Is This The End of Fiji Water?

Well it seems that Fiji Water and the Fiji Island government are at it again. The island wishes to place a 15 cent-per-liter tax on bottled water. The caveat to this tax is that it will only be imposed on producers who currently extract 3.5M liters month. And guess who "only" extracts that much on the island? Yep...Fiji Water.

John Cochran, President and COO of Fiji Water, appears to be trying to bluff again for the second time with a threat to shut down all operations. Should this happen that would be the end of Fiji Water and Fiji island would lose one of its leading exporters.

You can read John Cochran's released statement on the matter: Discriminatory Tax Forces Shutdown of FIJI Water Factory

If this does all go down there may a mad dash for the last bottled drops of Fiji Water.

Mexican Coke

Before the days of artificial sweeteners and corn syrup, soda companies used real sugar. In fact that is all that was available at the time. Now times have changed. In order to save money scientists created artificial sweeteners and although similar in taste sodas with high fructose corn syrup just don't match up to their sugary sweetened counter parts.

A classic example of the differences in the two sweeteners is with Coca Cola. Coke is the largest soda company in world and we are all used to the cola drink made with high fructose corn syrup. But lets not forget that at one time Coke was make with pure cane sugar. Long gone are those days, however, Mexican Coke is still make with the pure cane sugar formulation. Just one sip of Mexican Coca Cola may even make you swear off artificial sweetners completely. There is a reason why many retro sodas, as some call them, still exist today.