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2021-04-04 Home Front: Politix

Some Georgia Republican state legislators are removing @CocaCola products from their statehouse offices

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Posted by Fred 2021-04-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

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"Things go Better with Coke" <- not in Georgia they don't, you screwed the pooch on this one Warren Buffett <--- largest shareholder of Coke stock @ nearly 10% of outstanding shares (2020).
Your money doesn't mean you can engage in social engineering old timer, you (91 years old) and your partner Munger (96 years old) @ Berkshire Hathaway are about to meet The Big Guy any day now, statistically speaking, so liquidate while you have the chance, set up your charities or piss it all to the wind, no one cares, but stop being an asshole, while you still have a chance.

Posted by Varmint Smith5115 2021-04-04 01:28|| 2021-04-04 01:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Now, that's a meaningful response!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-04 02:46|| 2021-04-04 02:46|| Front Page Top

#3

Why empower any company playing Racial Politics for profit, by purchasing their product?

Posted by NN2N1 2021-04-04 06:31|| 2021-04-04 06:31|| Front Page Top

#4 I pretty much stay away from sugary drinks. Give me some unsweetened iced tea any day. I know it's sacrilege in the South, but I'm basically a relocated yankee boy.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-04-04 08:25|| 2021-04-04 08:25|| Front Page Top

#5 /\ Wise move. No real need to add sugar to tea, coleslaw, grits, green bean casserole, etc. There is a long-term downside.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-04 08:32|| 2021-04-04 08:32|| Front Page Top

#6 I read chili recipes every chance I get. My chili has 6 ingredients. I always stop reading when I get to "two cups of packed brown sugar."

W T F ?

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-04-04 09:14|| 2021-04-04 09:14|| Front Page Top

#7 [BIG SIGH] I feel like a traitor for liking my Coke Zero.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2021-04-04 11:04|| 2021-04-04 11:04|| Front Page Top

#8 I pretty much stay away from sugary drinks.

Remember the discussion we had here recently about how unhealthy carbonated soda is — dissolving teeth, acidifying the body, and of course the health effects of either sugar or artificial sweeteners. Y’all are in tune with the zeitgeist in this, and as a result carbonated drinks sales have been dropping fairly steadily for fifteen years, despite some stockpiling at the beginning of the lockdown. The other side of the coin is that consumers are buying more flavoured/vitamined waters and energy drinks, many of which are produced by the same companies, so they’re still capturing consumer dollars. Coca-Cola’s brands can be found here, a feeling of PepsiCo’s here.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-04 11:48|| 2021-04-04 11:48|| Front Page Top

#9 And in the South (at least in Mississippi), the question, "you want a Coke?" is generic for a soda, not to be taken literally.

But I'll take sugar over high fructose corn syrup any day.

Posted by Clem 2021-04-04 12:06|| 2021-04-04 12:06|| Front Page Top

#10 Jack and Mexican Coke.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-04 18:35|| 2021-04-04 18:35|| Front Page Top

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