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Cocal Cola threatens to quit schools

43 replies

uwila · 03/03/2006 21:11

\link{http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4771676.stm\Coca Cola Threatens to quit schools}

And this is a bad thing?

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hunkermunker · 03/03/2006 21:13

No.

What wankers they are.

WigWamBam · 03/03/2006 21:13

About time too. The fact that they seriously believe pupils would "suffer from the removal of such a highly efficient country-wide beverage distribution system" would be amusing if it wasn't so frightening.

expatinscotland · 03/03/2006 21:14

No.

hunkermunker · 03/03/2006 21:14

I know of another highly efficient country-wide beverage distribution system...it's called a tap.

Miaou · 03/03/2006 21:15

oh hooooorah - lets hope they follow through!

LadySherlockofLGJ · 03/03/2006 21:16

Hunker, your scan photos are out of date..........what else have you got ??

starlover · 03/03/2006 21:16

i just pmsl reading that! what planet are coca cola on?

starlover · 03/03/2006 21:16

Coca-Cola's letter argued that many soft drinks provided "significant nutritional and functional benefits".

As an example, one "no added sugar" product - which contains two artificial sweeteners - was fortified with vitamins and minerals.

The fruit and water mixture, it said, provided one of the recommended "five a day" servings of fruit and vegetables.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 03/03/2006 21:17

Ha! But Coca Cola have something up their sleeve.....they are building a HUGE distribution/warehouse thing near me.......

hmmmm......

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uwila · 03/03/2006 21:19

Yes, the artificial sweeteners in shools thing pisses me of. And they are calling it "nutritional"?!?!

And, I must confess that I am the biggest Diet Coke addict that there ever was. I love the stuff. Drink it forst thing in the morning and throughout the day. ANd even I think this is rediculous.

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cori · 03/03/2006 21:20

About time too. I went to a school where you could only buy Juice or flavoured milks. (didnt stop me turning into a coke head though Grin)

Chandra · 03/03/2006 21:22

If it was not published by the BBC I would be inclined to think this is a joke! sugar free beverages produced by Coca Cola being healthy??? as if, Aspartame is far worse than sugar and that's what they use when they don't use sugar... Glad at the steps the government is taking, though.

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uwila · 03/03/2006 21:24

I think there is an opportunity here for evian or minute made vending machines. Somebody alert them.

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WigWamBam · 03/03/2006 21:25

"Significant nutritional and functional benefits"? What "nutritional and functional benefits" are there to drinking something that's pure sugar, or which in it's sugar-free form contains more additives and nasties than you can shake a stick at?

Trying to pass off crap as healthy when so many schools are working hard to improve the nutritional standard of their meals, and when they're trying to push the healthy eating message so hard, is taking the pee.

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uwila · 03/03/2006 21:27

YEs, and what exactly are functional benefits? Caffeine possibly? What else could they be talking about?

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misdee · 03/03/2006 21:36

i remember the queues at the vending machines at school. some kids would use all of their dinner money for buy cans of drinks and chocolate.

withdraw the machines now. tho i do adore one of the machines at harefield hospital as it chills the water bottles so well there are ice cystals in it. lovely on warmer days.

SueW · 03/03/2006 21:41

PMSL here too.

First they try it on with dasani and now they are threatening to pull out of schools.

FFS. Methinks they've been on too much original recipe....

spidermama · 03/03/2006 21:45

AFAIK it would be good riddance to nasty rubbish.
They have no business pedalling their poisons to our children anyway.

Pruni · 03/03/2006 21:48

\link{http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28135\This} on Coke Mandatory.

It's essentialicious.

WideWebWitch · 03/03/2006 21:49

This is a very good thing indeed. I can't even believe it's allowed in schools tbh, I don't think it should be, I think they should be free of all commercial interests.

BudaBabe · 03/03/2006 21:49

OMG how arrogant are they??!

I think they are suffering a bit like Maconalds as their sales are prob down.

They should never have been in schools in the first place!

busybusybee · 03/03/2006 21:50

Can anyone tell me WHY Coca Cola are planning on doing this?

Obviously I agree they should but what are their reasons

harpsichordcarrier · 03/03/2006 21:50

Smile pruni

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uwila · 03/03/2006 21:53

I'm not sure, but what I gather from the article is the government said "no fiizy drinkis" so coca cola is saying well if we can't sell fizzy drink in our vending machine then they won't be profitable. So they are threatening to remove the vending machines. I'm not sur if I've got the right.

But, why don't the schools just call up Evian or tropicana or someone to com put in vending machines with their products?

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Caligula · 03/03/2006 21:59

Why the hell do schools need vending machines anyway? We never had them. Like hunker says, we had taps.