Norwegian homosexuals to launch new soda

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | July 12, 2005 | AFP

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Norwegian homosexuals are set to launch their own soda brand, Homo light, at an upcoming gastronomic festival, in the hope that it will help promote tolerance, one of the authors of the project said today.

"The goal is not for us to make money but to make us more visible and accepted," Oeystein Mauritzen said.

Pear-flavoured and pink, Homo Light will go on sale as a one-time offer at a stand at a gastronomic festival in the southwestern town of Stavanger between July 27 and 30.

Along with the soda, which will be sold in half-litre bottles for 20 kroner ($A4), the group will sell rainbow-coloured pasta salads.

Norway, which has allowed homosexuals to form marriage-like partnerships since 1993, is one of the world's most liberal countries when it comes to gay rights.

The current coalition government ironically combines Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, a Lutheran minister of the Christian Democratic Party who has come out against the partnership law, and openly gay Finance Minister Per-Kristian Foss of the Conservative Party.

[sharktrager]

The bubbles tickle my nose!

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[prisoner6]

There are so many jokes in this but for once I'm not gonna bite...it's hard for me to swallow but I just can't swish down that road this time.

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[PetroniusMaximus]

Come on!!!

You made this up!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Not this one!

LOL

[Cincinatus' Wife]

MSM is having fun with this.

Move over, Coke - 'homo light' soda is on its way in Norway

It's 'Homo Light' - the gay softdrink

Drink to tolerance with pink Homo Light

[Fresh Wind]

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Slurpees and fruit smoothies in Norway...

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

The newspapers are getting so bad, every story has to have some homosexual angle...

[cabojoe]

Add some Bacardi 151 and a match and you've got a Flaming Homo.

[thecabal]

Must have been inspired by this stuff:

[Past Your Eyes]

"openly gay Finance Minister Per-Kristian Foss of the Conservative Party." Evidently Conservative means something entirely different in Norway.

[Past Your Eyes]

HAH! Goodun.
Remember that high school for queers that was being built somewhere in NYC a couple years ago? I wondered what they were going to call their sports teams since the Packers and the Fighting Gamecocks were already taken.

[SIDENET]

It will go with their other products.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

LOL

Did you snap that shot?

[Past Your Eyes]

I never drink that stuff. It's full of homones. I only drink Past Your Eyes.

[daddyOwe]

How about a nice tall frosty Root Queer!

[SkyPilot]

[Nachoman]

What's the bottle shaped like?

[ONETWOONE]

Yes the Japanese drink is almost as delicious as Pocardi Sweat.