It's the glitch that won't go away. First there was the January 24 column that got Ikon Vodka inadvertently delisted when it wasn't listed in the first place. Then there was the attempted glitch-fix (in the Valentine's pink-bubble column of February 7), which got its own glitch when the last line was lost.

Here's true glitch glue—by putting it first in this portmanteau column, I'm hoping it'll stick. Ikon, the silky-smooth, real Russian vodka is available in B.C., at many private liquor stores and hotel outlets, even the airport. And it's well worth your time and effort to find it, especially if you're a lover of iced shots with deli food.

But there is truth to the delisting information—the brand's Max Smith sent a note that it was pulled from store shelves in West Virginia, because—shades of the Wild West—the bottle size (your standard twenty-sixer, or 750 millilitres) was too small for them! “No joke," said Smith. read more