"Coca-Colanisation is coming to Britain"

Ryan-3 said:
I'll just leave this here..
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It would have been a massive marketing failure if Coca Cola managed to changed Santa's colour, from Green to Red with no other association to the brand.

It's still Merry Christmas, not Merry Coca-Colas. Just a red colour that any other primary coloured branding that's festive can be associated.

HOWEVER, this isn't true.

http://www.coca-cola.co.uk/faq/rumours/is-it-true-santa-is-red-because-of-coca-cola.html

Coca Cola did not make Santa Red.
 
The concentrated liquids that go into making coke are very very corrosive. I used to work for Coke in the lab.

To make a batch of coke that gets turned into the finished product you'd have 2 drums of the concentrated liquid ingredients, approx 200 ltrs in each, and they'd go into a large vat with liquid sugar and then that vat was topped up to 18000 ltrs with water. Once done it'd then be fed to a filler where coke was made by mixing this 18000 ltr batch with carbonated water at a ration of 5.4:1. So 1 part coke to 5.4 parts water. Also in the 18000 ltr batch of coke there was, in the 90s when I worked for them, 12.19 tonnes of dry sugar.

Also to show how much profit there was in coke in those days, we used to have a cost per case competition between the manufacturing sites, and a case was defined as a standard 24 330ml can case, so all different SKUs were converted to a standard case for this to show how a site was performing, the site I worked at had its cheapest cose per case, which was every cost associated with its manufacture and distribution, at around 16p per case. That's why 4 sites in the UK were making around half a billion pounds profit every year.
 
No it'd be Pepsi Max Big Ben and KFC Palace of Westminster and they'd project pictures of the products onto them like they did with Gail Porters arse some years ago.
 
I've never been the biggest fan of coke, but I did go through a phase a few years ago of drinking cherry coke. I tend to stay away because I hate how it makes my teeth feel after drinking it.
 
An 'Icon' of the UK, probably designed in Germany, built in China, assembled by Poles on land belonging to Arabs and sponsored by the USA.*

*This is all completely made up but is probably very, very close to being true anyway, and reflects the sad, sad state of the UK as a whole. :(
 
estebanrey said:
His wiki quote didn't claim Coke made Father Christmas red, in fact it explicitly stated that wasn't the case. It said that they 'popularised' the red Father Christmas, not invented it.

But anyway, I'm more worried by the number of British people using the American term "Santa" nowadays ;)
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His original post was what I quoted plus picture.

Anyway, it still don't make a marketing success. Yay they popularised one form of Santa. Still not one that makes people directly associate Santa to Coca Cola. So same difference having a London Eye Red as opposed to Blue-y Mauve-y looking colour.

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P.S, I use the term Santa. I'm not American nor am I native.
 
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Bring back Vanilla Coca-cola...

Hmmm... must sneak a bottle of cream soda onto the household shopping list now i think of it. :)
 
I don't recall them getting thier knickers in a twist over the Pepsi Max Big One, Irn Bru Revolution or the Tango Ice Blast at Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
 
People have too much time on their hands if they feel the need to complain about this. I laughed when someone on the news was moaning because they called it the "Coca Cola Eye" and not the "Diet Coca Cola Eye". Because we all know the company is actually called The Diet Coca Cola Company. :rolleyes:

As a Londoner, I've had no spontaneous urges to drink coke because of this. And if parents think that kids will suddenly want to drink Coca Cola to excess, just say no. Simple enough word, my one year old niece has mastered it.
 
People are upset about this? You can't step out your front door without seeing an advertisement, it's the norm. People need to grow up. And yes I know I'm a hypocrite for saying that. :p
 
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