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2007-04-28 Africa Horn

Looting breaks out during lull in Mogadishu fighting

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Posted by Fred 2007-04-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Almost like a cartoon. Imagine in hell hole like Mogadishu, there is a Coca-Cola bottling plant and it was actually working and turning out "the real thing". Problem here is that there is no Coke plant listed on the Coca-Cola website. Like everything else in Somalia its probably a "pirate" plant.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-04-28 07:47|| 2007-04-28 07:47|| Front Page Top

#2 There is something to loot in Mog?

Posted by 3dc 2007-04-28 11:18|| 2007-04-28 11:18|| Front Page Top

#3 I guess previously fighting broke out during a lull in Mog looting.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-04-28 14:42|| 2007-04-28 14:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Looting breaks out during lull in Mogadishu fighting

I was in the middle of a Mogadishu lull and a hockey game broke out!

[/mangled Dangerfield]

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-28 15:17|| 2007-04-28 15:17|| Front Page Top

#5 bags of sugar from a Coca Cola plant

Throw some salt on the story, Lord Gawd Coke hasn't used sugar in 40 years, they be fructose, why you like Pepsi better.

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-04-28 15:52|| 2007-04-28 15:52|| Front Page Top

#6 but Coke Zero is better with Jack Daniels, ifn you're watching calories...like me :-)

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-04-28 15:53|| 2007-04-28 15:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Makes sense... NALASBS.

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-04-28 16:02|| 2007-04-28 16:02|| Front Page Top

#8 We make Coca Cola syrup where I work and use sugar, not high fructose corn syrup. It's called Sucrose Acetate Iso-butyrate.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-04-28 18:27|| 2007-04-28 18:27|| Front Page Top

#9 NALASBS?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-04-28 18:51|| 2007-04-28 18:51|| Front Page Top

#10 Throw some salt on the story, Lord Gawd Coke hasn't used sugar in 40 years

Obviously, you haven't heard of Passover Coca-Cola:

Every late March and early April, for the two to three weeks leading up to the celebration of the Jewish Passover holiday season in the United States, Coke fans living in major metropolitan areas with large Jewish populations get their Real Thing, if only for that brief fleeting period. According to Jewish law, nothing made with chametz (any of a number of proscribed cereals and grains, including corn) during passover may be consumed so in order not to lose sales from observant Jews during that eight day period, a small number of Coca-Cola bottlers make a limited batch of the original Coke formulation, using refined sugar. Needless to say, stocks run out quickly and fans of Passover Coke have been known to travel many miles seeking out supermarkets with remaining caches.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-28 19:31|| 2007-04-28 19:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Not A Lot A Sense But Sense

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-04-28 19:32|| 2007-04-28 19:32|| Front Page Top

#12 Ima gonna ask Montgomery Ward Snopes about thatn ZenMan.

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-04-28 19:33|| 2007-04-28 19:33|| Front Page Top

#13 Just for trivia's sake... Montgomery Ward Snopes sez...

"I dont remember just when it was, I was probably pretty young, when I realised that I had come from what you might call a family, a clan, a race, maybe even a species, of pure sons of bitches. So I said, Okay, okay, if that's the way it is, we'll just show them. They call the best of lawyers, lawyers' lawyers and the best of actors an actor's actor and the best of athletes a ballplayer's ballplayer. All right, that's what we'll do: every Snopes will make it his private and personal aim to have the whole world recognise him as THE son of a bitch's son of a bitch.

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-04-28 19:44|| 2007-04-28 19:44|| Front Page Top

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