Rolling Stone: The Right Is Trying to Make Bud Light Happen All Over Again With a Doritos Boycott

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[–]x0x7 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (11 children)

Never boycott the brand. Always boycott the company. The company is Pepsi via Frito-Lay.

So that's: Pepsi
Mountain Dew
Lay's potato chips
Gatorade
Tropicana
Doritos
Lipton
Quaker
Cheetos
Ruffles
Aquifina
Tostitos
Sierra Mist
Fritos
Bubly

[–]LtGreenCo 1 insightful - 4 fun1 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 4 fun -  (5 children)

First I boycotted Coke and now I gotta boycott Pepsi? Come on man don't make me drink RC Cola.

[–]x0x7 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Actually if you were boycotting Coke (I still do) you should have been already boycotting Pepsi before then. Pepsi has actually always been the more woke of the two.

The company Dr. Pepper Kureg Snapple is far more based. There isn't even a diversity and inclusion notice in their website's footer last I checked. Do you know how rare that is? It's practically mandatory.

I did a huge deep dive on it. I almost want to support them, but then I realized there is nothing based about supporting caffeinated syrup in general.

Btw RC is Dr. Pepper Kureg. So RC checks out. The problem is finding it.

[–]LtGreenCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Interesting I always assumed Dr. Pepper was made by one of the big two. I do loves me some Dr. Pepper.

[–]x0x7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nope. In fact Dr. Pepper now owns an absurd number of obscure brands. Basically it’s a holding company propping up all soda that isn’t coke or Pepsi. It’s weird but pretty much all soda companies started in the same decade in the 1800s.

[–]chadwickofwv 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

RC is better than both anyway.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

RC Cola is the storebrand of namebrand drinks, lol.

[–]xoenix[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sort of. Attacking a brand teaches the company not to do that kind of promo - hopefully for all their brands. Even if they can shuffle brands around and eventually recoup losses, they're still losing money and would prefer not to. Building a brand is hard.

[–]Countach_3D 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Boycotts are rarely effective.

[–]M1GarandDad 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks, I will!

[–]MyLongestJourney 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Quaker

Noooooooo....

[–]x0x7 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I did want to comment on the irony of that one.