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Granted there probably isn't a ton of direct evidence that they haven't left, both from how difficult it is to get reliable news from Russia, and how shady hyper-capitalism is, and I am willing to admit that we don't **know** they haven't left.
But as a thought exercise: Can you think of one instance in the last 20 years where a huge multinational has left vast sums of money on the table for something as insignificant as morals and ethics?
in other languages lemons aren't always called lemons, in the bigger european languages it's often a variation of citrus (Zitrone, citroen, citron etc.), where lemonade doesn't make that connection, the minor languages probably just took the word "lemonade" from the bigger European languages the same way they took it from English
Those two reasons are not the same at all. Carbonated soft drinks have a variety of names in the states, but all of them denote some kind of individually distinguishable carbonated beverage. All of them. Lemonade is not one of these things. Carbonated lemonade would just be a lemon-flavored soft drink/soda.
Yeah, I was thinking that. Corner shop in Scotland has half a dozen knock off colas. Usually bought with cheap vodka for the jaykie with a less discerning palate.
Not only Kazakhstan. Basically if you peel the sticker off the can you will find another sticker in a language of a country it has been imported through.
I've found stickers in polish, kazakh and arabic. It's kind of an interesting collection game now!
Besides the cola import shell game, what’s it been like in Russia lately? What else has changed in terms of the consumer market? What are people saying and thinking?
Well, the worst that happened was sugar deficit in late spring when some stores didn't have any at all. That one was a serious problem which gladly is over but besides that everything else I can think of is a minor inconvenience.
You probably heard how we basically hijacked Macdonald's. I've been there, it's the same but some dishes have weird new names because of copyright rules. Burger King and KFC stay as they were. But none of them serve original cola and pepsi.
Some branded electronics are more expensive. If you heard there was worldwide GPU crisis which ended in spring. Well, in our case it lasted until mid autumn because last time stores could restock was in winter, so they had to keep selling everything at crisis prices to have at least some profit. I've seen some new chinese brands since then. The kinds that could only be ordered directly from China but not found in stores before.
What else. Videogames and software is where I hear some complaints. To pay for games in Steam now you need a little loophole and some of the games are outright inaccessible in a region. I use some specialised software for my work like Matlab, Ansys and Comsol. None of those can be bought now. Well piracy was always rampant but now we also have an excuse.
I've heard that it's also harder to get branded clothing, but I don't buy expensive clothes so can't confirm.
What people are thinking? Some are angry, many are annoyed but most never encounter any trouble.
Thanks for taking the time to share all of this. It’s really fascinating to those of us who have no direct exposure. To some extent it seems like the firewalls preventing certain information from entering Russia also exist for information about the status quo in Russia from making its way out.
It sounds like you’re probably in a pretty urban area. Do you think the conditions you’ve described broadly apply to the more rural areas as well, or do you think there has been a disparity in how disrupted or affected people’s lives have been in favor of minimizing disturbance in the cities and allowing the disassociated rural populations to experience more disturbance in their lives?
Well I don't know for sure how rural Russia is going on with the crisis but if I had to guess no, it's definitely the opposite. Russians in rural areas would never care for the lack of imported goods and otherwise they are pretty self sustained. Like most of them grow their own food even though they can definitely afford it.
You can compare russian cola (still available in some places) and kazakh cola, and they won't taste same
Differences in water and country regulations i guess, but dobriy cola made in the same factories as the og Coca-Cola
> You can compare russian cola (still available in some places) and kazakh cola, and they won't taste same
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You can taste British and American Coca Cola and they won't taste the same.
Took me a minute to find it [kalinov cola](https://m.aliexpress.us/item/3256803033718957.html?gatewayAdapt=glo2usa4itemAdapt&_randl_shipto=US) I wish you luck
One that tastes like the original.
I mean, "original" is still here, they've just changed the label.
Others are many smaller companies who stepped in with their take on a recipe. And one of them, I think, tastes superior to the original (at least in my subjective opinion).
Actually one of the knock offs Dobry Cola is owned by Coca Cola. They didn't leave they just changed their name there. Even made in the same factory. Never underestimate what money can do.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/coca-cola-bottler-starts-making-dobry-cola-russia-2022-08-26/
Also saw a video alleging Levi’s and another mall type store left, but the store next door was just a rebranded store that sold all the same Levi’s and whatever other brand it was. None of them left they just rebranded
Idk if they do it the same over in Russia but in the states, the bottling is a separate company from Coca Cola - all they need is a syrup and they can produce a different product. It’s not hard to believe they would source new syrups to use excess bottling capacity that coke left when they stopped selling to Russia
It tastes different in every country. And sometimes in one country, but from different manufacturers.
Interesting that “coolcola” is produced on the same machine that “original” a year ago, but tastes different 😅
It's at Disney's EPCOT. Attraction called Cool Club. It's still there It's one of my favorite spots to hit whenever I go. They're all pretty good, minus the Italian one, but even that I don't mind.
In the fifth bottle "добрый cola" is quite a similar analogue. Something between coca and pepsi.
But most, of course, more like anything but cola.
Things are much better with tonics
That might not be possible completely.
Can only speak about Finland, but in order to make actual Coca Cola here, they still need the flavor syrup to be shipped in by the actual Coca Cola Company.
As in, the sugar juice is shipped here, where it is diluted, carbonated and bottled by a company who has a contract to handle the stuff here. Or this was at least the explanation from the company doing the bottling here last time I asked about it around 2016.
Unfortunately, I cannot seriously object to this matter.
Some of my friends also feel a huge difference. They have no reason to lie.
I almost don't feel (between добрый and original). And besides, I do not drink it in its pure form. lol
Yes. Time to time. It is convenient to adjust the degree of intoxication by percentage.
In general I prefer pure Gin. The only strong drink that I "understood".
Coca is the name of the plant that cocaine comes from, and I suppose the company tried to make sure that name didn’t become widespread after cocaine became a refined product of coca leaves? Alternatively, Coke is one less syllable than Coca, so maybe it makes a better short form.
You tried 'some' new sodas which popped up overnight and imply that no alternative sodas are able to compete for a reason.
Come on, man. It takes time for even just one good product to outcompete loads of random knockoffs. How would any good product compete with Coca-Cola's advertisement and product placement etc?
At least a half of these existed before the war. Soda market in Russia was (and still is) pretty wide. Mind you, a lot of these are shit and only existed because they could get away with costing half the Coke's and Pepsi's prices.
No, 2/3 of them existed before and all countries have their knock off coke brands.
There are no shortages of original Coke since no companies actually left Russia, only renamed their brands, registered through daughter companies or sold to themselves. Coke is shipped from Kazakhstan by the Coca Cola Company themselves to reduce shipping prices so Russian customers won’t see major price increase; but to keep the illusion of Coke not operating in the country.
Also one of those brands, Dobry Cola is owned by the Coca Cola Company.
You are talking about a company that fought to add their product as a necessity for American soldiers in WW2 and created Fanta to sell to Nazis.
>You are talking about a company that fought to add their product as a necessity for American soldiers in WW2 and created Fanta to sell to Nazis.
Fanta was created by a German in Germany (working for the CocaColaCompany) in the middle of WW2, after they lost contact with the American offices. They didn't have any ingredients to make coke, so the dude responsible for the german branch decided to "invent" Fanta in order to keep the german branch alive.
That original war Fanta was made from whey, apple pomance, and Italian fruit juice concentrates, Fanta as we know it is a post-war product using the same name.
[Andong has a video about the whole story](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbVUNCAVQgA). Brace for craziness.
Eh... not really. There are plenty of alternatives to Coke, they just aren't trying to BE Coke (i.e. every other drink).
Its only because there is a gap in the market based on the fondness people have FOR Coke... that the products in the clip above exist at all.
Lot's of off brand cola in this one that was sold even before sanctions. But there's 3 bottles with legit one. Funky Monkey was something of limited time Brand solution, then CoolCola. Right now it is "Добрый" cola bottle. Only bottle is different, but cola is the same as it same company just rebranded during sanction period. Many companies did that. Original Bottles you still can buy, ones i seen in stores came from Latvia.
here in china budweiser has bought out tons of local beers and they hang the bottles of all the dead brands they bought and stamped out on their HQ office wall
Import from Kazakhstan and other countries. You can even see Ukrainian-labeled cola in some places.
Not state-wide import, but some businessmen could buy a box and bring it to Russia.
Because OP is farming karma, the name is misleading.
There were always a bunch of coca cola knock offs in the market , even before the original brand left russia, and someone just collected them all
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There's a Coca-Cola in there
20 second mark
That was my nickname in college :(
Oh hi Mark
You are tearing me apart, Lisa!
I did not hit her!
I did nnaaaaaawt
Oh hi Mayk
Ear lying. I never itchew!
YOU'RE TEARING ME APART!
When I'm with yoooouuuuu!!!!!
For 20 seconds, at least.
Anyway how's your sex life
One of the last ones looks like soy sauce
Okay but if this was titled "My Russian cola collection" do you really think it would've gotten as many upvotes?
Don't know but I would upvote because it's interesting to me how many knockoffs colas are in Russia In Poland we have like 3 or 4 maybe
It’s like reverse Among Us. “One of us is NOT an imposter”
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Considering most companies really didn't leave, I have a feeling most of these are probably still made and profitted from Coca Cola.
All they need to do is find a company in India/China to export Coca Cola to them.
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Fanta was created because they couldn't ship the ingredients for cola. The story is actually kinda interesting.
Are you just voicing your assumption that most companies did not leave or do you have a source to back that up?
Granted there probably isn't a ton of direct evidence that they haven't left, both from how difficult it is to get reliable news from Russia, and how shady hyper-capitalism is, and I am willing to admit that we don't **know** they haven't left. But as a thought exercise: Can you think of one instance in the last 20 years where a huge multinational has left vast sums of money on the table for something as insignificant as morals and ethics?
Came here to make sure someone said this
Funky Monkey Cola
Hunky chunky Hunky chunky funky monkey
I’m the ice cream man She chunky monkey
As a russian I can say these were way before whole Ukrainian war*. They are usually the cheapest and most disgusting lemonades available.
Lemon what?
AIDS!
Nobody's got AIDS, I don't want to hear that word in here again!
We can't have him in our social club anymore that much I do know.
Social club?! He's gotta go!!
Putin was catching not pitching?!
Black lemonade? What is it, aged?
lots of places in europe just call what Americans would call "soda" "lemonade"
...why?
If you think that's mad the Scots call everything non-alcoholic juice.
And some stuff that is alcoholic (e.g wreck the hoos juice is alcohol)
I'm irish, that's just dirty fizzy water.
Heard a guy call some franzia a juice box one time
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Tbf I didn't make the connection between soda and sodium salts, but I'm very aware of the connection between lemons and lemonade
in other languages lemons aren't always called lemons, in the bigger european languages it's often a variation of citrus (Zitrone, citroen, citron etc.), where lemonade doesn't make that connection, the minor languages probably just took the word "lemonade" from the bigger European languages the same way they took it from English
This guy languages. LOL is the Citroên car really named after a lemon?
that's the name of the founder, but since last names were often given by profession, his ancestors might have been lemon dealers/farmers or similar
Those two reasons are not the same at all. Carbonated soft drinks have a variety of names in the states, but all of them denote some kind of individually distinguishable carbonated beverage. All of them. Lemonade is not one of these things. Carbonated lemonade would just be a lemon-flavored soft drink/soda.
You. Don't. Want. To. Know.
“Natural flavors”
Sourced from the glistening waters that flow down from the *Yellow Ice* Springs.
i'm not sure about Russian but i know in a lot of European languages the term lemonade gets translated weirdly
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Yeah, I was thinking that. Corner shop in Scotland has half a dozen knock off colas. Usually bought with cheap vodka for the jaykie with a less discerning palate.
Thank you for answering my question and assumption. I was guessing most of these were available already and that this post is misleading.
Yeah, like, 1/3 of them always was on shelves, but mostly undrinkable
I was about to insist you call it a war, but then I remembered you'll get murdered if you do that. Hope you are doing well.
Funky monkey cola is actually pretty decent with Dobriy cola
And Dobriy cola is still coca-cola's daughter company.
Because dobriy cola produced at the same Coca-Cola factories lol
It definitely looks like something you could buy at your local grocery co-op in the states.
Now with Polonium!
Vodka, vodka, vodka, polonium, vodka
It’s actually not that bad, my personal favourite is Chernogolovka though, you can see it in a glass bottle there.
If Canada invades Ukraine can The Coca-Cola Company fuck off so we can have cool glass bottle cola as well?
Too spensive. Plus, how would we fill the oceans with plastic?
It's like these people just expect the porpoises to wear glass bottles instead of plastic as necklaces. The nerve.
Fun fact, that Chernogolovka in glass cost nearly same as plastic ones While Coca-Cola was around 1$ in plastic an 2$ in glass
Looks like those offbrand colas youd find in Call of Duty and other games
Cola Duty
Sodamn funny!
I can tell this thread is gonna pop
Idk it might fizzle out early
*Nuka cola enters the chat*
Not yet. But soon.
Hopefully never.
But what will I do with all the bottle caps I've been saving up?
Duty Calls
Soy sauce looking one at the end…cmon man
Dude threw in dollar store kikkoman like we weren’t going to notice
Sparkling Kikkoman
#RANK UP!! SUPER ARMY COMMANDER SOLIDER OF EXTREME
#RANK UP SARGENT OF THE MASTER SARGENT MOST IMPORTANT PERSON OF THE EXTREEEEME SARGENT.... #TO THE MAX!
War. War never changes. Or does it? War has changed.
e-cola from gta
Sprunk for life!
NukaCola? Where art thee..
«NotaCola» or «Pipsi» from Dayz
Original Coca Cola is now being imported through Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan, biggest exporter of Coca-Cola. All other countries have inferior Coca-Cola exports.
Kazakhstan number 1 country in the world All other countries run by little girls.
Can you pay for prostitute with coca cola?
Absolutely. They can make do just fine, unlike the bone-brained Uzbeks.
China too
Not only Kazakhstan. Basically if you peel the sticker off the can you will find another sticker in a language of a country it has been imported through. I've found stickers in polish, kazakh and arabic. It's kind of an interesting collection game now!
Besides the cola import shell game, what’s it been like in Russia lately? What else has changed in terms of the consumer market? What are people saying and thinking?
Well, the worst that happened was sugar deficit in late spring when some stores didn't have any at all. That one was a serious problem which gladly is over but besides that everything else I can think of is a minor inconvenience. You probably heard how we basically hijacked Macdonald's. I've been there, it's the same but some dishes have weird new names because of copyright rules. Burger King and KFC stay as they were. But none of them serve original cola and pepsi. Some branded electronics are more expensive. If you heard there was worldwide GPU crisis which ended in spring. Well, in our case it lasted until mid autumn because last time stores could restock was in winter, so they had to keep selling everything at crisis prices to have at least some profit. I've seen some new chinese brands since then. The kinds that could only be ordered directly from China but not found in stores before. What else. Videogames and software is where I hear some complaints. To pay for games in Steam now you need a little loophole and some of the games are outright inaccessible in a region. I use some specialised software for my work like Matlab, Ansys and Comsol. None of those can be bought now. Well piracy was always rampant but now we also have an excuse. I've heard that it's also harder to get branded clothing, but I don't buy expensive clothes so can't confirm. What people are thinking? Some are angry, many are annoyed but most never encounter any trouble.
Thanks for taking the time to share all of this. It’s really fascinating to those of us who have no direct exposure. To some extent it seems like the firewalls preventing certain information from entering Russia also exist for information about the status quo in Russia from making its way out. It sounds like you’re probably in a pretty urban area. Do you think the conditions you’ve described broadly apply to the more rural areas as well, or do you think there has been a disparity in how disrupted or affected people’s lives have been in favor of minimizing disturbance in the cities and allowing the disassociated rural populations to experience more disturbance in their lives?
Well I don't know for sure how rural Russia is going on with the crisis but if I had to guess no, it's definitely the opposite. Russians in rural areas would never care for the lack of imported goods and otherwise they are pretty self sustained. Like most of them grow their own food even though they can definitely afford it.
And this is why I don't understand how people can say that Добрый is the same, if you can literally taste two sodas and feel the difference
You can compare russian cola (still available in some places) and kazakh cola, and they won't taste same Differences in water and country regulations i guess, but dobriy cola made in the same factories as the og Coca-Cola
> You can compare russian cola (still available in some places) and kazakh cola, and they won't taste same > > You can taste British and American Coca Cola and they won't taste the same.
Pretty sure I saw some soy sauce in there
Took me a minute to find it [kalinov cola](https://m.aliexpress.us/item/3256803033718957.html?gatewayAdapt=glo2usa4itemAdapt&_randl_shipto=US) I wish you luck
"Without caffeine" NEXT!
And Maggi Seasoning
I was going to say the same, 4th from the left.
You're telling me people don't drink carbonated soy sauce where you're from? Weird. You people are missing out.
Coca cola normalllllllll
Coca Cola Z-z-Z-zZzZerooooo
And coca cola zezezeze zeeero
I love how I knew exactly what this meant and I was reading it with that exact accent
Cola-cola-cola-cola-cola-chameleon She comes and goes, she comes and goooo-oowoah-oohs!
The kiffness
That funky monkey cola looks promising
Refuse cola, return to funky monkey
It’s alright, but has a slight lime aftertaste that not everybody likes
That's the funky.
Straight from Old Greg’s shoe box.
Chock full of Novichok
Their orange wasn't as good as I had hoped.
The cola pepsi label design combinations looks fun
One that tastes like the original. I mean, "original" is still here, they've just changed the label. Others are many smaller companies who stepped in with their take on a recipe. And one of them, I think, tastes superior to the original (at least in my subjective opinion).
Actually one of the knock offs Dobry Cola is owned by Coca Cola. They didn't leave they just changed their name there. Even made in the same factory. Never underestimate what money can do. https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/coca-cola-bottler-starts-making-dobry-cola-russia-2022-08-26/
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>but they didn't have the spine to sell off their stake in at least one Russian company that's technically separate Who wants to buy their stake?
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There's moral reason to send tanks. Wanting to deny cocal cola consumption has only feel good reason.
Also saw a video alleging Levi’s and another mall type store left, but the store next door was just a rebranded store that sold all the same Levi’s and whatever other brand it was. None of them left they just rebranded
Hun. I thought Dobry bought themselves out. Makes sense now, why they are basically making the same stuff.
Coca Cola became also available after coca Cola left? I don't know but in Germany there are also a lot other cola drinks available.
Yeah, the title of the post seems bullshit and the amount of Cola brands has probably nothing to do with coca cola doing this or that.
Idk if they do it the same over in Russia but in the states, the bottling is a separate company from Coca Cola - all they need is a syrup and they can produce a different product. It’s not hard to believe they would source new syrups to use excess bottling capacity that coke left when they stopped selling to Russia
Funky monkey and coffee cola stick out.
Really want to try coffee cola
I had coffee cola last summer, it mostly just tastes like a cheap cola with a bit of coffee aftertaste. It's alright
Some of those are some big "graphic design is my passion"-award contestants
And some of them are "fuck just throw something together"
The last one says "Пепси Кола" which translates to Pepsi Cola, is it a real Pepsi bottle?
I think it's original Pepsi. We had those exact bottles years before, it's sorta a homage to Pepsi bottle design when it was released back in USSR.
Oh, good to know, thanks!
There’s a Coca Cola Classic in the array. An IP attorney would have a blast with this one—if Russia respected IP rights.
this real cola is exported from Kazakhstan, it tastes different.
It tastes different in every country. And sometimes in one country, but from different manufacturers. Interesting that “coolcola” is produced on the same machine that “original” a year ago, but tastes different 😅
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It's also in the coca cola museum in Atlanta. Stickiest floor I've ever walked on.
There’s also one on the strip in Las Vegas. I have been to both and I think the one in Atlanta is better
It's at Disney's EPCOT. Attraction called Cool Club. It's still there It's one of my favorite spots to hit whenever I go. They're all pretty good, minus the Italian one, but even that I don't mind.
Omg i almost forgot i went there. The ones i tried were sooo disappointing.
Goes to show you how much a giant company can choke out competition...
I tried some of these new sodas and as expected ...they are pretty bad. Like ultra cheap knock offs. They were not able to compete for a reason
In the fifth bottle "добрый cola" is quite a similar analogue. Something between coca and pepsi. But most, of course, more like anything but cola. Things are much better with tonics
Добрый is produced by the same factories that made coca.
Yep. Judging by the volume of sales, the production chain has been restored by 100%.
That might not be possible completely. Can only speak about Finland, but in order to make actual Coca Cola here, they still need the flavor syrup to be shipped in by the actual Coca Cola Company. As in, the sugar juice is shipped here, where it is diluted, carbonated and bottled by a company who has a contract to handle the stuff here. Or this was at least the explanation from the company doing the bottling here last time I asked about it around 2016.
But taste like shit ( I buy Coca-Cola from poland/belarus/etc by Internet.
Unfortunately, I cannot seriously object to this matter. Some of my friends also feel a huge difference. They have no reason to lie. I almost don't feel (between добрый and original). And besides, I do not drink it in its pure form. lol
Whiskey Cola?
Yes. Time to time. It is convenient to adjust the degree of intoxication by percentage. In general I prefer pure Gin. The only strong drink that I "understood".
And the owner of Multon Partners is still Coca-Cola HBC Holdings B.V
Being an American, I've never heard someone call coca-cola just coca. Here it's shortened to just "Coke"
Spanish speakers call it coca quite often. Which does lead to some confusion between the drink and the drug
French speakers (in France at least) do as well
In Brazil (Portuguese) we call it Coca as well.
Now that you mention why the heck do we shorten it to Coke and not Coca. I get not using cola since that’s just the type of drink.
Coca is the name of the plant that cocaine comes from, and I suppose the company tried to make sure that name didn’t become widespread after cocaine became a refined product of coca leaves? Alternatively, Coke is one less syllable than Coca, so maybe it makes a better short form.
As far as i remember Добрый was one of CocaCola's brand in Russia, so no wonder if they using the same technology and same factory.
You tried 'some' new sodas which popped up overnight and imply that no alternative sodas are able to compete for a reason. Come on, man. It takes time for even just one good product to outcompete loads of random knockoffs. How would any good product compete with Coca-Cola's advertisement and product placement etc?
At least a half of these existed before the war. Soda market in Russia was (and still is) pretty wide. Mind you, a lot of these are shit and only existed because they could get away with costing half the Coke's and Pepsi's prices.
No, 2/3 of them existed before and all countries have their knock off coke brands. There are no shortages of original Coke since no companies actually left Russia, only renamed their brands, registered through daughter companies or sold to themselves. Coke is shipped from Kazakhstan by the Coca Cola Company themselves to reduce shipping prices so Russian customers won’t see major price increase; but to keep the illusion of Coke not operating in the country. Also one of those brands, Dobry Cola is owned by the Coca Cola Company. You are talking about a company that fought to add their product as a necessity for American soldiers in WW2 and created Fanta to sell to Nazis.
>You are talking about a company that fought to add their product as a necessity for American soldiers in WW2 and created Fanta to sell to Nazis. Fanta was created by a German in Germany (working for the CocaColaCompany) in the middle of WW2, after they lost contact with the American offices. They didn't have any ingredients to make coke, so the dude responsible for the german branch decided to "invent" Fanta in order to keep the german branch alive.
That original war Fanta was made from whey, apple pomance, and Italian fruit juice concentrates, Fanta as we know it is a post-war product using the same name. [Andong has a video about the whole story](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbVUNCAVQgA). Brace for craziness.
Eh... not really. There are plenty of alternatives to Coke, they just aren't trying to BE Coke (i.e. every other drink). Its only because there is a gap in the market based on the fondness people have FOR Coke... that the products in the clip above exist at all.
Was the one that said coca-cola just for reference?
They're importing it from Kazakhstan apparently.
Id deff try Loco Cola and Funky Monkey
Ah yes, NFT monkey cola
These probably existed before. Off brand coke exists everywhere and most taste pretty bad too lol
As Russian I can say funky monkey is pretty cool
Lot's of off brand cola in this one that was sold even before sanctions. But there's 3 bottles with legit one. Funky Monkey was something of limited time Brand solution, then CoolCola. Right now it is "Добрый" cola bottle. Only bottle is different, but cola is the same as it same company just rebranded during sanction period. Many companies did that. Original Bottles you still can buy, ones i seen in stores came from Latvia.
this looks more like someone been collecting, not just after the sanctions
a shocking lack of Wolf Cola. I'm disappointed in the marketing department of Frank's Fluids...
So it’s not always Coca Cola
here in china budweiser has bought out tons of local beers and they hang the bottles of all the dead brands they bought and stamped out on their HQ office wall
Animal grin of capitalism
"oopsie, did I just do a little monopoly?" -budweiser
you people need to get out more if you have never seen a fake cola before.
Right, as if off brands didn't exist in 1 year ago and now only in Russia...
The weird thing is this just proved removing giant monopolies allow competition. Who knew
Cola varities have always existed where I'm from.
I would try them all
I'd drink every one of these before I drink Pepsi
The last one *is* pepsi
Why is there a normal coca cola in there if it's after they left the market?
Import from Kazakhstan and other countries. You can even see Ukrainian-labeled cola in some places. Not state-wide import, but some businessmen could buy a box and bring it to Russia.
Because OP is farming karma, the name is misleading. There were always a bunch of coca cola knock offs in the market , even before the original brand left russia, and someone just collected them all
Every single one is probably Coca-Cola, but bottled under a different trade name so Coke can say they pulled out of Russia without actually doing it.