11Aug/062
Alter Cola – the taste of freedom?
Has anyone else seen this? It's called 'Alter Cola' and seems to be a Catalan no-brand 'free' cola-style drink. Gemma bought it for me somewhere in town. The drink's website has a charming flash animation which encourages us to send a pretzel to the White House. What could they be suggesting? It's well known that young Catalan nationalists often align themselves with the madder extremes of the anti-globalisation lobby. Absolutely nothing wrong with an alternative to Coke, mind... I just don't dig the 'let's kill Bush' styling. No, let's impeach the bastard!
I've got a bridge weekend til Wednesday now. Sweet relief.
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August 12th, 2006 - 15:33
Another product on the same 'market', from a different region, Breton (Breizh) cola, since 2003 :
http://www.breizhcola.fr/accueil.php
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August 17th, 2006 - 20:34
Nah, no chance of getting anywhere with that attitude. I have read in the paper today that it has taken Pepsi decades to get close to Coca Cola, who have been in the game for more than a century. Coke's an American symbol, of course, but bugger all to do with Bush. People seem to mix metaphors all the time in a fit of lefty angst. 'Anti' campaigns, just for the sake of being anti, never get very far in the long run, or even the medium one come to that.
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