Where do shops get their supplies of foreign cans of Coke? I was in a chippy
last night and got a Moroccan one! It tasted better than the UK stuff, I
would like to find out where the hell they get them from.

neutron wrote:

> Where do shops get their supplies of foreign cans of Coke? I was in a chippy
> last night and got a Moroccan one! It tasted better than the UK stuff, I
> would like to find out where the hell they get them from.


Morocco?

"John"  wrote in message
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> neutron wrote:
> > Where do shops get their supplies of foreign cans of Coke? I was in a
chippy
> > last night and got a Moroccan one! It tasted better than the UK stuff, I
> > would like to find out where the hell they get them from.
>
> Morocco?


Too far away there must be a UK importer?

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 18:30:29 +0000 (UTC), "neutron"
<neutron(abcde)@f.off.com> wrote:


>Where do shops get their supplies of foreign cans of Coke? I was in a chippy
>last night and got a Moroccan one! It tasted better than the UK stuff, I
>would like to find out where the hell they get them from.
>

I asked for a 500ml bottle of Diet Coke at a fast food van the other
day and was given a bottle of Coca-Cola Light.  The label says
'Produce of Georgia', and that's not the one in the USA. There's a
sticker over part of the original label giving the list of ingredients
and A. Russell Ltd. RM4 1LD, UK, presumably the importer.

"Jupiter"  wrote in message
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> On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 18:30:29 +0000 (UTC), "neutron"
> <neutron(abcde)@f.off.com> wrote:
>
> >Where do shops get their supplies of foreign cans of Coke? I was in a
chippy
> >last night and got a Moroccan one! It tasted better than the UK stuff, I
> >would like to find out where the hell they get them from.
> >
> I asked for a 500ml bottle of Diet Coke at a fast food van the other
> day and was given a bottle of Coca-Cola Light.  The label says
> 'Produce of Georgia', and that's not the one in the USA. There's a
> sticker over part of the original label giving the list of ingredients
> and A. Russell Ltd. RM4 1LD, UK, presumably the importer.


http://www.foodfirst.co.uk/who00043.htm

A potato importer :-D

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 18:30:29 +0000 (UTC) neutron wrote:

> Where do shops get their supplies of foreign cans of Coke? I was in a
> chippy last night and got a Moroccan one! It tasted better than the UK
> stuff, I would like to find out where the hell they get them from.


It's better when it comes from Morocco, and it's called "Coke"...
Hmmmm...

"neutron" <neutron(abcde)@f.off.com> wrote in message
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> Where do shops get their supplies of foreign cans of Coke? I was in a
> chippy
> last night and got a Moroccan one! It tasted better than the UK stuff, I
> would like to find out where the hell they get them from.
>
>

This is happening with many products now. I used to buy Colgate's toothpaste
from a Costcutter shop and it was marked, not for sale in Israel, South
Africa or the U.K.I mentioned it to the shopkeeper and he just shrugged. I
have recently bought Nescafe made in Singapore and Brazil. Looking in the
fridge our 7UP comes from Holland and now I regret looking closely as Dr
Pepper has a use by date of Feb 03 on it and it came from a recent Multi
Pack offer from one of the supermarket chains.
Derek.

It is the different water, the Moroccan water probably has less nasty shit 
in it than the UK plants local spring

"Tim Angus"  wrote in message 
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> On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 18:30:29 +0000 (UTC) neutron wrote:
>> Where do shops get their supplies of foreign cans of Coke? I was in a
>> chippy last night and got a Moroccan one! It tasted better than the UK
>> stuff, I would like to find out where the hell they get them from.
>
> It's better when it comes from Morocco, and it's called "Coke"...
> Hmmmm... 

Could be. I also think the fact the UK Coke is always in aluminium cans has
something to do with it. Seems the UK and Ireland are the only ones that
have aluminium Coke cans, other countries are all steel.

"Boz"  wrote in message
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> It is the different water, the Moroccan water probably has less nasty shit
> in it than the UK plants local spring
>
> "Tim Angus"  wrote in message
> news:20051005204507.34c1aa89.MyForeName@TheLast4CharsOfMySurname.net...
> > On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 18:30:29 +0000 (UTC) neutron wrote:
> >> Where do shops get their supplies of foreign cans of Coke? I was in a
> >> chippy last night and got a Moroccan one! It tasted better than the UK
> >> stuff, I would like to find out where the hell they get them from.
> >
> > It's better when it comes from Morocco, and it's called "Coke"...
> > Hmmmm...
>
>

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 19:00:34 +0000 (UTC), "neutron"
<neutron(abcde)@f.off.com> wrote:


>
>"John"  wrote in message
>news:m_U0f.54573$VI6.1808@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>> neutron wrote:
>> > Where do shops get their supplies of foreign cans of Coke? I was in a
>chippy
>> > last night and got a Moroccan one! It tasted better than the UK stuff, I
>> > would like to find out where the hell they get them from.
>>
>> Morocco?
>
>Too far away there must be a UK importer?
>

They might already have been imported somewhere else, possibly France.
White van man then fills up the gaps between the smuggled fags with
smuggled soft drinks and brings them in through Dover etc.
Some "foreign" goods are just multilingually labelled (as done by
Mars) or brought in by foreign-based retailers (e.g. Lidl) but others
are smuggled in by people who manage to pick up a job lot on which
they can make a profit without bothering with such niceties as VAT or
food laws; there is IIRC also a proportion of counterfeiting involved.
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Boz wrote:

> 
> It is the different water, the Moroccan water probably has less nasty shit
> in it than the UK plants local spring


Given their environmental regulations, that
might be an over-optimistic position to take.
On the other hand, since you're speaking of
Coke, who's going to notice a raw sewage 
component?

Deirdre

neutron wrote:

> Where do shops get their supplies of foreign cans of Coke? I was in a chippy
> last night and got a Moroccan one! It tasted better than the UK stuff, I
> would like to find out where the hell they get them from.


Morocco?

I don't know where to get them but I was amused that on the side of a
US can it reads 'Serving size: 1 can'. This is of course a larger 355ml
can!

TTH

In article <di1hhs$bti$1@nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com> axelmct@btopenworld.com wrote...


> It is the different water, the Moroccan water probably has less nasty shit
> in it than the UK plants local spring


It's Coca-Cola. How much more nasty could you possibly make it?

Mike Dickson, Edinburgh, Scotland