User talk:Mbullard

Greek food products and Coca-Cola
The scope of the "Greek food products" page is not really very clear. But looking at its contents, it does seem that it is about typically Greek food products, not about agricultural or industrial production. Greece no doubt produces more wheat and tomatoes and bananas (cf. Agriculture in Greece) than it produces mastic, yet the page discusses only mastic. That is one reason that soft drinks don't belong here. Another is that Coca-Cola HBC (like all bottlers) bottles locally for each market. It produces enough Coca-Cola for the Greek market in Greece (and maybe exports some to Albania or something) but does not export Coca-Cola from Greece to Poland. So the amount of Coca-Cola produced in Greece is not especially large. To use your Nike example, yes, it is true that Nike is a U.S. company; but that does not make the U.S. a major producer of shoes because, as you say, it manufactures abroad. Does it make Nike shoes 'American'? Yes, I suppose so, because the design is probably done in the U.S. and led by U.S. trends. By that criterion, Coca-Cola is a U.S. product, not a Greek product.... --Macrakis 20:16, 15 August 2006 (UTC)