Value addition of a different kind

By Faraz Shauketaly

This bottle of Sprite was bought in Digana, Kandy and provides fascinating value additions. There are objects floating inside and it appears to be flakes of some sort. We contacted the Coca Cola Company one of whose brands is Sprite.

They professed complete puzzlement as to how whatever has got in has got in and wanted us to come over to their factory where they proposed to open the bottle.

In fact the Coca Cola Company offered to send a car to pick and drop us off, so that they could conduct us on a tour of their facility and explain how very difficult it is for a bottle such as this to be contaminated.

On explaining that we were really pushed for time and that we didn't really want them to open the bottle until independent witnesses could be available, maybe from the Government Analyst, the Coca Cola Company stated that they hoped we would change our mind and contact them again if we wished to come over with the bottle of course. All I can say of course, is that it is  jolly good that Black Label does not mix with Sprite so well!

(faraz@thesundayleader.lk)