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In the old days, if you wanted to enjoy fine Coca-Cola or McDonald’s brand consumables you had to head over to a capitalist pig-dog country, or at the very least a pig-dog country on good terms with the Great Satan.
BUT NO LONGER! The anti-American socialist strongmen of Bolivia and Venezuela recently unveiled their own government-run alternatives to these sinister capitalist franchises, in an effort to offer more ideologically acceptable junk food options to their citizenry.
In Venezeula, the Chavez government has established a fast-food franchise known as “Arepea Socialista,” a chain of burger joints where low-wage proles can buy state-subsidized sandwiches at below market rates. The Post has more.
Meanwhile, in the People’s State of Bolivia, President Evo Morales has released a hip new soda called Coca-Colla, after Bolivia’s conveniently-named “Colla” native people. As we all know, the real Coke used to contain cocaine extract at one time, but the company eventually stopped for obvious reasons. Senor Morales, by contrast, believes there are few problems in the world that cannot be solved with more cocaine, so his soda returns to the original formula, coca and all. Read more in the Guardian.
You can say what you want about these two guys, but at the very least they are creative.
