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Will India launch its new Cow Urine Cola by Christmas 2009?
Background: Background: India's Hindu nationalist movement is working on creating a new soft drink to rival Coca-Cola and Pepsi. The main ingredient? Cow urine.
The Times Online explains the development of the beverage by the Cow Protection Department of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS):
Om Prakash, the head of the department, said the drink - called "gau jal", or "cow water" - in Sanskrit was undergoing laboratory tests and would be launched "very soon, maybe by the end of this year".
"Don't worry, it won't smell like urine and will be tasty too," he told The Times from his headquarters in Hardwar, one of four holy cities on the River Ganges. "Its USP will be that it's going to be very healthy. It won't be like carbonated drinks and would be devoid of any toxins."
Stating that several colas are harmful to the extent that they can be substituted for pesticides, he asserted that their soft drink with cow urine will not only be natural but cost-effective too. "In addition to this, it will prove and justify the high stature accorded to a cow in Indian culture."
Cow urine, in fact, ranks quite high on the RSS list of priorities. "We discuss its importance at various meetings and public programmes. We have also been circulating pamphlets about its medicinal value," said Om Prakash, who has been actively involved in the task of cow protection and promoting bovine urine for the last four decades.
Settlement date is fixed.
Some background:
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/coke-has-a-rival-rsss-cow-urine-cola/421641/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4592608/India-makes-cola-from-cow-urine.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/11/india-cow-urine-soft-drin_n_165960.html
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The Times Online explains the development of the beverage by the Cow Protection Department of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS):
Om Prakash, the head of the department, said the drink - called "gau jal", or "cow water" - in Sanskrit was undergoing laboratory tests and would be launched "very soon, maybe by the end of this year".
"Don't worry, it won't smell like urine and will be tasty too," he told The Times from his headquarters in Hardwar, one of four holy cities on the River Ganges. "Its USP will be that it's going to be very healthy. It won't be like carbonated drinks and would be devoid of any toxins."
Stating that several colas are harmful to the extent that they can be substituted for pesticides, he asserted that their soft drink with cow urine will not only be natural but cost-effective too. "In addition to this, it will prove and justify the high stature accorded to a cow in Indian culture."
Cow urine, in fact, ranks quite high on the RSS list of priorities. "We discuss its importance at various meetings and public programmes. We have also been circulating pamphlets about its medicinal value," said Om Prakash, who has been actively involved in the task of cow protection and promoting bovine urine for the last four decades.
Settlement date is fixed.
Some background:
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/coke-has-a-rival-rsss-cow-urine-cola/421641/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4592608/India-makes-cola-from-cow-urine.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/11/india-cow-urine-soft-drin_n_165960.html
Bottom's up!
Settlement details:As reported by a major mainstream news source.
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Mr Prakash said his drink, by contrast, was made mainly of cow urine, mixed with a few medicinal and ayurvedic herbs. He said it would be "cheap", but declined to give further details about its price or ingredients until it was officially launched.
He insisted, however, that it would be able to compete with the American cola brands, even with their enormous advertising budgets. "We're going to give them good competition as our drink is good for mankind," he said. "We may also think of exporting it."
A yellow cow?
I wonder what their laboratory looks like? I'm imagining the scene in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" where the visitors tour the tunnels under the factory on a river of chocolate, and they see a cow being whipped to manufacture whipped cream.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calpis
"The name Calpis was actually constructed as a portmanteau, by combining cal from calcium and pis from Sanskrit sarpis (supreme taste)."
"Supreme taste"? Who knew?
http://hkrl.com/cowurine.html
KOLKATA: An enterprising practitioner of traditional Indian medicine has opened a unique clinic that treats all ailments with cow urine and dung.
Cow urine for common cold, dung for diabetes, a concoction of both for cancer. Lunch included.
I'm dying to see what the catchy marketing slogan and logo will be. Plus who will be their 'target' group? the golden shower crowd?
and will they dump big buckets of the stuff on their soccer coaches when they win?
maybe they'll even have hot springs and mud baths with cow waste. entire industries will be born.
a chocolate covered graham crackery cookie with marshmallow insides.
A chocolate covered graham crackery cookie sounds good right about now...the other...not so much!
I think I would trade mine for that infamous lump of coal.
Possible tag lines... Like a cow pissing on a flat rock, Gau Jal!, Splash one down! ... Gau Ja! ~ Urine for a treat! ... Replenish! Reuse! Repeat! ... Don't be pissed off, be pissed on! ... I had to go talk to a man about a horse ... When nature calls, get mooving ... and for those pesky hot summer months, what could possibly be more refreshing than a satisfying Yellow Snow Cone?
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