Coca-Cola has a very bright idea...

[demonmike04]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/Diet_Coke_FOOTBALL.jpg

The Coca-Cola football bottle

Now, i've seen special editions before, they are supposed to be cool. I bought a four pack of these yesterday. Not cool.

They are charged at around the same price as a normal bottle of coke at most places, and hold half the ammount. Absolute rip off.
250ml in a bottle, 4 pack cost around £1.70. Meaning i payed about 40p more just to have a liter of coke less.
The bottles are incredibly annoying, very uncomfortable. The only way you could possibly enjoy holding one is if you were the green giant (ho ho ho!) himself.

Bright idea for Coca-Cola to scam.

(They do however look funky, which is why i bought them)

[The fish]

They do look rather cool, but it is a bit of a scam.

[demonmike04]

Yeah, maybe if they were the same size as a football and were the same price as a four pack i'd be buying them alot... but seems like thats only a dream.

[Shino]

And yet you felt compeled to buy it, I think it works exactly like they want.

[demonmike04]

i dont think they aim to have a one time buyer... they lost themselves a customer this summer! I shall go to pepsi for my soda needs..

[EEVILMURRAY]

It's a load of shit, like what they've done to the Smarties tubes.

[Ramar]

Its good business, the country is hyped on football fever, they're only taking advantage of this. Its not really a scam, they didn't force you to buy it.

[Cube]

Is it me, or does the World Cup on the label look like they spent 2 seconds in paint putting it on?

[Shyguy]

Pepsi Max > Coca Cola... IMO really, it just has a nicer taste to me.... but Coffee is the overall winner

[arab_freak]

And yet you felt compeled to buy it, I think it works exactly like they want.

Precisely. Most people usually don't aim for the drink they want, they just want to look cool holding a snazzy container.

[EEVILMURRAY]

Precisely. Most people usually don't aim for the drink they want, they just want to look cool holding a snazzy container.
An exception being the new Smarties tube.

[soag]

I work in coke and have never seen these before, how odd.

[Bren]

coke, the best drink ever. I drink way too much of that, its fuckin ace.

And yes, i did get scammed with these bottles (69p in petty station) , but i had to have one.. its weirdlol

[Cubechris]

An exception being the new Smarties tube.

Got any pics?

[Bren]

its crap lol.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40841000/jpg/_40841603_smarties203-long.jpg

[AshMat]

The bottles a re a rip off.. i only bought mine to use the bottle as a football.

[Kurtle Squad]

its crap lol.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40841000/jpg/_40841603_smarties203-long.jpg

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

What idiot got payed £10,000 an hour to design THAT?!!?....That's the kinda thing that makes younger generations so ignorant to that past :cry: Like the lack of 1p sweets (they do still exist) and small food (Choco bars used to be so much bigger, Cream eggs bigger with better CREAM!!!:cry:


That Coke Bottle looks too much like a round pineapple (sp?) grenade for my liking...They're going to increase terrorism rates!!! HAHA

[Jimbob]

All i can say about this is...........................

RIP-OFF.

£1.69 for four of these, rather buy two 2 letre bottles for the same price

[Jordan]

Thats true about the cream eggs, they used to be bigger and better.

[weeyellowbloke]

I'm getting seroiusly sick of every sodding company in the entire world getting on the football band wagon. It seems that if your advert on telly has to be in some way associated with either the world cup or just football in general. It's like they're all saying, hey look guys, we're not a big corporation out simply to milk all your money, no, we're just like you, see we like football, isn't it great. Wow look at all the greedy dipshit footballers who have appeared in out adverts, it's not because we shoved a big wad of cash in their pockets, oh no, it's because they know we are true football supporters just like you. Now go out and buy loads of our product to show you are a true football fan as well. Example, that idiotic pizza advert with the two guys argueing who likes football more. One of the arguments is, I've bought this pizza with crappy reconstituted balls of half digested meat biproduct on it, I must be the true football fan. Huge huge rip off plus Coca-Cola tastes incredibley nasty, like most fizzy drinks, give me sweet sweet fruit juice any day.

[conzer16]

penny sweets faded into non-existance in Ireland at the advent of the €uro.....

now they are 2 cent each.......oh how i cried.....:cry:

[demonmike04]

penny sweets faded into non-existance in Ireland at the advent of the €uro.....

now they are 2 cent each.......oh how i cried.....:cry:
Could be worse, like the shops in my town not doing them any more at all.

[Roostophe]

I'm getting seroiusly sick of every sodding company in the entire world getting on the football band wagon. It seems that if your advert on telly has to be in some way associated with either the world cup or just football in general. It's like they're all saying, hey look guys, we're not a big corporation out simply to milk all your money, no, we're just like you, see we like football, isn't it great. Wow look at all the greedy dipshit footballers who have appeared in out adverts, it's not because we shoved a big wad of cash in their pockets, oh no, it's because they know we are true football supporters just like you. Now go out and buy loads of our product to show you are a true football fan as well. Example, that idiotic pizza advert with the two guys argueing who likes football more. One of the arguments is, I've bought this pizza with crappy reconstituted balls of half digested meat biproduct on it, I must be the true football fan. Huge huge rip off plus Coca-Cola tastes incredibley nasty, like most fizzy drinks, give me sweet sweet fruit juice any day.
And breathe...

I couldn't give two shits about companies advertising products that are associated with the World Cup, it happens every 4 years (2 if you add the European Championships). LIVE WITH IT!

P.S. New Smarties Tubes are shite! :wink:

[weeyellowbloke]

Sorry, just needed to rant at something, exam stress is a terrible thing. It's put me in a grouchy old man mood and Coca-Cola and advertising seem like a suitable subject for my burning fury. I suspect I may unleash further rants in the near future as further exams approach with the HD 'revolution' possibly being one of the victims.

Could be worse, like the shops in my town not doing them any more at all.

That is positively shocking, what kind of heathen land doesn't offer the greatest and cheapest of sweets. Where are kids meant to get their RDA of hallucinogenic E-numbers from?

[Lammie]

It looks like a hand grenade.

Does it explode when you pull the lid off?

[Cube]

It looks like a hand grenade.

Does it explode when you pull the lid off?

yes, if you shake it enough. (note that the explosion is only the coke, and not the plastic)

[Sarka]

its crap lol.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40841000/jpg/_40841603_smarties203-long.jpg

They had to make this horrible change as people were choking on the lids when they bit them off the packet. Damn all those dead children!

[Cube]

They had to make this horrible change as people were choking on the lids when they bit them off the packet. Damn all those dead children!

but they've been OK for over 50 years...

Heres a neat gallery of smarties tubes.

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/northerntrumpet/SMARTIES.htm

[Fanelia]

In Africa (Tanzania to be precise) they have coke with ginger-flavor. I think it's ginger, not sure about the translation, but in Dutch it's "gember". My point being; only in Africa (Tanzania to be precise) is a coke worth the buy. It tastes like gold. You know, as a figure of speech.

[demonmike04]

In Africa (Tanzania to be precise) they have coke with ginger-flavor. I think it's ginger, not sure about the translation, but in Dutch it's "gember". My point being; only in Africa (Tanzania to be precise) is a coke worth the buy. It tastes like gold. You know, as a figure of speech.
Same here, its called Pepsi max Punch, i made a thread about it a while ago..
Wait.. what is it with me making threads about food/beverages?

[DS MaNiAc]

Pwnsome. I like them, would consider buying them if myself and a few mates were watching the footy like.

[demonmike04]

Well coca cola has now lost themselves its first customers (purely out of the customer being a total idiot), i have bought 2 bottles of pepsi.

LONG LIVE PEPSI CO!

[AshMat]

I prefer pepsi anyway, coke dont give away free Xboxs every hour and a half.

Also, i used to ahve great fun poppnig the lids off smarties tubes and firing them at people... :/

[Kurtle Squad]

They had to make this horrible change as people were choking on the lids when they bit them off the packet. Damn all those dead children!
What!?:wtf: ....That's like saying: Childeren arent allowed pens with lids because they could choke on it....

[Gentleben]

Well if you think thats a rip off then I can go one better. In Birmingham Bullring at the moment then Selfridges stores is selling 500ml bottle of coke.


However what makes these bottle special is that they are £5 each. They are glass bottles and one is Gold Coloured and the other silver coloured. Around the wrapper is World cup 06-thats right people another world cup cash in at Self ridge prices. I have to admit they do look cool.....

Heres the link

http://www.selfridges.com/index.cfm?page=1010&articleID=5287

[ipaul]

I just saw those football bottles -WTF?!?!?! 69p!!:shock: a cans cheaper! Yeah, everything associating itself with footbal is annoying me too.
I'm sitting here with a booklet from currys which says 'on the ball 06' and has in it 'the football fans technology guide'. Using the oppurtunity to sell freeview boxes, DVD players and plasma/LCD TV's up to £7000!!! (sorry,
£6,999) It's like...... you aren't a true football fan unless you watch england on a big, expensive HD TV!! (oh and for something that is actually to do with football, they have matches you should watch along the bottom in the booklet)

P.S Coke is way better than pepsi ;)