is Pepsi ok?
Same shit in Canada, with places like McDonald’s having signs that say “Canadian owned and operated!” Yeah fuck off McDonald’s
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 <insert country name here>.
McDonald’s Canada is a separate entity, so despite still being a shitty company it’s a shitty Canadian company
Lol it’s a subsidiary of McDonald’s US
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 <insert country name here>.
The Lays chips I was getting in Alberta were American-made before the shit started, they’re Canadian made now
so middle east is not the only country to do that after that For israel boycott
edit: typo
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.
OMG that sounds delicious 🤤
Wish I could try it without needing to travel like a bazillion kms
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.
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.
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.
Hmm, maybe you are right. Maybe both. Either way… as you said - something worked if they had to act.
Also, it can be replaced by an alternative European product that tastes almost the same
You forgot the resource extraction to create the product and the environmental damage and pollution that results :(
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
I really like Cockta, used to be owned by a Slovenian company, currently by Croatians. Still european!
So you’re saying cockta tasta gooda?
Very much so 🤌
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.
It’s easy, get those french workers to make Breizh cola instead 👌
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.
It’s name is whatever you call it. Just like how Dickless Steve once called it Suck-o-Matic 5000
It’s a DAN-137 washing and filling machine
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.
are you telling me you genuinely missed the “share a coke with” on the label and mistook the name for a different brand name?
Well I’m not an experienced coke-buyer and had never heard of it, just wanted to stop being dehydrated and tired.
Nothing like an ice cold can of Ivan to quench that thirst 😌
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.
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.
Then please ignore my previous post, you made a good choice
Are you fucking with us?
I’m well aware of it. The bottle isn’t named that. It’s an instruction to share it with someone named that.
Never heard of it, just saw an Iwan in the fridge of the store.
It is name like that. Just saw some this morning so instead of like Coca-Cola name you will have “Adrian” “Emma” “Ferrety” etc. And it is fucking confusing
Still fucking obvious it’s Coca-Cola
Yup, but I was dehydrated and tired. Still not one of my proudest moments.
No they do that during summer
Can someone from Germany enlighten me as to why there is a boycott of Coca-Cola in Germany?
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.
Ah, thank you. That makes sense.
What about Fanta? Is that included in the boycott?
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.
Europe did a big anti America propaganda campaign to convince their population to spend money on European weapons. Europe is now spending that money on American weapons.
lol. Not sure where you think you saw an ad campaign. If anything I saw the public spontaneously boycotting way faster than the average government based ad campaign could have been arranged. If there has been any campaigns (and again: I am aware of none) then it was after the public already started boycotting by themselves. Source: I live in the EU and saw this happen and had conversations with people around me about the boycotts too.
There is no “public opinion” in Europe. Only sheep who repeat whatever line they are fed by their media and politicians. One day they are going to break loose from America. The next day the 5% NATO money is going straight towards daddy Trump and nobody bats an eye.
The contradiction of the EU buying American and Israeli weapons with their new money instead of European weapons is too hard to ignore.
At least it didn’t say: Made by Muhammad
wet plastic company
I was pleasantly surprised when we tried a new burger place the other day and they served us Fritz Cola.
Fritz is just superior to coke. (As a Hamburgian I’m totally not biased)
In America we do have a root beer brand call Fitz’s weirdly enough. It’s pretty good stuff though.
The real hipster cola people hunt for
Isn’t the coke syrup actually made in the US and shipped to the world, where it’s mixed with local water?
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.
Not quite true, especially for bottles in the EU. They usually just ship one concentrate pulver per soda type, which is one ingredient of many. Most ingredients are sourced elsewhere throughout the world or locally.
As for syrup for soda stations in restaurants, I don’t know anything about the production process of those.
Yes
Genocide Cola
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).
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).
That should not be allowed, IMHO. But I am a low-key Communist, so my humble opinions do not count in this world.
You think that Daniel is “not the most German name” but suggest Klaus or Reinhardt is more representative? What else, should he wear Lederhosen?
What else, should he wear Lederhosen?
Yes, yes he should! :D
Honestly, that kind of ad campaign would be so ham-fisted it would be hilarious to watch.
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.
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.
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.
Wolfgang is such a sick name
Daniel can be plausibly American as easily as it can be German. Klaus or Reinhardt sounds American only if it’s someone’s great-grandfather from before WW1, whose parents immigrated in 1848.
I mean, Daniel is a name that was given to 2 of my schoolmates in Italy. And it could be just as well be given to any American in the last 80 years if not more.
I know we all don’t like stereotypes and that English is a Germanic language, but if you are trying to make the point that you are not American but German that is NOT the name I would have chosen.
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
