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inanna

(3,547 posts) Wed Aug 31, 2016, 03:00 PM Aug 2016

Cocaine 'worth €50m' discovered at Coca-Cola plant

Source: BBC

6 hours ago

Cocaine with a street value of up to 50 million euros (£42m) has been discovered at a Coca-Cola plant in France.

The drug, hidden in bags among a delivery of orange juice concentrate, arrived in a container from South America.

An investigation is under way in Signes, a village in southern France.

The seizure of 370kg of cocaine makes it one of the largest finds on French soil.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37232010

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Cocaine 'worth €50m' discovered at Coca-Cola plant (Original Post) inanna Aug 2016 OP

so. to. night-we're-gon-na-par-ty-like-it's eight-teen. nine-ty-nine! unblock Aug 2016 #1

ha LiberalLovinLug Aug 2016 #5

"Classic" Classic Coke Gman Aug 2016 #10

Going back to the old formula? suffragette Aug 2016 #2

i'm pretty sure they still use a bit of coca leave. mopinko Aug 2016 #11

But not the old stuff with the real kick. suffragette Aug 2016 #12

true. mopinko Aug 2016 #13

Move along, nothing to see here...those are just leftover ingredients from the OLD DAYS.... MADem Aug 2016 #3

Full Circle. Schema Thing Aug 2016 #4

"Things go better with Coke . . . . . " no_hypocrisy Aug 2016 #6

I worked in supply chain for a major retailer Sen. Walter Sobchak Aug 2016 #7

"Coke. It's the Real Thing." skypilot Aug 2016 #8

Heads are gonna roll for that one... KeepItReal Aug 2016 #9

That's enough to have me drinking Coke again. GoneOffShore Aug 2016 #14

French Connection Part III? Blue_Tires Aug 2016 #15

Original recipe. nt dflprincess Aug 2016 #16

unblock

(52,205 posts)

1. so. to. night-we're-gon-na-par-ty-like-it's eight-teen. nine-ty-nine!

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 03:03 PM

Aug 2016

LiberalLovinLug

(14,173 posts)

5. ha

Reply to unblock (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 03:11 PM

Aug 2016

Yeah I was thinking along the same lines. Maybe they were simply going for the original recipe? The French do have that classic taste.

Gman

(24,780 posts)

10. "Classic" Classic Coke

Reply to unblock (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 03:36 PM

Aug 2016

suffragette

(12,232 posts)

2. Going back to the old formula?

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 03:08 PM

Aug 2016

mopinko

(70,089 posts)

11. i'm pretty sure they still use a bit of coca leave.

Reply to suffragette (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 04:34 PM

Aug 2016

remember reading a few years ago that they were one of the few legal importers of coca leaf.

suffragette

(12,232 posts)

12. But not the old stuff with the real kick.

Reply to mopinko (Reply #11)

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 04:38 PM

Aug 2016

mopinko

(70,089 posts)

13. true.

Reply to suffragette (Reply #12)

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 04:41 PM

Aug 2016

oh for the good old days.

MADem

(135,425 posts)

3. Move along, nothing to see here...those are just leftover ingredients from the OLD DAYS....

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 03:08 PM

Aug 2016

when the COCA in Coca-Cola stood for cocaine!

The pause that refreshes!!!

Schema Thing

(10,283 posts)

4. Full Circle.

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 03:11 PM

Aug 2016

no_hypocrisy

(46,087 posts)

6. "Things go better with Coke . . . . . "

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 03:12 PM

Aug 2016

Sen. Walter Sobchak

(8,692 posts)

7. I worked in supply chain for a major retailer

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 03:15 PM

Aug 2016

Finding drugs and sometimes weapons wasn't that unusual, they never arrested anyone who worked for us and believed someone had failed to retrieve the contraband in Long Beach.