• Beacon@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    Anyone under 40 will have no idea what this is referring to.

    • wander1236
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      3 months ago

      That wasn’t true even before Stranger Things referenced New Coke

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        3 months ago

        I’d be willing to bet anyone who’s even had a Coke before is aware of this.

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          3 months ago

          I’d be curious to see if there’s an age cutoff for awareness of the New Coke saga…

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            3 months ago

            …when did they phase out coca-cola classic branding?..i posit that anyone whose age of literacy followed later wouldn’t organcially become aware of new coke; might even be skeptical of its veracity the first time they heard mention…

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                3 months ago

                …that’s when it ended original production in its final holdout markets, but it withdrew from most markets at least a decade earlier…