Mon. 07/19 - It Brings Good Things Back to Life

<p><strong><em>Coca-Cola brings your dead taste buds back to life with a new Coke Zero formulation that probably definitely certainly won’t produce a New Coke outrage, Olympic athletes can perform team gymnastics on the beds provided in Japan, and how to watch Jeff Bezos fly into space with all his money. All that and duck-tape fashion.</em></strong></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/business/coke-zero-change.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Coca-Cola Is Changing the Flavor of a Soda. Again.</a>&nbsp;(New York Times)</li><li><a href="https://www.coca-colacompany.com/company/history/the-story-of-one-of-the-most-memorable-marketing-blunders-ever" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Story of One of the Most Memorable Marketing Blunders Ever</a>&nbsp;(Coca-Cola Company)</li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_djFC9Uhuw" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Don Keough Speech Classic Coke</a></li><li><a href="https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Poochie" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Poochie</a>&nbsp;(Simpsons Wiki)</li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tvAjX5ACPo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Goodbye, Poochie</a>&nbsp;(YouTube)</li><li><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/food/2019/07/what-if-weve-all-been-wrong-about-what-killed-new-coke/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New Coke Didn’t Fail. It Was Murdered</a>&nbsp;(Mother Jones)</li><li><a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/new-coke-fiasco/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Was the ‘New Coke’ Fiasco Just a Clever Marketing Ploy?</a>&nbsp;(Snopes)</li><li><a href="https://apnews.com/article/166d68d270f16969f66d926b1cbaecdc" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">‘Old Coke’ Booster Can’t Taste the Difference</a>&nbsp;(AP)</li><li><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/124447/the-real-coke-the-real-story-by-thomas-oliver/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Real Coke, the Real Story</a>&nbsp;by Thomas Ol