Glug glug gulp

[threemonkeys]

Forget violent suppression of protest, forget brutal clearances of homes, forget land seizures, forget rampant corruption and racial oppression etc. You know a country is really in trouble when it runs out of Coca Cola.

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[mundens.livejournal.com]

LOL!
New Coke slogan : "Things are really bad when u run out of coke!"
Combined with an advertising campaign similar to the Bluebird chips one from a few years back, only with warfare.

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

That works.

I did wonder whether the UNHCR was going to have to create a new category to go along with political and economic - caffinated beverage refugees. I can see internment refreshment camps being set up just inside the Botswana border.

[markdeniz.livejournal.com]

I just wish they'd run out in more countries!

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

I did mentally note your recent post when I was posting this. A country has to be in hugely bad shape when a heartless profit-only "capitalism on a scary scale" mega-corp like coca cola won't have anything to do with it. They don't leave countries for moral reasons, so the country has to be a real basket case. I wouldn't wish Zimbabwe's circumstances on any country.

So yes I get your point, but the reasons for them leaving other countries has to be different.

[markdeniz.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! I was more in favour of Coca-Cola leaving the world stage.

Of course I don't want Zimbabwe to happen anywhere else but of course it is (and does) on a regular basis.