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[–] 58 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Isn't this how we got fanta

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  • [–] 85 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    I hope it does not work out for them. Also in Germany we have many alternatives which are cheaper and come close to the taste of CocaCola.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I've been trying the cheaper stuff. Some of it is great. Don't be afraid to try the bottom shelf items these days.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Even beyond just the boycotting brands for political reasons, so many of the mainstream brands charge way too much for a product that almost anybody else can make the equivalent of.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Some products in tech you can replace there is just iOS and Android both American owned company’s

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    In many cases, although not with coca cola, the bottom shelf products are made in the same place where the top brands are made. Some times they even have the same product but different packaging

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I tried out spezi when I travelled to Germany, it was weirdly nice.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago

    One aspect I haven't seen mentioned yet is the rise of local premium cola brands in recent years. Brands like Fritz Kola, Afri Cola and Mio Mio have taken a significant chunk out of Coca colas marketshare without competing on price. Instead, they focus on standout features like higher caffeine levels, local bottling in reusable glass bottles, and/or organic ingredients. And since it's working, more and more companies are jumping on the bandwagon, like the red bull, the brewery Flensburger and even some localised water bottling brands all offer their own colas now.

    In light of this, this advertising campaign from coca cola feels like a desperate move to me.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • This is exactly why this kind of marketing would never work for me. It's why even if I lived in the EU, I would still refuse to use Google products because I don't trust them, even if they're technically bound by law to care more about protecting my data.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Here to remind anyone unaware of fantas wild wikipedia page.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Made in Germany? Well, so is Spezi, and Fritz cola, and Freeway Cola, and Ja! Cola, and a bunch of others.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    People are not going to fall for this everyone knows it's American

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "Come on, you guys used to love us!"

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    Sinalco ftw

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Why would anyone pay brand name prices these days. The store brand in my local store is 30% of the cost of coke, Pepsi, etc. $15 for a 12-pack?! That’s just insanity.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I only buy Palestine Cola. It tastes much better and is a refreshing "fuck you" to genocide supporting Coca Cola and Pepsi

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Is this why all Cola bottles are „a product by coca cola” and everything has a german word like bro stamped on it?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (20 children)

    No one in Europe calls it that, though ;-)

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    In the Netherlands it is usually grouped as frisdrank, loosely translated as fresh-drink.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Fizzy drinks, pop.

    Soda is used to describe specifically soda water alone. At least in my experience

    Kind of like how cookies are a type of biscuit rather than the name used for all biscuits.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That very much depends on the country and the language. Claiming there is a standard word in Europe for anything is pretty much nonsense.

    It is called "sodavand" in Danish for example, while fizzy water is called "danskvand".

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Yeah that's why I said "in my experience"; I'm aware other places would have different names and was only speaking for my area, of which I'm unaware of its bounds. It's likely just the UK but don't know if the same kind of logic is used for other English speaking Europeans or not (when speaking English and not the native language of their region anyway).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    In Sweden our tasty sugar drinks are "saft" (uncarbonated) and "läsk" (carbonated).

    The word ending "-igt" is used to describe that something "is like".

    "saftigt" means "mmm, juicy, good" "läskigt" means "scary"

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