all you aspiring artisanal packaging bodega artists:\u00a0we checked with the city and this\u00a0is definitely not… Read More<\/p>\n

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