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February 23, 2007

Pizza delivery includes coke from Georgia (talking Caucasus not southern USA)...is this a record?

A little while ago I noticed that when I ordered a bottle of cola to accompany a pizza delivery, the bottle of coke was usually Polish, that is made in Poland with the label in Polish so clearly intended for sale in Poland. More recently my local pizza delivery have exceeded themselves by delivering bottles of coke made in Georgia, labelled in a Georgian Cyrillic script, but with a small sticker about the ingredients in English stuck on as an afterthought.

GeorgiaflagThe obvious explanation must be that coke bottled in Poland or Georgia is much cheaper than the stuff bottled nearer to home, and even after being trucked across a whole continent still saves some money for the shops and distributors - although let's not get into the environmental considerations???

Anyway all the way from the former soviet republic of Georgia...can anyone beat that!?


Posted at 04:57 PM in In a category of their own |

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Unity

Yep.

A local, Muslim-owned fried chicken outlet has Fanta labelled in Arabic and Coke labelled in Urdu.

Posted by: Unity | February 23, 2007 at 07:46 PM

Political Penguin

Yep, plenty of Arabic labelled coke round here from saudi Arabia.
Perfectly legal as long as the ingredients are labelled in English thanks to the little stickers, if not though, off to the local trading standards office.

Posted by: Political Penguin | February 23, 2007 at 08:19 PM

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