Something on the lighter side: Coca Cola

[Lucky Larry]

Not that I drink it anymore but heres something about equality, sort of; Andy Warhol: What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest..... All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.

 

Not that I have ever been there but I guess you can even by it on the Everest Trek.Hee Haw

[ivan]

rc's better

[denalidave]

rc's better

[rob]

where the hell can you even buy RC these days?

 

My grandmother owned a gas station out in the prarie and she had an RC machine, one of those old ones that had bottles. YUM!

[denalidave]

We sell it at the sushi bar I work at in Hood River... Damn good sushi too.

[Hugh Conway]

Not that I have ever been there but I guess you can even by it on the Everest Trek.Hee Haw

 

And Mars bars!

 

Coke is available everywhere on the planet pretty much - plastic coke bottles are now the defacto gasoline/cooking oil/whatever else storage container in the 3rd world it seems

[Lucky Larry]

Hugh, you gotta love how the stuff we throw away is made useful most everywhere else. I saw a funnel made from a plastic bottle in Nicaragua; brilliant, for a dull bulb like me-- never buy a funnel again.

 

It truly is amazing what gets thrown out because contractors can't afford to pick it back up, truck it, store it, then move it again--just cheaper to throw it out. wah wah

[Hugh Conway]

You can tell how far you are from Siem Reap in Cambodia by the % of gas bottles that are Johnny Walker in the road side stands, the closer you are the more there are (they pack better)

 

as an aside, interesting transformation in India from historic, more eco-friendly fastfood packaging - clay cups and banana leaves - to modern plastic disposable ones. The plastic ones don't degrade so quick on the side of the railline