SIP'N -- Sunday International Pop News!

[Lost Dog]

Indian state bans soft drinks after Coke, Pepsi gets toxic label

"Manufacturers are required to print 'not only dangerous for human consumption, but also the quantity of the residues, if any, on each label,'" said spokesman K. Tiwari.

Misuse of quotation marks aside, this is shocking! What residue are we talking about? Not my Jazz!

Once, on a cross country driving trip, my wiper fluid ran dry (the car, people, the car!). Thank God for a cooler full of Diet Pepsi! 12oz of bubbly nectar of the gods later, my windshield was blessedly moth free. The only residue was one of wings. Moth wings.

Granted, it's been years since I've had a non-diet soda, but I don't remember a residue. Sounds creepy. What do they use for sweetener in India? Sugar? Haven't they heard of HFCS?

Plus, shouldn't that sugary stuff and them acids dissolve anything less solid than depleted uranium? Just like that nail I once soaked overnight in Coke! Woke up. No nail. No residue.

Editors Note: There is no evidence that a soft drink, full sugar, diet, or the questionable manufactured mistakes of C2 and whatever the Pepsi version is called, will disolve anything other than ice cubes. In fact, Snopes.com and the Cato Institute both claim that these rumours are unfounded and/or biased.

"The restriction will remain in force until the controversy regarding harmful ingredients in soft drinks is cleared," said assembly Secretary Nachhattar Singh Mavi.

A two-judge bench of India's Supreme Court, meanwhile, gave the two firms a month to reveal the ingredients of their products, officials said.
The court reacted to a public lawsuit which argued products sold by both the firms were deeply laced with harmful chemicals such as phosphoric acid, caffeine and aspartame.

So, India is on a quest for the secret ingredients to the colas. Other than phosphoric acid, caffeine and aspartame, of course.

Can something actually be deeply laced with something? Hmmm... I don't know about that.

Waste product from a Coca-Cola plant in India which the company provides as fertiliser for local farmers contains toxic chemicals, a BBC study has found.

Coca-Cola's 'toxic' India fertiliser

Kinda seems like the soda would be pretty safe, seeing that the Coca-Cola, in India, seems like more of a bi-product of fertilizer production. With all the good stuff in the bad stuff, what bad stuff is left in the good stuff, I ask.

Coca-Cola say they will continue to supply the sludge to farmers.

Whew! That's a relief.

Come to think of it, I do remember sludge. But, that's not the same as residue...


Locals have protested at the
chemicals and the draining of
water


That's maha! Thums Up to India, for looking out for the welfare of somebody that doesn't work for Coca-Cola or Pepsi-Co.



Not a lot of soda news in this hemisphere (either Northern or Western), so this is it until next week, when I list all the sodas not found on Bulgarian supermarket shelves.

Now, goodnight! I'm tired and I've got to get the Mansquito video back to the rental store in the morning! One more day and it would have been cheaper to see it in the theatre!