Why do San Pellegrino cans come covered in a thin film of aluminum?

This superfluous skin is, for me, a preputial stylization. It is the redundant foreskin that ornaments the phallus.

The can’s design, with its Mediterranean palette, evokes the zest and the flare that we attribute to Latin culture—the passionate eroticism that we ascribe to Latin men.

Pellegrino’s metallic foreskin is the objet petit a of circumcised, Protestant America’s mad desire for uncut, Roman Catholicism fleshiness.

Clearly, too, there’s something Eucharistic about imbibing carbonated juice!