I'm a Coca-Cola fan. Now, I'm not a fanatic. I buy and drink Pepsi occasionally. For example, right now at the local grocery store, the Pepsi product 12 packs are a dollar less so I've been stocking up on those. However, if you ask which I prefer, I'd say Coke. Why? I can't really tell the difference taste wise, which I suspect is sad. I just like Coca-Cola because I like their marketing much better. Coca-Cola's goal is to literally "bottle happiness." I mean, sheesh, it's sugar, water, a little flavor, and carbonation Big deal. You like Coke, the marketing goes, because you associate it with happy memories. So when you drink Coca-Cola, you are getting a little refreshment and a endorphin rush with happy associations. I like that. It's brilliant manipulation and if I am going to be manipulated while I enjoy a drink, it might as well be a happy, peaceful, let's love the world, life, and give high-fives kinda feeling. That's why Pepsi fails me.
At least while I was young, Pepsi was all about being young and having attitude. Snowboarders, race cars, Britney Spears, you get it. Generation NeXt. What a bunch of hollow hype. Give me Santa, Grandma's house, and a bottle of Coke over that Pepsi marketing any day. So, I thought since this blog is about soda can collecting, but also about the grottos of interest surrounding soda, I'd post a commercial every now and again about, well, soda. So below is Coca-Cola's hilltop "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke" commercial This is marketing brilliance. I mean, you probably think this is a knock-off of "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing." Guess what? It's the other way around...the Coke song was first. Gives you those feel good vibes don't it?
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