Peter1469 (07-12-2019)
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Captdon (07-13-2019)
Captdon (07-13-2019)
If I remember correctly, the last time I had a soda was about 30 years ago in a buffet restaurant. It was root beer and I put some ice cream in it. (I was never in the habit of buying soda to bring home.) Around that time I began seriously studying health and nutrition, and now that I know what I know I just stopped consuming all such processed foods.
Last edited by Trumpster; 07-12-2019 at 11:11 AM.
Peter1469 (07-12-2019)
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Coke screwed up big time. They didn't sucker in any Pepsi drinkers, they lost Coca-Cola drinkers.
Their effort to back-pedal was lame and fooled no one.
Freedom Requires Obstinance.
We the People DID NOT vote in a majority Rodent Congress, they stole it via election fraud.
Great article, DG...thanks for bringing it to my attention!
My favorite line: "It’s fun to be cranky about stupid things. It’s almost the entire point of Twitter."
I remember trying "New Coke" at the time and thinking it tasted a bit like flat Pepsi. I always assumed, before reading the article, that the entire thing was just the Coca Cola people trying to get people to buy huge lots of the old stuff and hoard it - which I actually remember some people doing. Some folks even believed that the old Coke was going to be "a collector's item" in the future.
My current soda addiction began back in the '90s when I came out of a ballgame to find probably a dozen large jacuzzi-sized containers filled with ice and bottles of something called "Pepsi Max", free for the taking. Something free almost always tastes better than something you have to pay for, right? So I filled up a cloth shopping bag with bottles and took them home for me and the family, mostly for me. And...I was hooked. To tell a bit of a story on myself - when they changed the name to Pepsi Zero Sugar in 2016, I actually called the customer service number on the can to be reassured that it was going to be the same stuff.
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry