Posted on 04/22/2010 12:37:14 PM PDT by decimon
The beverage has a red-and-white label, tastes ultra-sweet, gives you a buzz and - says its producer - it keeps you awake.
But it is not the drink with similar effect and a similar name you might think it is.
An unlikely newcomer has made the world of soft drinks a little more crowded: Bolivia has started producing a new fizzy drink using the coca leaf.
>
"I want to get to the whole world with my coca-leaf-based drink," says Ledezma, a coca farmer from El Chapare region in central Bolivia.
"Coca has a lot of potential … this can change the image of Bolivia as being a drug-trafficking country," he believes.
>
It is called "Coca Colla" after the Colla people, the Andean tribes who cultivate coca in the areas bordering Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.
For some a matter of indigenous pride, for others another sign of Bolivia's growing anti-US feelings, this humble local initiative has set its sights on competing domestically with giants such as Coca-Cola and Red Bull.
>
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
British Woman Cooks With Breast Milk
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2498490/posts
CLIFTON, England, - A British woman who uses breast milk in food she serves to friends and sells to strangers said she turned to her own milk for its health benefits.
Abi Blake, 30, of Clifton, England, said her breast milk tarts, smoothies, lasagna, cheesecake and other dishes have proven popular with friends, family and customers for their health benefits and better taste, The Sun reported Thursday.
“Although the idea of eating something made out of someone else’s breast milk may make some people’s stomachs turn, it is full of vitamins that can never be found in cow’s milk,” Blake said. “I have managed to convert all my family who now adore my breast milk recipes and they all agree it tastes better.”
Bolivia wants to sell Cocaine Cola.
What’s next? Mexico selling ‘Methican Tea’?
Really?
From article:"Bolivia has started producing a new fizzy drink using the coca leaf."
Is there any corn syrup in that?
Aren’t corn syrup, cow urine and cocaine the three main ingredients in Mountain Dew?
(Quat = hallucinogenic vegetable from North Africa)
I thought Quat and Jiggle was the lyrics to a new rap song.
From the article: “The company dropped cocaine from its recipe more than 100 years go, but the secret formula still calls for a cocaine-free coca extract.
The Coca-Cola Company is said to import eight tons of coca leaves from South America each year, mainly from Peru.”
Maybe they will cut him some slack, in trade for 'product'.
Good for them! Coca leaves and coca leaf tea have long been a part of their culture and are indeed no more dangerous than coffee. It was brutish and stupid of the US to spray the little Bolivian coca farmers’ crops the way we did.
Now if we can only build up the hemp/coca export equivalent for all those poppies in Afghanistan...
Let’s see.... The original drink was made with coca leaves.
Coca leaves are primarily obtainable in South America, and the Colla people are the primary farmer/gatherers and have been a long time.
Wonder where the founder got the idea for naming it Coca Cola?
I stand corrected. If it’s in their ‘secret’ formula, that’s proof enough for me.
So the difference is, one has cocaine, one doesn’t.
People are forgetting that Bolivia is ruled by a leftist ruler who believes in the supremacy of the local indigenous people, Coca Cola will have little to no say in this matter.
Wonder what they do with all the cocaine they have to 'extract' out of the coca leaves?
They're gonna answer to the Coca-Cola Corporation.
I think that has some use in medicine but I'm not sure.
Ewwww....
Do they eat steak in India?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.