Buy a Coke from Whitney!

Our next celebrity profile that took the Red side of the Cola wars is Whitney Houston.  You can get a glimpse of an 1980s Diet Coke commercial by Whitney here.

"Buy a Coke for Your Soulmate"
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My brief research for this post was actually rather sobering. While every other celebrity I searched for under the tags Coke gave me a smiling advertisement of the celebrity swigging Coca-Cola with a proverbial thumbs-up.  Unfortunately, searching for Whitney Houston and Coke did not bring up Coca-Cola advertisements.  It's sad, really.  Stay off drugs, people.

Buy a Coke from Bill

Since Coca-Cola's summer advertising is about buying your friends a Coke, I thought it would be nice to profile some of Coca-Cola's best buddies.  Instead of you buying them a Coke, they are trying to sell you one!  Our first is Bill Cosby. You can see him in a commercial for the controversial New Coke in 1985 here.

"Buy a Coke for your BFF"
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It's unique to be a Coca-Cola spokesperson.  Pepsi is the brand that is far more celebrity driven. Let's give cheer for over the next couple of weeks for the underdog celebrities who had the guts (and generous paychecks) to take the Red side of the Cola Wars.

Share-A-Coke!

So this is the real deal.  Coca-Cola pulled this stunt overseas a while back.  They decided it was hip enough to try in Coca-Cola's home land: The Name-On-A-Bottle Stunt.

Coca-Cola World Cup Can
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It works like this.  Coca-Cola markets itself as a feel good soft drink, the kind of soft drink you would share with your friends.  So when you see your friend's name on the Coke bottle in your local five and dime, your encouraged to buy it and share a Coke!  I actually think its a pretty swell campaigan.  Do you want to know if your name made the Coca-Cola cut?  You can check here.

Coca-Cola Loses in the SCOTUS.

It's back to Coca-Cola for the next several weeks.  I have several new Coca-Cola cans that need to be posted.  This is great because surely you heard the latest legal news.  A while ago I posted that Coca-Cola was being sued because of a juice drink.  It went all the way to the US Supreme Court.

Coca-Cola World Cup Summer Can 2014
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Turns out Coca-Cola lost.  Yup, their Blueberry Pomegranate 5 Juice Blend doesn't fly because the amount of blueberry and pomegranate are such a small percentage of the drink.  It counts as false advertising.  The world will sleep safe knowing the average juice consumer has been protected by the highest court in the land.

Mt. Dew and Doritos Cupcakes

The next time someone gets on your case for chugging soda, shrug and say, "Hey, It could be worse."  How worse?  How about Mt. Dew cupcakes topped with Doritos?

2013 Mountain Dew 

Such a recipe appeared online earlier today. It's a great match, really, since Doritos is owned by Pepsi which manufactures Mr. Dew.  Here, you can watch a video of how to make these bad boys of Sugarville.  You know what, I think I just might try to make these.

Dewing the Dew in School

Do you want to hear another story of anti-soda elitism?  Of course you do.  Well, in Florida an elementary school made headlines for serving students Mountain Dew before state exams.  A grandmother found out and went on the war path.

2011 Mountain Dew Pitch Black

Too bad the grandmother didn't sip a little Mountain Dew to help her own critical thought.  Turns out the practice had occurred for the past ten years, based on empirical research that kids test better when their energy isn't low.  So the school had always offered trail mix and a small Dixie sized cup of Mountain Dew before the tests.  No kid had to drink it; it was just an offer.  (And by the way, the school had been having some of the highest test scores county.)  But it's wasn't enough to appease to sugar-phobic grandmother.  Thanks to her, kids can have trail mix before tests, but they can only wash it down with water.  Thanks a bunch, Gram.