At the prospect of sounding ‘racist’,
had no clue blacks drank so much Coke Cola.
Even as a child, thought they preferred RC (Royal Crown)
Coke always wanted to teach the world to sing,
in harmony (no less);
when this stand-off ends, they might be
singing through the tears of a clown.
RC Cola and a Moon Pie. The working man’s lunch.
V K,
Coca Cola is a company who really doesn’t believe in product innovation. The world has changed around them and they focused on is their “secret recipe” that everybody in the soda business knows.
Pepsi became a diversified food distributor. And they even bought RockStar a creation of Michael Savage’s son who sold the business before Covid for $3.85 billion.
Found a 2015 USA Today story that says the CDC found the biggest drinkers of soda pop come from the states of Georgia (where Coke is HQed), Tennessee, Oklahoma, Mississippi, and Nevada.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2015/05/09/24-7-wall-st-states-drinking-soda/26498271/
The US Census demographic breakout of these States is here:
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/NV,OK,TN,GA,MS,US/PST045219