Coke Brings Out Your Inner Egalitarian … and If We Were You, We’d Stuff it Back In

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The ads are French and they debut on the 26th of this month.

The tagline: “Avec Coca-Cola, on parle tous football,” which translates to something like “With Coca-Cola, everyone speaks football,” which is a roundabout way of saying Coca-Cola makes football buddies of unlikely pairs.

That’s sweet and all. But we wouldn’t embrace a brain-eating dead guy, or a head-smashing toy, or a displaced octopus for any refreshing beverage. If that’s prejudice then we are guilty as charged, and happy to be thirsty.

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