You are what you drink?
January 9th, 2003
A pro-Palestinian activist from – where else? – France has started a new brand of cola, called Mecca Cola, aimed at the European market (via Jon).
The new brand, which bears a striking resemblance to Coca-Cola, is specifically intended to make a political statement.
Its producers promise that 10 percent of profits will go to Palestinian causes.
“No more drinking stupid,” its label reads in French. “Drink with commitment.”
I wonder, what qualifies as a Palestinian “cause”? Donate money to help them make bombs to blow up innocent Israeli children?
Update: An anonymous reader came up with a great advertising slogan for Mecca-Cola: “Now with 15% more Jihad!”
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Ya know, I wish they’d sell “Kosher Cola”, for those of us that side with Israel… I’d buy that.
When the Oslo negotiations were going on,
I read somewhere that the Israeli negotiators
drink coca-cola and the pal negotiators dring
pepsi.
“I wonder, what qualifies as a Palestinian “cause”? Donate money to help them make bombs to blow up innocent Israeli children?”
Yawn…yep, that must be it.
Mecca Cola, probably owned by coca cola anyway.
I like the way the article begins with:
Because of Washington’s foreign policy
Everything wrong in the Middle East is now
do to “Washington’s foreign policy”.
Mecca Cola, probably owned by coca cola anyway.
LOL
Peter, in Australia there are many “different” types of cola, often referred to as home brew colaz by people who don’t realise that the country has a total of two soft drink manufacturers – pepsi and coca-cola.
Anyway, it can’t be a bad thing people by a can of mecca cola, like it and they buy another bottle of cola.
The funniest thing to me is that all these multi national “US” companies that the arabs are boycotting are half owned with arab oil money in the first place.
If you only drink Mecca Cola and then blow yourself up on a bus, do you go to Paradise and get 72 bottles of Virgin Cola (from Britain)?
Mecca Cola is owned by a guy in France. He’s been quite successful, and plan to expand the venture. There was a NYT article on him a while ago, as well as something in the Globe.