If you’ve ever seen Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs, you might recall that the Planet Spaceball is running out of breathable air, and President Skroob—also played by the incomparable Mel Brooks—keeps several cans of naturally sparkling, salt-free air, aka “Perri-Air,” from the planet Druida. As a pimply-faced tween watching HBO at my grandmother’s house, it was the kind of stock Mel Brooks joke that was equal parts deeply stupid and hilarious to me. Surely, this would never become a reality.
Well, meet Lake Como Air. Billed as a “perfect and luxurious souvenir,” communications company Italy Comunica is bottling up authentic Lake Como Air and trapping it in a can for the over 5 million tourists who visit the popular Italian destination every year.
Oh, and you can only purchase it in Lake Como, and they sell 3 for $11. I don’t know much about the canned air industry, but that sounds like a deal!
