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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Sason on December 02, 2017, 01:20:30 pm ---Regardin the struggling retailers, I don't think they need to be struggling to pick up anything new that might enhance their profit. They'll pick up anything and everything, esp if it's American since the American culture had such a major influence here for so many years. Ever since the war, actually.
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No, you're right, of course they always want to enhance their profits no matter how they're doing. I'm just saying retailers are struggling, and maybe they're not as powerful as it would seem. At least here, they're hardly the greatest -- and far from the only! -- source of cultural influence.
i am surrounded by Coke and McDonald's and I never consume either. There's a Coke in my refrigerator right now (my son's) and I wouldn't dream of drinking it. Not on some big anti-capitalist principle, just because I don't really like them (I do kind of like Burger King, so every now and then I grab a plain small burger from there). But I can see how both would have their purposes, and how people might actually enjoy the products. I don't think you can sell people something they don't want.
I don't mean to suggest that commercials have no influence on the public, but it's hard to imagine someone watching a commercial and then heading out, zombielike, to get the product. "Must have Coke ... Must have Coke ..." or "Must celebrate Halloween ..."
brianr:
I would not drink a coke if you gave it to me. Sometimes when you buy fast food they give you a cup of coke (although I think it is usually Pepsi) with it. I always tell them to throw it out (or better not pour it in the first place). I prefer a shake or a fruit juice even if I have to pay for it. I do not like fizzy drinks much. I will sometimes have a lemonade and I keep some bottles of lemon,lime and bitters in the refrigerator for after I have been working in the garden on a hot day.
I must admit to being addicted to Big Macs. I was teaching in a school just a few blocks from where they built the first MacDonalds in the Southern Hemisphere (1971) I thought a Big Mac was the most wonderful food invented and I still like them although I probably only have one every 2 or 3 months.
These days I am more likely to buy a Subway (However I have found the menu in Australia/NZ is very different to the one in the USA.)
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 02, 2017, 09:15:02 pm ---I don't mean to suggest that commercials have no influence on the public, but it's hard to imagine someone watching a commercial and then heading out, zombielike, to get the product. "Must have Coke ... Must have Coke ..." or "Must celebrate Halloween ..."
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Oh, subliminal messages......:laugh:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-10-best-subliminal-ads-ever-made/
CellarDweller:
Regarding sodas, I do like them, but don't drink them as much as I used to. The regular ones are too sweet, and the diets have too much chemicals in them.
When I do want one, I will have a "coke life".
Coca-Cola Life is a lower-calorie version of Coca-Cola, made using stevia and sugar as sweeteners. It has 27 kilocalories/100 mL, containing only 60% of the calories of regular Coca-Cola.
Sason:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on December 02, 2017, 02:30:44 pm ---did someone say "Coca Cola"
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zCsFvVg0UY[/youtube]
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Yuck. Talk about cynicism.
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