Food Theory: Pepsi has a NAVY?!

This makes me remember about the harrier jet campaign Pepsi did. One dude took it seriously but corporate didn't give him the jet.

I love how the USSR was just like “yeah, why don’t we just give a corporation a navy? That’ll definitely make the Americans nervous”

"Look at this navy Pepsi gave me before they scrapped it" "Neat" "Now will you try Wilkins Coffee?" "No!" aims naval guns "The taste of Wilkins Coffee will blow your mind!"

"Pepsi would have a bigger navy than Canada" would have sounded just as impressive as "6th largest Navy in the world"... Like, who's gonna check how many ships Canada has?

I know the " Give me Diet Coke, or give me death.", line was part of the opening bit, but I think Mat is one-hundred percent serious, when he says that.

I have taught a media literacy class for years, and this last term every other day I had a student shout out “Food Theory did it!” When I brought up a fun little fact (shrinkflation, food labeling, oddvertising, & subway lawsuits, to name a few). So well done. I’m now scouring your videos for new assignment ideas. Any recommendations? 😁

14:35 that headline hits DIFFERENT now...

This is how I felt when I tried researching if phones charge faster when powered off. Every article I could find said yes, but none actually tested it. Spoiler, they’re wrong. Screen off but powered on is the fastest, powered off completely is SIGNIFICANTLY slower.

I got an idea for an episode; what’s classifies as a “mint”? We got basic mints like “evergreen” and such, but there’s also fruit and other flavors that aren’t exactly “minty. So what’s the limit?

Gives a whole new meaning to the term "soda wars" doesn't it.

The fact that the a World War Two era ship fired a cannonball from the anchor gave me more diabetes than coke or Pepsi ever could

1:39 of course Gabriel would be in a Pepsi commercial. Nothing is stopping that Trickster.

One big thing this really sheds light on is how common it is for the news - now and throughout history - to report on deals (and laws) that are still in progress as if they're set in stone. The "will" in those headlines is doing a LOT of work, and I recommend that if you ever see a headline with any type of future tense at all, treat it with a healthy level of skepticism. Especially these days, where some future tense is written as past tense, like articles titled "How X became the new owners of Y" where "became" is referring to something that MAY happen in the near future.

History is weird especially when you get into all the specifics when companies are involved like Mat did here

The waiter in the opening bit wasn't remotely unusual. A lot of restaurants have exclusive contracts with one of the big brands. Personally, I don't drink Coke, so when I go to a place that only has Coke, they usually at least have Dr. Pepper, which I really like.

7:42 glad to see you guys recognize oversimplified

After watching this video, several things finally make sense to me. My mother who was born and raised in socialist Czechoslovakia, remembers that Coca-Cola was unavailable but Pepsi was. Even though it was a "product of the capitalist world"

Fun Fact: There have been 11 Pepsi logos over the past 112 years.

This one was really interesting, mostly because I hadn't even heard about this happening at all. This was totally new to me, so it was really fun :)

imagine you chill on the beach and a fricking Pepsi boat starts shooting at you