Pick ‘n Pay has seriously miscalculated if they think shutterbugs will enter a competition to win a case of contraversial carbonated fizz Krone Borealis. This is surely not the way to promote the Kynsna Oyster Festival.

Has producer Vinimark come up with yet another wheeze to dispose of their problematic stock? The words of Francois Taittinger come to mind. Accused to supplying occupying Nazis with “fizzy dishwater” seventy years ago, Frannie replied “Who cares? It’s not as if it’s going to be drunk by anyone who knows anything about Champagne.” The young Taittinger was subsequently thrown into prison for several days for cheek, not bottling fizzy dishwater.