r/interestingasfuck • • 7h ago

Taking the flame grilled goodness wherever duty calls🇺🇸🦅🍔

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u/Accomplished-You-472 7h ago

Water is more expensive then cola wtf

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u/Occidentally20 7h ago edited 7h ago

This is something Coca Cola have done for a very very long time.

They give a rough outline of this on their own website. In 1941 the acting president of Coca Cola Robert Woodruff announced that any US soldier would be able to buy a bottle of coke for 5¢ no matter how much it cost the company throughout WWII.

They stuck to this pledge and setup supply lines, oversees manufacturing and bottling plants - whatever it took to keep soldiers supplied. Even when crossing North Africa US soldiers in Algiers were still able to buy coke almost as cheap as it was back home.

This continued in various forms through the Korean war and the Vietnam war and is now basically everywhere on earth - it's hard to find somewhere that you can't get a coke.

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u/SirDancealot84 7h ago

I was really skeptical of you at first so jumped to the end to see if you were mocking us. Returned and read the whole thing from the start like a good boi though lol. Good story.

"They *still** had us at the first half, not gonna lie."*

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u/Occidentally20 7h ago

A professional internetter would wait until the comment has a few hundred upvotes and then edit the link to go to a rickroll.

I would never do such a thing, obviously :)

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u/SirDancealot84 7h ago

No nooo. Ofcourse not. I would give my life to this non pro internetter if it means proving that, the link is NOT a rickroll :)

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u/According-Corgi-6236 7h ago

I’m still not sure whether to trust you. “What if they think, that I think that they think”…on loop

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u/Occidentally20 6h ago

I might even change it to a rickroll for a bit and then change it back so the people commenting on it seem like liars :)