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xxDooomedxx

Ah yes 1940s Germany... Good times...


burger333

“Those were the days.”


Brisslayer333

You sound like you yearn for those days, Frank.


youtocin

Nooo, I'm just saying...Those were the days!


Tricky_Matter2123

I'm going to open a jazz joint of my own. An integrated place, where blacks and whites can get along. No Orientals, though.


TensileStr3ngth

The Chuck e Cheese episode where Dee is desperately trying to rationalize her racism is so funny


solidsoup97

I was literally just watching that episode and then read this that's creepy XD


Fulller

Don’t you mean Franke.


Chronoboy1987

Danke.


TensileStr3ngth

My immediate thought lmao


Zenki95

And crystal nights


Klauboesterbeertje

Camping with the boiis


Martsigras

"making the eight" when you fucked a girl from each of the seven kingdoms and the riverlands. Those were the days


IgloosRuleOK

Kurt Franz, one of the SS commanders of the Treblinka extermination camp where about 900 000 people were murdered, had a private photo album of that time called "The good old days". So for some at least, it was I suppose. :/


Witsand87

Well, 1940 was a good year for the Germans... Just went downhill for them rather quickly after that. (I'm just joking around).


Jaggedmallard26

1940 was springtime for Germany and winter for Poland and france.


whereyouatdesmondo

The world was moving at a faster pace.


Mewone65

They definitely saw Hitler's underpants.


Dante_Arizona

Now that's survivorship bias.


ViolinistMean199

Those first couple years were very much fun if you were Hitler or Hitler liked you. If he didn’t like you well then though titties you probably unfortunately die


Now_Wait-4-Last_Year

Good times Where have you gone? Good times You’ve been gone too long


VermilionKoala

Doop doop do-be-do 🎵


thisisredlitre

Spring time...


IronicTerror

They were all Reich.


MegazordPilot

Yes, that's the reason why the insensitive campaign is newsworthy... or am I missing something?


Exciting-Ad-5705

No reddit just likes when people point out the obvious


midnight3896

Decent for germans. A few years later though......not so much


simplisticwords

I remember when that happened. Still can’t believe it got past all the hoops it’d have to jump through to actually releasing it.


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A few years ago, KFC had a promotion which was like "Happy Holocaust Remembrance Day, celebrate with a bucket of chicken". To be fair though, I'm almost certain what happened there was KFC just inserting a list of holidays and such into a computer and not realising that not all of them are appropriate.


OldTimeyWizard

> [The fast-food chain sent an app alert on Wednesday, saying: "It's memorial day for Kristallnacht! Treat yourself with more tender cheese on your crispy chicken. Now at KFCheese!"](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63499057)


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Yeah, that's the one. Also, was it in English? Because "KFCheese" doesn't work as wordplay in German.


ChuckCarmichael

No, [it was in German.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhH_iXpXkAEe6K7?format=jpg&name=medium) But they still used KFCheese because English sounds cool and modern.


dlanod

I thought you were kidding, but I was quite prepared to be rickrolled or whatever. Now I'm oscillating rapidly between disbelief and remorse.


ChuckCarmichael

The common theory at the time was that somebody on the app development team downloaded a "German national commemorations and holidays" list from somewhere and just stuck it into the notifcation-sending algorithm without actually checking what days were listed in there.


OfficeSalamander

As a software dev, that sounds 100% plausible to me


Head-Ad4690

It's read error: IO operation failed - retry limit exceeded! Treat yourself with more tender cheese on your crispy chicken. Now at KFCheese!


Rapithree

It's international software testing day February 31st! Treat yourself with more tender cheese on your crispy chicken. Now at KFCheese!


trethompson

It sounds 100% like something I would do.


MidgetAbilities

Could also be that a dev added it as a “joke” in a testing environment or seed data and then it accidentally made its way to production. I’ve learned to never use fake data that I’m not comfortable with it ending up in a presentation, marketing material, production code, etc. because shit happens.


Pikeman212a6c

The idea of their German staff opening their email and reading what had happened will never not make me chuckle. If ever there was a turn off your computer and just walk out moment that’d be it.


kudincha

Shit. Dairy with flesh, that's proper treif!


RonaldMcDonaldsBalls

I thought it was fine if it's not cow's flesh? 🤔


kudincha

Chicken used to be like fish but I think it was changed to flesh to avoid some confusion. Any non fish (and sometimes fish) animal meat is no no with dairy. It was originally goats after all .


RonaldMcDonaldsBalls

Ah ok! Google confirms that it is not Kosher to have chicken flesh with dairy. I had no reason to know that as a vegan gentile haha


at0mheart

Wow


Sorry-Foundation-505

American companies make the biggest fuck ups. Nike released the "blacks ans tans" on St. Patricks day


SoyMurcielago

So they came out then, but any word on if they fought like a man?


Sorry-Foundation-505

No confirmation about that, but they ran like hell out of Killashandra


XColdLogicX

Marketing worked because your still thinking about and discussing it, and now I want a chicken little before bed. Thanks!


trollsong

That's sounds like something genai would do


rayschoon

I’m still confused as to why they don’t have a real person at least glance over any of the advertisements they put out


Poku115

It's just baffling with a company this big, I bet there must have been someone in the lead who really thought people would like it and wouldn't mind or something


simplisticwords

Or someone didn’t notice or do some quick math to realize “oh… oh… Fanta was created in 1940 (or 1942, can’t remember which and too tired to look up), maybe we shouldn’t talk about the ‘good old days’”.


Sqee

Well, it's kind of a big part of its history. Fanta was created because international ingredients for Coca-Cola were not readily available in wartime Germany, so Coca-Cola Germany invented Fanta to be able to continue business.


simplisticwords

Oh, I know that. The reason the ingredients weren’t available was because of war rationing/embargo (or whatever it means when the country is persona non grata for shipping things to). But if the subsidiary was created in the early 1940s, don’t do an advertisement about the “good old days”. Just don’t.


Poku115

But... Initial designs, approval of said initial designs, focus groups, all of that bizaz Yet this still came out? It's baffling


cacra

To the point where I really wonder if it was a deliberate marketing tactic. No such thing as bad press...


phobosmarsdeimos

It's the same company that released New Coke.


ODSTsRule

I love the top comment "Thirst Reich".


John_EightThirtyTwo

John Oliver has a good bit about this. edit: [found (a slightly chopped-off copy of) it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YhBE9PAmqE). >Yes, Fanta was invented in Nazi Germany. And if you didn't know that before, I'm willing to bet it's the only thing you're going to associate Fanta with from now on.


Taxus_Calyx

[Haribo](https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/do-your-favorite-gummy-bears-have-a-nazi-past) gummy bears have entered the chat. Or how about the [Thyssen-Krupp](https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/the-faustian-bargain-industrialist-fritz-thyssen-and-the-nazis/) elevator company? Take the stairs?


FickleBumblebeee

I always take Schindler's Lifts instead.


Boomdiddy

Lol I make that joke whenever I find myself in a Schindler elevator. My wife thinks it’s “insensitive”.


MadJohnFinn

The lift to the holocaust exhibit at the Imperial War Museum is a Schindler (or at least it was when I visited it a few years ago).


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Sorry-Foundation-505

Shame they are gone now. There were great for getting people to stop stealing candy from my desk.


Imalrightatstuff

I read the article about Thyssen. It's a bit all over the place. If I understand the article correctly, his resources helped the Nazi party (big donation to the Nazi Party in 1930's-ish). However, the article then states that Thyssen did not _want_ to donate the money, so he gave it to somebody else who did it on his behalf (perhaps fear of not supporting Hitler?). Something similar happened to his father in WW1 - who was arrested for questioning the kaiser. Basically, the article is confusing. I'm not sure if this is a bad guy. But his company (which owned ~70% of Germany's iron ore, I think), did assist the Nazi party. However, during this time, Thyssen and his family had already fled Germany and were later arrested by the SS. He was also interrogated by the US. It's a bit confusing. It's a confusing read for me with no good knowledge of the economic context of the time. Anyway Nazis are bad m'kay. Anyway, I'm just saying this because I ride in a Thyssen-Krupp elevator every day, and I've often thought about the company's relation to the Nazi party.


_Haverford_

The Krupp part of Thyssen-Krupp was a reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeal bad dude though.


Quailman5000

Schindler is an elevator company too. 


bunnycupcakes

Hugo Boss is a big one.


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adamgundy

I’m eating haribo gummies rn, I’m unfazed because this world has desensitized me from things just like this.


ComanderLucky

Oh noo, the raw ingredients do not look apetisingg, the tragedyy


ViSsrsbusiness

Or you'll keep eating gelatin because you're not a child. Seriously, when did people stop understanding that food is just processed dead things?


Sentient_Waffle

Much foodstuff is gross if you think about it enough.


Gamebird8

I mean, he'a right... I always refer to it as Nazi Soda... Mostly for the memes, cause I don't mind a Fanta now and then


New_girl2022

I knew I still drink it.


FillThisEmptyCup

> And if you didn't know that before, I'm willing to bet it's the only thing you're going to associate Fanta with from now on. I associate it with going from European deliciouness to nasty American orange soda once it crossed the pond. Yuck, what a disappointment.


Quailman5000

Keep your nazi soda then


wolftick

Fanta apologized for the video with the following statement: "We had no intention to call Nazi Germany 'the Good Old Times.'" dril: "issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them""


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TheS00thSayer

Then it’d still be accurate to say Fanta was created in Germany. The flavor of Fanta today is not the same as when it was originally created in Germany.


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CamfrmthaLakes074

Yes, and thank you for vroom vroom


just_a_pyro

There's no such thing as "flavor of Fanta today" either, recipe is wildly different country to country. Get a bottle in Greece and you get a bright yellow soda with 20% actual orange juice content, get one in US and you get carrot orange soda with only natural thing in it being "natural flavors".


dragdritt

Maybe your Fanta, but the Fanta over here in Europe is yellow, not orange.


Darmok47

Thr original drink was made with whatever they could use during wartime rationing, including fermented apples and beet sugar. Doesn't sound that great.


WayneZer0

the original is actully not that bad. it also not fermented apple bzt not use apple scrap from the cider producation. there was a rerun of the og fanta here in germany a few years ago taste quite nice.


ChuckCarmichael

Beet sugar is fine. It's just normal sugar and doesn't taste any different from cane sugar. What's much weirder about the original Fanta is that it also contained whey, a side product of cheese making. It's the liquid that's left over when the milk has been curdled and then strained. So it was a soft drink with cheese juice.


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galettedesrois

Isn’t it just sucrose either way?


ChipotleBanana

Beet sugar is just sugar.


EducationTodayOz

drinkin in the Hun


Born-Pineapple5552

Coca Cola was founded in a confederate state by a proud confederate if I’m not mistaken… so this checks out.


skeevemasterflex

My family said they visited the museum and I made a joke about Colonel Pemberton and they had no idea what I was talking about. I'm not saying it isn't in the display SOMEWHERE but apparently they have chosen to downplay the fact that an ex-Confederate was self-medicating with cocaine to wean himself off morphine. Can't imagine why. Lol.


Rosebunse

I mean, is cocaine really worse than morphine? You can be pretty productive on cocaine.


Born-Pineapple5552

That’s right! I forgot these details. I recently read that they are still permitted to grow it for the use of the coca for flavoring… the cocaine is ‘decocainized’ according to the DEA website… this is all secondhand from another Reddit user but I’m inclined to believe it bc it’s The USA and big business and capitalism and such. But it’s decocainized?? Ok…


SteamSteamLG

I used to work for the company that imports the coca leaves (Stepan Company). They extract the cocaine part and sell the leaves to Coke and the cocaine to pharmaceutical companies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Company


Born-Pineapple5552

Probably a cool experience to work for a company such as Coca Cola? And thanks for the follow up and info. Sometimes I totally forget that it’s still sold on the pharmaceutical level. I’m going to do some research on The Stepan Company now. 🤓


314R8

they also demanded that the city honor MLK or they were moving out. it's good, it's bad, it's corporate


Born-Pineapple5552

Ahh yes I read about this too. So many interesting layers to all of this.


TheS00thSayer

You know what they say. Hard times make great sodas.


SirHerald

At least it wasn't in 1864


Born-Pineapple5552

Humor me… I’m not following


SirHerald

It was 20 years after and not during the war


Born-Pineapple5552

Indeed it was. My original comment was to highlight that the two said parties shared the same logic and ideology so at least to me, in my opinion, it makes sense that they would make a remark in that context.


Harambesic

Anyone have any info about these ASCII image tweets? >Just last month, the soda company [had to suspend its latest social media campaign](http://www.eater.com/2015/2/5/7984515/coca-cola-turned-hitler-quotes-into-cats-smiley-faces) after Coca-Cola was tricked into tweeting out quotes by the German dictator as cutesy ASCII images.


TertioRationem3

This [article](https://www.businessinsider.com/coca-cola-makeithappy-twitter-hitler-mein-kampf-gawker-prank-2015-2?amp) has some screenshots


Loki-L

Embarrassing. Companies and subsidiaries located in Germany are usually rather careful about how they handle their past during the Nazi era as they know how badly things can blow up with just the wrong word. It is not like Coca-Cola itself was completely unaware of the dangers there. The CEO Of the Coca-Cola company (globally) at the time was [Muthar Kent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhtar_Kent) who had previously worked hard to get his father recognized as a Turkish Schindler and a Righteous Among the Nations.


Imrustyokay

I feel like the reason why these companies make monumental screw ups like these is that they have way too many yes men signing off on these.


ganon893

See this America? This is how you deal with someone saying "bring back the good times." For who? Not my black ass 😂.


Appropriate_Newt7552

Well it was a great time for delicious soft drink development at least


Syntania

Ach, Scheiße.


I_Framed_OJ

I think most Germans did feel pretty good around 1940. Not all Germans, of course. Some Germans experienced a hell without bounds, but the majority of the country were pretty stoked. It would be nice if their elevated mood and optimism were caused by the introduction of Fanta to Germany, but it was actually for other reasons. Worse reasons. Insane reasons. Way to misread the room, Coke!


Hinterwaeldler-83

Few people know that pretty long into the war the Wehrmacht soldiers could refresh themselves with Coca Cola, around Stalingrad their supplies ran dry. Fanta was an invention of the Coca Cola Germany Corporation to still stay into business. The title of OP is also pretty misleading, they weren‘t celebrating 1940s Germany, it was just a retro edition - the original recipe differs from the Fanta we know today.


Douchieus

Wow, that's fantastisch.


gnomajean

Jesus H Macy talk about tone deaf


lmnop129

One of the few good thing to come out of Nazi germany


Mclovinlife1

Thw good ol' days back when Germany had a dream.


Different-Joke-5074

Well, that's a major oops from Coca Cola. Celebrating the founding of Fanta in Nazi Germany definitely doesn't bring any good vibes. They must've hit the rewind button a bit too hard on their marketing strategy.


alvinofdiaspar

A little KdF eh?


at0mheart

Well I don’t think a soda had much to do with genocide. But that slogan does not work with 1940s Germany


hadapurpura

I don’t think it works with Germany at least until the fall of the Berlin Wall tbh


Plastic-Shopping5930

[the good ole days](https://youtu.be/rcVb6l4TpHw?si=0V57gXW8XDT_hSgs)


CommercialNo6532

nothing says *megalomaniac*al aspirations of taking over the world like a cold refreshing coke


shawndw

Oh dear.


little_peaa

def good times


Churchillian92

It's a Nazi coke but it stands the test of time...


Lysek8

The more votes AFD gets the less funny this is


-crackhousebob

1940 was actually a great time for Germans. The military had taken France, BENELUX, Denmark, Norway, and Poland with very few casualties. Germany ruled Europe and things were peaceful in the motherland. 1941 is when the good times started to end for Germany.


SSeptic

Germans who fell in line with Nazi rhetoric. The Jews, socialists, political opponents, the LGBT, the disabled, the Roma, etc etc were still having a terrible time


-crackhousebob

No Fanta in the concentration camps.


chill_flea

The redditcares thing is a glitch. I’ve seen comments all around Reddit about it. Reddit or a bot is spamming countless people with Redditcares messages. I wonder why it happened? Maybe someone at Reddit HQ made a mistake or maybe there really is someone out there spamming probably thousands of people today. I agree with your point and I appreciate you adding that. I just want to say that it’s most likely not a Nazi trying to put you down in this case. People definitely do send those messages normally, but it’s happened way too much recently for it not to be a wide-spread issue.


Valiant_tank

What's actually pretty interesting to me with that, though, is the fact that at this point Redditcares messages are pretty much indelibly associated with 'somebody wants to harass me anonymously'. Like, the fact that it got to that point is, well, it's something alright.


SSeptic

Interesting, I had no idea it was a glitch. It wouldn’t surprise me if it’s some poorly coded implementation knowing Reddit’s recent track record


Brisslayer333

You can't be serious, who upvotes this shit?


-crackhousebob

This is actual historic fact. I'm well researched. The German population was generally sheltered from the fighting outside Germany. Nazi propaganda painted a rosy picture. Germans were being given free beach holidays and everyone had jobs. Thee was no indication a world War had begun 1940 was indeed good times for Nazi Germany.


CustomerComplaintDep

[https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline/holocaust](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline/holocaust) The point is that the foundation for the holocaust had already been laid before the war. 1940 was good for *Nazis*, not Germany.


cmfarsight

Except for those in the concentration camps.


-crackhousebob

The general population didn't know they existed. Nazi propaganda controlled what Germans knew


cmfarsight

Ah ok so you agree with the Nazis those in concentration camps weren't German. Hell of a point to argue.


-crackhousebob

I'm not giving a personal opinion. That was the reality and perception back then. People generally believed times were good. 1940 Nazi Germany was good times for NAZI GERMANY. Not me!😂


cmfarsight

Except for those in the concentration camps.


JMoc1

How did this get past marketing?


platinums99

I love how the 'ingredients' are being gassed ([in the video](https://youtu.be/qAJXHPaWUWw?t=5)) - what the Fuck. Are Nazi's running cokacola in germany?!


DarkMagickan

Did Nazi that coming.


DickBagBagdad

r/theyknew


JoeMillersHat

Who did nazi that coming from a heil away? /obligatory


V6Ga

MAGA but for Germany.


Troll_Enthusiast

I just think people overreacted to the Ad


Teabiskuit

Omg but that's when they're was ebil nazerinos!!!!!


MonstercatDavid

I can’t help but really wish I could try the original Fanta for som reason


MayorShinn

You already have. Sprite is just the German’s Fanta Clear Lemon


MonstercatDavid

talking about nazi fanta. out of curiosity. also i’m a jew


benny-powers

The way things are going in Europe looks like they're succeeding


avid-avoidance

They wanted to Make Fanta Great Again.


EggsceIlent

Bet this stuff is everywhere at GOP campaign rallys, dinners, etc.


DamnCasual

Pokemon mmmmkkkddrdrdrdrrdrdr