Clark Wolf is the host and organizer. The panel—on food and politics—includes me, talking about my memoir, Slow Cooked, An Unexpected Life in Food Politics; Chloe Sorvino, author of Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat; Alex Prud’homme, author of Dinner With The President: Food, Politics and the History of Breaking Bread at the White House; and Tanya Holland, author of Tanya Holland’s California Soul. Free, but register here. It starts at 5:00 p.m. and lasts one hour.
by Marion Nestle
Apr
7
2021
The vintage Coke parody ad strikes again
A reader, Ken Kaszak, sent me a link to a post on Quora Digest featuring this “advertisement,” which I put in quotes because it is not, in fact, an actual Coca-Cola ad; it is a joke at Coca-Cola’s expense.
I know this because I wrote about it in Soda Politics. For starters, the ad says it is produced by “The Soda Pop Board,” but no such trade association exists. Here’s the page from Soda Politics.
I included a footnote that explains where this parody came from: “The origins of the Parody ad are explained by Dryznar J. Favor from clever dudes, March 4, 2004. http://jdryznar.livejournal.com/64477.html. The “Not parody” image was constructed from information from AND at www.eatright.org/corporatesponsors. The parody ad was created by RJ White, as he explains at http://rjwhite.tumblr.com/post/472668874/fact-checking. It was posted at The City Desk: Fictional Urbanism. http://thecitydesk.net/baby_soda_ad.”
Once something like this starts going around, there’s no stopping it, not least because this ad seems so plausible, given the kinds of marketing I describe in my book.
Remember these? They were for real, but fortunately are not around any more. Parents who used these bottles put in them what was on the labels.
