sockit
The Surfer Moon
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Post by sockit on Feb 1, 2022 0:51:33 GMT
According to Wiki, Coke II was discontinued permanently in 2002. I would have guessed 1987, maybe 1988! I remember seeing both on the shelves for a little while, but I can't remember the last time I noticed "New Coke." 2002!? Amazing. Yeah I was surprised to read that, too. It makes me wonder if that's accurate info (afterall it's Wikipedia...). Or perhaps it was still being produced in very limited quantities and available only in some remote area of the world, by the turn of the century. I just remember last seeing it here and there in the early or maybe even mid 1990s. I don't think it was being advertised; it was just sorta there.
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Post by lonelysummer on Feb 1, 2022 2:39:53 GMT
I thought New Coke had disappeared from the shelves only a year or two after the return of Classic Coke. Might depend on what part of the country you're in. Maybe New Coke was a big seller in some areas.
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Post by kds on Feb 1, 2022 21:22:34 GMT
I was somewhat curious about that too, as I thought New Coke was a memory long before The Beach Boys had the country dreaming of going down to Kokomo.
Per Wikipedia
In 1985, New Coke was sold only in the United States, United States territories, and Canada while the original formula continued to be sold in the rest of the world. New Coke was eventually returned to the company's product portfolio; it was test-marketed in certain U.S. cities under the name Coke II in 1990,[1] which was taken national in late 1992, despite the company's original intention not to create a second brand. Filmmaker Miranda July suggested the name of Coke II while working as a tastemaker for an ad agency.[26]
The Coca-Cola Company did practically nothing to promote or otherwise distinguish it. In a market already offering several choices of drinks calling themselves "Coke" in some fashion or another, the public saw little reason to embrace a product they had firmly rejected seven years earlier, and within about a year, Coke II was largely off the American shelves again. By 1998, it could only be found in a few scattered markets in the northwest, midwest and some overseas territories. In July 2002, Coca-Cola announced that Coke II would be discontinued entirely.[27]
On August 16, 2002, The Coca-Cola Company announced a change of the label of Coke Classic in which the word "Classic" was no longer so prominent, leading to speculation that it would eventually be removed and the last traces of New Coke eliminated.[27] In 2009, Coca-Cola permanently removed "Classic" from its North American packaging.[28]
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Post by lonelysummer on Feb 2, 2022 5:17:50 GMT
When new Coke was introduced in 1985, a friend of mine was going around to all the local stores, trying to buy up all the remaining stock of the old Coke. He was a dedicated Coke lover, hated the new stuff! Now he doesn't drink soda pop at all.
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Post by kds on Feb 2, 2022 17:53:46 GMT
Speaking of soda, do they still make Sunkist?
In his book, Mike Love said it "tastes like shit," despite The Beach Boys endorsing the orange soda.
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Post by Kapitan on Feb 2, 2022 18:00:56 GMT
Speaking of soda, do they still make Sunkist? In his book, Mike Love said it "tastes like shit," despite The Beach Boys endorsing the orange soda. They ruined a legendary song for me for over a decade for a soda Mike didn't even like? Damnit!
As far as I know, it still is out there. Honestly I don't keep up, having more or less given up soda once I was able to drink alcohol. (If I'm going to imbibe something with that much sugar that's bad for me, I at least want the positive effects of the buzz...) As opposed to my youth, when I'd seek out Jolt cola during its brief heyday, or drink half a dozen or more cans a day during high school.
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Post by kds on Feb 2, 2022 18:08:10 GMT
Speaking of soda, do they still make Sunkist? In his book, Mike Love said it "tastes like shit," despite The Beach Boys endorsing the orange soda. They ruined a legendary song for me for over a decade for a soda Mike didn't even like? Damnit!
As far as I know, it still is out there. Honestly I don't keep up, having more or less given up soda once I was able to drink alcohol. (If I'm going to imbibe something with that much sugar that's bad for me, I at least want the positive effects of the buzz...) As opposed to my youth, when I'd seek out Jolt cola during its brief heyday, or drink half a dozen or more cans a day during high school.
After having my son, I was drinking a can of diet soda every day with lunch, but I've got that out in the last month, and now maybe have one soda a week. I wonder if Mike also didn't like New Coke. You know....because they fucked with the formula.
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Post by lonelysummer on Feb 3, 2022 5:07:29 GMT
They ruined a legendary song for me for over a decade for a soda Mike didn't even like? Damnit!
As far as I know, it still is out there. Honestly I don't keep up, having more or less given up soda once I was able to drink alcohol. (If I'm going to imbibe something with that much sugar that's bad for me, I at least want the positive effects of the buzz...) As opposed to my youth, when I'd seek out Jolt cola during its brief heyday, or drink half a dozen or more cans a day during high school.
After having my son, I was drinking a can of diet soda every day with lunch, but I've got that out in the last month, and now maybe have one soda a week. I wonder if Mike also didn't like New Coke. You know....because they fucked with the formula. Well, I just want to dispel the myth that Mike hated the Smile music. He suggested they record Do You Like Worms as Do You Like New Coke.
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