{"id":2505,"date":"2009-06-04T00:28:43","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T22:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=2505"},"modified":"2009-07-10T16:58:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T14:58:04","slug":"nandos-and-dom-for-zuma-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/franschhoek\/nandos-and-dom-for-zuma-inauguration\/","title":{"rendered":"Nando’s and Dom for Zuma inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The unthinkable combination of Nando’s peri-peri chicken and Dom Perignon was served at President Zuma’s inauguration last month, to criticism from the wine industry for the use of an imported French champagne instead of a local Cap Classique.<\/p>\n

Despite flighting a controversial Nando’s ad campaign mocking Julius Malema, head of the ANC Youth League, just prior to the election, Nando’s was awarded the catering contract\u00a0to serve 32 000 persons at the President’s inaugural lunch on the lawns of\u00a0the Union Buildings\u00a0in Pretoria.<\/p>\n

Even Barack Obama celebrated his win\u00a0as presidential-elect with South Africa’s Graham Beck sparkling wine, it also having been served when Nelson Mandela was elected president.<\/p>\n

The criticism by Franschhoek wine-maker Achim von Arnim, a well-known Pierre Jourdan sparkling wine producer at Cabriere\u00a0in Franschhoek, about the celebratory drink served, is featured on the Wine <\/strong>magazine website in a You Tube video (http:\/\/www.winemag.co.za\/article\/achim-von-arnim-vs-jz-2009-05-15<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The unthinkable combination of Nando’s peri-peri chicken and Dom Perignon was served at President Zuma’s inauguration last month, to criticism from the wine industry for the use of an imported French champagne instead of a local Cap Classique. Despite flighting a controversial Nando’s ad campaign mocking Julius Malema, head of the ANC Youth League, just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[266,14,19],"tags":[1396,1399,741,1397,218,32369,226,1398,32392,980,228,1374],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t