Why Palestinians are drinking a Coca-Cola look-alike, Chat Cola

Chat Cola worked with chemists in France to produce the flavor, which is almost indistinguishable from Coke’s—just like its packaging.

Order a Coke to wash down some hummus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank these days and chances are the waiter will shake his head disapprovingly — or worse, mutter “shame, shame” in Arabic — before suggesting the popular local alternative: a can of Chat Cola.