{"id":726602,"date":"2010-04-29T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10005145"},"modified":"2010-04-29T12:31:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T16:31:24","slug":"arizona-iced-tea-dont-hate-us-were-from-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/726602","title":{"rendered":"AriZona Iced Tea: Don’t Hate Us, We’re From New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While there’s much heated discussion about Arizona’s controversial new immigration laws, the folks at AriZona Iced Tea have somehow found themselves caught in the crossfire, with some even calling for a boycott on the beverage brand. That’s why one of the founders of the company wants everyone to know that, just like inauthentic picante sauce, they’re originally from New York City.<\/p>\n

Explains Don Vultaggio:<\/p>\n

AriZona Beverages proudly traces its origins back to New York… In 1992, two hard working guys from Brooklyn with a dream created AriZona Iced Tea. Since then … we have remained loyal to our family-run business based in New York. For the last 16 years, our headquarters have remained on Long Island.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While the AriZona folks hope this takes the heat off their iced tea for a bit, there are still several Arizona-based companies being targeted for boycott by those against the immigration laws.<\/p>\n

From the NY Daily News:<\/p>\n

Actual Arizona firms that face a boycott: Cold Stone Creamery, Dial soap, PF Chang’s, Fender guitars, U-Haul, Go Daddy, Sky Mall, US Airways and Best Western.<\/p>\n

San Francisco has banned official city travel to Arizona and pressure is growing on Major League Baseball to move the 2011 All Star Game from Phoenix.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

AriZona Iced Tea brewed in New York, actual Arizona firms include Cold Stone Creamery and U-Haul<\/a> [NY Daily News]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While there’s much heated discussion about Arizona’s controversial new immigration laws, the folks at AriZona Iced Tea have somehow found themselves caught in the crossfire, with some even calling for a boycott on the beverage brand. That’s why one of the founders of the company wants everyone to know that, just like inauthentic picante sauce, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-331o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}