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Part of it is India’s bizarre and Byzantine system of business regulations historically really incentivising very small businesses over scaled-up enterprises that might actually be able to instil basic hygiene standards, and part of it is that they all believe that if you die of dysentery it doesn’t matter because if you’ve been good you come back as a water buffalo or something.

NIXON:– and I'll tell you something, Bob, nobody's thought of this. Nobody. I had it last night, up in the residence, couldn't sleep, and I went down and I made myself this, this thing. HALDEMAN: A thing, sir. NIXON: Pineapple. Chunks of pineapple. In the Kool-Aid. You put the chunks in and they go down, they sink, see, and you've got the, the red and the yellow, and you drink it and you get the pineapple at the bottom. Nobody's done this. HALDEMAN: I'm fairly sure people have done this, sir. NIXON: Who. Name one. Name one person. [EIGHT SECONDS OF SILENCE] HALDEMAN: I can't name a specific– NIXON: Because there isn't one. This is mine. Now here's the thing, Bob, and I want you to think about this before you give me one of your – your looks. The Catholics. The ethnics. The, the...you know. Your blue-collar fella in Scranton, in Cleveland. He sees the President of the United States drinking a jar of this, this...out of a jar, Bob, not a glass, a jar, because that's what these people do, they keep the empty jam jars...he sees that, and he thinks, that's a regular guy. That's a fella who understands. HALDEMAN: Understands pineapple. NIXON: Understands sacrifice. Understands thrift. You don't throw out the jar. [DOOR OPENING] KISSINGER: Mr President, the briefing on the– is this a bad time? NIXON: Henry. Henry, sit down. Tell him, Bob. HALDEMAN: The President has invented pineapple Kool-Aid. KISSINGER: I beg your pardon? NIXON: Pineapple. In the Kool-Aid. [TWELVE SECONDS OF SILENCE] KISSINGER: And this is...we are discussing this in place of the communique from Zhou Enlai.