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Why didn't I think of that?

  • 11-02-2009 11:17pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,257 ✭✭✭✭


    Doesn't it make you mad when somebody comes up with a brilliant idea that's so simple, you wonder why you never thought of it? :mad:

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article5707554.ece

    Does your Pepsi lack pep? Is your Coke not the real thing? India's Hindu nationalist movement apparently has the answer: a new soft drink made from cow urine.
    The bovine brew is in the final stages of development by the Cow Protection Department of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), India's biggest and oldest Hindu nationalist group, according to the man who makes it.
    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.


    The drink is the latest attempt by the RSS – which was founded in 1925 and now claims eight million members – to cleanse India of foreign influence and promote its ideology of Hindutva, or Hindu-ness.
    Hindus revere cows and slaughtering them is illegal in most of India. Cow dung is traditionally used as a fuel and disinfectant in villages, while cow urine and dung are often consumed in rituals to "purify" those on the bottom rungs of the Hindu caste system.
    In 2001, the RSS and its offshoots – which include the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party – began promoting cow urine as a cure for ailments ranging from liver disease to obesity and even cancer.
    The movement has often been accused of using more violent methods, such as killing 67 Christians in the eastern state of Orissa last year, and assaulting women in a pub in Mangalore last month. It also has a history of targeting foreign business in India, as in 1994, when it organised a nationwide boycott of multinational consumer goods, including Pepsi and Coca Cola.
    The cola brands are popular in India, now one of their biggest markets, but have struggled in recent years to shake off allegations, which they deny, that they contain dangerous levels of pesticide.
    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."


Comments

  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,160 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    I'd rather drink piss..... oh wait.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Pfft. Budweiser thought of that idea years ago.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,575 ✭✭✭junkyard


    I thought Heineken was made out of this already?:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,257 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    I can hear them farmers stampeding to the bottling facility.

    A new meaning to being on the piss!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    javaboy wrote: »
    Pfft. Budweiser thought of that idea years ago.
    ejmaztec wrote: »
    "Don't worry, it won't smell like urine and will be tasty too....

    They Tried....And Failed....:pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭qz


    I think it needs a name.
    Cow Cola or Piss Pepsi?

    Bladder Bubbles?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Could explain where Bass comes from!
    Well that states where its from and they stook a "B" in front of it for "buttocks"!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,257 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Anybody cornered the market with real honest-to-goodness sh1t (except Fianna Fail of course)?

    There must be a market for that out there somewhere - turd-burgers anyone?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    qz wrote: »
    I think it needs a name.
    Cow Cola or Piss Pepsi?

    Bladder Bubbles?

    URN-BRU?

    urn_bru.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭qz




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,522 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Cow breast excretion drink, cow bladder excretion drink, what's next: cow stomach excretion drink? At least they would probably be cheaper in four packs, variety packs. Cud - chewy. Cud - slightly digested. Cud - heavily digested. Cud - practically fermenting and a bit fizzy (may cause gas, damaging to new born icebergs and ozones).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭Sofaspud


    Milking - ur doin it wrong!

    Either way, it'll make a good cash cow for someone! They'll just have to take the bull by the horns.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,045 ✭✭✭Húrin


    the RSS – which was founded in 1925 and now claims eight million members – to cleanse India of foreign influence
    Only a bunch of cretins who adhere to an ideology like that would think that sinking capital into this facetious ;) project was a good idea.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭ART6


    How do they collect it? Are the cows trained to piss to order, or is there a set time of day for them to piss like there is for milking? And when they do piss, they do so in copious quantities, so who gets the job of catching it? Some possible technical problems to overcome maybe?


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