WARNING WARNING, 2011 Holiday Coke looks like Diet Coke

dmpizza
dmpizza Posts: 3,321 Member
edited October 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Warning Warning, 2011 Holiday Coke looks like Diet Coke

We have a shared fridge at work that is stocked by the company.

I usually just reach in and grab a Diet Coke and walk away.

Well today I thoroughly enjoyed 1 and a half cans before I realized why it tasted so damn good.

The new 2011 Holiday cans have a strong enough resemblance to Diet Coke, unless you pay attention.

SO BEWARE

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  • bstamps12
    bstamps12 Posts: 1,184
    Oh wow. Thanks, I probably would have done the same thing!
  • jenfactor
    jenfactor Posts: 124
    I thought so too. Major goof up on their part!
  • alise_lmx
    alise_lmx Posts: 292 Member
    lol! the new cans are so pretty :)
  • twinsanity
    twinsanity Posts: 1,757 Member
    I thought so too. Major goof up on their part!
    Probably very deliberate goof on their part!
  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    I thought so too. Major goof up on their part!
    Probably very deliberate goof on their part!
    Why? How would this benefit them in any way?
  • capriciousmoon
    capriciousmoon Posts: 1,263 Member
    I probably wouldn't have seen them, but it seems the can's color and design were chosen because they are raising money for polar bears this year.

    Knowing me if I made this mistake I would have spit it out on one sip and been all "Who's trying to poison me?" :frown:
  • dmpizza
    dmpizza Posts: 3,321 Member
    I probably wouldn't have seen them, but it seems the can's color and design were chosen because they are raising money for polar bears this year

    Raising money for Polar Bears?
    Isn't it CO2 that comes out of the bubbles?
  • dmpizza
    dmpizza Posts: 3,321 Member
    Vindicated.

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/a-frosty-reception-for-coca-cola-s-white-christmas-cans.html
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,734 Member
    Bah ha ha. Polar Bears. The Polars Bears thank you for buying a product which pollutes the earth by its mere production. Not to mention all the pollution caused by moving it from factory to store, to your house. Then the disposal in the land fills. Ha. Those Coke people, always doing a good deed.

    /sarcasm
  • Barneystinson
    Barneystinson Posts: 1,357 Member
    white-coca-cola-polar-bear-can.jpg

    Indeed it does!
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    Yes, I was screwed by this the other day. I ordered a pizza and a diet coke and the guy brought this kind instead of diet. I was crushed.
  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
    tinfoil-hat1-300x225.jpg

    Just for ****s and giggles...

    Australian TV Exposes 'Stranded Polar Bear' Global Warming Hoax: http://newsbusters.org/node/11879#ixzz1fL2EefaX
  • adjones5
    adjones5 Posts: 938 Member
    Holy ****! Thank god you warned me!
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,137 Member
    I like polar bears, even though they would eat me.
  • Iamfit4life
    Iamfit4life Posts: 3,095 Member
    Yes, I was screwed by this the other day. I ordered a pizza and a diet coke and the guy brought this kind instead of diet. I was crushed.
    oh but it taste SO good.
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    Yes, I was screwed by this the other day. I ordered a pizza and a diet coke and the guy brought this kind instead of diet. I was crushed.
    oh but it taste SO good.

    I actually made him take it back. I have no interest in drinking regular coke. I seem to crash hard from the sugar. He said he would bring another one, but I told him not to worry about it. I couldn't blame him since the can totally looks like diet. Plus I used to deliver pizzas so I can sympathize. Still tipped him well.
  • chrisdavey
    chrisdavey Posts: 9,834 Member
    Yes, I was screwed by this the other day. I ordered a pizza and a diet coke and the guy brought this kind instead of diet. I was crushed.
    oh but it taste SO good.

    I actually made him take it back. I have no interest in drinking regular coke. I seem to crash hard from the sugar. He said he would bring another one, but I told him not to worry about it. I couldn't blame him since the can totally looks like diet. Plus I used to deliver pizzas so I can sympathize. Still tipped him well.

    I would have done the same being an ex pizza delivery boy also. It was a tough life.

    It is a pretty fancy looking can though. I wonder if we will get the same over here.

    Do you guys in the US get the coke bottles with names on it? Heaps of people posting stupid pics on FB of coke bottles. I'm thinking, no way I'm wasting cals (that could be used for ice cream & pop tarts) on sugary coke!
  • season1980
    season1980 Posts: 129 Member
    Shouldnt have to worry too long.....apparently people have complained about the taste and they are pulling the cans.....
    they were pretty though.
  • maidentl
    maidentl Posts: 3,203 Member
    I drink Coke Zero so I am safe.
  • mhotch
    mhotch Posts: 901 Member
    This actually made the news. Coke is going to change the cans.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,734 Member
    This reminds me of when they changed the recipe/formula. . . all the publicity and the hype.

    They couldn't be that smart again, could they? I remember there was a run on Coke....
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