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Originally Posted by SOSAGES
most stuff is harmfull to u ..its all about moderation..
as for the tap water - that was more the press than anything else the product was sound and tasted good after the 1 day of press frontpaging it coke said sod ya then like we care and went off and made a load more money selling what it normally sells.
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It's all too easy to 'blame the Press' for stuff like that, as if 'the Press' (whatever that means) is some arbitrary authority over what is a good product and what is not.
The fact is, Coke took water from the tap, processed it and tried to sell it. If that was all they had done, all would probably have been fine. But they didn't
just do that. They tried to market a lifestyle around it. And journalists are very good at smelling bull****.
A similar thing happened to Pepsi when it re-branded with blue cans in the mid-90s. Their marketing was so over-hyped and up its own behind, the coverage was almost entirely negative (mostly journalists describing how badly treated by security guards telling them what they could and couldnt take photos of, rather than discussing the product itself).