There is a very funny cold-war comedy starring James Cagney as a harried Coca-Cola distributor who is trying to expand sales behind the iron curtain... worth a watch..
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055256/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_5
here’s the trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCAMJoj9uM8
https://123movies.net/watch/pxww8Oyx-one-two-three-1961.html
When you get right down to it - everything we consume is chemicals.
Ivan’s Tea and Devils Cut?
I don’t think so.
My father worked in the soft-drink industry for over forty years. He wouldn’t drink a drop of any of it and none of the kids did either.
Of the top ten corporate “brands” in Russia, six are state-owned, two are privately-owned oil & gas companies, and two privately-owned grocery store chains. In other words, Russia doesn’t have many consumer brands. It is a commodity-producing country. Its economy is dominated by state enterprises and oligarchs, and corrupton. There is little entreprenuership, It’s all top-down.
As long as we keep our defenses strong, we will outlast them. We beat them in Cold War I with bluejeans androck ‘n roll, and we will beat them in Cold War II the same way.
Not
Give me good old flavored American sugar water
Kvass is far more popular
Crazy Ivan Tea. Sounds like a Tom Clancy book.
Check out the medicinal qualities claimed for Siberian Fireweed. Cocaine as a medicinal stimulant, an alkaloid compound- was removed in 1903 and replaced with variously sourced alternative alkaloid of a similar chemical structure-— caffeine. Sourced from Kola nut, maybe or a citrate of caffeine included in the secret recipe.
As for Siberian Fireweed? Who knows. There have been conceptual beverages based on ghat— but who would drink it?
Also, very high quantities of guarana are in the “Charged Up “ tea sold by Panera (many times caffeine content of regular coffee... as an FYI).
Putin is right more than wrong lately
Water is a chemical.