“Come on, you guys used to love us!”
People are not going to fall for this everyone knows it’s American
I hope it does not work out for them. Also in Germany we have many alternatives which are cheaper and come close to the taste of CocaCola.
I’ve been trying the cheaper stuff. Some of it is great. Don’t be afraid to try the bottom shelf items these days.
In many cases, although not with coca cola, the bottom shelf products are made in the same place where the top brands are made. Some times they even have the same product but different packaging
I tried out spezi when I travelled to Germany, it was weirdly nice.
I miss it.
Didn’t know that was an actual brand; in my youth it was a colloquial name for a 50/50 mix of coke and orange lemonade. Another name was diesel.
Diesel is beer and cola
Did not know that it could be that, too. Maybe my childhood’s Diesel was just an underage suitable version.
Isn’t that a Negger? Or is it just with weissbier? For non German speakers: yes, it means what you think it means.
Other common mixes:
- Beer and lemonade: Radler (cyclist)
- weissbier and lemonade: Russ’n (Russian)
Only in Bavaria.
(at least in the 3rd millenium)
Is there anything else??!?
Spoken like a true Bavarian.
Made in Germany? Well, so is Spezi, and Fritz cola, and Freeway Cola, and Ja! Cola, and a bunch of others.
One aspect I haven’t seen mentioned yet is the rise of local premium cola brands in recent years. Brands like Fritz Kola, Afri Cola and Mio Mio have taken a significant chunk out of Coca colas marketshare without competing on price. Instead, they focus on standout features like higher caffeine levels, local bottling in reusable glass bottles, and/or organic ingredients. And since it’s working, more and more companies are jumping on the bandwagon, like the red bull, the brewery Flensburger and even some localised water bottling brands all offer their own colas now.
In light of this, this advertising campaign from coca cola feels like a desperate move to me.
With the amount of alternatives it’s also very likely that you’ll find one that you genuinely prefer over Coca-Cola or Pepsi once you give them a try. I did not start buying Fritz Kola over Coca-Cola because of any “feature”, and not because it’s German either. I just tried it on a whim ages ago and preferred the taste, so that’s what I’ve been buying since.
But owned in…
Is this why all Cola bottles are „a product by coca cola” and everything has a german word like bro stamped on it?
Sinalco ftw
All coca-cola brands https://www.coca-colahellenic.com/en/our-24-7-portfolio/brands-a-z
Still a soda tho. 👎
No one in Europe calls it that, though ;-)
I do, when speaking English. Each language has its own word, of course: refrescos, Erfrischungsgetränke, napoje gazowane, etc.
I get a chuckle every time people call it a “Cola drink”. In Spanish (LatAm) it means “butt drink” 👀
In spanish (Spain) it means tail drink, which most often a referring to the penis.
What’s it called there then? Carbonated sugar water?
Fizzy drinks, pop.
Soda is used to describe specifically soda water alone. At least in my experience
Kind of like how cookies are a type of biscuit rather than the name used for all biscuits.
Limo?
Booblenpuppen.
Hehe boob
