RG says Coca-Cola founder sold ''shikanji'', trolls find the story juicy

Aditi Tandon
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, June 11

Congress president Rahul Gandhi was trolled on Twitter on Monday for attempts to use loose analogies to explain world class entrepreneurship to humble commoners back home.

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The Beatles drinking Shikanji.

— PhD in Bakchodi (@Atheist_Krishna)

Moments after Gandhi, addressing an OBC (other backward classes) conclave in the capital said, “Do you know who the Coca Cola founder was. He sold shikanji (lemonade) in US,” he began trending on Twitter with the hashtag “According to Rahul Gandhi”.

The Congress chief did not stop at his reference to Coca Cola this morning and went on to assert that the founder of one of the world’s largest fast food chains McDonald’s was a “dhaba wala” and that the owners of Mercedes, Honda and Ford were all mechanics.

McDonald Dhaba Owner found.

— भारत वर्ष (@gprasad28)

“Show me one Indian automobile company, which was started by mechanics,” was his point to the gathering that mainly comprised people from backward classes.

Gandhi had earlier triggered a similar wave of online trolling when he had said Dalits in India need “Jupiter’s escape velocity to succeed”.

Owner of OYO rooms.

— डी.के. (@itsdhruvism)

The Twitter trolls of Gandhi asked whether the Coca Cola founder was really a lemonade seller in the US and if the McDonald’s owners were really “dhaba walas”.

Founder of Gillette Mach3

— Shehzad Jai Hind (@Shehzad_Ind)

McDonald’s was started by brothers Richard and Maurice Mc Donald who used to sell hot dogs on stands before they set up a drive in eatery called Mc Donald in California.

McDonald’s also inspired a 2016 US film “The Founder” on the life of businessman Ray Kroc who claims to have created the McDonald’s franchise.