coca-cola
Pictured above are members of Argentina's olympic soccer team, celebrating their trip to the Olympics in Beijing. Although they're
not the first Olympic team to strike this tasteless pose, they are the first to do so while wearing their corporate sponsor's name on their jerseys.
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inflation
The U.S. Coca-Cola market just isn't what it used to be — bottler Coca-Cola Enterprises' profit fell 23% due to commodity costs and sluggish U.S. sales. The solution? Raise prices. You can expect battled Coke to cost a little more after labor day.
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bad consumer
If you know who has been ripping off Coke vending machines in Pennsylvania's LeHigh Valley, you could be the winner of a years supply of Coca-Cola.
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lawsuits
If you bought
Fanta Pineapple or
Vault Zero before September 2006, you are eligible for a replacement beverage according to the terms of a settlement in the class action lawsuit against Coca-Cola. The lawsuit concerns ingredients in the beverages that can form the cancer causing chemical benzene, which, in case you were wondering, you do not want to drink. Coke already voluntarily reformulated the drinks, but if you have some old stuff around the house and don't want to drink the cancer juice, you can get a replacement. According to the AP:
Benzene can form in soft drinks containing vitamin C, also called ascorbic acid, and either sodium benzoate or potassium benzoate. Scientists say factors such as heat or light exposure can trigger a reaction that forms benzene in the beverages.
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coke
The wonderful world of industrial soft-drink espionage. Three employees of Coca-Cola Inc. are under arrest for attempting to sell trade secrets (and a sample of a new drink — what
can they add cherry and vanilla to this time?) to rival Pepsi.
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coca cola
When I was in school, mysterious state-endorsed hucksters would burst through my classroom door from time to time with arms full of candy bars. These guys would then proceed to gang press us all as unpaid door-to-door candy salesmen. The candy bars (which were usually more peanut and Chinese newspaper than chocolate) were uniformly terrible; moreover, they cost like 5 bucks each. But these guys were smart: they kept us hustling with the promise of prizes for reaching impossible goals. Ten candy bars sold got you a pencil, but a million?
A robot dinosaur that transformed into a monster truck. Needless to say, the best prizes were logistically unattainable.
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coke bl ?k
Unbelievably, one of our readers actually
likes Coke Bl
?k, the unique cup of coffee brewed with Coca-Cola instead of water! Clearly suffering from some sort of head trauma or an afternoon deeply inhaling at the glue factory, Courtney W. writes:
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health
Watch out, that next can of carbonated fizzy water you guzzle could turn your esophagus into a tumorous pipe oozing with cancer and bile. The carcinogen in question is Benzene and according to
Beverage Daily, benzene levels in most soft drinks are up to five times the World Heath Organization's limit for drinking water.
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