This should be illegal
Not a Coca Cola fan, but why? If it’s made in Germany, it should be okay to say that
Not so much, if the money goes to the US. And at very least some licensing fees will go to the US with an originally US brand.
Got a news flash for you: lots of German made products send plenty of money to the US
Unfortunately.
Would you take issue with Nike having advertisements saying “made in Indonesia” on them?
It’s kinda hard to find out where Coca Cola is actually made. Coke for the German market is for sure bottled in Germany, but the Coke syrup which is the base for it (which Coca Cola is very cagey about) isn’t necessarily made there. I assume it’s made somewhere in Europe because according to a brief web search it’s made in about 4 places in the world and Europe is a big market, but there isn’t really a reason to assume that the European syrup plant is in Germany, insted of Spain, Netherlands etc. - certainly possible, but not at all certain.
But TBH, even if it was all made in Germany, it’s still kinda bullshit. Maybe not in a legally actionable way, but Coke is not that popular in Germany and the inventors and standard ingredients (other than water and beet sugar) have no connection to Germany whatsoever. The Coca Cola product that deserves to be called “the German drink” is Fanta, and I assume Coca Cola isn’t quite ready yet to use Fanta’s Nazi heritage as a selling point.
Simply because people should know exactly what they are buying and from who, without having to make a web search at the supermarket for every single product they want to buy (which sometimes is not even that easy because corporations are allowed to be pretty shady and you have to dig further than a simple search of the product/brand name)
Only if it’s from the official Koka region
The amount of sugar they put on it is what should be illegal. Motherfuckers are co-responsible for an entire generation of obesity and we’re left holding the bag as tax payers.
i’ve noticed Coke, fanta and monster have been on sale in stores at least twice as often as any other beverage brand this summer. Often at a 50% discount and they had a huge Star Wars collaboration out of nowhere. I still didn‘t buy any of it. I bought European brands. Coke posing as „the german drink“ does bring back some memories though. Mostly bad memories.
Coke posing as „the german drink“ does bring back some memories though. Mostly bad memories.
Would have been even worse, a lot more truthful and also funnier if they did that with Fanta.
I only buy monster for my younger brother and only when it is on sale. I wished he’d drink a European brand energy drink such as Gönrgy.
We have a word for that in German: “Etikettenschwindel”
Roughly translates to misleading or con labeling
“Label swindle” is the closest literal translation I think.
They could try naming it Koker Koler and offering it in 1 liter mugs. I’d still prefer cheaper regional alternatives but it would be funny.
Koker being the German word for Coker, which is a thermal cracker unit in an oil refinery.
Too close to Kofola a legit EU brand cola Tastes awful to me
Can’t agree, Kofola out of the tap is glorious. Can’t wait to be in Czechia/Slovakia again
Prefer Radegast myself
I still have no idea why would anyone drink branded cola when your average grocery store cheap cola tastes exactly the same.
But again, maybe it is me. I don’t even feel much difference between normal cola, zero and light.
That is clearly you then. There is a massive difference between normal coke vs. light or zero.
I looked this take up on WebMD and it said your taste buds are wack.
superior water drinking noises
It looks like they’re emphasizing local sourcing to distance themselves from U.S. associations, but that misses the real issue. The problem is not whether the ingredients are local, it is that Coca-Cola is still a U.S. company. The same applies to brands like Heinz, Tesla, and others. Their identity is tied to their origin, not where they source materials.
Who needs Coca Cola?
😍 SUPER-SEXY AFRI-COLA!
Maybe they should try adding back the cocaine.
in other words, the boycott is working! Keep it up, lads!
I’m pretty sure they’re doing this in most if not all, of Europe.
I thought it’s a UK (headquarter of CCEP) or Spanish (by far biggest share owner is Coca-Cola Iberian Partners) product…
(for reference: less than 20% of that “US brand” is owned by the original US company)
The internationalization of corporations really doesn’t make it easy.
Local remains local though. Not every other is multinational or liquidated across investors.
It turns out to be quite hard to boycott USA products, but our household is getting there.
What are you struggling with?
How long do you have?
CPUs, GPUs…
Drinks have never even been an issue.
How about Fanta?
They need to show how fanta is a 100% German brand, born of the will of Coca-cola to circumventing the embargos placed on Germany during the 40’s due to, you know, being Nazis and such.
“We make it from whatever comes out of the camps! It’s a nationalistic drink, please buy it!”
from whatever comes out of the camps!
“Camps? Surely you mean ‘fields’… Right?”
Sure, so much space for empty fields beyond the wired…
Sorry, fields? Yes, sure, That’s what I meant. We have those grey mice (that’s what my mother always called them) working the felds. They’re always so quiet and diligent.
There’s one that dropped, once. A girl. I think it was a girl. They were all running back to the trucks. She must have tripped.
The trucks had departed, we found her at the edge of the field. She was so thin in her mouse suit. She had fallen, and she stayed down. There was my uncle and I. We looked at her. She was lying down. She was alsmost shaking. She slowly lifted her head. She looked at us. She had eyes thay were so green, you could have sold them for gems. But once the dazzle of her eyes passed me, I saw that she was but a spectre.
The moment lasted a second, and vanished. But it felt so much longer. I saw that girl like she might have been, like she should have been… Like the spectacular beauty she could one day be, although she probably wouldn’t be. Because her piercing eyes wouldn’t let anyone think of her as just a beauty.
Anyway, I took a step back. Because she felt too impressive to me, even in her condition. So I turned to my uncle, and felt all the muck on my cheek, and heard the detonation. I didn’t dare to look at her. So I just turned away. I saw soldiers running towards us. Fuckers. I had to greet them. How was I going to do that?
[My first attempt at minifiction out of nowhere in a while, not in my language, sorry, I don’t know what prompted me]
Didn’t they do this during WWII as well?
They created Fanta because they couldn’t import the ingredients to make Coke because of embargoes.
Fanta is “we found this in the trashcan and made soda out of it because the show must go on (or something, but with bubbles)”.
I’ll be honest though, Mexican Fanta is pretty good.
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