Fanta!

phylo_roadking · Post by **phylo_roadking** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 5:55 pm

Ok guys, heres a REALLY odd thread for you......

Ive heard the old story about during the '30s, Nazi Germany's Coca-Cola importer was no longer able to import supplies of the 7X syrup, and very soon it was unobtainable as a locally-bottled product. Instead along with State support in the form of supplies of oranges and sugar etc. the now-abandoned subsidiary came up with a fizzy orange drink, encouraged by the State who were rapidly promoting the development of "ersatz" local German products of all types to replace embargoed foreign ones.
Now, this fizzy orange drink was given a name that was a shortened version of the German word for fantastic i.e. "fantastisch"...
And so Fanta was born.

In 1945, this was one of the industrial patents pirated and brought back to the States, and given that it was the property of the abandoned Coca-Cola subsidiary it was demanded by and given to...the Coca-Cola Corporation! And production restarted...the rest is history lol

Now - can any ex-German Citizens in the US, or anyone with a particularly good and long memory tell me if this 1930's Fanta tastes anything like the modern drink????

TIA
phylo

Alex Coles · Post by **Alex Coles** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 1:43 am

*Calls Haen and Rudi*

There's a question for you!

Jason Pipes · Post by **Jason Pipes** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:13 am

Check these threads out for more info!!

http://www.feldgrau.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5952
http://www.feldgrau.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5951

Nordwest · Post by **Nordwest** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:25 am

Prost Fanta - Fanta erfrischt! (1940)

Source: http://www.flensburg-online.de/diverses ... fanta.html

Michael

phylo_roadking · Post by **phylo_roadking** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:44 pm

All, have just read the two threads mentioned above.....

Two summers ago I wa skilling time in a specialist photo processors here in Belfast waiting on medium-format pics to be developed for the local TV station. I picked up a photographer's trade magazine thingy and was flicking thru the main literary content, and saw an article talking about Guiness.....
The largest Guisnees bottlery outside Ireland is in....Lagos, Nigeria! All the ingrediaents are sent out, its carbonated and bottled, and sold advertised as a LOCAL product! Ten years ago, a LOT of Nigerian emigrants started arriving in Dublin - big illegal immigration issue there now cos of this - and these newcomers were over the moon cos they could get Guiness....JUST LIKE HOME!!!!!

LOL LOL LOL

phylo

phylo_roadking · Post by **phylo_roadking** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:45 pm

Yeah, but how do the tastes compare????

phylo

Mac Laren · Post by **Mac Laren** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 3:04 pm

Post deleted as it had absolutely NOTHING to do with this thread and when translated to English made no sense.
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Tom Houlihan · Post by **Tom Houlihan** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:49 am

Just stumbled across this while trying to bust another urban myth:

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/fanta.asp

This ought to settle the question!

phylo_roadking · Post by **phylo_roadking** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:27 am

Yep, close enough....but it still doesn't tell me how close in taste "wartime" Fanta was to the "Fanta" we drink now!!! I'm assuming the wartime version was still orange-flavoured despite the artificial, fruit and beet sugars, as I've read before that Italian oranges were supplied...?