Same shit in Canada, with places like McDonald’s having signs that say “Canadian owned and operated!” Yeah fuck off McDonald’s
But they have local beef, local potatoes, local millionaires owning the restaurants, so it’s totally not American. Even the workers are locals!
It’s like Frito-Lay adding “Made in Canada” on their bags. So many American companies are now suddenly so proud to make their stuff locally, in <insert country name here>.
It’s like Frito-Lay adding “Made in Canada” on their bags. So many American companies are now suddenly so proud to make their stuff locally, in <insert country name here>.
The Lays chips I was getting in Alberta were American-made before the shit started, they’re Canadian made now
McDonald’s Canada is a separate entity, so despite still being a shitty company it’s a shitty Canadian company
Lol it’s a subsidiary of McDonald’s US
so middle east is not the only country to do that after that For israel boycott
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Saw the same type of ads fronting plant workers here in France, trying to give the coke company a “very french and human face”. Asked myself the same question, if the company noticed a dip of profit important enough to spit out this “don’t think of us as American, we’re also totally local. Look, our wageslaves have first names resembling yours. You wouldn’t hurt our wageslaves would you ? They’re just like you” psyop.
It’s easy, get those french workers to make Breizh cola instead 👌
I was pleasantly surprised when we tried a new burger place the other day and they served us Fritz Cola.
Fritz is just superior to coke. (As a Hamburgian I’m totally not biased)
In America we do have a root beer brand call Fitz’s weirdly enough. It’s pretty good stuff though.
The real hipster cola people hunt for
Isn’t the coke syrup actually made in the US and shipped to the world, where it’s mixed with local water?
Yes
Yep, you’re right. Coca-Cola ships the concentrate (not exactly syrup) from a few US facilities to local bottlers worldwide. The concentrate contains the secret formula ingredients, while local bottlers add sweetener, carbonated water, and handle packaging. That’s why boycotts can be effective - the high-margin concentrate business is where most of thier profits come from.
Not quite true, especially for bottles in the EU. They usually just ship one concentrate pulver per soda type, which is one ingredient of many. Most ingredients are sourced elsewhere throughout the world or locally.
As for syrup for soda stations in restaurants, I don’t know anything about the production process of those.
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I live in Tirol, Austria. Only drink local sodas. Apart from the ones made by Red Bull, we have the “Tirola Kola” here. Like the Latschenlikör there is also pine extract in this soft drink. You should try one day.
OMG that sounds delicious 🤤
Wish I could try it without needing to travel like a bazillion kms
Genocide Cola
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Pretty sure feddit.uk fought a war so they don’t have to
Hurensohn!
Liars.
wet plastic company
don’t drink another drop of that wretched drink.
Can someone from Germany enlighten me as to why there is a boycott of Coca-Cola in Germany?
Because there’s a general move away from US products in the EU due to the souring of US-EU relationship since Trump became president.
Coca-Cola is one of the brands that is extremely well known for being from the US. As such it would be easy for people to boycott, even if they didn’t do their research regarding which brands are from the US originally.
Ah, thank you. That makes sense.
What about Fanta? Is that included in the boycott?
Plenty of people try to boycott anything by US brands. So I would assume that plenty of people who are boycotting also stopped drinking Fanta. But the thing is because this is more of a movement originating from the public not everyone does research in equal amounts. Fanta is likely less obviously US based to most people compared to Coca-Cola. So if I’d have to guess it was probably boycotted less by comparison.
Europe did a big anti America propaganda campaign to convince their population to spend money on European weapons. Europe is now spending that money on American weapons.
lol. Not sure where you think you saw an ad campaign. If anything I saw the public spontaneously boycotting way faster than the average government based ad campaign could have been arranged. If there has been any campaigns (and again: I am aware of none) then it was after the public already started boycotting by themselves. Source: I live in the EU and saw this happen and had conversations with people around me about the boycotts too.
There is no “public opinion” in Europe. Only sheep who repeat whatever line they are fed by their media and politicians. One day they are going to break loose from America. The next day the 5% NATO money is going straight towards daddy Trump and nobody bats an eye.
The contradiction of the EU buying American and Israeli weapons with their new money instead of European weapons is too hard to ignore.
Fuck off I’m drinking look cola now
