tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4163876234969175446.post3174027703447744763..comments2024-03-22T10:56:23.359+02:00Comments on Land and People: ColaRami Zuraykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14644937988631864952noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4163876234969175446.post-25433590966287045122008-01-30T06:47:00.000+02:002008-01-30T06:47:00.000+02:00It's so easy NOT to drink cola. We had a birthday ...It's so easy NOT to drink cola. We had a birthday party for our son last weekend. We served American coffee brewed in a large urn - 24 cups at once; black tea from loose leaf brewed in a pot; gaseous water ("seltzer"); organic fruit juices, and plain tap water in a nice glass pitcher. For the children I combined organic grape juice and bubbly water in a pitcher for a kind of "punch." There were also bagged herb teas available if people wanted to have a single cup of something special.<BR/><BR/>Everybody was happy. I didn't even think about cola drinks until the moment the first guest arrived; I worried for a minute - but what if they want a Diet Coke? and then I thought - people who drink Diet Coke get plenty of it all day long. They can drink water at our party, or coffee with sugar, or tea.<BR/><BR/>Most American parents, even the so-called "environmentally conscious" ones, serve those awful individual juice boxes/bags at parties. Incredibly wasteful. I just can't stand it and I won't buy them.<BR/><BR/>Meanwhile I am thinking about the Haitians eating dirt, and how we served cake and chips and bread and cheese and bean soup and pizzas, and there was so much left over I sent food home with my mother and other guests. How can a rich American (we are middle class, but rich is relative) share with a poor Haitian? I will have to give money to Oxfam. It's just too heartbreaking.Bedouinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00214561733659157727noreply@blogger.com