I think I will have a Coca Cola with breakfast this morning

[FrodosPet]

That way, I can piss off lots of people with one simple, delicious act!

I will piss off the conservatives, because I am supporting a company that allows non-Anglos in their commercials, and I will piss off the hair-on-fire anti-capitalists and the health nuts who want to control other people's choices.

That's what I call a win-win!

[vt_native]

1. Okay, but remember

Coca-Cola hired death squads to kill union organizers in Latin America.

[DrDan]

4. I believe Coke was cleared of this, was it not?

[leftyohiolib]

21. not it was not, not that i cant find with a quick search

[FrodosPet]

5. The whole company?

Was it the overall Coca Cola Inc., or an individual bottler?

Seriously, this is intriguing. Can you fill me in? Links, books? How high up did the order come from? Has Pepsi done anything like that? What about Cadbury-Schwepps? Who makes Jones Soda, and are their hands clean?

Ultimately, I want to go SodaStream with an aftermarket CO2 setup, but I hear they are made by an Israeli company, so we are supposed to boycott them.

[leftyohiolib]

25. killercoke.org or look it up yourself it's nt that difficult there are lots of websites dedicated tt

[NuclearDem]

6. And more recently, it was one of ALEC's donors.

So add drug testing for welfare, stateside union busting, and SYG laws that kill young black men to Coca Cola's history.

[Adrahil]

19. To be honest....

... if I didn't buy any products from companies that I thought had ethical issues, I'd be eating grass clippings from my back yard (probably not.... the grass seed probably comes from Monsanto or something!)

[Beacool]

46. Well said.

One has to pick one's fights. We still have to eat and drink something.

[leftyohiolib]

22. my thoughts as well, coke puts out a cutesy commercial that causes a riot from the right

therefore the left piles on the love forgetting that coke is causing the deaths of union organizers down south

[NuclearDem]

2. I have literally hurt my brain trying to make an appropriate response.

But I always find myself defaulting back to a Chick Fil-A comparison.

[CBGLuthier]

3. It's Your Body. Kill it how you wish

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/study-too-much-sugar-is-linked-to-fatal-heart-disease/




For someone who normally eats 2,000 calories daily, even consuming two 12-ounce cans of soda substantially increases the risk.

Yang and colleagues analyzed national health surveys between 1988 and 2010 that included questions about people's diets. The authors used national death data to calculate risks of dying during 15 years of follow-up.

Overall, more than 30,000 American adults aged 44 on average were involved.

I guess their little commercial had the effect they wanted.

[FrodosPet]

7. Thank you for your consideration

Based on family history, I could eat a pot roast a day and I will probably make it to 90.

As for the commercial - it's not going to make me do anything that I would not have done anyhow, except to give me something to zing some xenophobes with.

[mucifer]

16. I have about a coke a week. Yesterday seemed the appropriate day.

And I had a Mexican coke.

[kentauros]

8. Make sure it's a Mexican Coke then!

Because that's made with cane sugar instead of HFCS. Also, most of the ones I've seen in convenience stores are in the half-liter size.

So, it's more than win-win. You win by it being Coke, by it being Mexican, by it using cane sugar, by it being metric, and by it pissing off conservatives.

Win-Win-Win-Win-Win!

[FrodosPet]

12. Absolutely!

I love the Pepsi Throwback (I am one of those weirdos who likes both Coke AND Pepsi).

But the cool little cafe I am going to only has fountain pop.

[dipsydoodle]

9. lol

Must confess that if I'm actually going to drink something fizzy and sot it most likely to be Coca Cola.

I do miss those old machines that dispensed the twirly glass bottles - don't seem to taste the same out of metal or plastic whatever.

[FrodosPet]

10. Are you talking about the "pull out" style?

The ones I remember had the door on the side of the machine. You put in your dime and nickle and pulled out the bottle by the neck.

[dipsydoodle]

11. So longer ago I can't remember.

I think they still do them occasionally in glass in our UK supermarkets. I'll check that later today when I've finished doing nothing.

[madokie]

13. Here is the ones I remember

Yes I'm older than a big ass tree

[Heidi]

26. You're not that old, madokie!

I remember a bait shot down near Tenkiller Lake that had a pop machine like that (open from the top) in the 70s. I always got an orange Nehi when my Papa took me fishing.

[japple]

42. I loved those machines. There was almost always a corner of the box where you could

find partially frozen bottles. That was the best thing in the word on a hot day.

[PasadenaTrudy]

49. Yes!

And the glass had a green tint to it at one point..

[clydefrand]

14. So, you having your Coke with

YOUR CHEERIOS?

[FrodosPet]

15. No, a mushroom and swiss omelet

Cheerios is a milk, maybe cup of coffee thing.

But thank you for reminding me to get a box. I LOVES me some Cheerios, especially with sliced banana!

And, of course, the cute kid pissing off bigots commercial does help.

[countmyvote4real]

17. That IS my breakfast.

[whatchamacallit]

18. Dumb.

[demwing]

20. So, your post was meant to piss people off?

You're a troll, then. Got it.

[FrodosPet]

24. I will never apologize for trying to make people question the status quo

I believe everyone needs a daily "WTF?" moment to be aware and open to the world around them.

[Capt. Obvious]

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[Brainstormy]

32. Oh, for heaven's sake

the thin skins around here

[NuclearDem]

34. Well played Juror 6.

[Agschmid]

36. Yah that was pretty awesome...

[Capt. Obvious]

43. All jury deliberations should be so awesome

[MinM]

23. Breakfast of Champions

[fasttense]

27. Perfect example of a troll.

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[marble falls]

37. Sometimes it feels like there is purge by a faction going on here....

I get called to a lot of juries over stuff like this. Especially at night.

[frwrfpos]

28. funny to see

Someone supporting union-busting company o. Here... hmmm

[marble falls]

40. And the major user of tax supported corn growers and all the corporations who make artificually ...

priced corn products - sweetners, citric acids ect, that contribute to RW causes and politics......

[totodeinhere]

30. Sugared sodas are not a part of a healthy diet. I am not going to

take something harmful into my body just in order to piss off someone else. I thought it was a great commercial but nonetheless it was a commercial for a product that should be avoided for health reasons.

[OmahaBlueDog]

48. OK, but why that product more than a million others that should be avoided?

To read posts here, one would think that a sizable segment of DU is made of of Sterling Haydens in "Dr. Strangelove" -- all of them only drinking pure spring water and grain alcohol to avoid having their purity-of-essence sullied.

Perhaps DUers generally should consider that there's another segment of DU that doesn't welcome lectures on healthy diets.

[totodeinhere]

58. I would not put sugared sodas in a category with "a million others."

Most experts agree that sugared sodas represent a major health problem. It's not a matter of lecturing others about it. But when we have an OP advocating drinking Coke then the topic is fair game as far as I'm concerned.

[OmahaBlueDog]

59. I would

Red meat, Scotch whiskey, Kentucky bourbon, cigarettes, tanning beds, saltwater taffy .. you really don't want me to list the whole million. Most experts agree a whole bunch of things are a major health problem. Most of us knew that these things were bad for us before the experts said anything.

Coca Cola put together a tribute to American multiculturalism. A bunch of Teabaggers have chosen to piss on it, and then paint themselves as victims because "...all liberals ever do when someone disagrees with them is call us racist." Yep-- that's the depth of their thought. That's the story here, and the OP is simply stating in a roundabout way that he supports their efforts.

If one doesn't like sugared soda, by all means, don't drink them. Not happy with a company's politics? Hey - don't do business with them if that makes you feel better.

[Gothmog]

31. I am having my morning diet coke

[Javaman]

33. Score a win for madison ave.

coke, which sells sugar water jumps for joy over marketing coupe.

now lets all forget the death squads and their buying up water rights all over the country or destroying whole towns in India for sucking up every last drop from their local water supplies or they basically using strong armed tactics to push their watery mixture in 3rd countries.

Yay, one commercial changes everything!

[whatchamacallit]

35. +1 n/t

[cali]

38. I think you're deluding yourself if you actually believe anyone gives a fig

what you have for breakfast, but hey, no law against believing silly shit.

[RussBLib]

39. yuk

how anyone can stomach that much sugar in the morning is beyond me, not to mention all the other crap they dump in there. But hey, it's a free country. Or so they say.

[FrodosPet]

41. Different Strokes For Different Folks!

We've got to live TOGETHER!

[Vashta Nerada]

44. Did you go to Walmart to buy that Coke?

They both share the same business practices.

[FrodosPet]

50. No, a friendly little indie cafe in town

But when I go grocery shopping, I usually go to Meijer (represented by UFCW, I think it is local 876).

[FrodosPet]

51. Just like The Vashta Nerada!

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Vashta_Nerada

The Vashta Nerada were microscopic beings that lived in swarms, thousands strong. Individually, Vashta Nerada were not a threat. They were very small; the Tenth Doctor claimed that some of the dust specks visible in bright sunlight were single Vashta Nerada or small swarms, not large enough to be a threat to most life. In large numbers, they could strip a creature to its bare bones in milliseconds.

~ snip ~

Interesting choice for a handle!

[Vashta Nerada]

52. It's one of my favorite episodes of Doctor Who.

It's when Tennant's Doctor saw River Song for the last time (before she died), although it was the first time the Doctor met her.

[OmahaBlueDog]

45. I'll Join You!

...OK, maybe a Diet Coke.

[Beacool]

47. Although I don't drink sodas every day, I'll join you with a Diet Coke at lunch.

My motto, is live and let live. I'm not going to stress over people having soft drinks or unhealthy foods. Their life, their choice.

[Egalitarian Thug]

53. I think you should drink at least a case a day. n/t

[FrodosPet]

54. Are you buying?

Can I drink one, maybe two, and give the rest away?

I like a good cold pop every now and again, but I usually drink coffee, iced tea, limeade, or water. Sometimes an Arizona Cherry Lime Rickey (with a hard boiled egg) or Arizona RX Energy.

A case a day is just way and away overdoing it. But thank you for the kind offer to pay my beverage bill (that was an offer, wasn't it?).

[3catwoman3]

55. Are you going...

...to pour it over Cheerios? Not very tasty, but very symbolic. You've got 2 of 4 potential ingredients for a Chopped basket -

[FrodosPet]

56. May be an interesting symbol, but I'm not ruining Coke OR Cheerios to do it!

Although many here seem to disagree, I DO have some taste!

[LanternWaste]

57. I imagine many people are entertained by pissing off those with different opinions...

I imagine many people are entertained by pissing off those with different opinions... but for the most part, they tend to lose that after fifth or sixth grade (except for tea baggers), regardless of how one may rationalize it otherwise.

Kinda glad I don't associate with too many of them-- they're often petulant jerks pretending to be clever.

[Bonobo]

60. The Coke add was a cynical result of number crunching to sell product.

Anyone that thinks otherwise is naive.