I know the headline sounds funny, but remember that could kill a diabetic.

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Put cocaine back it.

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This was orange juice not coca cola zero (the headline is misleading)

If i have to guess the gymnic was that they add zero additional sugar (but oranges still have sugar).

While I hate these misleading names and i am in favour of this kind of actions; i suspect diabetic people are familiar with this BS and would have read the nutrition facts

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Lemonade, not orange juice. And no, it was a zero sugar lemonade, artificially sweetened, and they put sugar in it accidentally.

But I agree, the headline should have been worded better.

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so they made it taste like shit for no reason

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I see you’re familiar with the Coca-Cola company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke

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The recall was initiated on September 10…

Yay! An urgent thing that happened over a month ago! I sure am glad that people get timely notifications of these events.

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Fun story, the recent meat recall (the second one) affected some salads I bought early September… we got an email long after we’d eaten them letting us know, and to call “this number” if you’d like a refund.

Sorry, I lied, it wasn’t a fun story.

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You should just shit in a box and mail it to them.

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I’m not quite sure how this would done in a timely-er fashion. Signage in the stores? In theory, anyone paying with plastic could have been contacted through the card company.

That would involve the manufacturer alerting the store, the store alerting all the various card companies, then the card companies alerting the customer. That’s a lot of infrastructure to keep running and to do so fast enough that the customer finds out within a day or two of the recall.

Expensive. Worthwhile given the potential to save lives or hospital stays, but you know how companies are.

This would also involve admitting all your purchase history is collected and stored in a way that is not anonymized, which I don’t think people would quite like to be explicitly told about.

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In Germany, supermarkets typically post product recalls right on the doors or over the shelves of the section that has the affected products. I guess if you bought something you might be less likely to go down that aisle again next time and come across the sign, but (barring a big empty space at the entrance) I think that’s the most reasonable place for them to be

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Same in Belgium and the Netherlands. On the stores website too.

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Do you ever find there are a lot of these signs at any given time? Having them in a designated area by the entryway then maybe again by the shelf where they stock it seems like a good combination.

In my head I worry it might become overwhelming to the point no one reads them anymore. Though I suppose that could be mitigated with a large image of the recalled product, to make it easier to check at a glance without having to stop and read for a minute. I can’t remember ever seeing signage at the shops near me. I wish we had that.

Maybe I’m overthinking it and it’s a rarity to ever have more than a couple products be recalled at a single time. Can’t say I’ve put much thought into any of this before.

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I never even mentioned alerting individual customers. The publication date on the story is TODAY. We can certainly do better than that.

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I understood that from your comment. I wasn’t contradicting you or challenging what you said, just wondering aloud how we might go about it and pointing out some flaws in my own point.

That said, even if this article was published the day of the recall, I imagine only a minority of the affected purchasers would ever see it. I couldn’t say I’ve ever looked at a recipes website to inform me of important consumer news.

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Coca-Cola has voluntarily recalled 13,152 cases of Minute Maid Zero Sugar Lemonade because it discovered during an internal investigation that cans labeled as Zero Sugar contain full sugar.

Not Coke, it’s the lemonade.

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Minute Maid is owned by Coke. That’s why the headline says Coke is pulling the drinks.

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Headline could be written better, I warned my friend who’s sister is a diabetic before realizing its just the lemonade

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Now you know better than to stop reading after two seconds. If you spent three more seconds reading the summary your panicked warning would have been avoided.

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Could’ve recalled it for being Minute Maid too.

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I am very tempted to complain about the state of modern journalism, but maybe we don’t have to expect better from “simpyrecipes.com”.

Still, holy clickbait, Batman.

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“simpy” recipes are something else entirely.

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Better journalistic integrity, weirdly.

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13k cases is like 30 seconds of production 😂

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You aren’t far off. I’ve been in the Anheuser Busch plant in Cartersville GA about 20 years ago and I swear one line bottled 600 a minute…. Remember thinking how it took two of our plants to keep one of theirs going. You couldn’t see the bottles they moved so fast.

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Thing is though there’s around 12-24 bottles per case depending on the size of the bottles.

Our fastest filler here at work does 36,000 bottles an hour, so you definitely won’t be getting 13,000 cases in 30 seconds I can assure ya ;)

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Hahahahah Fuck it I’m leaving my long ass conspiracy theory centered around this breakthrough being about Coke Zero specifically and no other drinks comment I responded to someone else with.

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