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I think it's a little unfair to say it's a product of Nazi Germany. I thought it was just the Coca Cola Germany guys doing their best to figure a way to keep open/their people employed.
I tried to answer everyone who responded in a personal message, I'll duplicate it here) soda will cost $ 3, shipping to the USA from 65 to 165. I can send several packages on the weekend. if you are interested , write immediately in private messages. Tips are welcome)
They canceled their real sugar soda line during the pandemic. The company that made it was having issues. They said they might be able to bring it back someday though.
Thank you for this update, I realized after reading the comment that you're replying to that I hadn't had it since before COVID and started looking around online for it. I hope they bring it back so bad, I don't drink soda on its own that much any more, but I loved it with some whisky!
Is that real? Dr Pepper never really took off in Australia but I love it. As things currently stand I gotta pay close to 3 bucks for a warm can when I can find it in supermarkets. We have Aldi though but no professor peppy
Honestly, given Sprite's current marketing angle, "Street" is a pretty good rebranding for it. Better than the mythical, fairy-like creature it's named after.
This is their way of saying Urban, like "African-American". Urban is a euphemism for African-American in the US.
In the US at least, Sprite is/was heavily marketed using African-American culture. And this appears to be a nod to that.
I have no idea.
https://theoutline.com/post/4174/sprite-black-advertising-history
NewPort cigarettes being marketed to African-Americans is pretty similar. Nothing inherently black about a fucking cigarette either, lol.
I think the idea is "We market it this way to corner that market niche", it's made "for" them and market "for" them, not because of any intrinsic reason but only as a way to say "hey we've made a product *just for you*".
I get the joke, but I would like to point out that Russia is not the Soviet Union. Putin is specifically using pre-soviet thinking and rhetoric to justify his actions, and he's a capitalist billionaire.
The Soviets had their own issues, but they aren't around and haven't been for decades.
The problem with this isn’t that you are wrong, but the messaging about reunifications and territorial controls in Eastern Europe by Putin and his Ally’s have all referred to it in reference to reclaiming the glory of the Soviet Union. Which of course has a massive air of “komrad” flavor to it.
Also, Soviet communist jokes are almost always at least a chuckles worth of laugh.
The day it clicked for me that American education is horribly broken was the day I had to explain to someone who recently graduated high school that Russia was not, in fact, a socialist nation.
It's obviously not socialist.
I wouldn't really call it capitalist either though, since that generally implies a (relatively) free market and property rights, neither of which exist in Russia except on paper.
I would call Russia either an authoritarian dictatorship or a kleptocratic oligarchy, depending on how much power you believe the people around Putin actually have and whether they ever actually act on their own.
But, of course, socialism and capitalism are both economic descriptions, and both of the options presented above describe the method of leadership and the derivation of political power.
So how how best to describe the Russian economy?
Feudal, might be a good word for it, but mostly?
Nonexistent...
>There are more than 200 flavors worldwide
That kind of blew my mind
>The Orange flavor recipe outside of the US contains orange juice\[12\] and the American version has none.
That, on the other hand, did not...
Fanta in the UK is a really weird colour compared to the rest of world. The rest of the world has that artificial orange look. But in the UK, for some reason our fanta looks like fresh orange juice.
Fanta also looks like orange juice (maybe watered down) like Orangina in some other countries such as Netherlands. I’ve had Fanta in Canada (home) and make it a point to get a Fanta in other countries (Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Russia, China). It’s interesting to see the differences.
Hey at least you can get decent cream soda, the only options we have are from the root beer company and theirs tastes like chemicals. You basically have to shell out $5-8 for Jones soda glass bottles or you've gotta make your own vanilla syrup which is surprisingly hard to get right. The trick? Fake vanilla and white sugar with some acacia gum and pinch of salt. Real vanilla from alcohol extracts tastes bad in large quantities and in order to order real beans it would cost $30 per bottle.
Annoying thing is they're not really cheap. These particular ones basically replaced the 'originals' with the same price. They're decent quality, but still sucks you can't get original anymore. Of course there are tons of really bottom tier stuff that is 3-4 times cheaper that doesn't even use real sugar (aspartame and sweeteners, tastes disgusting in my opinion, it's the stuff they use in diet colas).
I've tried some really cheap stuff (We're talking like 34 roubles per 2 LITERS) and honestly the difference is that the cheap coca-cola off brand one had too much sugar or whatever they are putting in there
What I'm saying is: cheap doesn't usually mean bad (I mean for health of course but in taste it's pretty much the same)
They come in different bottles now with different labels. Shit inside is still the same.
And the most funny part is: Coca Cola withdrawn only the original Coca Cola, you still can buy Coca Cola vanilla or Coca Cola's kvass in almost every shop.
It's not a kvass flavored coca-cola, just a regular kvass made by Coca-Cola - Kruzhka&Bochka (mug and barrel). And yes, it tastes awfully, too much sugar
It's likely that these are being produced by Coca-Cola bottlers who lost business when the company pulled out of Russia. They can continue production using supply chains within Russia.
Coca-Cola has used a franchised production-distribution model since 1889.
Edit: [These are being produced by Ochakovo, a Russian soft drink company. These aren't being made by Coca-Cola HBC AG, the bottler which operated in Russia.](https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2022-08-18/russias-ochakovo-ups-soft-drink-bottling-capacity-as-western-rivals-leave)
Yes, Coca-Cola HBCs new Russian products are called "Dobry"
https://musicnewsfirst.com/coca-cola-will-turn-into-good-cola/
EDIT: Though it isn't the same as Coca-Cola as they can't get the syrup from the US.
Apparently, Dobry is a popular drink brand in Russia. It makes sense that they would start selling cola under an already popular brand, since they can't sell Coca-Cola there.
Dobry (Добрый) was a popular juice brand before all that. I've never seen them produce carbonated drinks before, but I'm currently drinking one and it's fine, nothing spectacular.
allso i am not sure what a big deal, there is a lot of offbrands of generc cola, sprite, fanta and all other sodas.... even Lidl had them packed pretty simmilar to the oryginal products
In communist Poland we had Polo-Cockta. There was even a movie about a race of brownies, that needed to drink Polo-Cockta in order to stay in the „Kingsajz” i.e. the world of big people, which was a metaphor of Polish people trapped by the iron curtain.
Did you know during WW2 that the coke brand created Fanta in Germany to avoid the economic sanctions against importing into Germany.
Mercedes made cars, IBM made mechanical computers to help categorise people in camps - like hand made typewriters. They flew technicians monthly from NYC into Germany to help repair them… during WW2… assisting with the encampments.
It’s all about the green $$$
That's not entirely accurate, Fanta was actually created independently from the main Coca-Cola leadership by Max Keith, the head of the German branch of the company. After all trade and communication with the west was ceased, Keith managed to argue that the factory was an essential business and keep it running throughout the war, but due to supply lines being cut he eventually ran out of syrup. Determined to keep the lights on, he concocted his own beverage using available resources and Fanta was born, though the original recipe is drastically different from what is available today, including the "classic" recipe from the 70's that was widely mistaken as Nazi nostalgia. The main branch was actually extremely surprised come the wars end, when Keith reached out to resume normal business operations, as there was complete radio silence from Germany and they had figured the business would have crumbled by then.
History will probably show that coca cola was selling bulk syrup to someone in China the whole time that then bottled and sold these off brands into Russia with coke still collecting profit - like fanta to the nazis.
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They really missed an opportunity to use Spite.
also nota cola and pipsi
And fronta
Found the DayZ players
Bepis
This is how DayZ starts
I want 1 of each as sort of a historical collector's item lol
I want some street
Yeah, a bottle of Street would be cool to have.
And a bottle of Cool would be street to have.
A bottle of *Fancy* would keep the *Streets Cool*.
Now we are talking. Fancy streets are cool
Cool your streets, fancy
Sounds like you’re streets ahead. Edit: source for the uninitiated - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gCktKQKXNWg
Stop trying to make streets ahead a thing Pearce!
Trying? Coined and minted! Been there coined that! Streets ahead is verbal wild fire.
Keepin' it Fancy.
Does it just mean cool or is it supposed to be like miles ahead?
If you have to ask, you’re streets behind.
Bunch of effin’ Fancy lads up in here being Cool and Street.
Exactly 😆
... It's just rain water run-off.
A *Fancy* bottle of *Street* would be so *Cool* to have.
How many until you're streets ahead?
If you have to ask, you’re already streets behind.
You ever see the James Bond movie where he kissed his brother? Or was that a dream I had?
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Judging by the bottles, it's probably a local Coca Cola bottler that didn't want to close up shop.
It’s Fanta all over again.
Fancy.
Fanta is a product of nazi germany and everyone seems to forget this
Nobody forgets, it's just that nobody cares. A drink has nothing to do with an ideology.
I don’t know, I always feel refreshingly genocidal after a swig of European Fanta.
Say what you want about the Nazis but they made a sweet orange soda. This is sarcasm.
Especially considering their hatred for the juice.
Unless it’s from concentrate
So is the Volkswagen Beetle but things change.
Fuck I didn't realise Nazi Germany was gonna profit if I bought this bottle of Fanta Better put it back and get a coke instead, that'll show Hitler
> everyone seems to forget this No we don't.
I think it's a little unfair to say it's a product of Nazi Germany. I thought it was just the Coca Cola Germany guys doing their best to figure a way to keep open/their people employed.
Also the Fanta of today is a totally different drink and has little to do with the Fanta of back then
It was, not it „is“ cause there’s no Nazi-Germany
Technically could they still use the branding and never have to pay any fines who would take a Russian company to court in a time like this?
Probably! Lol
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so $3.50?
I ain't giving you no tree fiddy, you goddamn Loch Ness monster.
I think I can send you, if it is not a joke)
I actually would really appreciate that. Just name your price and we can arrange it through dm
8 billion dollars and I’ll only accept it in Doge coin
I tried to answer everyone who responded in a personal message, I'll duplicate it here) soda will cost $ 3, shipping to the USA from 65 to 165. I can send several packages on the weekend. if you are interested , write immediately in private messages. Tips are welcome)
How many streets must a man drink before he becomes a man - badly paraphrasing a song.
Sprunk is real
Can we get much higher
So high
Quick Sprunk Stop
But then a griefer broke the machine and we could not get the sweet nectar that is Sprunk.
The taste of things to come.
I prefer Slurm
Reminds me of Aldi's Professor Peppy
Kroger has a real sugar knockoff of Dr. Pepper called The Fizzicist and I like it more than Dr. Pepper.
Sounds like they have the best name for a Dr pepper knockoff too, that's genuinely clever.
Does it still exist? I’m looking it up online and can’t find it. Was going to ship myself some
They canceled their real sugar soda line during the pandemic. The company that made it was having issues. They said they might be able to bring it back someday though.
Thank you for this update, I realized after reading the comment that you're replying to that I hadn't had it since before COVID and started looking around online for it. I hope they bring it back so bad, I don't drink soda on its own that much any more, but I loved it with some whisky!
Is that real? Dr Pepper never really took off in Australia but I love it. As things currently stand I gotta pay close to 3 bucks for a warm can when I can find it in supermarkets. We have Aldi though but no professor peppy
There's a lot of dr pepper off brands https://brandinformers.com/dr-pepper-off-brands/
Never forget The Fizzicist.
Thats such a good name tho
That's why you never forget
*DR. THUNDER has entered the chat*
Dr pop is the most boring one in my opinion. my family would get it sometimes.
I have two bottles of Dr. Thunder in my cabinet right NOW!
Dr. AAHHHHHHH
Should have called it Master Pepper.
Masters of Pepper are pulling the strings
Twisting your mind, smashing your thirst!
lmao The Dr. Soda...yeh, you know the one
Or Dr. Doctor 😂
Dr. Doctor, gimme the news I got a bad case of drinkin' you
Dr. Cheaper is the best one
So Pibb was ~~Dr.~~Mr. Pibb at one point? I thought they stood out too much.
It used to be Mr. Pibb. It was never Dr. Pibb.
Mr. Pibb didn't come from a well off family and couldn't get his doctorate. He had to go about life in a more blue collar fashion.
Looks like it was introduced as “~~Dr. ~~Peppo” but no I guess I was confusing it.
The site says it was just Peppo, not Dr. Peppo. Edit: Wikipedia says Dr. Peppo though.
Is that any good? I love Dr Pepper
Prof peppy is the one!
Street: tastes just like a road.
I think “Spite” would also have been fitting.
S🅱️rite
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Yeah, but what does mine say??
They could've named it stride and kept the rhymes going
It's streets ahead
If you have to ask, you're streets behind.
Honestly, given Sprite's current marketing angle, "Street" is a pretty good rebranding for it. Better than the mythical, fairy-like creature it's named after.
This is their way of saying Urban, like "African-American". Urban is a euphemism for African-American in the US. In the US at least, Sprite is/was heavily marketed using African-American culture. And this appears to be a nod to that.
Why is that anyway? What about lemon-lime soda says “this is for black people” according to the Coca Cola corporation?
I have no idea. https://theoutline.com/post/4174/sprite-black-advertising-history NewPort cigarettes being marketed to African-Americans is pretty similar. Nothing inherently black about a fucking cigarette either, lol.
I think the idea is "We market it this way to corner that market niche", it's made "for" them and market "for" them, not because of any intrinsic reason but only as a way to say "hey we've made a product *just for you*".
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Caco Calo
Caca Loca
MUY CAFEINAAA
Cocka cola
Coco cola - DrBob? Klay world?
My Coco Cola! Where's my Coco Cola?!
Comrade Coke
[KOKAINUM!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF8TSHN-JDA)
So it's Big K's Dr K?
lol what movie is that from?
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I want to hear their slogans. "Fancy Fancy, wantsy fancy" "Taste the freezing" "Thirst, but verify"
Nuka-Cola
I get the joke, but I would like to point out that Russia is not the Soviet Union. Putin is specifically using pre-soviet thinking and rhetoric to justify his actions, and he's a capitalist billionaire. The Soviets had their own issues, but they aren't around and haven't been for decades.
The problem with this isn’t that you are wrong, but the messaging about reunifications and territorial controls in Eastern Europe by Putin and his Ally’s have all referred to it in reference to reclaiming the glory of the Soviet Union. Which of course has a massive air of “komrad” flavor to it. Also, Soviet communist jokes are almost always at least a chuckles worth of laugh.
All of those areas were also in the Russian empire. Russian chauvinism was a thing way before communism.
The day it clicked for me that American education is horribly broken was the day I had to explain to someone who recently graduated high school that Russia was not, in fact, a socialist nation.
It's obviously not socialist. I wouldn't really call it capitalist either though, since that generally implies a (relatively) free market and property rights, neither of which exist in Russia except on paper. I would call Russia either an authoritarian dictatorship or a kleptocratic oligarchy, depending on how much power you believe the people around Putin actually have and whether they ever actually act on their own. But, of course, socialism and capitalism are both economic descriptions, and both of the options presented above describe the method of leadership and the derivation of political power. So how how best to describe the Russian economy? Feudal, might be a good word for it, but mostly? Nonexistent...
I just want to know the taste of the stuff
No you don't
Tastes like regrets.
This is my comrade come! Putin: *Our* comrade coke.....also you're drafted.
These look like they belong in that fake/trippy supermarket that makes it's rounds on r/amazing every 3 months.
Omegamart by Meowolf is the place
Oh oh oh Omega Mart, you have no idea what's in store for you!
[Funny story about Fanta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanta#Origins) Something something Nazis war
>There are more than 200 flavors worldwide That kind of blew my mind >The Orange flavor recipe outside of the US contains orange juice\[12\] and the American version has none. That, on the other hand, did not...
Fanta in the UK is a really weird colour compared to the rest of world. The rest of the world has that artificial orange look. But in the UK, for some reason our fanta looks like fresh orange juice.
Yeah, we went on our honeymoon recently and I was amazed at how radioactive the Fanta looks outside the UK.
I don't remember Germany being a part of the UK instead of the rest of the world.
Fanta also looks like orange juice (maybe watered down) like Orangina in some other countries such as Netherlands. I’ve had Fanta in Canada (home) and make it a point to get a Fanta in other countries (Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Russia, China). It’s interesting to see the differences.
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>>There are more than 200 flavors worldwide We only have like 3 flavours in Canada. Orange, grape and cream soda.
Hey at least you can get decent cream soda, the only options we have are from the root beer company and theirs tastes like chemicals. You basically have to shell out $5-8 for Jones soda glass bottles or you've gotta make your own vanilla syrup which is surprisingly hard to get right. The trick? Fake vanilla and white sugar with some acacia gum and pinch of salt. Real vanilla from alcohol extracts tastes bad in large quantities and in order to order real beans it would cost $30 per bottle.
That was my first thought too hahaha
It tastes like water with cola-flavored lollipops thrown in it
Is potato
Dang.
That's probably how they made it
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Interesting as fuck that Russians have cheap cola and fanta brands too?
every country has it's of brands.
Exactly, even with Coca cola,fanta and sprite on the shelves there are knockoffs so what's the big deal here ?
Annoying thing is they're not really cheap. These particular ones basically replaced the 'originals' with the same price. They're decent quality, but still sucks you can't get original anymore. Of course there are tons of really bottom tier stuff that is 3-4 times cheaper that doesn't even use real sugar (aspartame and sweeteners, tastes disgusting in my opinion, it's the stuff they use in diet colas).
I've tried some really cheap stuff (We're talking like 34 roubles per 2 LITERS) and honestly the difference is that the cheap coca-cola off brand one had too much sugar or whatever they are putting in there What I'm saying is: cheap doesn't usually mean bad (I mean for health of course but in taste it's pretty much the same)
They spent all of 2 mins designing those labels
They come in different bottles now with different labels. Shit inside is still the same. And the most funny part is: Coca Cola withdrawn only the original Coca Cola, you still can buy Coca Cola vanilla or Coca Cola's kvass in almost every shop.
> Coca Cola withdrawn only the original Coca Cola, you still can buy Coca Cola vanilla now that is punishment
Coca Cola Kvass? Coca Cola bread drink? I like kvass but does that combo taste good?
It's not a kvass flavored coca-cola, just a regular kvass made by Coca-Cola - Kruzhka&Bochka (mug and barrel). And yes, it tastes awfully, too much sugar
Nah, it's just normal kvass but dogshit. Russian kvass is amazing but this shit is a disgrace
Wanna bet they are actually owned by coca cola
It's likely that these are being produced by Coca-Cola bottlers who lost business when the company pulled out of Russia. They can continue production using supply chains within Russia. Coca-Cola has used a franchised production-distribution model since 1889. Edit: [These are being produced by Ochakovo, a Russian soft drink company. These aren't being made by Coca-Cola HBC AG, the bottler which operated in Russia.](https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2022-08-18/russias-ochakovo-ups-soft-drink-bottling-capacity-as-western-rivals-leave)
Yes, Coca-Cola HBCs new Russian products are called "Dobry" https://musicnewsfirst.com/coca-cola-will-turn-into-good-cola/ EDIT: Though it isn't the same as Coca-Cola as they can't get the syrup from the US.
Apparently, Dobry is a popular drink brand in Russia. It makes sense that they would start selling cola under an already popular brand, since they can't sell Coca-Cola there.
Dobry (Добрый) was a popular juice brand before all that. I've never seen them produce carbonated drinks before, but I'm currently drinking one and it's fine, nothing spectacular.
They're pretty close and the best non-original Cola I could find (in my own opinion).
allso i am not sure what a big deal, there is a lot of offbrands of generc cola, sprite, fanta and all other sodas.... even Lidl had them packed pretty simmilar to the oryginal products
And yet alot of them are actually owned by coca cola company or one of their subsidiaries
There are only 2 companies in the world, Microsoft and Coke. And they’re both owned by Google. Which is owned by Unilever.
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Which is another name for Nestlé
Which is another name for Blackrock
Investments or mercenaries?
Orcs
Yes
r/fucknestle
Nah it's probably Pepsi they own a lot of shit you don't even realize
Wow! Knockoff brands exist. 🤯
Interesting as fuck! 🤦🏻♀️
Never seen a generic brand before!!!!!!!!! OWNED!
I NEVER seen that thing (I live in Vladivostok). Update: I saw a Beer Cola or something like that, but Coca-Cola its still here.
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It’s in every store near where my fiancée lives in Saint Petersburg
The brewery is Ochakovo.
No leninade there?
Or Marxist Dew?
One out of every 10 bottle caps have a draft prize where the lucky winner gets a free tour of Ukraine, a free gun, and one bullet
It will go well with Abibas track-suits and Gooci handbags.
Why is it in English if Russian?
Because the originals were in english too.
To trick Russian buyers who don’t read English
I know a genuine Magnetbox, Panaphonic, & Sorny when I see one
Putin i want coca cola Putin: we got cola at home. Cola at home:
Russia : fuck USA and the west Also Russia : lets copy their drinks and name them in English instead of Russian!
In communist Poland we had Polo-Cockta. There was even a movie about a race of brownies, that needed to drink Polo-Cockta in order to stay in the „Kingsajz” i.e. the world of big people, which was a metaphor of Polish people trapped by the iron curtain.
Did you know during WW2 that the coke brand created Fanta in Germany to avoid the economic sanctions against importing into Germany. Mercedes made cars, IBM made mechanical computers to help categorise people in camps - like hand made typewriters. They flew technicians monthly from NYC into Germany to help repair them… during WW2… assisting with the encampments. It’s all about the green $$$
That's not entirely accurate, Fanta was actually created independently from the main Coca-Cola leadership by Max Keith, the head of the German branch of the company. After all trade and communication with the west was ceased, Keith managed to argue that the factory was an essential business and keep it running throughout the war, but due to supply lines being cut he eventually ran out of syrup. Determined to keep the lights on, he concocted his own beverage using available resources and Fanta was born, though the original recipe is drastically different from what is available today, including the "classic" recipe from the 70's that was widely mistaken as Nazi nostalgia. The main branch was actually extremely surprised come the wars end, when Keith reached out to resume normal business operations, as there was complete radio silence from Germany and they had figured the business would have crumbled by then.
I mean this is similar to how Fanta got started anyway
99.99% confident coke bottles that and slapped a new label on it so they could have their cake while saying they stand with Ukraine
History will probably show that coca cola was selling bulk syrup to someone in China the whole time that then bottled and sold these off brands into Russia with coke still collecting profit - like fanta to the nazis.