I also think most people have no idea how much shit is owned by coke, so maybe they're leaving coke on the shelves but buying some other brands owned by them instead? Also yeah Europeans sure love their coke zero and it's gonna be tough getting everyone to stop, there's probably correlation between liking coke and not giving a shit about politics.

I do better by avoiding sodas altogether... it's sugar in a bottle, no thanks.

It’s hard to know what’s actually owned by Coca-Cola.

I mostly drink some local store branded Cola that's made by company from my country. It's cheap as fuck and actually tastes better than any big brand cola.

I've stopped buying Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Plenty of locals make similar products.

Neither of those companies left Russian market even though they seemed to promise to do that. That should've been enough reason to avoid them.

Also, if it's a cold beverage with coffeine you want, making your own cold brew tea is trivial: just put some tea into a container and put it in the fridge for 12-24 hours. Then remove the tea leaves and consume within 3 days. Bagged tea doesn't taste as good but is obviously easier to filter out.

Unfortunately, my local and popular soft drink company had been bought by Coca Cola years ago. They made the drink taste bad now, which is literal enshitiffication. Not much for any remaining local alternatives to buy.

This could be largely because Pepsi has been expanding in the Russia and many are boycotting it for that. So, if the combined market share of those has risen, then we are not doing so badly :)

Make Tap Water Great Again

I wonder why fizzy sugary drink is now a necessity to drink.

I don’t see the same conversation around chocolate milk or pineapple juice.

People in the comments need to take a step back.

I suppose it may be time to expand the 30% tariff retaliation to anything owned by US companies.

Do better Europeans. Coke snitched on their own workers to ICE.

My husband I stopped buying Coca-Cola. We now buy Vikos Cola, which is a local brand in Epirus, Greece.

The saddest thing for me is that it is 90% impossible to drink gin-tonic without paying to Coca-Cola in Poland. For other 10%, the price of tonic is almost same as the price for gin :/

Haven't had a coca cola in about 10 years. I'm doing my part!

I think I wrote this recently elsewhere, but I just never drink nor desire soda. It just doesn't even occur to me as a thing to want. When I was a kid, we mostly drank water. It's kind of alienating to realize how many other people are seemingly fundamentally different on such a basic part of life like "drinking"

Huge international company: invents extremely addictive and delicious drink, pours billions into advertising campaigns and lobbies for decades.

The public: gets addicted as they literally grew up on it

The media: YoU nEeD tO dO bEtTeR!

Maybe the government can stop guzzling corporate assholes and start passing laws against advertising and lobbying for things that are massively detrimental to the public?

Like, I'm all for sugary drinks existing, but they should be banned from being pushed into our thoughts and definitely shouldn't be endorsed by any public institution.

I've only bought Breizh Cola for years, and will continue to shame my friends who still buy "Nazi Cola"

I'm glad I can choose to drink that. Other places like Mexico city where potable water is fully contaminated don't have that choice. Its usually Coca cola and other industrial beverage manufacturers the ones polluting the water or helping to reduce access to it...for obvious reasons$$$$.

For my Romanian and surrounding siblings who are also struggling with their Coke addiction, Auchan holds Adria Cola in large plastic bottles, and I found it to be similar enough in terms of content of uppers, and different enough to be an interesting change. Made by European Drinks, may even be found in smaller local shops (it's pretty common in Transylvania, at least).

My local (and large) supermarket in the UK only stocks Coke, not even an own-brand cola. My local corner shop only stocks Coke. We live in the sticks and there isn't a lot of choice.

Unfortunately, they're the only commonly-available cola with just sugar (rather than artificial sweeteners).
I've done a two-pronged approach, of finding alternatives (Karma and Mate are nice), and getting ready to start making my own with a carbonate.
But commonly, you'll need to buy an entire 24 pack to even approach the pricing of Coca.

What I have found is making carbonated squash often hits the spot nicely.

If you are in Croatia try Cockta, it's local and it's not bad.

That’s one of the companies who adapt their products to regional markets and produce locally.

The other thing is they’ve always had cooperations with fast food chains, restaurants etc, which pushes their products when it’s the only cola you can get.

I bet Norway consumes half of European demand in Coce Zero

Ah, yeah, i had a very bad stomach flu last year.

They call it "advertising" because "propaganda" had unsavory associations. Coca-cola is a master of prop- er, Advertising.

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That's the only way they can get their corn syrup, as Europeans have better standards. Trump is about to fuck that up for them. /s

I wish there was an alternative available in the UK that doesn't contain artificial sweeteners, but there isn't. Coke is the only commonly available carbonated soft drink that doesn't also contain sweeteners. I hate the taste of artificial sweeteners, and they're carcinogen. I know sugary drinks aren't good for you anyway, but I will avoid sweeteners at least.

Sorry mate, I'm a total coke addict

You can blame me. Sprite Zero is about the only sugar free drink that doesn't taste like shit, and everything else took the sugar out and so Coke is the only one left for when I want a sugar hit. Yeah, it fucks your teeth up and makes you fat. My body my choice.

Honestly struggling to find decent alternatives in the UK that don't fall into the artisanal pricing category. Go past a quid a can and I might as well drink cider instead.