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A less-reported Pepsi marketing fail?

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  1. hkmb

    hkmb Senior Member

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    So we all know about the Kendall Jenner ad.

    But I think I've found another Pepsi fail.

    At our local market, there's a very nice man who sells food and drink that is either close to its sell-by date, has been misdelivered to the wrong country, or is bankrupt stock. His stuff is really cheap. Last week, I bought a 24-can slab of Pepsi Max from him for A$5 (normally, it would cost about A$15).

    It was from the Pepsi "Max Your Summer" campaign from Summer 2016-17 here, and I strongly suspect that he had these cans because Pepsi must have surely have decided to withdraw them.

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    Is it just me (and indeed my wife, who thought the same thing independently), or does this look like what I think it looks like? Something that doesn't really taste like Pepsi.

    And if so, how on earth did it get past all the marketing people?
     
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    I think it was supposed to be a stylized surfboard.
     
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    hkmb Senior Member

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    Yes, I worked that out eventually - other cans in the pack have stylised sunglasses and flip-flops. But it's very much not what I thought of when I first saw it. How about you?
     
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    Perhaps it is seen differently in different cultures
    I am originally from Canada near the US border but I noticed many cultural differences when I moved to Virginia toward the south of the US.
    I think I know what you see but for me that is a stretch.

    EDIT I corrected Apple's "typing correction" :(
     
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    That's what I saw when I was in Virginia
     
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    DavidA Prius owner since July 2009

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    Long time ago, my wife and I used to drink soft drinks. We didn't consume a lot of them, but enough to occasionally buy a 24 or 48 pack of RC cola or 7-UP at a good price on sale. When we got married 9 years ago, we purchased a good supply of canned soda for our wedding reception guests, along with the usual bubbly and wine. Much of the soda went unused, so we took it home. Not long after, we stopped drinking soda altogether and went sugar (and sugar substitute) free.

    Last year we were cleaning our basement and found the remaining supply of the canned soda. My intention was to open all the cans and pour it out in the sink and recycle the aluminum cans. Well, that plan went into the twilight zone as most of the cans were empty - yet were unopened. There was no evidence of leakage. Where did the contents go? It all gassed out somehow over the years. Soda, in the end, is mostly all gas and (a lot of) sugar. That's what you're buying and drinking.

    Think of this story the next time you have a taste for the stuff.
     
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    haven't had a taste in many, many years, but i can't get my wife off the stuff. she's used it as a food substitute since her teens.
    meanwhile, uncle leo keeps telling her that aspartame causes brain cancer.
    i only drink water, (who knows what's in it) a little beer and wine, (okay, maybe more than a little wine) and coffee.:eek:
     
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    What happened to the Jameson's?
     
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    i can't remember.:whistle:
     
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    Yeah, a classic swallow tail design in particular.

    Circa 1977:

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    Funny that, not many people can the next day!
     
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    Oh, so much I was going to say.

    but, by the time I signed in...what do you want, I am a geezer.

    I will say, if you waste time "seeing" something in everything....well, there you are.

    Finally, with Bisco in Boston and no memory of Jameson, well, that is understandable.

    Sort of like me in Southern California and no memory of El Patron.
     
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    Oh boy! There no shame in that but FYI Jameson's is a famous brand of Irish Whisky.

    Erm, perhaps not so famous as to be world renowned then!
     
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    I don't drink hot drinks, and I don't like full-sugar fizzy drinks like proper Coke and Pepsi. I have to get my caffeine from somewhere so I don't just curl up into a ball and fall asleep, so it tends to be Pepsi Max - with or without a rude picture on the can - or Diet Coke, apart from the rare occasions that I can find Diet Irn-Bru.

    When I'm in China, I tend to stick to unsweetened iced teas - there are bottles of cold jasmine tea and green tea with no sugar or artificial sweeteners in most convenience stores. But here they're not available.
     
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    But sometimes you just can't avoid seeing it. Perhaps I have a dirty mind.
     
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    i have a dirty mind, but all i saw was a surfboard.(n)
     
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    Yes, that's very much not what I was seeing.

    Yes, that's what I saw when I was in .... oh, sorry, Virginia.
     
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    That is a terribly sad thing.
     
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    terribly sad@18. No, it is not. A vertically oriented oval with vertical centerline is not uniquely a 'vag'. If you know of nothing else similar in biology (or anywhere else), OK. Own not knowing things.

    It would seem very odd to post here pictures of other biological organisms that superficially resemble any human sex organs (so many...). Perhaps also, rockets look like boys and caves look like girls. But you know what? Rockets and caves are things unto themselves, and considering them as what they are in totality (add surfboards) is beyond our scope here. Yet they are things, and diminishing them as 'looks like' is beneath us.

    World is full of many things and daunts us with "what, you don't want to know better?' Maybe we don't. Maybe we just want to see human sex everywhere, It is a small thing compared to all that we might wish to know.
     
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    Trollbait It's a D&D thing

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    I am disappointed no one brought up O'Keefe yet.