Coca-Cola drinkers will get a chance to relive one of the company’s darker chapters as New Coke makes a comeback under a partnership with the Netflix drama “Stranger Things.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gycL1dWCa68
For those of you too young to remember the drama surrounding “New Coke,” take a look at the video below. It was basically Coke’s attempt to respond to Pepsi’s rising popularity among young people, and it blew up in their face. Sales of Coke plummeted, they reintroduced the brand as Coca-Cola Classic a mere seventy-seven days later, and throughout much of the 1990s, you could buy both brands until what became known as “Coke II” was ultimately phased out, and “Coke Classic” eventually just became Coca-Cola again.
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One more memory… back when we LIKED Bill Cosby and he endorsed everything from JELL-O to Coca-Cola.
