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The chalice from the palace has the Bru that is true

5mon 28d ago by piefed.world/u/negativenull in cartographyanarchy@sh.itjust.works from media.piefed.world

My favorite conspiracy theory is that Coca-Cola isn't nearly as popular as they pretend it is, but they spend so much on marketing that everyone just thinks it's that popular. Everyone I know prefers Dr Pepper

Dr Pepper is made by Coca-Cola, and would be depicted as red on this map.

Dr Pepper is made by Keurig. [1]

In 2015 Coca-Cola was Keurig's biggest single shareholder, with a 17.4% stake. [2]

In 2024 Dr Pepper surpassed Pepsi to become the 2nd biggest soda by volume market share in the USA:

19.2% Coke (Coca-Cola)
 8.3% Dr Pepper (Keurig)
 8.3% Pepsi (PepsiCo)
 8.1% Sprite (Coca-Cola)
 7.8% Diet Coke (Coca-Cola)

[3]

Neat.

I assumed it was something like this, thank you for the information.

Semantically, pedantically, I am still correct.

Coca-Cola being the majority shareholder in the company that makes Dr. Pepper is not the same thing as making Dr. Pepper.

Dr Pepper is owned directly by Coca Cola in Europe, but Keurig in the US, which is multi-owned (used to be primarily Pepsi, now primarily Coca Cola). The US version is also far superior - same with all the brands pretty much.

Strangely though, you can buy US recipe Dr Pepper from those Coca-Cola vending machines (eg at Five Guys) that sell all the variety. Sometimes the edge of the cup gets splashed with spots of pure syrup.

Flashbacks to working at a grocery store “it’s delivered by Pepsi in this region but it is its own company. That’s why it doesn’t apply to deal.”

“It’s comes on the Pepsi truck! The coupon says Pepsi!!!”

Literally lmfao

Incorrect. Common knowledge and google will confirm that Dr. Pepper is not made by Coca-Cola.

If your statement is true, you'll have to explain why and provide evidence.

Except in Europe, where it is.

Well, I just looked it up and- yup, you're still wrong.

O rly?

Yeah, that is indeed proof that Coca-Cola DISTRIBUTES in Europe, which is different from being the company which MAKES the product- which is still not Coca-Cola.

It's pedantic, but I love being technically correct.

Ninja edit: technically also they don't distribute either, another company named Coca-Cola Europacific Partners technically does the distribution.

The Dr Pepper distributed in Europe is also made in Europe by Coca Cola.

It's also a different recipe. Except in some of the vending machines, the ones that do all the varieties of everything use American recipe syrups.

You're trying to save it by being excessively pedantic but it isn't working because you're still wrong.

No, I'm not? It's not made by coca-cola. Show me otherwise?

Ninja edit: like idk what to tell you guys. Every article and AI summary of whether or not coke manufactures Dr. Pepper, even when including Europe, clearly supports my argument. According to the article I just checked,

From spicedonline:

Coke Connection In the early 1990s, The Coca-Cola Company entered into a partnership with Dr Pepper to distribute and manufacture the soda in various international markets. This partnership ended in 2005 when Dr Pepper Snapple Group, a separate entity, acquired the rights to produce and distribute Dr Pepper globally. Despite this, Dr Pepper is still sold alongside Coke products in many regions.

This is a UK Dr Pepper 500ml bottle label:

It is made in GB (Great Britain) by Coca Cola. They're a bit hard to pin down on the exact factory, probably because they have more than one. I'm pretty sure discount stores get theirs from a different factory to all the main shops.

Also, from their own website:

In GB, Coca‑Cola Europacific Partners makes, sells and distributes soft drinks for every occasion and sells more than four billion bottles and cans every year. We make 97% of our products in GB, including Coca‑Cola Original Taste, Coca‑Cola Zero Sugar, Diet Coke, Fanta, Dr Pepper, Sprite, Appetiser, Oasis and Schweppes.

And further down the page:

CCEP has multiple manufacturing locations in Great Britain, including Sidcup, Edmonton, Milton Keynes, Wakefield, Morpeth, and East Kilbride.

So actually it looks like most of the European Dr Pepper might be produced in the UK. TIL.

I see the bottle but don't understand the evidence. I see made in GB and separately coca-cola contact info, but I don't see how that definitively proves that it was manufactured (rather than simply distributed) by coca-cola, can you please clarify if I'm missing something?

I am skeptical of the website's claims when there are so many counter claims.

The bottle states the manufacturer is CCEP. The website is their website. I don't think you can get a more direct source, short of calling each of the factories at the different locations and asking them if they make Dr Pepper.

To clarify: that text next to the envelope icon is what you are referring to?

Because it was an envelope, I interpreted it as "distributed by", are you saying that is the manufacturer and not the distributor? And you know this for fact? I can now see an interpretation where the envelope maybe represents "contact us".

The envelope is the mailing address for Coca Cola Europacific Partners. It doesn't specify what they do, presumably because it's implied they do it all. If it was imported the label would have to say that (eg many beers either say they're imported or brewed locally under license, the ones that don't are local breweries).

The Coca Cola website explicitely states that Coca Cola Europacific Partners both makes, sells and distributes it. They are the sole licensed producer for many countries across the European and Asian regions.

The bottle identifies that CCEP have some involvement, and the website confirms that they do it all.

  1. The argument was never about whether or not anything was imported. The question is whether or not Coca-Cola MAKES Dr. Pepper (not bottles, not distributes, etc).
  2. I do not care about an uncited claim made by the website team? This isn't strong evidence, and clinging to it pretending that it is, is desperate. It's possible they are completely lying or obfuscating through the wording being used. More likely: they probably just don't care very much to be precise.
  3. CCEP is an independent BOTTLING COMPANY which is only 19% owned by Coca-Cola.

So again, no mattwr how you look at it.

You. Are. Wrong. Do a better job finding evidence and try again if you like.

What the fuck man, learn to read and follow basic logic. Learn to take in new information.

  1. Yes, and I have provided direct 1st source evidence that CCEP make Dr Pepper in the EU (and for Asia).
  2. "Uncited claim from the website team" - dude, this is literally the source. You could not cite something more authoritative. The company that owns the brand says they make it. Like I said before, you won't get a more primary source without speaking to the individual factories. Have you tried doing that yet? Have you done anything but sit back and attempt to snipe down a complete argument (and failing miserably)?
  3. Do you seriously think they fly or ship tanks of Dr Pepper and other drinks across the Atlantic to supply Europe?! That CCEP only bottle some magic liquid they import from elsewhere?
  4. Did you forget the part where Dr Pepper in the EU is a completely different recipe? With no high fructose corn syrup. Because corn isn't major produce in Europe (also stupid sugar laws, which incidentally also affected Irn Bru from the OP).

You're nuts mate.

Please provide some evidence of your own. You've given nothing, and even your reasoning is detrimentally flawed.

Yikes, that's ironic.

Everything you said was addressed in my previous comment. Incredibly embarrassing for you- your third and fourth points don't even make sense, your first point is acknowledging that I never argued it wasn't made in the EU.

"This is literally the source" yikes bro we really live in a post-reality society. No, buddy, no it's not.

Any person (or any company) can say almost anything they want to on the internet, so I'm sorry that you are stupid enough to accept every single claim made by every single company without even an ounce of scrunity or at least the charitability to acknowledge that it is not an airtight piece of evidence.

Edit: hell you even made me forget my own argument in the first place. CCEP isn't the same as Coca-Cola. They are independent. Coca-Cola doesn't even own the biggest share in the company.

You are a dipshit.

Where is your source?

You have given nothing, you have argued nothing, and you have failed miserably.

CCEP literally has Coca Cola in the name. It is the European and Asian division of the global multinational organisation, one which is made up of multiple companies. Yet again, you are being pedantic and arguing semantics, but getting it completely wrong.

Not surprising seeing as you live in a "post-reality society". I've got news for you: society exists beyond the borders of your mother's basement. And out there, objective truth still matters.

lol

New Coke Zealand? That'll go over well.

At least we can revert to "Zealand Classic" once the shitstorm is over.

The best drink is water

Refreshing, healthy, and universally appealing. Although city tap water is nasty (where I live). It tastes like stale pool water. Well water is delicious though. Tastes fresh, clean, and a little metallic, but I dont mind. Some people dislike the metallic taste, but I think I actually like it. Its a lot better than stale nasty pool water taste.

Water is also the base for many other beverages. What else do you make your tea with? Or coffee?

Hydrohomies unite!

If water is so great, why are there so many organs dedicated to removing it from the body?

Because if you kept all your water it'd be too sad because you wouldnt be able to drink more delicious yummy water withou getting sick. But since our bodies get rid of old water, we can drink a lot of delicious water :)

It's so good that it's even in Coca Cola!

And if you're going to buy bottled water, buy mineral water. Mineral water is (generally, in most places) a protected term, it has to come from a registered source and the mineral content is monitored to verify this. Everything else, "mountain water", "spring water", or whatever is just a marketing term; it's just the same tap water that everyone in the location of that factory gets it from (while also depleting that local source sometimes before the locals can get it).

Mineral water is so good they tax that shit. But your own tap water, from a clean supply, maybe with a bit of extra filtering - that's what you want to look for when settling down.

50% it's gonna be Irn Bru or Bucky

Irn Bru, when I want to drink Fanta that's been stirred by a rusty nail....

Man. I should go get a case just to try it again.

I've seen a fair few pubs offering a variant on a jaeger bomb made with bucky and bru, usually named either a haggis bomb or a fanny bomb

I know the map is a joke not based on actual data but id bet Czechia and Slovakia would have Kofola there, it's a way nicer version of coke they make and are proud of

Probably Terelj or Selenge for Mongolia as well. In Russia it's probably добрый cola which I believe is produced on the same plants from same ingredients but technically not owned by Coca-Cola anymore. Might be Natakhtari for Georgia, but this I wouldn't bet on, tho more likely than the UK being off the list. And does Coca-Cola even operate in Afghanistan, NK, and Cuba?

It would’ve been Peru too with Inca Kola but Coca Cola eventually bought it.

Inca Kola even tastes similar to Irn Bru!

Nice. Loved that movie as a kid. Danny Kaye was hilarious.

Definitely one of the funniest movies IMO. I only wish I’d seen this as a kid. Seeing it as an adult was quite a treat though and I’ve never heard my wife laugh as hard as when watching this movie: https://youtu.be/TJ9f2rnjB84

EDIT: typos

Girders.

Buckfast Tonic Wine 💪

So what is up with the scots?

Irn bru.

Shit is amazing btw

Whiskey

German and beer?

Most popular drink in Germany is sparkling mineral water, followed by coffee, then beer, then Apfelschorle, then Spezi.

I'm a bit disappointed of Ireland. It has always been huge in Palestine solidarity and Coke is quite high on the BDS list

I wouldn't take this too seriously, it's just a joke about irn bru. Like, North Korea isn't drinking a heap of coke

True, it can't be real because Greenland isn't "no data"

Bucky!

Those blue people suck!