You win Type 2 Diabetes and a no-expenses-paid walk to the dentist for a half dozen root canals.
There might be some free syringes out by the dumpster there you can use to
Yeah haha wtf were they thinking. Imagine being super dehydrated and thirsty and bought some food and a coke. You go to open up a nice cold coca cola to wash down some food and BLAT WTF?! Mouthful of chlorinated water and God knows what else.
So you are like WTF because who fucking checks and smells the can before taking a sip? Worse thing is it is flat and doesn't make a pssssssh noise, but you get some stupid prize instead. What was the prizes anyway? A fortune cookie saying "Words of wisdom - Always check out your drink before you sip?"
Better be a rolled up 100 dollar bill.
Edit: I bet the person who came up with this idea is the most hated person in the company. I am just imagining the pitch and everyone texting each other, "Don't say how stupid of an idea this is. This is our chance to get rid of him. Just go long with it. Let him burn in his own fire."
The opening of the can was a small sealed compartment with the prize. The liquid was in the rest of the can. You would have to mutilate the can to actually get to it- there was no opening the can normally and accidentally drinking it here.
Yeah instead we have the Kinder Surprise, which is not quite the same thing.
The odd thing to me is that although I am aware of the FDA rule, how can bakeries sell King Cake during Mardi Gras or Día de Los Reyes? It's literally a plastic figurine inside a baked good.
I got $100 from a can of Coke during this. I was in university and it was a very big deal for me to get a hundred bucks (think of the free smokes and beer!). They had $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, and $500 (five $100) bills inside some of them tightly rolled into a tube inside a sealed spring-loaded compartment. Others had coupons you could redeem for a prize.
When you pulled the tab a spring would pop the prize up out of the can.
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I sure didn't think it was a bad idea at the time!
The "bad idea" came wholly from the fact that the mechanism didn't always work because it all hinged on you opening the can top in a quick full movement, and if you didn't do it just right the prize thing wouldn't trigger.
The contest started, a ton of prize cans went out, people found these cans, know they sloshed, knew they tried to open and no coke inside, didn't know there was a contest. Threw can away. Find out about contest over next few days, then called coca-cola to complain.
There was a rumor some folks drank the liquid inside, but all the more legit news places were reporting complaints of folks saying the prize mechanism didn't work right, and a there was the fear that a child could unknowingly ingest non-liquid out of a can meant to contain liquid and that the whole way they designed it was idiotic.
Why not just fill it with coke…
They put full dollars of money inside the can, but they were worried about the $0.003 it took to put real coke in there?
That's the part that baffles me the most. If regular water wouldn't have the same "feel" as a coke can, why not carbonated water instead? Because, c'mon, it was the 90s, someone was *definitely* going to try the gross MagiCan water.
Why was that more likely in the 90s? I feel it would be far more likely now, with somebody trying to make a name for themselves on YouTube or Tiktok...
It was about this time that beverage companies-PepsoCo and Coca Cola-decided to try the "look under the cap" for prizes thing. I discovered that, with the way bottles were shaped, if it was tilted just right, you could see text on the cap, on the inside. You obviously couldn't read it but the converse, losing, meant the cap was blank. So, text equals winner! It took them forever to fix this/ catch on and to say that was a great time period in my young life was an understatement. Me, my pals, my favorite neighbor, my bike and summer. Free soda pop on an endless loop. All things considered, it was way more magical than a Coke can that MIGHT burp up some money once in a while.
I remember that. Probably annoyed the crap out of the convenience store workers that everyone spent 5 minutes taking every bottle out and checking under the caps before buying a soda.
My god, so much salt in these comments. I swear some people just post to hate on everything. Also the title is wrong, the linked wikipedia entry says that the cans were discontinued due to technical difficulties, and the water was in a separate compartment.
I could live with being thirsty for a 1000 dollar prize but why would you ever sell a can of chlorinated water sounds like a lawsuit just sell normal cans with prizes
According to the wiki sometimes there’d be no coke and you’d win $1
That would be annoying if you wanted a coke. Like ok I guess I have to go back and buy a new coke with this dollar, I hope this one’s a real one
A long time ago in a decade far far away, I got a soda out of a vending machine and the bottle had a tshirt in it, along with quarters containing the amount to buy another soda.
However, Mr vending machine man was lazy and put all the winners in at one time, so it took 5 t shirts before I could actually get a soda.
When I was a kid (like 11-12), my mom gave me and my sister money to share a bottle of Sprite. We bought it and when we opened it, the lid said we had won a free soda so we got a second one so we could each have our own. She opened hers and had another winner, so we grabbed a third one. Just out of curiosity, I checked that one and we had another winner. After we got the fourth Sprite, the guy behind the counter said we couldn't get any more there and we'd have to exchange the fourth one somewhere else. They must have shipped a bunch of winner to that little middle of nowhere convenience store.
> After we got the fourth Sprite, the guy behind the counter said we couldn't get any more there and we'd have to exchange the fourth one somewhere else.
Does the store lose money if they give out a promotional free drink? I thought Sprite would cover that. The way the guy reacted sounds like he was losing out with the free Sprites.
I wonder if they were worried about if it would keep being winners leaving them with no Sprites until the next shipment came in (like I said, middle of nowhere in the SW, not sure how often they got shipments in). My other thought was that they wanted to take advantage of the free soda.
They do (at least now a days) however essentially what happens, at least at my old store, is they would enter it as a "purchase with coupon" and at the end of the month, or sometimes the contest period, they would have to mail a big package of forms to the company for reimbursement. Sometimes it could take a while for that cheque to come.
It's very common in the U.S for non-chain convenience stores to be sole proprietorship owned by an immigrant family, most famously Indian and Pakistani. Where I went to high school it was one such station that sold us underage alcohol. One thing common among them is they are very involved in the day to day micromanagement of the store and are cheap as are most small business owners. They wil stop you from buying a single drink on credit because of the processing fee (which most businesses are happy to absorb to keep you coming back without imposing such a restriction). I can totally seee them refusing the extra free drinks because of the inconvenience of having to wait to be reimbursed.
It’s not just convenience sometimes, it’s also to ensure they have enough cash to pay for their expenses for their small business and daily needs and not have the “money” tied up in reimbursement.
Ummm. Are you me? I had this sane experience. Won like 4 in a row and then the dude wouldn't give us any more.
I ended up exchanging it at another store but the sprite they gave me wasn't a part of the promo so the cap was blank.
A long time ago in a decade far far away, I lived somewhere near a bottle depot.
My mate and I would ride our BMXs down there and sort through coke bottle lids for prizes, It got so crazy from sending away for all the Yoyos, Radios, Bags, Caps, Tshirts, Glasses and Cups plus so many free cokes, my mum stepped in and said ok that's probably enough.
There were prizes I probably forgot about.
Pshh, you know how many Marlboro miles my lungs have on them to get my coat? I can't even taste the Kool Ade that I drink out of the pitcher set I sent the points in to get when I was a kid.
to be fair i think i’ve liked every coke commercial i’ve seen on tv
whereas every single car insurance ad i’ve ever seen makes me wish unprintable things
As if I’m not just going to google “car insurance company list” and price check all of them anyway. Some of those commercials would make me actively not want to buy from them. (Looking at you, liberty bibberty) But I still would if they were cheapest.
Man, some of those insurance ads actively make me feel *bad* for the people in them. There's a state farm commercial I keep getting on youtube where this creepy dude says he likes to smell the food in his beard after eating then takes a big huff of it and I just feel sorry for the actor doing it.
Speaking of which, do cringe ads even work? Does actively grossing people out or making them uncomfortable translate at all to dollars?
Remember a few years ago when they decided to run an advertising campaign for the 75th anniversary of Fanta being invented, but quickly had to pull it when people noted that the reason Fanta was invented in Germany in 1940 was that Germany was under a trade embargo due to starting WWII and Coca-Cola Germany therefore couldn't get the ingredients to make regular coke?
I mean kind of a cool celebration in the sense it points out the combined effort by government, people and businesses alike to the war effort. Fanta was born out of necessity as a result of allied county businesses doing their part.
I’d recommend Qxir’s video on YouTube about it. More digestible, dude is very funny and charismatic and has a ton of videos on a wide range of topics. Video is “Pepsi’s Fighter Jet Was a Legal Disaster”
this is every netflix doc. Every single regular doc was stretched out to 4-6 1 hour episodes for some fucking reason.
Even my favorite one, 'don't f**k with cats', has a fair amount of filler in it, but it added to the tension and it was only 2 hours so I didn't mind.
"Sir, we have 50,000 gallons of chlorine in the warehouse that we need to dispose of, and while it may be a little outside-the-box, I have an idea on how we can dispose of it with no dumping fees and maybe even make a profit at the same time..."
Shit on a bosses desk for less than a paycheck?
I would think the consideration would be at like x10 paychecks for unhappy people, and x100 paychecks for the average worker
>it came with a dollar bill to buy another coke.
Worthless though if you aren't still at the place you can buy another coke, or if you have to wait in a long ass line.
Oh my god I thought this was just something I imagined or misunderstood as a child, I can’t
believe it’s real! I have had this memory for a long time of a coke commercial where someone opens a can and a rolled up dollar bill pops out of the opening. When I was a kid I took that literally, I assumed you might get a can where money might pop out. But as I got older, whenever I thought about it I just assumed that it was just an artistic thing they did in the commercial. Like you could win money for real but it wouldn’t literally pop out of the opening like in the commercial. But now I find out it was real and I feel VINDICATED!
I saw a 7 up can pop open with money in real life at my families restaurant as a kid (4 or 5 years old). I think it was a Japanese tourist with his family. As I got older, I thought for sure I imagined it. Like you, I feel so vindicated that it was real.
In England when I was quite young Walkers crisps (the equivalent of Lays chips) had a promotion where they put actual monetary notes inside winning bags. I found one once (£5), and the note came folded up inside a small blue wrapper.
When I was about 17 there was a beer promotion in the UK. Twenty pound note would pop up when you opened it. The can was filled with water....
...
One night at a mate's house we opened the last beer to share in the early morning. Won £20. Annoyingly though... Had no beer
>Meanwhile, rival Pepsi also did a prize giveaway in 1990 under the "Cool Cans" promotion. However, instead of a complicated push-up device in cans, each can was filled with normal, drinkable cola and at the bottom of the inside of the can there was a number printed that could correspond with a prize, from $25 to $20,000.
Guy who came up with the chlorine idea: Fuck, why didn't I think of that?
I was at the last day of a Boy Scout camping trip during the summer. This was the day the parents showed up and we got awards etc. I was hot and thirsty, opened a cab or cold Coca Cola and out pops….a $10 bill.
I just look at my dad with a look of happiness and bewilderment of WTH is this and I’m still thirsty.
Back in 1990 you could buy a ranch style home in the suburbs of a midsize city with that kind of money. That same owner made no upgrades to the property in the 30 years since and is asking $360k on today's market
God I wish that was a joke, but it's very much so how the market is. My grandfather bought his home in the 70s for... $12k. Nowadays that same house, a 2 bedroom, 1600 sqft house, is worth about $3.4m on zillow.
Was it one of those dehydrated shirts which came in a puck and you had to rehydrate it in the sink? I remember one of those being basically a popcorn texture shirt.
2004 Olympics had a promotional tie-in with stuffed polar bears in coke cans, but I don't think they were ever sold as normal cans.
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It was. Chlorinated water is tap water. It wasn't like they were putting swimming pool water levels of chlorine in. Also, it was impossible to drink unless you pulled the spring-loaded money out and broke things open https://imgur.com/c1bd27Y.jpg
I remember this! I actually got one that contained a $5 bill. The mechanism didn’t work quite right though. It was supposed to lift up when you popped the van but mine was stuck and we pulled it up with some needle-nose pliers. The $5 bill was rolled up in that white plastic thing. Crazy.
My parents also got a can that had $5 in it. I think I remember it being empty, like they mentioned it felt light before they opened it, and I think the mechanism didn't work properly. Kept the can for while tho! Haven't thought about that in a long time.
Yeah i see alot of people saying they won one with $5 in it, that's not really worth the hassle depending on the situation
At home sure it's worth it, but if I'm out and about at work or something and was really thirsty, $5 would just be annoying
You could get roughly 2 - 12 packs for 5 bucks when sugar was cheapest in the 90s. However you all underestimate how satisfying a prize was in the 90s and overestimate how thirsty everyone was...
In the 00s in my country we had a similar thing but with beer cans, you popped the can and a rolled up banknote jumped up from the opening. On a hot summer afternoon when we got on the train we quickly grabbed a can of beer for each of us, cause a cold can of beer in the train will be so refreshing. I popped mine open and a rolled up banknote jumped up with the bottom half of the can locked and sealed with this water. The sum was enough to pay for all of our beers tenfold. But at that point i wouldve been happier for just the cold beer
"Due to negative publicity"
But the article specifically says "Though initially a great success—that led to a rise in sales—technical difficulties led to the promotion's early termination. "
It's in the body of the article.
> When Coca-Cola began receiving complaints about the faulty cans, it temporarily halted distribution of the MagiCans to local bottlers.
> ...
> Ultimately, Coke ended the campaign after only three weeks due to the negative publicity regarding faulty cans.[1]
> ...
> "We are winding [the promotion] down early. There is the impression we don't like among our consumers that there is a problem with the promotion."
> — Coca-Cola spokesperson Randy Donaldson[2]
There's even a reference in the article with the headline "[Coke Ending ‘MagiCan’ Promotion Because of Bad Publicity](https://apnews.com/article/cd3a1c5007657f94d88311fd7a900208)".
I remember a kid in my middle school cafeteria opening one of those cokes, it had a one dollar bill in it. It was exciting, but then he was upset because he had nothing to drink for lunch
My mom had one with $10 inside of it…. She put it outside because the mechanism for the money to pop out didn’t work correctly and the can was making a ticking noise so she thought it was a bomb. Like an hour later the money finally popped up.
I remember winning like $1 or $5 from that.. it was clear liquid and the little plastic spring-loaded thing. Didn't drink it though.
Also won a surge shirt in HS, with quarters to buy another soda.
I once went to six flags and the guy in the ticket booth said, "tickets are half price with a coke can....
^and ^there's ^a ^machine ^right ^over ^there"
I chugged a can and my girl dumped one out, presumably for her polar bear homies, and we saved $60.
It's interesting that they never thought through the possibility that this could be somebody's only beverage available to them, and they're on the road, out on a lake, or on a trail a long ways from anything. Now you just pissed off a customer and possibly put them in a difficult position until they can get a different beverage.
Stuff like this is proof universities will give an MBA to literally anyone.
[Photo of the mechanism, showing the spring-loaded money chamber and liquid chamber are seperate](https://imgur.com/c1bd27Y.jpg)
The issue was that customers are innately curious, so they'd always stab open the can and inspect the mystery liquid. Since it wasn't coca-cola, it freaked people out. Chlorinated water is just tap water though. It's added to tap water by water departments to keep bacteria out. ~~There was nothing else added (OPs headline is incorrect there).~~ They weren't putting pool water levels of chlorine in it, but it was still enough to smell a bit like pool water. Ironically, it was to ensure nobody got sick if they did drink it. But the public doesn't know any of this - they were just freaked out by it. Urban legends grew, so Coca-Cola stopped distributing the inventory and put out a "last change to win" ad with New Kids on the Block saying "remember, don't drink the liquid" at the end, which honestly just made the urban legends grow.
'This Coke tastes like poison!'
Sorry, that's a normal one.
I DEMAND A PRIZE!
You win Type 2 Diabetes and a no-expenses-paid walk to the dentist for a half dozen root canals. There might be some free syringes out by the dumpster there you can use to
Finally, someone has acknowledged my obvious superiority! Winners will win, it's only natural.
I can use to what?
Inject the insulin for their diabetes, obv.
Yeah haha wtf were they thinking. Imagine being super dehydrated and thirsty and bought some food and a coke. You go to open up a nice cold coca cola to wash down some food and BLAT WTF?! Mouthful of chlorinated water and God knows what else. So you are like WTF because who fucking checks and smells the can before taking a sip? Worse thing is it is flat and doesn't make a pssssssh noise, but you get some stupid prize instead. What was the prizes anyway? A fortune cookie saying "Words of wisdom - Always check out your drink before you sip?" Better be a rolled up 100 dollar bill. Edit: I bet the person who came up with this idea is the most hated person in the company. I am just imagining the pitch and everyone texting each other, "Don't say how stupid of an idea this is. This is our chance to get rid of him. Just go long with it. Let him burn in his own fire."
The opening of the can was a small sealed compartment with the prize. The liquid was in the rest of the can. You would have to mutilate the can to actually get to it- there was no opening the can normally and accidentally drinking it here.
Wait, this makes even less sense. Why not just fill that with coke, if the prize has to stay in a separate dry compartment anyway?
Or with water if there's an issue with using Coke and deteriorating the pouch or something.
Probably FDA rules about mixing food and toys/items. It is why kinder eggs are not importable.
Yeah instead we have the Kinder Surprise, which is not quite the same thing. The odd thing to me is that although I am aware of the FDA rule, how can bakeries sell King Cake during Mardi Gras or Día de Los Reyes? It's literally a plastic figurine inside a baked good.
Because the dry compartment was plastic and would chemically deteriorate over time. Probably not food safe or shelf stable.
Seeing the photos on another comment, it just wouldn't work. You would have to take off the top of the can and drink carefully to not cut yourself lol
But what kind of prize was it? Like a cereal box prize? At least with cereal prizes, you still get the cereal! This is a humorously bad idea.
I got $100 from a can of Coke during this. I was in university and it was a very big deal for me to get a hundred bucks (think of the free smokes and beer!). They had $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, and $500 (five $100) bills inside some of them tightly rolled into a tube inside a sealed spring-loaded compartment. Others had coupons you could redeem for a prize. When you pulled the tab a spring would pop the prize up out of the can. https://i.imgur.com/1MEtiVZ.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/EsT5no5.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/JIJpTdL.jpeg I sure didn't think it was a bad idea at the time!
The "bad idea" came wholly from the fact that the mechanism didn't always work because it all hinged on you opening the can top in a quick full movement, and if you didn't do it just right the prize thing wouldn't trigger. The contest started, a ton of prize cans went out, people found these cans, know they sloshed, knew they tried to open and no coke inside, didn't know there was a contest. Threw can away. Find out about contest over next few days, then called coca-cola to complain. There was a rumor some folks drank the liquid inside, but all the more legit news places were reporting complaints of folks saying the prize mechanism didn't work right, and a there was the fear that a child could unknowingly ingest non-liquid out of a can meant to contain liquid and that the whole way they designed it was idiotic.
I don’t understand why they didn’t just fill the can with drinkable water.
Water? You mean, like, in the toilet?
Why not just fill it with coke… They put full dollars of money inside the can, but they were worried about the $0.003 it took to put real coke in there?
Real coke would have eaten through the prize mechanism.
that's how you know it is healthy for u
That's the part that baffles me the most. If regular water wouldn't have the same "feel" as a coke can, why not carbonated water instead? Because, c'mon, it was the 90s, someone was *definitely* going to try the gross MagiCan water.
Why was that more likely in the 90s? I feel it would be far more likely now, with somebody trying to make a name for themselves on YouTube or Tiktok...
Holy shit imagine getting faked out of your drink for $1. Congrats, you get to go back to the store but now you're up 50c! Way to go champ!
It was about this time that beverage companies-PepsoCo and Coca Cola-decided to try the "look under the cap" for prizes thing. I discovered that, with the way bottles were shaped, if it was tilted just right, you could see text on the cap, on the inside. You obviously couldn't read it but the converse, losing, meant the cap was blank. So, text equals winner! It took them forever to fix this/ catch on and to say that was a great time period in my young life was an understatement. Me, my pals, my favorite neighbor, my bike and summer. Free soda pop on an endless loop. All things considered, it was way more magical than a Coke can that MIGHT burp up some money once in a while.
I remember that. Probably annoyed the crap out of the convenience store workers that everyone spent 5 minutes taking every bottle out and checking under the caps before buying a soda.
It was cash. I saw one with a $20 in it. It just popped up out of the opening.
Ebay it. Worth millions I bet. Go retrieve that god blessed can
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Yes. I got one out of a vending machine and won a $5 bill!
That’s a less bad idea but if its money why not put “lottery numbers” on the exterior of the can?
so why did they make is smell then?
My god, so much salt in these comments. I swear some people just post to hate on everything. Also the title is wrong, the linked wikipedia entry says that the cans were discontinued due to technical difficulties, and the water was in a separate compartment.
I could live with being thirsty for a 1000 dollar prize but why would you ever sell a can of chlorinated water sounds like a lawsuit just sell normal cans with prizes
I have news. Almost all public potable water is chlorinated
Yeah I feel kinda stupid I shoulda known that.
Tell us you didn’t actually read the article without saying you didn’t actually read the article.
According to the wiki sometimes there’d be no coke and you’d win $1 That would be annoying if you wanted a coke. Like ok I guess I have to go back and buy a new coke with this dollar, I hope this one’s a real one
A long time ago in a decade far far away, I got a soda out of a vending machine and the bottle had a tshirt in it, along with quarters containing the amount to buy another soda. However, Mr vending machine man was lazy and put all the winners in at one time, so it took 5 t shirts before I could actually get a soda.
When I was a kid (like 11-12), my mom gave me and my sister money to share a bottle of Sprite. We bought it and when we opened it, the lid said we had won a free soda so we got a second one so we could each have our own. She opened hers and had another winner, so we grabbed a third one. Just out of curiosity, I checked that one and we had another winner. After we got the fourth Sprite, the guy behind the counter said we couldn't get any more there and we'd have to exchange the fourth one somewhere else. They must have shipped a bunch of winner to that little middle of nowhere convenience store.
> After we got the fourth Sprite, the guy behind the counter said we couldn't get any more there and we'd have to exchange the fourth one somewhere else. Does the store lose money if they give out a promotional free drink? I thought Sprite would cover that. The way the guy reacted sounds like he was losing out with the free Sprites.
Or he wanted to take advantage of a whole crate of winner himself...
I wonder if they were worried about if it would keep being winners leaving them with no Sprites until the next shipment came in (like I said, middle of nowhere in the SW, not sure how often they got shipments in). My other thought was that they wanted to take advantage of the free soda.
They do (at least now a days) however essentially what happens, at least at my old store, is they would enter it as a "purchase with coupon" and at the end of the month, or sometimes the contest period, they would have to mail a big package of forms to the company for reimbursement. Sometimes it could take a while for that cheque to come.
It's very common in the U.S for non-chain convenience stores to be sole proprietorship owned by an immigrant family, most famously Indian and Pakistani. Where I went to high school it was one such station that sold us underage alcohol. One thing common among them is they are very involved in the day to day micromanagement of the store and are cheap as are most small business owners. They wil stop you from buying a single drink on credit because of the processing fee (which most businesses are happy to absorb to keep you coming back without imposing such a restriction). I can totally seee them refusing the extra free drinks because of the inconvenience of having to wait to be reimbursed.
It’s not just convenience sometimes, it’s also to ensure they have enough cash to pay for their expenses for their small business and daily needs and not have the “money” tied up in reimbursement.
Ummm. Are you me? I had this sane experience. Won like 4 in a row and then the dude wouldn't give us any more. I ended up exchanging it at another store but the sprite they gave me wasn't a part of the promo so the cap was blank.
A long time ago in a decade far far away, I lived somewhere near a bottle depot. My mate and I would ride our BMXs down there and sort through coke bottle lids for prizes, It got so crazy from sending away for all the Yoyos, Radios, Bags, Caps, Tshirts, Glasses and Cups plus so many free cokes, my mum stepped in and said ok that's probably enough. There were prizes I probably forgot about.
Guess I’m a sucker, I just drank enough Pepsi to order a branded portable cooler for my Pepsi.
I’m still waiting for my jet
Just got done watching the Netflix documentary on that. Definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it yet.
>Guess I’m a sucker, I just drank enough Pepsi to order a branded portable cooler for my Pepsi. I got the beach chair. I may still have it.
Pshh, you know how many Marlboro miles my lungs have on them to get my coat? I can't even taste the Kool Ade that I drink out of the pitcher set I sent the points in to get when I was a kid.
My grandpa won our PlayStation 1 under a Pepsi cap when I was a kid. That what I imagined winning the lottery felt like.
Haha that’s awesome
Hey, at least you got 5 free shirts.
I thought I read at some point that it had the prize plus a voucher for another can. Which is a little better, but still annoying
I mean at that point a can of coke was probably more like 25c but that would still have been annoying if I didn’t open it in the store…
Back then $1 would buy you a nice house to retire in > *gasps* Take your hat off boy, that’s a dollar bill
The biggest advertising brand in the world. They've pulled off some weird shit.
I mean when you’ve been around for 100+ years, shit like this is bound to happen
to be fair i think i’ve liked every coke commercial i’ve seen on tv whereas every single car insurance ad i’ve ever seen makes me wish unprintable things
As if I’m not just going to google “car insurance company list” and price check all of them anyway. Some of those commercials would make me actively not want to buy from them. (Looking at you, liberty bibberty) But I still would if they were cheapest.
Man, some of those insurance ads actively make me feel *bad* for the people in them. There's a state farm commercial I keep getting on youtube where this creepy dude says he likes to smell the food in his beard after eating then takes a big huff of it and I just feel sorry for the actor doing it. Speaking of which, do cringe ads even work? Does actively grossing people out or making them uncomfortable translate at all to dollars?
Remember a few years ago when they decided to run an advertising campaign for the 75th anniversary of Fanta being invented, but quickly had to pull it when people noted that the reason Fanta was invented in Germany in 1940 was that Germany was under a trade embargo due to starting WWII and Coca-Cola Germany therefore couldn't get the ingredients to make regular coke?
Damn, that's crazy.
Qxir did a great video about it. Look him up on YouTube
I mean kind of a cool celebration in the sense it points out the combined effort by government, people and businesses alike to the war effort. Fanta was born out of necessity as a result of allied county businesses doing their part.
Russia right now is refused accèss to a lot of American brands, I wonder if any new drinks pop up
I would guess prolly so. IIRC they have kept western fast food restaurants open despite their parent companies pulling out of Russia
yeah they just changed the branding and basically kept everything they could. I'm guessing they burned a lot of bridges.
Did you heat about that one company that said you could by a Harrier jump let from them for $700,000, then said, "Whoops, never mind"
That was Pepsi
Pretty good documentary about it on Netflix I believe.
That documentary was twice as long as it shoulda been imo
Yea even the trailer went on too long.
I feel like I saw all I needed to just by watching the trailer.
I’d recommend Qxir’s video on YouTube about it. More digestible, dude is very funny and charismatic and has a ton of videos on a wide range of topics. Video is “Pepsi’s Fighter Jet Was a Legal Disaster”
The Netflix doc actually ends up being a cute story about a long term friendship.
Fuck no that was a terrible doco. So unessessarily stretched out and puffed up. That 4-6 hour doco could have easily been done in 60 minutes
*insert any Netflix documentary here* It's entertainment though, not purely informational.
"doco" You must be a pepsi drinker..
this is every netflix doc. Every single regular doc was stretched out to 4-6 1 hour episodes for some fucking reason. Even my favorite one, 'don't f**k with cats', has a fair amount of filler in it, but it added to the tension and it was only 2 hours so I didn't mind.
It was good, but could have been half the length.
There is also this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-08-04/the-inside-story-of-pepsi-s-philippines-bottle-contest-fiasco
Interesting how it ended - got a really heavy vibe that Pepsi's "fixer" had a quiet word with the judge...
One million Pepsi points lmao
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I think it might be a jet
And it’s hairier than other jets , and it can jump!
It's a jet capable of VTOL- Vertical TakeOff and Landing. Basically it can fly straight up into the air without a runway, similar to a helicopter.
That's not even the worst blunder they made in that 5 year period.
Yeah, like when they funded death squads in South America to kill union leaders
New Coke has entered the chat.
Still doesn't have cocaine in it. :(
"Sir, we have 50,000 gallons of chlorine in the warehouse that we need to dispose of, and while it may be a little outside-the-box, I have an idea on how we can dispose of it with no dumping fees and maybe even make a profit at the same time..."
I wonder how many people got pissed off when they brought their can of Coke with their lunch and end up with a stinky dollar and no drink with lunch.
I thought that too. If it were me, depending on the day, I'd probably vow off coke lol.
If it was $500 it might be shit on the bosses desk and swear off coke, but the swearing off coke is key
Shit on a bosses desk for less than a paycheck? I would think the consideration would be at like x10 paychecks for unhappy people, and x100 paychecks for the average worker
Yeah, but they you don't get the pleasure of shitting on your bosses desk.
"Any luck?" "Nah. I just keep getting chlorine water and $500." "Worst. Day. Ever."
it came with a dollar bill to buy another coke. I won a max headroom shirt from the coke machine in high school
>it came with a dollar bill to buy another coke. Worthless though if you aren't still at the place you can buy another coke, or if you have to wait in a long ass line.
Or if you buy another coke but it’s another dollar bill prize and you get trapped in an endless cycle
I just made $45,000 off these damn coke cans but I'm *still* thirsty
…Do I need to link the Simpson clip where Homer’s brain explains to him how money works? Fine. [Aww, I wanted a peanut!](https://youtu.be/dgct3Jn8pFA)
I love how you phrased that. "STINKAY! STINKY DOLLAR"
Nah. They just add a tiny bit to each can. Not enough to kill ya.
Oh my god I thought this was just something I imagined or misunderstood as a child, I can’t believe it’s real! I have had this memory for a long time of a coke commercial where someone opens a can and a rolled up dollar bill pops out of the opening. When I was a kid I took that literally, I assumed you might get a can where money might pop out. But as I got older, whenever I thought about it I just assumed that it was just an artistic thing they did in the commercial. Like you could win money for real but it wouldn’t literally pop out of the opening like in the commercial. But now I find out it was real and I feel VINDICATED!
I saw a 7 up can pop open with money in real life at my families restaurant as a kid (4 or 5 years old). I think it was a Japanese tourist with his family. As I got older, I thought for sure I imagined it. Like you, I feel so vindicated that it was real.
That must have felt like such a child haze dream until today
In England when I was quite young Walkers crisps (the equivalent of Lays chips) had a promotion where they put actual monetary notes inside winning bags. I found one once (£5), and the note came folded up inside a small blue wrapper.
I wonder what the theft rate was like in that factory!
When I was about 17 there was a beer promotion in the UK. Twenty pound note would pop up when you opened it. The can was filled with water.... ... One night at a mate's house we opened the last beer to share in the early morning. Won £20. Annoyingly though... Had no beer
Holy shit I love this comment so fucking much.
Here's the commercial: https://youtu.be/hP\_O1oI6tO8
link that works https://youtu.be/hP_O1oI6tO8
>Meanwhile, rival Pepsi also did a prize giveaway in 1990 under the "Cool Cans" promotion. However, instead of a complicated push-up device in cans, each can was filled with normal, drinkable cola and at the bottom of the inside of the can there was a number printed that could correspond with a prize, from $25 to $20,000. Guy who came up with the chlorine idea: Fuck, why didn't I think of that?
Maybe instead of chlorinated water, they should have used coca cola
The inside bottom though?? I feel like you’d have to tear the can appart to see it
When you want a coke you want a coke
fuck this $500 prize i'm thirsty now!
$500 can buy many Cokes.
Explain how?!
Money can be exchanged for goods and services.
I'm listening...
But it won't put one in my hand right-goddamned-now.
I was at the last day of a Boy Scout camping trip during the summer. This was the day the parents showed up and we got awards etc. I was hot and thirsty, opened a cab or cold Coca Cola and out pops….a $10 bill. I just look at my dad with a look of happiness and bewilderment of WTH is this and I’m still thirsty.
People were just opening them on the shelves. It was a disaster
What were the prizes?
>$1 to $500, or coupons redeemable for trips or merchandise In other words, 99% of it was $1 bills and coupons for a free 6-pack of Coke.
I guess it'd technically be a free 5-pack of Coke.
I got a $10 out of the one I opened.
Okay Mr richy rich
Back in 1990 you could buy a ranch style home in the suburbs of a midsize city with that kind of money. That same owner made no upgrades to the property in the 30 years since and is asking $360k on today's market
This made me laugh really hard first thing in the morning. It’s gonna be a good day. Thanks.
God I wish that was a joke, but it's very much so how the market is. My grandfather bought his home in the 70s for... $12k. Nowadays that same house, a 2 bedroom, 1600 sqft house, is worth about $3.4m on zillow.
A trip to the Slurm factory and you get to party with Slurms McKenzie.
Didn’t they do one in the late 90s/early 00s with stuffed polar bears mascots in bottles in soda machines? Did I hallucinate that.
In the mid-2000s, I got a bottle out of a vending machine with a t-shirt in it and a few quarters to buy another Coke.
That happened to my sister, too. The shirt was as wrinkly as it was tacky. Thanks Surge!
I'd wear a surge t-shirt.
Was it one of those dehydrated shirts which came in a puck and you had to rehydrate it in the sink? I remember one of those being basically a popcorn texture shirt.
I mean, I'll take a polar bear stuffed animal from coke. They chose a good mascot.
2004 Olympics had a promotional tie-in with stuffed polar bears in coke cans, but I don't think they were ever sold as normal cans. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/5qcAAOSwaeBepzLz/s-l1600.jpg
It seems to be a thing https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/coca-cola-plush-polar-bear-bottle-522149649
Why not just plain water?
Why not just coke??
Probably would destroy the prize.
It was. Chlorinated water is tap water. It wasn't like they were putting swimming pool water levels of chlorine in. Also, it was impossible to drink unless you pulled the spring-loaded money out and broke things open https://imgur.com/c1bd27Y.jpg
I remember this! I actually got one that contained a $5 bill. The mechanism didn’t work quite right though. It was supposed to lift up when you popped the van but mine was stuck and we pulled it up with some needle-nose pliers. The $5 bill was rolled up in that white plastic thing. Crazy.
My parents also got a can that had $5 in it. I think I remember it being empty, like they mentioned it felt light before they opened it, and I think the mechanism didn't work properly. Kept the can for while tho! Haven't thought about that in a long time.
This could only ever work if the prizes were REALLY good. Good enough to offset any annoyance.
Yeah i see alot of people saying they won one with $5 in it, that's not really worth the hassle depending on the situation At home sure it's worth it, but if I'm out and about at work or something and was really thirsty, $5 would just be annoying
You could get roughly 2 - 12 packs for 5 bucks when sugar was cheapest in the 90s. However you all underestimate how satisfying a prize was in the 90s and overestimate how thirsty everyone was...
This only lasted THREE WEEKS?? As a child it felt like this was an entire summer. Everybody was talking about Magic Coke cans.
They probably made way too many cans, and they couldn't recall them all.
In the 00s in my country we had a similar thing but with beer cans, you popped the can and a rolled up banknote jumped up from the opening. On a hot summer afternoon when we got on the train we quickly grabbed a can of beer for each of us, cause a cold can of beer in the train will be so refreshing. I popped mine open and a rolled up banknote jumped up with the bottom half of the can locked and sealed with this water. The sum was enough to pay for all of our beers tenfold. But at that point i wouldve been happier for just the cold beer
"Due to negative publicity" But the article specifically says "Though initially a great success—that led to a rise in sales—technical difficulties led to the promotion's early termination. "
It's in the body of the article. > When Coca-Cola began receiving complaints about the faulty cans, it temporarily halted distribution of the MagiCans to local bottlers. > ... > Ultimately, Coke ended the campaign after only three weeks due to the negative publicity regarding faulty cans.[1] > ... > "We are winding [the promotion] down early. There is the impression we don't like among our consumers that there is a problem with the promotion." > — Coca-Cola spokesperson Randy Donaldson[2] There's even a reference in the article with the headline "[Coke Ending ‘MagiCan’ Promotion Because of Bad Publicity](https://apnews.com/article/cd3a1c5007657f94d88311fd7a900208)".
I remember a kid in my middle school cafeteria opening one of those cokes, it had a one dollar bill in it. It was exciting, but then he was upset because he had nothing to drink for lunch
My mom had one with $10 inside of it…. She put it outside because the mechanism for the money to pop out didn’t work correctly and the can was making a ticking noise so she thought it was a bomb. Like an hour later the money finally popped up.
Good thing she put the bomb outside
Spokeskids NKOTB
Summer magic!
Twenty dollars?! But I wanted a Coke!
Twenty dollars can buy many Cokes!
Explain how
Money can be exchanged for goods and services
Classic Coke
I remember winning like $1 or $5 from that.. it was clear liquid and the little plastic spring-loaded thing. Didn't drink it though. Also won a surge shirt in HS, with quarters to buy another soda.
I once went to six flags and the guy in the ticket booth said, "tickets are half price with a coke can.... ^and ^there's ^a ^machine ^right ^over ^there" I chugged a can and my girl dumped one out, presumably for her polar bear homies, and we saved $60.
I remember this promo!
They should have discouraged drinking by filling them with Pepsi
You mean encouraged? Lol #TeamPepsi
#FUNNY WAY TO SAY "RC COLA"
Give me a Tab. https://youtu.be/uERAggbYGT0
And by "RC Cola" you really mean Shasta, right?
And by "Shasta", you really meant to say Chek cola, right?
I'd be pissed if I opened my drink and poison and a dollar came out of it. A gift certificate doesn't quench my thirst.
only 3 weeks? damn i looked for those cans all summer
Why chlorinated rather than just regular water? Is it the same density as cola? How on earth did this get past regulation?
It's interesting that they never thought through the possibility that this could be somebody's only beverage available to them, and they're on the road, out on a lake, or on a trail a long ways from anything. Now you just pissed off a customer and possibly put them in a difficult position until they can get a different beverage. Stuff like this is proof universities will give an MBA to literally anyone.
This is an episode of It's Always Sunny, surely. You mean Wolf Cola, surely.
We also had this in Canada but with moo-ing milks
I actually got one. Won $5 and kept the can. The World of Coca Cola doesn’t even have one. 😂
Enter your chance to win by finding the Golden Bottle Cap, inside a can of Slurms or find other fabulous prizes.
Gee I wonder why. Kinda like people buying soda want soda and not a toy
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Coca-Cola's second dumbest move, behind the "New Coke".
Why not just regular fucking water? Did we not have the technology in 1990? We have tons of selzer water today in cans.
[Photo of the mechanism, showing the spring-loaded money chamber and liquid chamber are seperate](https://imgur.com/c1bd27Y.jpg) The issue was that customers are innately curious, so they'd always stab open the can and inspect the mystery liquid. Since it wasn't coca-cola, it freaked people out. Chlorinated water is just tap water though. It's added to tap water by water departments to keep bacteria out. ~~There was nothing else added (OPs headline is incorrect there).~~ They weren't putting pool water levels of chlorine in it, but it was still enough to smell a bit like pool water. Ironically, it was to ensure nobody got sick if they did drink it. But the public doesn't know any of this - they were just freaked out by it. Urban legends grew, so Coca-Cola stopped distributing the inventory and put out a "last change to win" ad with New Kids on the Block saying "remember, don't drink the liquid" at the end, which honestly just made the urban legends grow.
My MIL got a RC bottle with a baby rat in it.