This has to be the weirdest threat I've ever hard. Coke is a soft drink. Its carbonated, which is why there are little tiny bubbles fizzing out. Gum arabic reduces surface tension of liquids, making the soda more fizzy. Most of the world's gum arabic supply comes from Sudan.
So when a Sudanese Ambassador held a heated press junket, he had something to bargain with. That's right, he ranted about the sanctions the US has imposed because of the genocide in Darfur. And then he laid out the most calculated and horrifying scenario American consumers can imagine. "Stop trying to stop our mass killings or we'll make your soda less bubbly."
Well, he said that he could do that, but won't cause he loves the stuff. But he doesn't see what the big deal is; its just like when the cowboys fought the farmers for grazing land in the US he says. Ah yes, I remember the cowboy-farmer wars well, it was back in eighteen dickety two, we had to say dickety because the kaiser had stolen the word twenty...
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