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The swindler spirit that united Eastern and Western Europe

If you were in Britain on Christmas Day in 1992, chances are you sat in front of the TV to watch an episode of one of the most-beloved series in the country, Only Fools and Horses. In that particular Christmas episode, protagonists Del Boy and Rodney come up with a plan to bottle and sell tap water under the “Peckham Spring” brand, named after a London district not far from where I live. The episode came to public attention again in 2004, when journalists discovered that Coca-Cola’s newly-launched Dasani brand was just tap water bottled about 15km from Peckham.

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