“But … money!”
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2024
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The exact characters I came here to type.
The Olympics is a business and exists only to make money.
You mean drinking sweetened orthophosphoric acid is not good for you?
Inconceivable.
It feels like you're emphasizing the "acid" part as being bad for you, but the "sweetened" part is even worse.
To some extent, it kinda depends on how it’s sweetened, but yeah.
Damn right, who is going to sponsor the Olympics then? Show me a multi billion dollar company with worldwide reach, no ethical dilemmas, great conditions for workers and sells something good for our health and well being that has the spare cash to sponsor the Olympics...
I think "Big Kale" might be short a few bucks.
Drinking Coke is always a choice, choose not to if you dont like it.
Nice victim blaming
Or you could, you know, just run it as a regular sport event.
Not everything has to cost billions of dollars and be a global media spectacle.
So by your logic everyone that drinks coke is an unethical shill that wants to fuck over workers worldwide and hates their health. This completely disregards people that don't know that drinking it causes any of those things - I don't see how they're to blame for the propaganda machine that coke's ad department is.
Still if you do know about these things (and you seem to do) I sure hope you're boycotting coke or otherwise you would be complicit in all the fucked up shit they get up to.
Guess what? They won't. Coca-Cola brings MONEY.
Delicious, refreshing money...
a more effective strat is DON'T BUY THEIR SHIT!
an even more effective strategy would be inventing a time machine and then stopping coca cola from ever existing
Unrelated. Does anyone think coke tastes bitter?
Did you say "bitter"? Coca-Cola? With 15% sugar content? Did you mean to ask if there are any bitterness undertones in addition to sweetness or..?
I asked what I meant to ask. And believe me, I had the same reaction.
Then, no. I can't say Coca-Cola or Pepsi ever tasted bitter to me. The sweetness is for sure the dominant flavor. Followed by, maybe sourness.
It has plants in it that make it taste bitter. Coke's bitterness compared to Pepsi is why bars use Coke over Pepsi for mixed drinks.
Since I got covid last year, I haven't been able to drink any brand of cola. It has a weird gross flavor that I guess could be described as being bitter. I would never have described it as bitter before and I think most people wouldn't either.