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I want to shout NO!

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Yarboosucks · 04/11/2015 21:21

I have been invited to join some friends to go and see - I can hardly type it - the Coke Cola Christmas lorry! Really? An effing lorry advertising offing coke and this has become an event?

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ChocolateFuzz · 04/11/2015 21:36

That actualy exists? I thought it was just an advert thing

MrsBalustradeLanyard · 04/11/2015 21:39

Last year people round here went mental for it. Rushed up to Tesco on their lunch break to see it. A fucking lorry. Hmm

BondJayneBond · 04/11/2015 21:39

Oh, it exists.

There was at least one near me last Christmas, and it was all over my FB feed. Posts about going to see the Coca-Cola Christmas lorry, photos of people stood in front of it.....

I don't understand the appeal, personally.

SnozBuriedUnderThePatio · 04/11/2015 21:44

Coke are very clever to have made people think coke is a big part of Christmas. Wedged themselves right in to the biggest shopping event of the year.

Holstein · 04/11/2015 21:45

Snoz- CocaCola invented jolly old red-coated Santa. They've been part of Christmas for over 100 years.

gamerchick · 04/11/2015 21:48

It just means Christmas is coming. See it, don't see... It's no big deal Confused

I've never bothered personally.

MrsBalustradeLanyard · 04/11/2015 21:50

Imagine working in Coke's marketing department. Like shooting idiotic fish in a barrel.

Sparklingbrook · 04/11/2015 21:53

If i was 5 years old i would probably love it. Grin

NorksAreMessy · 04/11/2015 21:53

There are so many things wrong with this idea, I don't even know where to start.

Oh civilisation, I weep for you

BishopBrennansArse · 04/11/2015 21:55

Yeah see my kids DO love it.
Hence why we went to see it last year.

But freezing my arse off for an hour to get a can of about 25p worth of Coke? Not doing it again.

shinynewusername · 04/11/2015 21:56

Oh civilisation, I weep for you

I've heard that's in the running to be their new slogan, along with "Have a Coke and experience existential despair, a profound sense of pessimism about the human condition and type 2 diabetes".

Mmmmcake123 · 04/11/2015 21:59

I've heard of people going as well. Can't understand it tho. I know they have said it was good but haven't been able to concentrate long enough to know why Wink

KittiesInsane · 04/11/2015 22:01

According to Snopes.com Coke didn't invent the modern red-coated Santa image but they popularised it in their adverts.

SnozBuriedUnderThePatio · 04/11/2015 22:01

Did they really? I would have guessed Santa had been around for longer than coke.

I have seen it and it is just a truck parked up with people handing out mini cans of coke to passers by. I feel christmassy from about July onwards but the coke truck doesn't do it for me.

AnotherDame · 04/11/2015 22:01

The thives left it on bricks after stealing the wheels in Wrexham ( or Grimsby depending on your source...)
so apparently Chritmas is 'cancelled'.

Hmm
LynetteScavo · 04/11/2015 22:02

Oh yes, a colleague took her child lady year. It was a special trip in the evening to another city. Her child was 4.

MrsTerryPratchett · 04/11/2015 22:03

Imagine working in Coke's marketing department. Like shooting idiotic fish in a barrel. Grin

BetaVersion · 04/11/2015 22:08

DS1 at age 4 stood on the side of the road in Oxford pointing at a Coca Cola articulated lorry driving past down the Banbury Road and shouting 'Look Daddy its Coca Cola'.

He couldn't read his own name but he could read 'Coca Cola' on the side of the lorry and he drinks it like its going out of fashion now at age 15.

Its the power of brand advertising.

NewBallsPlease00 · 04/11/2015 22:11

Keith vaz has tried to stop it going to Leicester due to the obesity and diabetics level in the area!!

lexigrey · 04/11/2015 22:11

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PaulAnkaTheDog · 04/11/2015 22:12

This has been happening for a good few years Hmm have you all only noticed now?

If you're lucky they set up fake plants and a grotty red carpet-thing to stand on. Y'know, if you want to have your photo taken with a truck.

Theimpossiblegirl · 04/11/2015 22:14

Leicester Council has allegedly said they won't be taking part because it sends the wrong message to children. If it's true, good for them!

DickDewy · 04/11/2015 22:14

Is this a thing?

Are young kids aware of Coke?

WHO does this appeal to?

Rollermum · 04/11/2015 22:14

This seems odd to me.

KFC did a similar thing with their food in Japan in 1974 - now KFC and Christmas are inextricably linked there: article