The last thing Coca-Cola needs right now, in the middle of their push to brand themselves as a health-conscious company, is someone dying from drinking too much Coke.
The big new Super Bowl commercial from the little home carbonation kit that could got the thumbs-down from CBS, reportedly for taking aim at the two major soda giants (and major advertisers). Well, the banned spot has now surfaced, and guess what? It does.
Lots of people know about how Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine or how Pepsi was the hip drink in the 1960s. Few realize that Coke marketed assiduously to whites, while Pepsi hired a "negro markets" department.
The two biggest soda companies in the U.S. say that it isn't the possible cancer link in an additive that's causing them modify their manufacturing process--it's the cancer warning they'd have to put on their packaging that actually changed their minds.
Coca-Cola's white holiday coke can is dead, dead two months before their run-through date, and it's your fault.
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