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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 191 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 1 day ago (1 children)

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 1 day ago

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

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] dickalan@lemmy.world 14 points 2 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

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago

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

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

is Pepsi ok?

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Same shit in Canada, with places like McDonald’s having signs that say “Canadian owned and operated!” Yeah fuck off McDonald’s

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

But they have local beef, local potatoes, local millionaires owning the restaurants, so it's totally not American. Even the workers are locals!

It's like Frito-Lay adding "Made in Canada" on their bags. So many American companies are now suddenly so proud to make their stuff locally, in .

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

It's like Frito-Lay adding "Made in Canada" on their bags. So many American companies are now suddenly so proud to make their stuff locally, in .

The Lays chips I was getting in Alberta were American-made before the shit started, they're Canadian made now

[–] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

McDonald's Canada is a separate entity, so despite still being a shitty company it's a shitty Canadian company

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Lol it's a subsidiary of McDonald's US

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 88 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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 24 points 2 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 17 points 2 days ago

It’s a DAN-137 washing and filling machine

[–] Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

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 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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 17 points 2 days ago

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

[–] subignition@fedia.io 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 2 days ago

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

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[–] GeriatricGambino@lemmy.world 63 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] EverXIII@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] gogr8@monero.town 2 points 1 day ago

OMG that sounds delicious 🤤

Wish I could try it without needing to travel like a bazillion kms

[–] PostaL@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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 2 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 20 points 2 days ago

Genocide Cola

[–] dumnezero@piefed.social 7 points 2 days ago

wet plastic company

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

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

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[–] tabloid@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 1 day ago

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

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

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

[–] Bunbury 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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 1 day ago

Ah, thank you. That makes sense.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What about Fanta? Is that included in the boycott?

[–] Bunbury 3 points 1 day ago

Plenty of people try to boycott anything by US brands. So I would assume that plenty of people who are boycotting also stopped drinking Fanta. But the thing is because this is more of a movement originating from the public not everyone does research in equal amounts. Fanta is likely less obviously US based to most people compared to Coca-Cola. So if I’d have to guess it was probably boycotted less by comparison.

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

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

[–] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sprich

[–] LordGarmadon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

deutsch...

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[–] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 days ago

Liars.

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