The Coke Ad That Could Destroy All Other Products, Especially Coke

[ashling]

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this is the way we did it in my day -

[Sekhmets Daughter]

1. Powerful...

[redqueen]

2. Love it

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. I'd like to teach the world to sing ...

I LOVE COCA-COLA !! I don't care if it is bad for me. I love it and bacon and chocolate. love.love.love.

[starroute]

6. When was the last time you saw a bacon ad on TV? Or a chocolate ad?

I saw a Coke ad a couple of hours ago. It was about how they've been around since 1886 and are wholesome and natural and as American as motherhood and apple pie. Or something like that.

Coke not only rots your teeth but corrupts overseas governments and coopts local water supplies. It has no known redeeming features.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. I know it and I still don't give a shit. I love the stuff.

love. love. love.

[timdog44]

13. I saw one.

Bacon. Bacon. Bacon. Begin strips.

[starroute]

19. You mean the doggie treats? I'm not sure that counts

[timdog44]

22. Just kiddin.

[Blanks]

24. There are bacon ads.

As far as the wholesomeness of Coke, I believe cocaine was one of the original ingredients.

[Art_from_Ark]

26. The redeeming feature about Coke,

for me, at least, is that it is most effective in keeping me awake when I need to stay awake. Nothing else comes close-- tea, Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew, No-Doze, and coffee, which I hate with a passion. Saying that, I never drink Coca-Cola unless I absolutely have to stay awake when I feel drowsy.

[lastlib]

14. I love it, too--thanks to Coca-Cola......

...I have the cleanest car battery posts on the highway, AND the cleanest toilet in the great metropolis of Sni Mills! Plus, the steaks I plan to grill Monday will be the tenderest on the planet after soaking in Coca-Cola!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

15. and don't forget glazed ham and have you had coca-cola frosting on a chocolate pound cake?

to die for. let me tell ya

[lastlib]

17. if it eats battery acid, cleans ceramic, and tenderizes meat,....

...WTF does it do to the lining of my stomach??!?




( backatcha!)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

18. I know, I know and still I don't care.

I drink them in moderation ... but, there are times when nothing BUT a coke will do

[Art_from_Ark]

27. Berkeley Breathed (Bloom County) summed it up pretty nicely

when he was lampooning the Coke vs. Pepsi ads--

They BOTH taste like malted battery acid

[NJCher]

31. thanks for the tip!

I have some diet Coke that's been sitting around here for ages. Do you think it will work if it's diet?

Also, I read where the caramel coloring of colas is a cause of cancer.

I quit drinking it years ago.


Cher

[ashling]

33. without the build up the posts on your car battery

will be thinner

[dothemath]

20. main food groups .......

Bacon and chocolate are in the 5+1 main food group. Sugar, salt, fat, chocolate and ice cream. Bacon is in a class by itself.

Alas, I can't eat any of them anymore. (if you didn't see me do it, I didn't do it. ha ha)

[alphafemale]

28. I love Mexican Coke.

Tolerate the other stuff.

[A Simple Game]

4. One of my pet peeves is the fact that they expect you to pay them for the privilege of

advertising for them. I can remember when Coke and other companies would give you products with their name on them. Glasses, cups, shirts, and sometimes even jackets with the company name on them were often given away as promotions. They actually paid you, in products or sometimes discounts, to advertise their products for them.

Now they expect you to pay them for the privilege, often at a premium. I will not buy any clothing, glass, cup, etc. that has a company name on it. I will take one if given to me, but I will not pay them to do their advertising.

[Aristus]

5. Hell yeah!

If any company wants me to advertise for them, they're going to fucking-well pay for it!...

No company logos or brand names visible on my clothing, ever.

[SCVDem]

9. Agreed!

I gave up branded clothing over ten years ago. In the movie biz most of it was free swag.

I just can't see paying to be a walking billboard and the rest of us should also.

Do you think that Nike swoosh makes you cool?

The kids are indoctrinated into $150 shoes and peer pressure keeps it rolling.

Fuck that!

[lastlib]

16. A few years ago, I made a car dealer take his logo decal off of the car I was buying.....

...for that same reason. Told him I wouldn't take the car until it was off--he wasn't paying me to be his billboard, so I wasn't going to be one.

[Digit]

21. Good for you

I wouldn't want to continually advertise for a company even if they paid me.
I am just THAT fed up with advertising.

[Alameda]

29. exactly....it's amazing how people are willing to actually PAY to advertise products

[olddots]

7. Sorry Coke is not as bad as NESTLES

if you check into what they are about you'll get very upset.

[nineteen50]

10. A corporation’s advertisement of its virtues

and not its product is political and should be followed immediately with free rebuttal much like the original fairness doctrine especially if tax breaks for advertising are involved. Corporations have an unfair monetary advantage. A bill should be submitted and passed changing this unbalanced use of our public airways.

[Blanks]

23. BP advertises every Sunday morning...

During the political talk shows. The other day (last weekend, I believe) I saw a Boeing commercial on TV. They don't sell directly to the public. WTF?

There was a lot of GE advertising after the Japanese tsunami, and I expect that a lot of people still don't know that the nuclear plant was a 'turn-key' plant constructed by GE.

Anytime I see advertising for companies that do not sell directly to the public, I wonder what story they are keeping out of the news. Why is BP telling us every weekend how they should be patted on the back for cleaning up 'their' mess.

[ashling]

34. GE, Lockheed, Archer Devils Midland

et al., have advertised on Sunday talk shows like Meet the Press as long as I can remember.

[Blanks]

36. Yes. I find it suspicious. eom

[OldEurope]

37. In Germany GE has started a campaign a couple of months ago.

Radio, TV and newspapers.
The catchline is "We are the GE in GErmany".
They describe how they have brought forward many things and that they had been working together with German companies for more than one hundred years. Now I'm wondering how much cooperation there was with the German companies that supported Hitler.
But I really cannot identify what the purpose of the ads is.

[Blanks]

38. They have to be controlling the message.

Not necessarily always keeping bad press away, but making certain that all programming contains a pro-GE slant.

Just like the thread the other day when someone recognized that their child's homework was all pro-GMO. Get in early and educate people: 'what you are doing is good'. It takes a lot of time to undo the initial brain-washing.

If the message of all media programming supports your corporate bottom line, it's probably a good investment.

[OldEurope]

39. So they control the message.

But they do not sell their stuff to German persons like me. They sell it to German companies which would buy it anyway if it is cheap enough. So why do they try to improve their image for the average Joe?

[Blanks]

40. People see an ad and they believe it is a 'story'.

Additionally, the network is not allowed to run stories that show the company in a bad light - lest they lose advertising dollars.

It's a double benefit.

If the news show has a big story about how the GE nuclear plant failed in Japan and then runs another story about how they are going to put a nuclear plant in the next town...

Do they continue to sell products to the local government? I don't think so. So they control the message.

Obviously just a slapped together example, but this is what my suspicious mind is thinking when I see these ads.

[SheilaT]

11. Because I don't have a TV, I'm not exposed to very much advertizing.

I also don't read a lot of magazines, mostly books.

When I do pick up a magazine, or see TV somewhere, I'm astonished at some of the ads I see, especially the ones for drugs that are there to convince you that you have whatever it is they have the drug for. It's beyond bizarre.

I also won't buy clothing that advertizes a product. I work the information desk at my local hospital, and sometimes at least three quarters of the people walking in are wearing something that advertizes some company, mostly sports teams. Again, bizarre.

The things I spend the most money on, like yarn and embroidery floss, aren't that heavily advertized, except in specialty magazines aimed at people like me, except that I don't often read those magazines either.

[ashling]

35. I want to see one where

they show they guy walking on the beach with his dog to show the mobility and healthy benefits and lifestyle, etc.
and then when they get to the FDA mandated disclaimer, he grabs his heart and keels over on the beach as the surf breaks over him. And his dog runs off. And the couple that comes by sees him and shrugs and goes on.

[lumberjack_jeff]

12. Outstanding. n/t

[Callalily]

25. Brilliant idea!

But it is us as consumers to ignore advertising and not to be influenced by it.

[7wo7rees]

30. If you like Coke, then you'll LOVE Angioplasty!

[ashling]

32. OOPS - OP edited to add crucial info

I meant to put this in the OP:

[kentauros]

41. Culture Jamming

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_jamming

Glad to see people keeping it alive!

Mark Pauline of Survival Research Labs had a hand in that as well.