Posted on 02/26/2019 9:21:22 PM PST by blueplum
Looks like Kim Jong Un will need to toast the success of his summit with Donald Trump with something other than vodka.
Dutch customs officers seized 3,000 cases of the Russian-made vodka Stolbovaya believed to be heading to North Korea for Kim Jong Un and his top generals on Friday, officials announced on Tuesday. The cargo of 90,000 bottles was discovered in ...
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I did some online research and there appear to be several cheap brands which are named similarly to stolichnaya. Probably to intentionally confuse the consumer. Starka or the Polish brands would have been better choices.
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It is a language thing. All names sound alike. The only brand intentionally similar to Stoli is ‘Prazdnichnaya’ which copies the design of the bottle and labels are very similar. Although they were in a legal battle over it and since I haven’t seen Prazdnichnaya for a long time I guess it lost.
Sell him some “Titos” ( much better and
Made in Texas!)
89999 but who’s counting.
Just refill the bottles with wood alcohol.
Lil’ Kim would think it was from Yugoslavia.
Okay, I just wanted to be sure you spelled the name right.
Oh vell *hic* I vas *hic* never no good vit numbers, *hic*. Oh,89,999 bottles of vodka on da vall...’’
“You mean Stolichnaya?”
Indeed! I’ll take my 5th of twenty-five -year -old bottle of Stolichnaya Cristall any day over anything else. You can only get it by special order from a Russian embassy. Well you use to back in ‘76 when it cost something over $250 per bottle. Things change.
90K bottles - so what is he gonna do for the other 11 months of the year?
But Kim probably just gives this away and has some nicer stuff for himself.
Chairman Kim, mention this inconvenience to President Trump.
He seems to have the ability to get things done.
There is a good chance your vodka will arrive soon.
5.56mm
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMM!
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