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Top 5 WEIRD Coca-Cola Facts


these facts might make that next step a
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down the top five facts about coca-cola
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more great content this massive
multinational corporation has a long
rich and sometimes unsavory history
today we’re diving into this murky
carbonated tall head fist to bring you
all the tastiest details are you ready
to begin your quest just honest good
good good
number five even when you’re not
drinking coke you’re probably drinking
cokes buy cokes own estimate ten
thousand four hundred and fifty
coca-cola brown soft drinks are consumed
every second around the world and they
prize himself on this idea while they
aren’t legally allowed to distribute in
Cuba and North Korea the fact that
coca-cola was the first soft drink to go
to space proves just how far they’re
willing to go to get coke product into
the hand of every potential consumer as
a result of various environmental and
economic practices of the company many
people choose to boycott their products
but with over 500 different beverage
brands under their umbrella coke
products can be a little hard to keep
track of we find just the right places
for our product and try to get just the
right type of consumer to get products
and do exactly the right hand number
four they try to replace morning coffee
put that coffee down coca-cola is known
for their iconic marketing so much so
that they’ve been credited with helping
to shape the modern image of Santa Claus
but in the 80s they made a few missteps
remember new coke I try not to their
attempt to make a place for themselves
as a breakfast table proved equally
misguided humans drink roughly 2.25
billion cups of coffee a day I stuck em
down like coca-cola
so when Coke found out that 12% of their
consumers drank coke instead of coffee
they saw a major opportunity
they launched the coke in the morning
campaign and initially industry experts
are calling it brilliant they even
introduced the break meat a mini soda
fountain for the workplace in the end it
failed those who chose sober in the
mornings had never really liked coffee
much to begin with
true coffee drinkers however was
thoroughly disinterested in converting
there’s a human it’s Sulawesi number
three it was a Nazi business now the old
Nazi coke mmus is the honest truth
in the 1930s Germany was an important
coca-cola market but when war broke out
the syrup became impossible to import 9
iron iron iron eyes following the death
of the American head of German coca-cola
operations in 1938 the German Nazi
government appointed his German born
associate max Keith to oversee
production he invented Fanta in order to
keep the fossil implants running despite
being selected by the Nazis post-war
investigations show that Keith himself
never supported the party when the war
ended he handed the recipe and profits
to the coca-cola company so when you
drink Fanta orange that’s the Nazi drink
that was created so that Coke could
continue making money while millions of
people die
so while fonta isn’t a Nazi beverage it
was born in Nazi Germany
Thank You Angela you weren’t all bad
coca-cola made the mistake of forgetting
this history when they released a German
Fanta anniversary in which they referred
to the 1940 Germany of the good old
times
whoops we just want to make sure when
you think about Santa you don’t
automatically think about naughty Santa
Nazis yet number two they run a campaign
against tap water in restaurants the
plant sucks the coca-cola company faced
a business bad press of the early 2000
when they started the success of their
heat to know campaign originally a
covert operation it consisted of
training kits designed to help
restaurants train their staff to
dissuade customers from picking tap
water water sucks just they know to h2o
proof a rousing success for both coke
and Olive Garden’s the restaurant chain
involved
cokeman humble about their
accomplishments and kept quiet it might
have gone unnoticed but when they chose
to release a detailed success story they
were met with disbelief and a healthy
dose of criticisms considering that coke
had started selling bottled tap water
just two years earlier under the Dasani
brand the hypocrisy was not lost on
critics news outlets or consumers number
one like many sodas it began as medicine
and yes it had cocaine in it I know it
it was a very small dose but when you’re
talking about a serious narcotic
any quantity sounds insane by today’s
standards but when coca-cola was
invented in 1886 the addition of cocaine
wouldn’t have raised many eyebrows it
was considered a medicinal ingredient
naturally carbonated water has been used
to promote health for centuries in the
1830s the first soda fountains made
their debut in pharmacies dispensing
flavored seltzer in which medicine was
mixed to eases consumption while it
might sound strange to modern consumers
it was a pharmacist who invented coke
what kind of an idiot gets Candice
Accola I do don’t judge me it was
marketed as a nerve tonic secure
headaches impotence indigestion even
morphine addiction but by 1903 cocaine
had been removed from the recipe so
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