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.
I’ve been trying the cheaper stuff. Some of it is great. Don’t be afraid to try the bottom shelf items these days.
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.
Gilette once justified a price rise because of higher marketing costs… well they destroyed all their investment there with one statement.
Some products in tech you can replace there is just iOS and Android both American owned company’s
Linux smartphones are coming, although very slowly
There is also Jolla with Sailfish OS, but the hardware is not really attractive
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
If there is less money involved, and no licensing moving to the us through tax havens, does it matter?
I think you replied this to the wrong comment?
I even like to say the local breweries often are way better! Leikheimer, Alaska, Riegele Spezi, and more. Waayy better!
I tried out spezi when I travelled to Germany, it was weirdly nice.
I miss it.
Paulaner or Riegele?
Paulaner!
PFUI DEIFEL! GEH WEG!
Isn’t this how we got fanta
You beat me to it.
Maybe an uno-reverse fanta?
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.
Here to remind anyone unaware of fantas wild wikipedia page.
Exactly why I opened the comments here
Fantasia? Really?
Made in Germany? Well, so is Spezi, and Fritz cola, and Freeway Cola, and Ja! Cola, and a bunch of others.
Alaska and Leikheim are my favorits <3 But nothing bests Riegele Spezi (the Original)
People are not going to fall for this everyone knows it’s American
But owned in…
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.
“Come on, you guys used to love us!”
Is this real?
don’t care. get out.
I only buy Palestine Cola. It tastes much better and is a refreshing “fuck you” to genocide supporting Coca Cola and Pepsi
What is Palestine Cola? I’m guessing it’s not a product of Palestine.
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.
All coca-cola brands https://www.coca-colahellenic.com/en/our-24-7-portfolio/brands-a-z
Monster and JackDaniels also belong to them? Explains some stuff…
Depends where you live. This is one of their distribution company for Europe and 3rd in the world. You can read more about all their distribution companies here https://www.coca-colacompany.com/about-us/coca-cola-system
Sinalco ftw
Is this why all Cola bottles are „a product by coca cola” and everything has a german word like bro stamped on it?
Still a soda tho. 👎
No one in Europe calls it that, though ;-)
I get a chuckle every time people call it a “Cola drink”. In Spanish (LatAm) it means “butt drink” 👀
In spanish (Spain) it means tail drink, which most often a referring to the penis.
What’s it called there then? Carbonated sugar water?
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.
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”.
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).
In the Netherlands it is usually grouped as frisdrank, loosely translated as fresh-drink.
It’s not fresh. What a silly place. 🤪
Well, fresh in this context as refreshing. For freshly pressed juices we use vers or vers geperst sap.
Soft drink over here in Australia (at least in NSW) 👋
Also what the wiki page is called so I’m gonna say we are right and everyone else is wrong 😂 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_drink
In portuguese: refrigerantes, as in the same thing as you’d call the freakin liquid inside an air conditioner system
Drink refrigerantes and you’ll feel cool for the rest of your life. 🥶
Limo?
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”
Läsk is from old German löschen meaning to quench. Läskande similarly means quenching.
Läskig is a false friend.
I made a funny.
Booblenpuppen.
Hehe boob
In my country we call it juice
I do, when speaking English. Each language has its own word, of course: refrescos, Erfrischungsgetränke, napoje gazowane, etc.
