The ships could be turned into Cold War museum exhibits. Tours per ship at $10 for adults, $4 for children. 10% discount for veterans. Pesi Co could take over management of some other museum ships & make up a theme park.
Also, you never know when the locals will hate the ship and petition for its destruction, as happened with the Colbert.Museum ships are not a very good business. You need dock facilities and a lot of maintenance to keep the ships afloat and serviceable (even as exhibits, if not as mobile vessels). Alternatively, you can ground them and build a hall above them, but it would also cost a pretty sum.
funny that NC where Pepsi was invented is under coke control
Shouldn't some of Coke's land be occupied by the RC Cola guerrilla movement?
IIRC the south is dotted with townships of RC drinkers. I think it also has some clout in Chicago as well thanks to the Bears.Which lands specifically? i assume arkansas and maybe missouri, but RC is mostly in arkansas ( i live there and a lot of people here drink it)
As someone from CT My grandfather and grandmother drank Moxie and some baby boomers I know drink it but no Gen X or later generations drink it outside of Maine lolDepending on how detailed you want to get on making a map you could make all kinds of divisions based on regional tastes and smaller soda companies. Coke with a stronghold in the Georgia and in all the surrounding states. Pepsi based out of North Carolina doing likewise. Both having influence extending West and North. Moxie drinkers fortifying New England with only issues of MAD magazine to keep them sane. Faygo and Vernor's controlling Michigan and chunks of the Great Lakes and Midwest, cutting anyone who dares call there product anything but pop, never soda. RC Cola is also from Georgia and sprang up solely to combat Coke I believe the inventor actually was a disgruntled Coca Cola distributor angry over a licensing deal. They fight Coke and Pepsi on their own turf. Dr. Pepper and Big Red own Texas and pieces of the Southwest nominally neutral but bankrolling RC. Shasta would of course control California and pieces of the Northwest turning Mount Shasta into a fortress and quasi-religious Mecca. You could probably go as far assigning a Soda brand to each and every state if you like. Or create alliances like how Coke now owns Moxie, Faygo and Shasta being owned by the same company, or Vernors and RC being owned by Dr. Pepper. Lots of room for variations there.
IIRC the south is dotted with townships of RC drinkers. I think it also has some clout in Chicago as well thanks to the Bears.
Its all salesmanship. My Grandfather had a good business selling chickens to farmers. Museum ships are mostly run by nonprofits with a board of directors who are asleep at the wheel. PepsiCo would be hiring a team of experienced theme park managers & paying for a slick advertising package. & tie in numerous other attractions. The Victory Museum near Auburn Indiana is a smaller scale model of what could be done.
IIRC the south is dotted with townships of RC drinkers. I think it also has some clout in Chicago as well thanks to the Bears.
With this, all of Pepsi’s assets are divided between the three companies. McDonalds and Walmart want Pepsi restored as a major company that can freely sell their product, while Coke wants to keep them down to ensure nothing like this happens again. Coke frees none of the companies they liberated from Pepsi, and the Cold War begins.
I think coast guard is a great ideaAh yes, the legendary vending machines that dispense a Moonpie and a RC together![]()
I think coast guard is a great idea
Esp anti smuggling anti piracy duties and anti insurgency duties I think a lot of nations would benefit from it
Esp if they carry a lot more firepower than your average OPV and probably cheaper e.g petya/ mirka or grisha class
Even a few of subs modernized to accommodate special forces commandoes or frogmen
Sri Lanka can defeat the tigers years earlier with just a few of such vessels