My one vice is diet caffeine free coke, I’m so rock and roll. Trying to find a UK/EU alternative I keep finding almost all drink brands are owned by Coke or Pepsi. These companies which originated in the USA have entities in the EU, which complicates the decision. Can anyone recommend a wholly UK(ideally) or EU alternative that’s reasonably priced?
Where are you based? There should be a local alternative available in your local supermarket. Just try them out and maybe search who is producing them where. Please don’t start to import cola from other countries as everything has to be trucked around and nothing good will come from someone in Spain drinking Cola produced in Norway.
(This is actually something Coca Cola is doing good: They are shipping only the sirup and use local companies to bottle it in order to reduce transportation costs)
I’m in the UK, and this is why I was looking for something ideally UK based, I 100% agree with reducing transport as much as possible. A local bar makes their own Cola but it’s terrible, and is £5 a glass.
I was thinking Fanta is European, but its owned by Coca Cola.
Well it was invented in Germany during the Nazi times by Coca Cola employees, which had to figure out another drink because supply chain issues made producing Come difficult
Lol really?!
You learn something new every day
They even made a braindead commercial for the 75th anniversary with “We will bring back the feeling of the good old times” and brought back something similar to the original recipe (The Product was actually quite nice as it was less sugary and tasted much better, and also contained some real orange juice)
https://youtu.be/pWGUMXRNXhA
https://www.timesofisrael.com/fanta-ad-forgets-germanys-nazi-past/
It would be great to get the syrup and mix at home, is there any company selling cola flavored syrup?
Yeah, there is this whole sodastream ecosystem (and several competitors) and they are also providing you with Cola syrup. But, TBH, I really don’t like how they taste
There’s Sodastream. I don’t know if you want to include them in your boycott, they’re from Israel.
At least they seem to pay their employees the same (Israeli) standard of wage regardless of their ethnicity.
Not really sure why, I’ve never liked sodastream as brand, so I usually discard them as option.
I’ve been trying FruttaMax syrups, and just now I’ve found they make a cola flavored one, so I will try
Also, looking for this yesterday, I found ElevenFit for flavouring, but they deliver as powder instead of syrup. They seem to do the packaging within my region, so I will definitely try it soon even when I am not too inclined to use powdered products.