Black label? Black market!
Friday, February 2nd, 2007
A bottle of vodka for 1,000 dirham and still a terrible hangover - it may be the price for a night out in Casablanca.
You have to give it to Al Bayane: the newspaper spares no-one in its tour of the ugly side of Morocco. After stone-throwing kids and the touts in the port of Tangier, the paper turns its attention to allegations of fraud in Casablanca’s nightlife.
One of the better nightclubs in town, Al Bayane writes, has “tons” of low quality black market vodka in the kitchen, which it sells in bottles from upmarket brands. A 30 dirham bottle of “Black market” is sold as “Black label” for 1,000 dirham (US$ 116), the paper reports.
The club’s young clientele grew suspicious of the quality of their favorite drink after “they had to throw up and were left with a terrible headache for two days”. So they asked around, and the waiters of the place let them in on the dirty little secret.
The owner of the club denies everything.
“If I wanted to drink no matter what, I could go to any seedy bar,” one disappointed customer reflects.
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