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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 01:05 PM
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Fanta? Invented by the Nazis?
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/fanta.asp

Claim: Fanta was invented by the Nazis.

Status: False.


We've seen the Fanta/Nazi rumor rendered a number of ways, including:
Fanta was invented by the Third Reich, because other soft drinks (including Coca-Cola) were no longer available in Germany — the Nazis longed for something fizzy to drink and so had to come up with something on their own.


Fanta was formulated by Coca-Cola for the Nazis, because the political climate of those days made it akin to corporate suicide to attempt to supply the Allies' enemy with the same drink the Allies were gulping down.


Back in those war-torn days, Fanta and Coca-Cola were actually the same beverage, but were labeled and distributed under different names so as to keep the Allies from knowing the Nazis were guzzling the same product.


Fanta was invented in Germany when the war made it difficult to get Coca-Cola syrup from the USA to Germany.
It is the last that is closest to the truth; the other three are naught but canard.
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