Russian Vodka.....

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  1. exiled

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60621332.amp

    So all the major supermarkets are withdrawing Russian Vodka from the shelves.
    Valid response or PR exercise?
    Are we soon to see a national shortage of rice and cereal products, also gas used in beer production (serious times) as the supermarkets remove these Russian imports?
    No, I doubt it.
     
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    I got some french vodka from Aldi at Christmas.
     
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    Oh, and your chicken kiev, is now a chicken Kyiv......pronounced keev.
     
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    PR exercise or expression of disapproval? A bit of both I guess. Its a harmless, easy gesture to make that gets a point across. In the longer term I'd like to think we are looking for alternative sources for as many essential goods as possible for as long as Russia is in the hands an unstable mafia thug.
     
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    Loko the Tyke Administrator Staff Member Admin

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    It was pubs, bars and restaurants that started the ball rolling on this.

    Arc Inspirations in Leeds being one of the first to make this move before others followed. Nothing PR about it. It’s just the right thing to do.
     
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    Surely you need to use up what's already there or it's a waste?
     
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    If its already been paid for who's losing out
     
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    Nothing in the grand scheme of things though is it? What’s £60 to a bar that can be returned to the supplier for a full refund, when you compare it to what’s going on in the Ukraine?
     
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    Future orders/stock returns
     
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    What about the optics that are opened? Russia aren't losing out the suppliers already been paid?
     
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    I don’t mean to be funny Helen but it feels like you always battle me on these things. Opened optics will be given away for staff drinks or to regulars. Stock returned to wholesalers and returned to suppliers.

    All future orders cancelled. The company/brand gets hit long term not the pub who just switch in to another spirit
     
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    Not meaning to, just seems more to the point to use stuff up.Can obviously see the point in not putting further orders in.
     
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    Who needs Russian Vodka ..........

    VODKA / FODKA

    FIVE is a premium 43% abv vodka made with using water from the BRECON BEACONS NATKIONAL PARK.

    It is distilled five times for maximum purity. Vodka may be charcoal filtered but FIVE is so pure it doesn’t need any further filtration.

    TASTING NOTES

    FIVE gains a smooth fruit twist when we add a hint of barley spirit from our unique PENDERYN STILL, RHONDDA VALLEY.
     
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    This is your Wales success story when it comes to vodka. Basically a joke that’s made a couple of Swansea lads an absolute fortune.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wa...s/swansea-vodka-thats-now-global-19743406.amp
     
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    The only time I drink vodka is in the occasional Harvey Wallbanger
     
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    Welsh Vodka Brand Tops list of UK’s Fastest Growing Online Companies
    FOOD & DRINK INNOVATION SWANSEA

    SHARE
    [​IMG] FOOD & DRINK , 12TH OCTOBER 2021

    Swansea-based premium drink brand, Au Vodka, has been revealed as the UK’s fastest growing online brand from 2019 to 2020 – the most challenging period ever for British retail.
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    - joke ???

    a brilliant success ! Tidy!
     
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    Sorry to be pedantic, but the name of the country is just Ukraine. “The Ukraine” dates back to Soviet times and is both grammatically and politically incorrect.
     
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    Grey Goose is lovely. If that’s the one you purchased
     
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    Polish Vodka is as good as any.
     
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    I read that earlier. But pendantry is alive and well on a Friday night.
     
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