More than a dozen years, I wrote an essay about white plastic chairs and their ubiquity: https://ethanzuckerman.com/2011/04/06/those-white-plastic-chairs-the-monobloc-and-the-context-free-object/ And now, I find myself talking to the Washington Post about Bad Bunny's new album, and my late mentor, Bernard Woma: https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/01/25/bad-bunny-monobloc-plastic-chair-album-cover/A great piece but they didn't quite get my Bernard story right. Bernard (Ghanaian) loved to talk about how strange food in America was. He was particularly fond of joking that Dr. Pepper should be called "Dr. Sugar" because it wasn't peppery at all
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