WI: Coca-Cola remained green?

So I recently found out that Coca-cola not only originally had actual cocain in it but started out being green. So what I was wondering what would the happen if Coca-cola didn't change it's color and remained green?

No this is not a joke, I seriously would like to know what would be the social and ecnomic butterflies be like if Coca-cola remained green?
 
It's difficult to say. Massive butterflies, like with ALL changes (yes, the butterfly effect is never written to be as powerful as it really should be), but with someone so minor as this it is hard to say exactly what.
 
Coca-cola would probably do much worse in sales. I don't think too many people will like the color too much.
 
Coca-cola would probably do much worse in sales. I don't think too many people will like the color too much.

Mountain Dew looks like piss but people still buy it. And the fact that Coke originally had cocaine in it will probably make up for the color. :D
 
Would Pepsi be green as well, to capitalize on the trend?

Pepsi was created 1898, Coca-Cola ~1885, not sure when the color change occurred. Still, there's no reason to automatically assume that it's butterflied.
 
Would Pepsi be green as well, to capitalize on the trend?

Pepsi was created 1898, Coca-Cola ~1885, not sure when the color change occurred. Still, there's no reason to automatically assume that it's butterflied.

So with a green coke and a green pepsi would Mtn. Dew just become some kind of an obscure drink that tried to make it in the sixties but never got off the ground because it was to similar to what was already out?
 
So with a green coke and a green pepsi would Mtn. Dew just become some kind of an obscure drink that tried to make it in the sixties but never got off the ground because it was to similar to what was already out?
Wikipedia is the most contradictory thing ever here, the intro text claiming it was introduced in the 1940s, the side bar saying 1964, but there's a 1950s ad on the side so that would hurt the side bar...

Um, was "Mitten" Dew ( :p ) always a product of PepsiCo? They might not even want to introduce another green beverage... Though I think by the 1940s with a POD in 1885 you're moving into heavy butterfly territory anyway...
 
Wikipedia is the most contradictory thing ever here, the intro text claiming it was introduced in the 1940s, the side bar saying 1964, but there's a 1950s ad on the side so that would hurt the side bar...

Um, was "Mitten" Dew ( :p ) always a product of PepsiCo? They might not even want to introduce another green beverage... Though I think by the 1940s with a POD in 1885 you're moving into heavy butterfly territory anyway...

The rights to "Dew" was originally owned by some company in the middle east, I think it was in Syria but I will have to check on it.
 
So with a green coke and a green pepsi would Mtn. Dew just become some kind of an obscure drink that tried to make it in the sixties but never got off the ground because it was to similar to what was already out?
Unless the green color comes with a switch to a lemon-lime flavor I don't see why. It may not be green to prevent confusion but I think the market for such a product will still exist.
 
So I recently found out that Coca-cola not only originally had actual cocain in it but started out being green.

What is interesting is that Coca-Cola is STILL made with coca leaves. They now use leaves which have had the cocaine removed from them (medical labs use it), but nevertheless, the "Coca" is still in "Coca Cola."

So what I was wondering what would the happen if Coca-cola didn't change it's color and remained green?

No this is not a joke, I seriously would like to know what would be the social and ecnomic butterflies be like if Coca-cola remained green?

I don't think there would have been any, at least not any negative ones. The brown color it is now is not a particularly attractive one. If the drink was an attractive green color, who knows, it might have sold even better that OTL. Possibly Pepsi and Dr. Pepper are out-competed and go out of business?
 
I guess it would depend what sort of green it was - an opaque green drink would imply a minty flavoured taste whereas a transparent green drink you'd expect a fruity, zesty kinda taste. Colour is important to a product, otherwise why do they add dyes to items like jelly/jello which should otherwise be clear and transparent? Hell, there is/was Tab Clear which sank without a trace in Europe.
 
So with a green coke and a green pepsi would Mtn. Dew just become some kind of an obscure drink that tried to make it in the sixties but never got off the ground because it was to similar to what was already out?

It already is IOTL. I've never heard of the stuff, seems to be some localised US only thing rather than the big multinational brands coca cola and pepsi are.
 
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