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9/14 2021 Coca Cola

     In Today's lesson, we mainly talked about Coca Colas scandal over the years, which most people are unaware of. I was most surprised to find out about the making of Fanta. Many American companies worked with German companies until a law was made to ban such businesses. This occurred during WW2 to prevent further conflict between the US and Germany. However, the German branch of coca-cola was spun off to be a different company, which lead to the making of "Fanta". I did not know that Fanta was a beverage made by the recipe of coca-cola, without the secret recipe. Furthermore, Coca colas decision to make money from both sides of the war successfully steered their way to a larger profit. This evidence clearly shows how the company is prioritizing money over other factors. Yet, such information is never on the news or media. 

    We then tried to find negative information about Coca-cola on Japanese media, but nothing came up, as expected. one website I found, talked about the history of Fanta, and it said, "Finding the ingredients of coca-cola during WW2 was difficult; therefore, the Coca-cola manager, requested substitute ingredients and that is how Fanta was made." Although the article talks about coca-cola and Fanta, it does not mention the fact that the company would gain profit, even if they lose in the war.  Lastly, I found a post on Twitter of the official coca cola account, advertising for Fanta. Which I found interesting since Fanta also has an official account. 



notes: 


Christiano Ronaldo moving coke away during an interview and bashed from sponsorship. kids should drink water and he was saying factual things, yet got in trouble.  connects to media and the information given to the audience. 

influencers 

killer coke, kick coke off-campus. 

coke smashing Pepsi bottles so Pepsi profits go down. 


Fanta history 

American companies had business with Germany until the law. 

The german branch of coca-cola was spun off to be a different company. secret recipe for coca cole was a syrup in america. germans needed to invent something similar without the syrup which was fanta.

when the war ended the money from german branch of coca cola went to the america coca cole. coca cole has a horrible history that most people are unaware of. most media don't talk about it. documentaries and research books talk about it. 

https://www.cocacola.co.jp/stories/fanta-history

coca cola advertising fanta on twitter. 

https://twitter.com/cocacolajapan/status/322272907504009217



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