Nazi Coke

Not sure if you got the memo, but many companies throughout the ages have been up to some pretty hairy shit. They still are. And since this isn’t a blog about computers (pointing out that IBM made computers for the Nazis to keep track of their Jew data), we’ll point out something about one of the biggest soda companies on Earth: The Coca-Cola Bottling Corporation.

This is more interesting than accusatory, so don’t get any ideas that I’ll start up a thread about boycotting Coke or whatever. In World War 2, the Coca-Cola Bottling Corporation couldn’t import the syrup for Coca-Cola into Nazi Germany. So, how do we make profit from potential world leaders if we can’t give them our #1 product?

Invent a new one.

They could only use ingredients found in Germany, obviously. So they were told to create their “Fantasy” soda. They dropped the last two letters, and created Fanta Orange- or as I call it, Nazi Coke. I honestly call it Nazi Coke all the live long day. I’m not the only one who does and I’m definitely not the first to write up a blog about it. I point this tidbit of info out like a nerd all the time when drinking it or seeing it at Potbelly Sandwich Works.

More nerd facts are that Fanta Orange is made differently on every continent and sometimes in each country. Like Brazil, where one of the key ingredients is 10% Orange Juice. Hmm, and where did many Nazis escape to after the war?

I learned all of this from “The Corporation”, which is one bad ass documentary I highly recommend.

So, yes, it was fucked up. I mean, they asked themselves the question, “How do we still profit from this?” IBM was much worse and they only partly admit to their truly heinous profiteering from the genocide of an entire people. But it was a truly deplorable thing. I mean, I try to think of the situations going on back then and the political landscape. Like, most Americans were Isolationists and there were a shitload of anti-Semites. So don’t think that the “Greatest Generation” wasn’t as messed up as we are.

I say fuck ‘em!

Oh, and yes, despite how much I fuckin’ hate Nazi Germany and everything they stand for, Nazi Coke is delicious. I drank the shit out of it when I lived in Israel, too. If they can forgive the Coca-Cola Bottling Corporation, shouldn’t you?

Not really.