Forum Archive Index - June 2000

[Gerry Tyler-Smith <g.tylersmith@ext.canterbury.ac.nz>]

I've just sampled V and am completely blown away by how foul it tastes
...it is an insult to the tasebuds, esp that thick, biting gluggy taste it
leaves at the back of the throat!  When I was eleven years old, my best
friend and I decided to mix Cool Aid (a powdered drink which makes Raro
seem like nectar of the gods) with 7 Up (a lemony, fizzy drink). The result
was so digusting that even two sugar-addicted Canadian farm kids gave it
up after a couple of enthusiatic gulps, and  offered it to the pigs, who
retreated from it, snorting indignantly.  My point is, that V brought back
that taste, through the mists of time, from forty years ago.  My other
point is that today's young people are surely more sophisticated in their
tastes buds that I was, and as soon as they realize that one of V's
ingredients is:   yep, cafeine, they will go back to their warm and
comforting (and hopefully Starbucks) Cappucinos, Lattes, Short Blacks,
Long Blacks, Frappacinoes,  Al Pacinos etc. (Disclosure, hold 2000 RBD
shares.)

Oh dear, am I now guilty of libelling Frucor? Will they sue me?  Will they
shut down Sharechat?  Will they sue poor,  sweet,  earnest Ben?  Can we
hope to have a meaningful chatroom on the merits of investing in certain
companies, or on the advice of certain companies,  without saying unkind
things about certain companies?







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