Posted on 09/08/2025 11:34:55 PM PDT by Olog-hai
For decades, US firms have enjoyed a strong foothold in Germany, particularly in the country’s western regions, which were under the control of the Western Allies after World War II. In the immediate postwar years, US cigarettes were so highly prized on the German black market that they effectively served as currency. […]
Today, however, the climate has shifted. The image of the US in Germany has taken a major beating, raising questions about how US companies can maintain their reputation. Some US firms are now actively marketing their products as “Made in Germany.” […]
Coca-Cola, perhaps more than any other US brand, appears concerned about being tied to the US government’s politics. The Atlanta-based company recently launched a “Made in Germany” campaign in Germany, which highlights the names of employees such as Daniel, Heike, Jana, Jessy, and Muhammed. Each is featured under the slogan: “Made by [employee name]. Made in Germany.”
“The campaign aims to show Coca-Cola’s deep roots in Germany,” the company told DW in a statement, noting that the company had been part of German business and society for almost 100 years.
According to the company, many Germans are unaware that most Coca-Cola sold in the country is already bottled locally.
Given the current political climate, the move is widely seen as an attempt to distance the brand from US politics. …
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Fake media conditioning is real.
Wehrmacht.
One, Two, Three - great movie with James Cagney as a coca cola executive set in post war Berlin.
Wehrmacht.
Costco has glass bottle cases of Mexi-Cokes with cane sugar. Sometimes they have mixed cases with Coke, Sprite and Orange Fanta.
I would try it. Got two bottles of the mexico cane sugar coke. One is still sitting in the fridge. Just too strong a taste for me.
Trust me, the reverse is also true. Most Americans don’t want to be like Western Europe at all. We see the failing socialism. We see the crippling Gaia Worship. We see the corrupt bureaucrats running everything, the lack of free speech, the election fraud and the lawfare against any political opposition, the unchecked feral muslim and African men turned loose on the locals. We see the locals not being allowed to defend themselves and fiercely attacked in the government controlled media if they point any of this out.
We see the freeloading off of America to provide for their defense for generations and their utter fecklessness abroad.
We see all this and we want no part of it. In fact, many if not most of our people think we’ve sacrificed quite enough of America’s blood and treasure saving Europe multiple times in the last century already. We have no desire to do so again.
it existed but not as a single unitary nation-state. The Holy Roman Empire was really German.
I'm a student of history too. Of course Germany existed. It just was not politically unified after the Landfrieden of Mainz in 1235. That's what formally recognized the local aristocracy as having primacy over the Holy Roman Emperor effectively shattering the country into many smaller principalities. It was still German of course. The people were German. They spoke German. They had German culture. The start of the German Confederation after the Napoleonic wars cut that down to about 40 with the 2 big boys - Prussia and Austria - set to fight it out for control over the others. That was resolved in favor of Prussia in 1871. The whole thing was of course German all that time.
Sounds like sugary coke is where the illegal alien slave laborers get their 400 pound Darien Gap Mamas.
Brian Williams? Is that you?
Thanks for the recommendation. We really need to have a “What are your reading now? thread. I discovered so many wonderful books combing through those threads.
Amen and hallelujah!
It’s a package deal. Soda is a simple product but they can’t just phone it in with syrup handling, good water, and not leaving the product to bake on a loading dock. Years ago I got a can of Coke on an overseas flight, bottled in Singapore iirc. It tasted great, and kinda pissed me off that the US couldn’t make their own product. Corn syrup is nasty for a sweetener though
I bought a Snickers bar in Germany in the early 1990’s. Pretty sure it was made in Germany since the entire package was in German. Not a word of English. Or Spanish. Just German.
They should have Arabic lettering on their cola products to celebrate the capitulation of their country.
Gee - if they stop buying Coke, what happens if we stop buying VWs, Mercedes, and BMWs?
"The best thing that could happen would be to marry a nice American and move to the States" and "Just give me Texas and a swimming pool" are remarks I actually heard from German women.
Prosperity and the end of the Cold War soon made America and all things American quite the opposite.
At the rate Europe's going now, it won't be long before the Europeans will be begging those uncouth barbarian Americans to send their sons to save them yet again from their folly. Americans will once again be idolized and praised--until America restores Europeans once again to prosperity and sanity. Then Americans will once again be a bunch of uncouth barbarian upstarts. And the cycle will continue...that is, until the Americans reach the point of being no longer willing to send their sons to die in Europe to save Europe from its madness and stupidity.
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