Afri-Cola! 'sexy-mini-super-flower-pop-op-cola!' The German soda loaded with caffeine and strange as hell ads!

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Thanks to Elvis T for this one:

http://www.afri-cola.com/eng/01/01_03_alternative.html

Ads I would strongly suggest you sample:

1956 -- "Überwindet den toten Punkt"

1968 -- "Nonnen"

1973 -- "Lust" -- "The first time that a "naked man" is shown in advertising."

2001 -- "Message in a Bottle" (directed by Wim Wenders!)

The soundtracks to the first three in particular are thoroughly and completely disturbing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 September 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks to Elvis T for this one:

and thanks to me for being the one who sent him the afri-cola link! ;-)

i understand they sell this at cost plus world market. i don't have one near me, but el t said he'd pick me up a few bottles. WHOOOO caffeine rush!

― A. Atom Gorgon (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

THIS THREAD IS NOT GETTING THE ATTENTION IT SHOULD. You really really must check out those ads.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 September 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

agreed, they are tremendous

― jones (actual), Saturday, 18 September 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

(the newest ones are pretty unremarkable tho – wenders's in particular)

― jones (actual), Saturday, 18 September 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

As JBR apparently said to Elvis, though, "It's the most European of ads."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 September 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

haha yes! it made me think "vidal sassoon: the soda"

― jones (actual), Saturday, 18 September 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoa.... I really want to try some of this. The ads were damn effective; I'm hoping to trip my balls off.

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 18 September 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

And have German voices hectoring you over industrial/Krautrock collages? A BAD trip.

I like this bit from the official history:

1974
Karl Flach resists the power struggles and desires for take-over from large concerns and holds on to his faith in the confident German middle class.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently it has more caffeine in it than Jolt or Red Bull.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

considerably more. i don't think the germans have a limit on how much caffeine they can put in their soft drinks.

― A. Atom Gorgon (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

More Atom Gorgons should be so informative. Usually they're crushing buildings and turning people to stone.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

considerably more. i don't think the germans have a limit on how much caffeine they can put in their soft drinks.

-- A. Atom Gorgon (theundergroundhom...) (webmail), September 18th, 2004 1:06 PM. (Jody Beth Rosen) (later) (link)
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this would explain kraftwerk

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

sheesh, no wonder all the dance kids are moving to berlin

― A. Atom Gorgon (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

This. Ist. Awesome.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

the 'lust' one is really something else

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I've had it - good but *odd*, in a way I can't really describe.

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, it's good. You can get it in Seattle at Larry's. Never found it odd, but then, my blood is already like 20 percent caffeine.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 18 September 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

does anyone on this thread want to tell me what to do in Berlin for the next four days?

― Dance Kid Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 18 September 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

judging by these ads your options are:
1. undergo tests behind frosty glass
2. grow an afro and get called "bush baby" (nobody even wants to acknowledge that one do they??)
3. swim around in a sophisticated black void

― jones (actual), Saturday, 18 September 2004 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

This one died too soon, so.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 February 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

i still wanna try this shit.

― Nimrod Kovacs (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 3 February 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

those are excellent!

― dave q (listerine), Saturday, 5 February 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

They used to sell Afri-Cola in Finland, but I'm not sure if they do anymore. It had a weird but good taste, quite distinctive from Coke and Pepsi even though I think it was supposed to taste like them.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 5 February 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

PRETTY SWEET.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 6 February 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

afri cola messin with my head

― come on sock it to me (kephm), Sunday, 6 February 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

I REVIVE

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 05:03 (nineteen years ago)

Alas, the link's dead.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

do they still carry this at cost plus?

― Knute Rockne, All American (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

Afri-Cola was available at World Market a couple years ago, along with fruit flavored Moxie. Yum.

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMdcu1hHSHc

― El Tomboto, Monday, 1 January 2018 20:15 (seven years ago)

problematic

― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 16:48 (seven years ago)

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