That really stuck out at me too. I wonder when he drank the stuff, though. If it was just at parties, no big deal. If he was drinking it at work, then the implication would be pretty wacky.
On that note is anyone here old enough to remember how people drank Coke circa '40-50? Did people at the time tend to nurse their cokes or just chug that shit?
Color and clarity are orthogonal qualities. A liquid can be either clear or opaque (or somewhere in between) regardless of it's color, and can be any color regardless of it's opacity.
Cranberry juice is both red and clear. Blood is red and opaque. Milk is white and opaque, and vodka is white and clear.
>That is, Coca-Cola supplies and products were required to transit a Soviet occupation zone, while being transported between the Lambach bottling plant and the Vienna warehouse
man, what a logistical nightmare. can't imagine having to deal with something like that if I was trying to get coca-cola from A to B. they must have been grateful for the "unusual consequence" of almost no soviet-zone stoppage.
