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We have a word for that in German: “Etikettenschwindel”
I appreciate German’s endless supply of terms 🙂
That’s just etikett and schwindle together!
Roughly translates to misleading or con labeling
“Label swindle” is the closest literal translation I think.
I’ve been drinking Fritz Cola for about 7 years now, cheap tricks won’t win me back
Same here but with “Afri Cola”. German drinks do taste better than Coca Cola. 💪
Yeah, I have also switched to a local one here in greece, tastes better and does not have an aftertaste.
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.
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.
in other words, the boycott is working! Keep it up, lads!
Who needs Coca Cola?
😍 SUPER-SEXY AFRI-COLA!
Maybe they should try adding back the cocaine.
I’m pretty sure they’re doing this in most if not all, of Europe.
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.
Pfanner 2L Grüner Tee Tetrapack Meisterklasse representiert
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.
Wie Pepsi dann: Schmeckt nicht mehr.
Again? Hunh. Sounds like Faygo 2.0 🤷🏼♂️
