Obama Soda a refreshing hit among French teens

[zulchzulu]

That's right. There is Obama Soda... in France. Actually, it's a pretty refreshing story (pun intended) about how inspired French teens are about Barack Obama and how his story is helping those that need someone to look up to and take control of their lives.

The story was featured on today's NPR program:

The election of Barack Obama has inspired one French entrepreneur to create a new soft drink. The maker of Obama Soda says he hopes his beverage, and its namesake, will inspire young people living in some of France's grimmest housing projects by giving them a little taste of the American dream.

La Courneuve is a working-class suburb only 5 miles from the center of Paris, but it seems a different world from the glittering City of Light. In the drab housing projects — or cites, as they are called here — rows of gray cinder block apartments dominate the landscape.

It is here that 31-year-old Jean-Jacques Attisso has decided to base his advertising business. Attisso grew up in a nearby housing project; like most young people here, his parents were immigrants from Africa. The energetic entrepreneur says one of the biggest problems in La Courneuve is the apathy and hopelessness among young people.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98136439

Definitely check out the link and listen to the full story.

[snowbear]

1. And there's a company who sold bottles of hot sauce....

...with each of the presidential candidates on them, but evidently only the Obama sauce sold out.. They still have plenty of Guiliani, Edwards, etc.. sauces..



http://www.davesgourmet.peachhost.com/ct_PRdapbo.htm
(Dave's Gourmet in CA.. Formerly "Hot Today, Chili Tamale")

[snowbear]

2. Mrs. Beasley's Obama/Biden cupcakes...

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[Jennicut]

3. OMG, I so want those! Yummy and politcally satisfying all at the same time.

[tomreedtoon]

4. Actually, "photo icing" tastes pretty bad.

They put food coloring into inkjet printers and run it through. The icing itself tastes...well, not like icing.

Now a good chocolate buttercream icing with an Obama plastic pin stuck in it...THAT woudl be tasty!

And you wouldn't have Bill o' The Clown saying "Obama is saying 'Bite me.'"

[Jennicut]

6. Oh, too bad. Well, I will make cupcakes with Obama and Biden spelled out in icing

for my birthday! Its Dec 20th so its a treat to myself. I am turning 33 so I need something positive to not think about getting older.

[snowbear]

7. This site has 197 photos of cupcakes & cookies that people (and bakeries) have made..

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http://www.flickr.com/groups/obamacookies/pool/

I really like the bags of cookies that a person by the name of "Annakat" posted on the last page (pg 7) ...the last item in the top row.

I couldn't get flickr picture of those cookies to show up on here..

... Super nice packaging though!!!

[Jennicut]

8. Thanks! I love to make cupcakes.

:) My three and four year old will love me MAKING the cupcakes.

[silverojo]

10. "Getting older"??

Honey, you're only 33! You've got MILES to go before you hit middle age. ;)

[ecstatic]

5. Will Obama need to trademark his name soon?

:shrug: :rofl: I'm ready to cash in too! Any ideas?

[FrenchieCat]

9. Great story! Hope is on its way!

I know these people....I have relatives in France who live in these same types of government housing.

Many work in hospitals (Antillians) or Road Constructions (Africans) and they are kind of stuck there. Enterpreneurship is the only way that they can get out of the class that they are stuck in. That's why American is the land of Dreams, because even in places like France, those stuck in a certain financial class at the bottom have a very hard time making a go of it.