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[โ€“] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

Can someone from Germany enlighten me as to why there is a boycott of Coca-Cola in Germany?

[โ€“] Bunbury@feddit.nl 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Because thereโ€™s a general move away from US products in the EU due to the souring of US-EU relationship since Trump became president.

Coca-Cola is one of the brands that is extremely well known for being from the US. As such it would be easy for people to boycott, even if they didnโ€™t do their research regarding which brands are from the US originally.

[โ€“] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Ah, thank you. That makes sense.

[โ€“] Cort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What about Fanta? Is that included in the boycott?

[โ€“] Bunbury@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago

Plenty of people try to boycott anything by US brands. So I would assume that plenty of people who are boycotting also stopped drinking Fanta. But the thing is because this is more of a movement originating from the public not everyone does research in equal amounts. Fanta is likely less obviously US based to most people compared to Coca-Cola. So if Iโ€™d have to guess it was probably boycotted less by comparison.

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