Sudan is not happy about Bush's new economic sanctions. In fact, their ambassador held a weird news conference being described as bearing 'no relation to reality.' The ambassador, John Ukec Lueth Ukec, threatened to personally cut off the supply of gum arabic, an important ingredient in soft drinks.While showing a Coca Cola bottle he said: 'I want you to know that the gum arabic which runs all the soft drinks all over the world, including the United States, mainly 80 percent is imported from my country. I can stop that gum arabic and all of us will have lost this.'
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Noooooooo!!!! Anything but the "gum arabic"!!!!
What this ambassador obviously doesn't know is that Coca Cola does not import arabic gum from Somalia.
where does it come from then?
In a reaction to the ambassador's antics Kari Bjorhus, a spokeswoman for Coca Cola, has said: "As a matter of policy, we don't disclose where we source our ingredients. But we don't buy gum arabic from Sudan!"
Just as long as it isn't used in beer, I couldn't care less.
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