Don't Buy Pepsi In The New Can!

[Kisa]

Got this through email and thought I would share.....

DON'T BUY PEPSI IN THE NEW CAN!

Don't buy Pepsi in the new can. Pepsi has a new
"patriotic" can coming out with pictures of the Empire
State Building, and the Pledge of Allegiance on them.
However, Pepsi left out two little words on the
pledge, "Under God." Pepsi said they didn't want to
offend anyone.

In that case, we don't want to offend anyone at the
Pepsi corporate office, either! So if we don't buy
any Pepsi product, they will not be offended when they
don't receive our money that has the words "In God We
Trust" on it.

HOW FAST CAN YOU FORWARD THIS ONE?

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I don't know how true this is, but I will be watching
for the new cans. Sounds like they might take so much
flack that they'll change their minds! After all, if
the pledge has "under God" in it at this time, then
why wouldn't it contain it on the can?

[Rexman64]

This is STILL going around? Everyone, clicky here.

[White]

Hey Kisa, FYI, This Story Is Old <_<

I Think I Got This Email About A Year Ago

But Yeah, Very Pathetic

Your Bro In Christ,

White

[beau99]

I can't believe people fall for these false chain letters.

No offense, Kisa.

[Gypsy]

She said she didn't know if it was true or not, but it was good of her to post it just in case it was true. We all know it wasn't real, so lay off.

[Slater]

bleh, I hate Pepsi now too. Coke and Pepsi both taste terrible IMO (nothing like a good ol' glass of milk). On top of it, the liberals are extremely opposed to Coke apparently, for reasons beyond my comprehension. A classmate of mine last simester was asked to leave campus for drinking a can of Coke one day...

What a load of bunk! I'll avoid the whole political schemata of all this and keep drinking Root Beer and grape-soda

[Nate]

Mountain Dew for me. Though I prefer Pepsi to Coke anyway.

[Mave]

True or not, I have to admit that I've never heard of this. So, yeah it was interesting for me.

[mitsuki lover]

I have never heard of this before and frankly doubt it's authenticity.

[MPX42]

I heard about this.....and the page said it was FALSE.

I love Pepsi.Almost as much as I love root beer.

[Nate]

I have never heard of this before and frankly doubt it's authenticity.

Although there once was some truth to the item quoted above, the information it contains is long outdated and never had anything to do with Pepsi or Coca-Cola. Neither soda company is producing, or has ever produced, redesigned cans bearing any portion of the Pledge of Allegiance or an image of the Empire State Building. This issue concerns a special patriotic can design produced by Dr Pepper back in November 2001, a can which was marketed for a limited time and has been off of store shelves for three years now.

Dr Pepper did not print the entire Pledge of Allegiance on their cans while leaving out the words 'under God'; they invoked the Pledge of Allegiance by using a mere three words from the pledge. However, because the three words Dr Pepper chose to use were the words surrounding the phrase 'under God' (which was not itself part of the original pledge as written by Francis Bellamy in 1892 but was added to the pledge by an act of Congress in 1954) the new patriotic can design prompted calls for boycotts from some religious groups and news media who maintained that Dr Pepper had "omitted 'under God'" from their version of the Pledge (because it falls where Dr Pepper used ellipses) and publicized the issue by encouraging a campaign of sending e-mail and letters of complaint to the Dr Pepper company.

Somehow along the way this message morphed into the version quoted at the head of this page, which inaccurately attributes the "Pledge" can design to Pepsi. Dr Pepper and Pepsi are two completely different companies: Pepsi is a product of the Pepsico corporation; Dr Pepper is a product of Dr Pepper/Seven Up, whose corporate parent is Cadbury Schweppes. (Dr Pepper is produced and distributed by Coca-Cola and Pepsi bottlers in some parts of the USA, but the Dr Pepper company has never been owned by either of those soft drink giants as the Washington Times erroneously reported.)

To quote the Dr. Pepper company,

"Due to space limitations on the can, only a few of the 31 words from the Pledge of Allegiance could be used. The available area for graphics limited the amount of verbiage on the can. Of the 31 words in the Pledge of Allegiance, only three were included. More than 90 percent were not included."

It was true, Mitsuki Lover, but it isn't true anymore, the cans were only available for a short while.

Note: I did see Gypsy's post, and I am merely posting this so that people can read the full story. Yes, it is true, they omitted the words. No, they didn't do it to be "anti-Christian." All information is taken from snopes.com.

[Mangafanatic]

Yeah, guys, I think we've verified that this is no longer a current issue. Kisa was simply trying to alert members to what she believe to be important. She just had a little old information. It could happen to the best of us. No need to beat up a very well meaning member over it.

[DragonSlayer]

bleh, I hate Pepsi now too. Coke and Pepsi both taste terrible IMO (nothing like a good ol' glass of milk). On top of it, the liberals are extremely opposed to Coke apparently, for reasons beyond my comprehension. A classmate of mine last simester was asked to leave campus for drinking a can of Coke one day...

What a load of bunk! I'll avoid the whole political schemata of all this and keep drinking Root Beer and grape-soda

Yup! Root beer all the way!

[Arnobius]

OK, since it's established to be an incident from a few years ago, I'm really curious why the mods didn't close the thread

[RubyJewelStone]

It wouldn't have killed me either way. I don't like Pepsi so much, it's kinda strong to me.

I like an obscure brand called Chubby.
And it's made in Trinidad, my mum's country of origin. =^.^=
Nummy Naranja flavor since my bottle's half in Spanish for some reason.

[Locke]

thats..an old one...

[Mangafanatic]

I think I'll just go ahead and lock this one down. Move along, folks, there's nothing to see here.