I also think most people have no idea how much shit is owned by coke, so maybe they’re leaving coke on the shelves but buying some other brands owned by them instead? Also yeah Europeans sure love their coke zero and it’s gonna be tough getting everyone to stop, there’s probably correlation between liking coke and not giving a shit about politics.
I do better by avoiding sodas altogether… it’s sugar in a bottle, no thanks.
My sister doesn’t give her kids cola because of the sugar. It just has slightly more than bought orange juice and aplle juice and all that shit.
It’s hard to know what’s actually owned by Coca-Cola.
I mostly drink some local store branded Cola that’s made by company from my country. It’s cheap as fuck and actually tastes better than any big brand cola.
Aldi here in Benelux has the “River” brand. That is what we buy.
Agrum soda is big here (grapefruit flavor).
They have very good tasting zero sugar drinks:
- Ice Tea (uncarbonated, this is our absolute staple)
- Cola
- Agrumes
Then they have sugar versions of
- Tonic
- Green Tea (Lipton green knockoff)
- Bitter lemon
- Cola
- Lemon Lime
- 4 lemons
- agrumes
- orange (fanta)
Quite the range, massively cheaper per liter than name brands, and small cans except for the ice tea to help not drink too much.
Not sure if it’s the same, Hofer (Aldi?) has “River Cola” in my country. It’s not terrible, but it has a mildly watery taste which is not my favorite when I need a strong sugary fix hehe. The one from local store chain, they really nailed the taste. It’s not zero variant, but they use some sweeteners and regular sugar and they got the balance just right. And it’s like 1/4th of the Coca Cola price or something. I haven’t got one from Lidl recently enough to remember how it tastes and same goes for one from Italian Eurospin.
I’ve stopped buying Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Plenty of locals make similar products.
Neither of those companies left Russian market even though they seemed to promise to do that. That should’ve been enough reason to avoid them.
Also, if it’s a cold beverage with coffeine you want, making your own cold brew tea is trivial: just put some tea into a container and put it in the fridge for 12-24 hours. Then remove the tea leaves and consume within 3 days. Bagged tea doesn’t taste as good but is obviously easier to filter out.
Agree. It is not that difficult to make correct moves. Coop Trading cola (Made by Olvi in Finland) and Nocco from Sweden are the ones my boys have to be satisfied with (previously Coca-Cola and Monster)
Hmm I gotta try Coop cola, the orange is good. A lot of the cheap brand colas are just awful IMO
I just removed an empty Coop cola and a Nocco off my desk. Can confirm they are superior
This could be largely because Pepsi has been expanding in the Russia and many are boycotting it for that. So, if the combined market share of those has risen, then we are not doing so badly :)
Make Tap Water Great Again
My husband I stopped buying Coca-Cola. We now buy Vikos Cola, which is a local brand in Epirus, Greece.
I suppose it may be time to expand the 30% tariff retaliation to anything owned by US companies.
The saddest thing for me is that it is 90% impossible to drink gin-tonic without paying to Coca-Cola in Poland. For other 10%, the price of tonic is almost same as the price for gin :/
I think I wrote this recently elsewhere, but I just never drink nor desire soda. It just doesn’t even occur to me as a thing to want. When I was a kid, we mostly drank water. It’s kind of alienating to realize how many other people are seemingly fundamentally different on such a basic part of life like “drinking”
I’m glad I can choose to drink that. Other places like Mexico city where potable water is fully contaminated don’t have that choice. Its usually Coca cola and other industrial beverage manufacturers the ones polluting the water or helping to reduce access to it…for obvious reasons$$$$.
For my Romanian and surrounding siblings who are also struggling with their Coke addiction, Auchan holds Adria Cola in large plastic bottles, and I found it to be similar enough in terms of content of uppers, and different enough to be an interesting change. Made by European Drinks, may even be found in smaller local shops (it’s pretty common in Transylvania, at least).
Ah, yeah, i had a very bad stomach flu last year.
I bet Norway consumes half of European demand in Coce Zero
