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23 Hillside View
New Mills
HIGH PEAK
SK22
3DF
9th June 1997 |
T S Dean
Coca Cola Great Britain
1 Queen
Caroline Street
London
W6 9HQ
Dear T S Dean
Thankyou for your letter of 20th May. In fact my friends Arnold and Concepta
are staying with us at the moment, so immediately I received your letter I
offered them a Coca Cola. Both of them however declined the offer, and gave me a
funny look. I then showed them your letter, but they still couldn't be tempted,
and refused to say why. I then told them that they didn't know what they were missing.
Arnold said he knew exactly what they were missing, which was why he was intent on missing
it,
and that they
never drank Coca Cola. When I asked him why he said it was because one of its ingredients is Coca, a substance which
is derived from the dried leaves of the Coca plant, a South American shrub
(Erythroxylon Coca), which is used to make the illegal drug cocaine. I told him
not to be so silly, because I'd seen Michael Jackson promoting it on a television commercial,
and that whilst Michael Jackson might
be accused of
anything from playing hide the sausage with young boys to trying to gradually
turn himself into a white man, he is definitely not the sort of person who
would promote a beverage whose ingredients included an illegal
substance.
However Arnold insisted that this is the case. Personally I
think he's talking a load of hogwash - he's a social worker - but I must
confess that I've often wondered why it is that a can of Coke can make me feel
high whilst no other drink can do this.
Is it possible that Arnold could be
telling the truth?
Yours faithfully  |
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