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CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 04, 2017, 11:42:06 pm ---Same here. I'll have to check when I go to the supermarket this week. I do have to look at the Coke section pretty closely to find the Caffeine Free Coke. I've never seen "green Coke," but it's also possible I just missed it because I wasn't looking for Coke in a green carton.
Are they advertising it on the Internet? I've never seen a TV commercial for it.
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I seem to remember seeing a commercial briefly, but haven't seen in in a while.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gF9lQeMXaw[/youtube]
You can see it in most commercials, where they advertise all their varieties, you can see a green labeled bottle or green can in the mix.
Usually, at the end, you'll see an animation of four bottles. Red (regular) White (diet) Black (Coke Zero) and green (Coke Life).
CellarDweller:
Oh, it got cold here today! :)
Went shopping after work, and got some toys to donate to Toys-For-Tots, and an ugly sweater for Ugly Sweater Day at the job.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 05, 2017, 12:29:32 pm ---I thought of this because I remember that around here we used to be able to buy a soda called "Mr. Pibb." To me it sort of tasted like Cherry Coke. I haven't seen it here in Pennsylvania in literally decades, but on one of my trips to Wyoming between the Barbecue and now, I found it in a convenience store in Worland.
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Mr Pibb is (or was, haven't seen it in decades) fake Dr Pepper.
Note that neither title has a period. I've known for years that was true of Dr Pepper, but I just now looked up Mr Pibb to see if it followed suit, and not only did I see a can label that did not contain a period, but I found this, "The Sad Story of Mr. [sic] Pibb and Pibb Xtra":
http://theplaincheese.com/flashback-sad-story-mr-pibb/
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Sason on December 05, 2017, 05:05:59 pm ---I don't know if there's a transatlantic difference, but all things American do have a tendency to gain interest and popularity here.
I'm sure the same intensity in advertising, say, a Finnish or Polish holiday here, would NOT lead to the same result. Even though we have a LOT more people from Finland and Poland living here than Americans. Not to mention more distant countries.
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Well, I hope that works out for you all. I don't know enough about either Finnish or Polish culture to assess them, but I can tell you that U.S. culture is pretty screwed up right now. As you probably know. Because everybody, at least in Europe, seems to know far more about this country than most people in this country know about any others.
Sometimes I think of how weird that is. I think, I just happened to be born in the country whose culture and politics dominate much of the world. I could have as easily been born in any of 194 other countries. I guess the closest thing I can feel to that is that I've lived most of my life in Minnesota, a "flyover state" that's not generally considered culturally significant. If I'd lived in New York or LA it would be even weirder.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 06, 2017, 10:29:05 pm ---Note that neither title has a period. I've known for years that was true of Dr Pepper, but I just now looked up Mr Pibb to see if it followed suit, and not only did I see a can label that did not contain a period, but I found this, "The Sad Story of Mr. [sic] Pibb and Pibb Xtra
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That I never did see.
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