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Before The 'Cola Wars,' Coca-Cola Was On The Frontlines Of WWII
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Posted on 01/04/2022 9:20:11 AM PST by mylife

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To: mylife

But the East Germans said they really invented Coca-Cola....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt_RSqgGaFQ


21 posted on 01/04/2022 9:43:55 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: mylife
I take it that Ethan Tyrell at 'cracked.com' is getting paid by Woke-a-Cola to pander to audiences using WWII nationalism.

Woke-a-Cola is a globalist korporation that went racist woke and needs to disappear for it. We have enough foreign enemies and don't need those who would profit from divisive lies.

22 posted on 01/04/2022 9:45:20 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: allwrong57
Who wouldn't be smoking like a steam engine in a fricken foxhole with hot lead coming at you?


23 posted on 01/04/2022 9:48:29 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: mylife
The beginning of the end of Coca-Cola, up to this point they were the epitomé of what made this country great....

Then they went "Global".

24 posted on 01/04/2022 9:48:50 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: allwrong57
they also gave the boys plenty of cigarettes. Everyone that came out of the service smoked.

I always thought though if you were trying to hide, the enemy could pick up the smell of cigarette smoke.

Or even at night the glow from a cigarette would give away your position.

25 posted on 01/04/2022 9:50:14 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Show me one Fortune 500 corporation that isn’t a woke enemy of the Republic.


26 posted on 01/04/2022 9:54:00 AM PST by Levy78
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To: allwrong57

“they also gave the boys plenty of cigarettes. Everyone that came out of the service smoked.”

Addicts were less likely to surrender.

Go chicken - go cold turkey!


27 posted on 01/04/2022 9:57:36 AM PST by Brian Griffin ( )
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To: PGR88
"Intended or not, it was a fantastic marketing exercise, and made the Coca-Cola brand for the next 20 years."

Coke wasn't the only company to capitalize on that strategy...


28 posted on 01/04/2022 10:01:54 AM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: nesnah
I wonder why the story writer failed to mention the Coca Cola provided to the Nazis.

And Fanta came from the Nazis ... kinda.
29 posted on 01/04/2022 10:11:53 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
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So that’s why there’s a shortage of 1 and a 1/4 liter Cokes in my area...


30 posted on 01/04/2022 10:18:46 AM PST by foreverfree
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To: mylife

So what? Did you know that at one time Pepsi had the sixth largest navy in world (primarily submarines)?


31 posted on 01/04/2022 10:20:45 AM PST by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: nesnah

By late in the war, the Nazis were having to rely on Ford for new trucks. The German owned manufacturers were bombed out, so Ford supplied the Germany army. Of course, that ended by early March 1945 when America troops overran the area


32 posted on 01/04/2022 10:46:52 AM PST by PAR35
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To: Bonemaker

No wonder we won. The guy on the left of the picture has 6 fingers (and maybe a hidden thumb),


33 posted on 01/04/2022 10:49:07 AM PST by PAR35
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To: mylife

There was a good reason coke was made available to the GI’s on the front line in the 40’s. The recipe for Coca cola was not released until the 1970’s by the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. Part of the products in it was fluid extract of coca.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse explains that thousands of years ago people in South American began to chew and ingest coca leaves, which is the source of cocaine, for their stimulant effects.

So it not only hyped the soldiers, it improved their attitude along with it.

Wy69


34 posted on 01/04/2022 10:52:34 AM PST by whitney69
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To: PAR35

I think he’s holding bottle with both hands!😃


35 posted on 01/04/2022 10:53:38 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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36 posted on 01/04/2022 10:57:42 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: setter

I’m always reminded of the Bill Mauldin cartoon of the
press photographer talking to the infantryman who is
holding a bottle of coke...

“Congratulation soldier, you are the 250th doggie to
pose with that bottle of coke, you may drink it.”


37 posted on 01/04/2022 10:59:55 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Bonemaker

If he needed both hands for a 6.5 ounce Coke, I hope he wasn’t a loader on a mortar or howitzer. He’s be dropping armed shells right and left.


38 posted on 01/04/2022 11:04:27 AM PST by PAR35
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To: Bonemaker

The “real thing”?

It wasn’t the “real thing” since they took the cocaine out.


39 posted on 01/04/2022 11:06:10 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Media Control is an anagram of Delta Omicron.)
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To: Olog-hai

That’s a great film. Cagney’s at the top of his game, and “One, Two, Three,” is frantic and very funny, even if some of the Cold War jokes are a bit dated. It was James Cagney’s last role before his 20-year “retirement” that ended in the early 80s, when he appeared in “Ragtime.”


40 posted on 01/04/2022 11:08:09 AM PST by ExNewsExSpook
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