“If you take away all the advertising, and all the aspirations
that go along with it and sponsorship of the Olympics, and
childhood memories and notions of America and style and
design and all of that, you’re left with brown, sugary water.”

Mark Thomas, December 2008

Mark Thomas, Belching Out the Devil:
Global Adventures with Coca-Cola, is out
now published by Ebury Press, priced
£11.99. ISBN: 9780091922931