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The Coca-Cola boycott may have caused this ad (media.piefed.ca)

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[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 186 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

What I see is: "Continue the good work, the boycott is working." 👍

Ever since Trump became president and began to threaten allies with all kinds of shit, I stopped buying American.
And although Coca Cola is bottled locally, it remains an American brand with money going to USA for the secret sauce and licensing.

So 100% buy a truly European/local brand instead.

PS: Here (Denmark) Coca Cola has been half price for I think it's about 4 months straight now, and I love it every time I see it's still sold at a reduced price.

PPS: Coca Cola is exactly among the companies we should boycott, because we get next to nothing from them, all we get is a bit of vastly overpriced added flavor, and Coca Cola gets almost all the money and the brand recognition to continue to dominate markets.

[-] aramis87@fedia.io 37 points 5 days ago

You forgot the resource extraction to create the product and the environmental damage and pollution that results :(

[-] dickalan@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

I wrote a paper in community college about externalized costs and I’ve never been the same since. This was 20 or so years ago

[-] MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 days ago

RE: PS. Holy shit those clowns have a nerve, they just plainly admitted that they charged us twice the amount for the product and the whole COVID-inflation was their own made up story.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

This is not because of COVID inflation, Coca Cola was always about twice as expensive as local brands, but now they have reduced the price to match one of the more popular local brands.

It was always obvious that coca cola was a massively advertised overpriced product.

[-] MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago

Hmm, maybe you are right. Maybe both. Either way… as you said - something worked if they had to act.

[-] lena@gregtech.eu 11 points 5 days ago

I really like Cockta, used to be owned by a Slovenian company, currently by Croatians. Still european!

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 8 points 5 days ago

So you're saying cockta tasta gooda?

[-] lena@gregtech.eu 4 points 4 days ago

Very much so 🤌

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 days ago

Also, it can be replaced by an alternative European product that tastes almost the same

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 87 points 5 days ago

Lol no? The Coca Cola was made, rinsed and filled by a machine. A rinsing and filing machine if you will. And I'm sure its not named Daniel.

[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago

It's name is whatever you call it. Just like how Dickless Steve once called it Suck-o-Matic 5000

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago

It’s a DAN-137 washing and filling machine

[-] Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

They actually name their bottles like humans, "Share a coke". I recently bought an "Ivan", because I didn't want to buy a Coke and had never heard of "Share a coke" to this point, only to see the Cola-logo while paying for the bottle.

E: Lol, Daniel is listed two times on Cola's Share a coke website.

[-] subignition@fedia.io 25 points 5 days ago

are you telling me you genuinely missed the "share a coke with" on the label and mistook the name for a different brand name?

[-] Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org 11 points 5 days ago

Well I'm not an experienced coke-buyer and had never heard of it, just wanted to stop being dehydrated and tired.

[-] bestagon@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

Nothing like an ice cold can of Ivan to quench that thirst 😌

[-] subignition@fedia.io 11 points 5 days ago

60+ grams of sugar is a rough side effect to trade for hydration, friend. I'm sure there are at least some options for caffeinated beverages with low to no sugar in your country. I can relate to choosing something familiar as a default when I'm tired though.

[-] Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org 10 points 5 days ago

I think it actually hadn't any sugar. And if I have a choice between some softdrink with coffein and a Nestle water bottle, I'll choose the softdrink. Never will I ever buy a plastic bottle of tap water. Normally I don't buy softdrinks either, but the next place with free water was kilometers away.

[-] subignition@fedia.io 7 points 4 days ago

Then please ignore my previous post, you made a good choice

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[-] GeriatricGambino@lemmy.world 62 points 5 days ago

Saw the same type of ads fronting plant workers here in France, trying to give the coke company a "very french and human face". Asked myself the same question, if the company noticed a dip of profit important enough to spit out this "don't think of us as American, we're also totally local. Look, our wageslaves have first names resembling yours. You wouldn't hurt our wageslaves would you ? They're just like you" psyop.

[-] PostaL@lemmy.world 39 points 5 days ago

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 35 points 5 days ago

I was pleasantly surprised when we tried a new burger place the other day and they served us Fritz Cola.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Fritz is just superior to coke. (As a Hamburgian I'm totally not biased)

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[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 5 days ago

Isn't the coke syrup actually made in the US and shipped to the world, where it's mixed with local water?

[-] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Yep, you're right. Coca-Cola ships the concentrate (not exactly syrup) from a few US facilities to local bottlers worldwide. The concentrate contains the secret formula ingredients, while local bottlers add sweetener, carbonated water, and handle packaging. That's why boycotts can be effective - the high-margin concentrate business is where most of thier profits come from.

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[-] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

is Pepsi ok?

[-] biofaust@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago

I hope Germans are smarter than that. Also, Daniel is not the most German name they could have found, I am sure a Klaus or a Reinhardt would have worked better. Unless Daniel is an American employee conceived in Germany by his parents and the tagline refers to him.

Also, here in Denmark and in Italy Coca-Cola relies on local bottling companies who would surely lose volumes, but those would be also freed up for local or do-good alternatives, such as Fritz Cola (which is very good in it's zero calories version) and Gaza Cola (yeah, that's probably never gonna happen in Germany, but still a good example).

[-] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You think that Daniel is "not the most German name" but suggest Klaus or Reinhardt is more representative? What else, should he wear Lederhosen?

[-] RudeOnTuesdays@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

I don't know how accurate this website is, but forebears.io has a list of common German names, and the top three are: Peter, Michael, and Wolfgang. Daniel was listed as 171st most popular.

[-] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 days ago

I was kind of expecting that question, there is actually an official listing of the most popular German names for babies every year. Goes back a few decades: https://gfds.de/vornamen/beliebteste-vornamen/#topten

Daniel is among the top ten in almost every year up to 2000. After that it is other names taking over but I didn't check where Daniel lands, might have been top 20 or top 50 still.

Seeing as the guy in the ad is not likely under 20, Daniel isn't a weird choice of a name. Certainly better than Klaus or Reinhardt.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That list is almost exclusively old fashioned names, which, combined with the website name makes me wonder if they’re scraping obituaries for the names. I’ve lived here for most of a decade and I’ve never met a Wolfgang or Ursula under 60 (actually of the top ten, I only know young people named Michael, Peter, Thomas, and Maria). I do know several older Wolfgangs and Helgas, so they certainly were common names at one point-the data might just be 80 years delayed. Actually going through it, all of my husband’s older family members’ names are in the top thirty. (Edit: also no idea how accurate this list is, but the most popular names from the 50s are all the same as on the other list, so I suspect it is just gathering data upon death)

I know at least five Daniels in their 20s and 30s though. I’m a) an immigrant, and b) just going off of my own experience, so take that with a grain of salt.

Quick aside about Maria as a man’s name: it’s traditionally Austrian, afaik, and it’s more commonly a second name (like Rainer Maria Rilke), but there’s no chance that 0% of the Marias in Germany are men.

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[-] tabloid@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago

It's bottled locally in Germany as well. However all bottling plants that do, are owned by the bottler that is exclusively bottling Coke and other Coca-Cola Company products (and some others such as the energy drink Monster, but Coca-Cola has a stake in them).

[-] biofaust@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

That should not be allowed, IMHO. But I am a low-key Communist, so my humble opinions do not count in this world.

[-] KumaSudosa@feddit.dk 4 points 4 days ago

I've been a proud supporter of nothing but Faxe Kondi since the orange clown got into office. Pretty much looked over all of my consumption habits.. something I should've done before but rather late than never

[-] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 21 points 5 days ago

Genocide Cola

[-] EverXIII@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

I live in Tirol, Austria. Only drink local sodas. Apart from the ones made by Red Bull, we have the "Tirola Kola" here. Like the Latschenlikör there is also pine extract in this soft drink. You should try one day.

[-] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 5 days ago

Sprich

[-] LordGarmadon@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

deutsch...

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 points 5 days ago

Pretty sure feddit.uk fought a war so they don't have to

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[-] dumnezero@piefed.social 7 points 4 days ago

wet plastic company

[-] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 5 days ago

Liars.

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Can someone from Germany enlighten me as to why there is a boycott of Coca-Cola in Germany?

[-] Bunbury@feddit.nl 19 points 4 days ago

Because there’s a general move away from US products in the EU due to the souring of US-EU relationship since Trump became president.

Coca-Cola is one of the brands that is extremely well known for being from the US. As such it would be easy for people to boycott, even if they didn’t do their research regarding which brands are from the US originally.

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Ah, thank you. That makes sense.

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[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20090410064941/http://www.colawp.com/colas/400/cola467_recipe.html

[-] ga_so_art@piefed.social 6 points 5 days ago

don't drink another drop of that wretched drink.

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