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[deleted] t1_iuefdlp wrote

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Zaurka14 t1_iueo1xm wrote

Was it really successful? I'm not from USA and indeed young, but i heard it was a fail so ghats why they brought back the old one

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Slugger_monkey t1_iuer9oy wrote

Exactly, this new coke never even came to my country(India) so it means it never got popular enough to start using in international markets

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Jay-Phresh t1_iuf808b wrote

It was a fail. This guy seems like someone who both doesn’t get the joke and is too old to remember how bad new coke was

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Longjumping-Jello459 t1_iug3tj6 wrote

He isn't saying it was successful all he is saying is that a good portion of the population doesn't know about it flopping terribly.

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_DirtyDog t1_iuf30ms wrote

I don't think that makes much sense. The joke is that, just like 'new coke', Hemsworth is supposed to raise the bar but is in fact not as good as the original.

If new coke was so successful, why did they go back to the original?

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Longjumping-Jello459 t1_iug3yp0 wrote

He isn't saying it was successful all he is saying is that a good portion of the population doesn't know about it flopping terribly.

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InterestingNight1220 t1_iug3o39 wrote

The funny thing is that, when compared in blind taste tests, people mostly preferred the new flavor. People just reacted negatively to changing a long standing formula.

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billyisanun t1_iugo7n3 wrote

The main base of coke was in the south and people from the south hated it.

Fun fact : Coke is so popular in the south that Coke is used as a synonym for soda.

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Shot_Protection4945 t1_iugc3r8 wrote

That happened because it was perfectly sweet for just sipping, but when people had to drink an entire can, that’s when it became problematic.

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