Coke and Diet Coke Cans Should Be Polar Opposites, Buyers Say

The new can is no problem if you take the trouble to LOOK at what you buy or drink. I’ve gotten 2 free ones so far from people thinking they had bought a diet.

If people would take the time to look at what they buy and eat and drink there wouldnt be a problem. I like the idea of coke changing their cans for the wwf. To change a classic image shows that they actually care about the campaign. Life dosnt stay the same everything changes deal with it this is only temporary. Also how does white look like silver?!!!!

People this was to promote funding for the polar bears when you bought this can-it is clearly not silver like the diet coke, but white. Get over yourselves about the color of the can and open your minds to the fact that Coke is trying to do something useful. Besides, have you not seen the comericials this time of the year with the polar bears drinking a coke?

Are people really that stupid?

I am appalled at the public about Coke’s new can for the holidays!! Appalled!!! What stupid people to complain about something like that!!!! I am a Coke fan. I LOVE Coke. It’s my favorite thing!!! I thought it was a very nice idea to have a can for the holidays with the polar bears on it and what a great idea to do it to help the polar bears!!! I am so sorry that they are going back to change the can now because of such STUPID idiots!!!! I have had Coke out of those cans BECAUSE I CAN READ and there is absolutely no difference whatsoever!!! It’s Coke, for crying out loud!!!! I wish they didn’t care what the stupid idiots thought and kept their cans the way they intended!!! Unbelievable!!!!

For those who think the new coke can is causing problems. Make sure you learn to read it first! I’ve had no problems with it. Diet Coke has “Diet” wrote on it and Coke says “Coca Cola” Plus diet is silver and reg is white. I always make sure I read the item so it should cause no problems. Unless some are too lazy to read and just buy by the color lol. I thought the new cans were cute and if I was coke i’d leave it that way, it was just temporary for the holiday season and to help support polar bears. The taste is not different either. people just like to “ASSUME” because of the color of can. For the person who said coke lost a sale because they didn’t see it and bought sprite, well sprite is a coke product so they didn’t loose a sale.

Huge Kudos to Coke Co.!! Very cool idea. I don’t drink from their cans, only plastic b/c I like to reseal and save my drinks for later. So I’ve not had any problem.

According to the Atlantic Wire the marketing executives wanted a disruptive campaign to get consumer attention they suceeded in doing they knew even before they put the white cans on the shelf that they would be pulled. I am a type 2 diabetic bought a white coke by mistake thinking it was a diet was even on the display shelf at the market in the diet coke section even fooled them driving home in a dark vehicle empty stomach diabetic and 39 grams of sugar not a good combination,drank half of it before I realized what I had done. Would be like McDonalds designing a happy meal toy that would pose a chocking hazard just for the publicity not caring about who they would harm in the process just to get the consumers attention.

These people are really idiots. White cans and red cans all taste the same. How does a white can looks the same as diet coke can ?

Congratulations Coke, you just got free marketing, censorship and reviews
from your coke addicted customers compliments from ABC.

People are so stupid, these new Coca-Cola cans are not only really cool looking but they are for a great cause! & if you are dumb enough to not read the damn can that says COCA-COLA and DIET COKE then you really are a dumbass, I mean for God’s sake it SAY “DIET COKE” NOT “DIET COCA-COLA!” AHHH!!!!!!!!!! The cans were made to let people know when you buy this you are helping to save the polar bears home so they will not be extint in the next 5 years. & CONSIDERING HUMANS ARE ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS FOR THE BEARS LOSING THEIR HOMES YOU WOULD THINK YOU WOULD WANT TO HELP! But no let’s not help the Polar Bears lets complain about stupid ass cans that PEOPLE are just too stupid and too lazy to read the damn can before you pick the damn thing up. So now we have to change it back red and the polar bears get screwed in the end. Congrats to all the dumbasses who don’t know how to read! -___- oh and there is no difference in taste you are all a bunch of morons who need to focus on the important things in life not ranting about coke cans!

Dear Coke Company

I am very sad that you have already pulled the white cans before I could get some. I am a Coke lover and I love all your Holiday changes each year to the bottles and cans. You are very creative and cheer me up every year at Christmas time. Please give them back to the smart people who know how to read. Thanks for all you do for the World. Joanne

I find this to be a little off, Coke wants to protect the polar bears. So when is Coke going to use Bio-degradable cans like those clear plastic cans made from Corn and enzymes. Anyways stop contridicting yourself COKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

I could care less about can color. People that confuse the Holiday, fund raising Coke with Diet Coke, because of can color are bone heads. I always buy the holiday promotional products. When the Holiday cans were starting to appear, I thought the ad campaign was brilliant — until I opened and drank the first new model of the Holiday.

There was still another can in the ‘fridge of the older “red can” model. I could definitely tell the difference in a side-by-side comparison. For the test, the temperatures of the products were identical because that can change the taste. There was no ice to dilute the flavor either. Just good cold Coke, as they should be, right out of the can.

I mentioned to a friend claiming “that somehow the Holiday cans taste differently compared to the red aluminum cans.” She didn’t notice a difference (but she wouldn’t with a couple of jiggers of Jack in the mix).Tonight, I got an email with a left-hand apology saying, “I still had a modicum of sanity left” and other people reportedly think it tastes differently too. I detect a flavor that is like aspartame, another artificial sweetener, or maybe a fructose substitute for sugar. . It is a different taste and not because of the color of the can!

I hope the Coke bottling company continues supporting the endangered polar bears and donates the cash – just give me back the original Coke (in whatever can because I don’t care if it they are green.). Someday, I hope Coke bottlers “come clean” and admit to a slight difference in formula. Would Coke really pull the product over the color of the can? No, I think not. I have thought maybe the Polar Bear Coke was made at a single bottling plant and a deviation from the correct formula was made. Who knows, like not cleaning the vats from a Diet Coke production run? Not too likely either.

If anyone really likes the taste, or wants the can for souvenirs, I have about four or five, twelve-packs. I would be very happy to trade for the “Real Thing.” I lived in Germany when “New Coke” was launched in North America and I am so glad I missed that! Europe never changed, or marketed “New Coke.” Could this be a sneaky ingrediant change for a market test where marketers slip one over on the public? The blaspheme – that could never happen. HA!

–Hanging Out & Drinking the Real Thing

people dont take time to read the cans.

This is not only confusing. It can be dangerous. Pepsi created a new design for Diet Pepsi in the 1970s. My father, a diabetic, drank regular Pepsi from mistake and had a blood sugar crisis. Diet and regular soda need to look different simply as a safety measure.

I am a type 2 diabetic and I CAN READ. I have had no issues with the new coke can. I mean really, these people who say they drank and entire can or more thinking it was diet are full of it. There is a dramatic taste difference between regular coke and diet. I can tell in one swallow. I saw the white cans at 7-11, thought they looked cool, READ the can and found out they were regular coke. It strikes me as funny that people will be up in arms about a SODA and yet when our government is a mess and we have elected officials who don’t listen to their constituents no one does anything. Our citizens are getting lazy, stupid, and selfish. It is truly sad.

Is the human race becoming that stupid that they cannot read whether it says diet or not?!! Even if you cannot tell the difference in color between white and silver you can at least read the can!!!!

Those of us who mistake the two cans are not stupid, we are just not taking the time to read the can. Could you imagine if every day activities, like turning on your television or setting the parking brake on your car required you to read and think? That may seem like an absurd question, but it’s really the essence of good product design. Imagine if you bought a new home that was built by a UK contractor instead of a US one. Would you be flustered with light switches that turn on by pushing down or having cold tap water on the left instead of the right? Coke really failed in this design.

This is my advice: Just read, idiots!!!

READ THE CAN. What is so difficult about that ? Try to do something nice or different and some people freak out…

Really? People just dob’t know how to pay attention to what they are getting. I hate diet sodas, so if I would have thought these new cans were diet, I never would have bought them. But amazingly enougj, they actually labelled the cans! Isn’t that a great idea? Now it does involve an education to be able to read it, but I guess Coca-Cola assumed their consumers could read. Silly them!! Yes this is sarcasm for all you lazy people who just want someone to blame for your stupidity. And if you are diabetic, I would think you would be extra careful of what you buy instead of just grabbing something cuz of the way it looks. Oh and Dee…I stop at stop signs because of that huge word on it….S-T-O-P!!! Or should we assume you can’t read that either?

Who cares about how much the color is affecting their sales? The more important question is, do they really even care about the polar bears and climate change? It seems like if they really cared they would invest that money in changing production techniques to be more environmentally friendly. But let’s face it coke, like many other corporations, is just trying to cash in on the “trend” of going green without making any significant investments that will affect the real issue at hand.

Aww… Are people confused about their Coke. Stupid fat Americans.