Officially that is. Of course it was always possible to buy coca cola and even pepsi (though less easy to get). there were imports from Thailand and Singapore and the cans were priced differently since apaprently there was a difference aside from the country of origin. Not that I ever noticed a difference in taste but I drink cola only sometimes and when I do it is usually a local brank called Star Cola.
In the Myanmar Times there was a big add of Pepsi saying that they are now officially here. There was already talk of both those soft drink giants coming here. There are adds all over town apparently. One of teh last frontiers in soft drink land they probably think.
Anyways, i found it funny to see that even the BBC news has someting on this. They had a big article on there now being only 2 countries left that officially don't have Coca Cola, namely Cuba and North Korea.
I'm counting the days until we have such horrors as KFC, MacDonalds, Starbucks, and so on. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy visiting them very sometimes when we're in Bangkok I just rather not have them here. i don't think they'd add a lot to the quality of food and drink available in this country..
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