Lilt Lilt Lilt is a brand of soft drink manufactured by The Coca-Cola Company and sold in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Gibraltar, and the Seychelles only. During the 1970s and 1980s, Lilt was promoted with the advertising slogan, "the totally tropical taste". Between 2008 and 2014, the Coca Cola company reduced the number of calories in the soda by 56% as part of its efforts to make healthier products in response to the British Government’s Public Health Responsibility Deal. One advertisement in the late 1980s featured the "Lilt Man", a parody of a milkman, delivering Lilt in a "Lilt float", with
The Song and The Slogan Sandburg’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of 103 poems, "Cornhuskers", published in 1918. Opening with "“I was born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat, the red of its clover, the eyes of its women, gave me a song and a slogan,”" the narrator offers a vivid description of the prairie land with its lively stories. The prairie itself is also given voice: "“The prairie sings to me in the forenoon and I know in the night I rest easy in the prairie arms, on the prairie heart.”""Illinois Farmer also appears in "Cornhuskers". "The Song & the Slogan" begins with