This might interest you if you’re reading this post: Open-source cola
Cool design, kinda gives me a slight hint of Fallout
I’m curious about cola:
In all the countries I’ve lived in, I’ve always bought store-brand colas - mostly to avoid giving any of my money to Pepsi and Coca-Cola, but also because they’re usually a lot cheaper. Most store-brand colas were denominated in the local language.
I always assumed they were made locally because… well, cola is just water with sugar really. But are they? I doubt Cola from Aldi in Germany or K-Market in Finland are made in China or the US, but in fact I don’t know. Does anybody know?
They all have local bottling plants, including Coca Cola.
I guess what I meant was: when I buy a local store-brand cola, does my money go to a company in the same country and contribute to local jobs, or does it make disgusting multinational agro businesses even richer?
I guess it depends on the chain. If it’s an international chain profits would most likely go overseas. Best to just buy whatever you can from local small businesses, no point in swapping American multinational corporations with European ones.
The Finnish K-Market’s store brand cola is made in Finland by a Finnish company
Most of the store brands are cheap because they aren’t having to pay a large multinational for the privilege of making what is a pretty simple product for them.
As the humus contamination incident in the UK revealed, most of the supermarket own brands are often all made in the same place by a local firm who can keep the margins low.
I suppose most countries over the world have some local sugar-coffeine water in bottles. Is this variant interesting somehow?
It’s a European made alternative to an American product. Therefore arguably relevant for this comm. Most posts are similar. Is a substitute beverage any different from email providers or power tools?
As a neighbor to Belgium I’ve never seen this brand and I was pleased to hear about it, so I can look for it.
They are not all available everywhere. The Danish one mentioned the other day is quite limited.
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Also, here for 7 days and already a comment removed for uncivility? https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?userId=18900957
My question was simple and logical. No need for “defensive stance” and “ad hominem” ersatz-counterarguments.
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