You nailed it on Coca Cola changing the color Popman! :-)
Ping!
“Coca Cola messed up big time and lost consumers over this enviro-nazi WWF fiasco, not to mention the can color blunder.”
Without a doubt, the decision by Coca Cola to donate money to the WWF will lead to a massive World Wide Boycott of Coca Cola that will within the month lead to the complete bankruptcy of the company.
No more coke in the world, just Pepsi.
LOL...just what I thought would happen!!!
No matter how *Important* or PC the issue, there are some things ya just don’t mess with....
I just recently noticed that whole thing. I glimpsed these silver cans and wondered what they were. I saw some reference to “saving the world” BS and also thought it was weird their prime original product was, uh, out of color.
Stupid move.
And I’m tired of these big companies toeing the government NAZI lines. Our society is far too full of these fools to have all this; we’re at the tipping point when some 50% of our people believe this garbage and share in the religion.
Coke is more concerned about getting sued by the Green’s for CO2 emission from carbonated drinks than they are having a marketing dept who knows what they are doing.
Sounds like Obummer would be qualified as CEO of CokeHead.
Then, when I finally got down to opening a can from the "polar bear" case... Well... I thought "Dang it, these things don't taste right!" My wife, the Dr. Pepper drinker, said she thought they tasted just like the regular Cokes. So I just wrote it off to "maybe it's the fact that I've had a touch of a cold and it is effecting the way things taste."
So in reading the article, I see this:
"And other classic Coke drinkers said their sodas tasted differently in the white cans than they did in the red ones. The Journal noted a YouTube video in which a blindfolded woman taste tested classic Coke in both colored cans, and then held up the polar bear can and proclaimed, “This is the funky one!”
AAAHHHHH HAAAHHHH! It isn't just me and a touch of a cold. These things really don't taste like a real Coca-Cola!!! They do taste funky!
Why can't companies just stick with the product that has made them profitable for years and has kept them as the king of the marketplace? I mean d@mn it Coke - didn't you learn anything from that "New Coke" fiasco?
The white can caused confusion, but there’s never money to be lost “supporting” the greenies. Greenies have proven they’ll buy anything from any company that says they care about the environment, non-greenies buy the product they like and don’t care, it’s a win win.
I shifted a dozen cases at Walmart yesterday to get to the regular red boxes. A hard working store stocker saw me do it and never even asked.
Worse than "New Coke"? That would take some doing!
Do they even sell that stuff anymore?
There is something sickening about the absolute pretense that polar bears are disappearing and that the way to prevent that from happening is to make them “cute.” They are in fact the most vicious predators of all bears. Go hunting one and it will try and circle around behind you and hunt you. They are not an animal to anthropomorphize by any stretch.