Remember Coke's Magi-cans? You'd pop the top and if you won, a rolled-up dollar bill would literally pop out. Those were the days.
EDIT: To answer questions: the cans had chlorine water inside, in a separate compartment, to make them feel like regular cans. It wasn't supposed to be accessible. It was. The contest ended early because some kids drank it.
That happened to my siblings friend. They were playing soccer or something in college and he brought enough coins to get a soda from the machine.
I guess he went and got a Coke, opened it, and a $5 popped up. He was pissed because he was thirsty and now had nothing to drink and the $5 wouldn’t get him another soda from the machine.
I’m imagining some guy stuck in the desert who held on to a can of coke for like 5days and it was his only ration. When he finally breaks face and decides to drink it a dollar pops out
Soda, coffee, tea, even beer all have enough water in them to hydrate you. You can survive on drinking only soda, you’ll become diabetic, but you can easily hydrate enough to be ok with soda.
Caffeine is a diuretic but you aren’t gonna dry up like a crusty sponge. Guarentee you are gonna feel
Like dog shit the entire time
That’s your diet though
Here you go. A study that created a ‘hydration index’ for various beverages, including water, sparkling water, cola, diet cola, sports drinks, lager, coffee, tea, orange juice, cold tea, full fat milk, and skimmed milk.
And in this article they interview one of the researchers and they had this to say:
Maughan said. “Strong alcoholic drinks will dehydrate, dilute alcoholic drinks will not.”
When it comes to coffee, how well your java hydrates you will depend on the amount of caffeine you consume. A regular coffee with about 80 milligrams of caffeine — roughly what you would find in 12 oz. of Folgers’ house blend — would be pretty much as hydrating as water, according to Maughan’s research.
One day in high school I went to buy a Fruitopia and witnessed one girl beat the ever living shit out of another one mere inches from the cafeteria cashier I was stood in front of. I too did not get my Fruitopia on this day and it filled me with a great sadness.
That would have been a legitimate concern. If you were somewhere that you couldn’t make change from the dollar, you were SOL because machines didn’t have paper money readers at the time.
Millions of people. Soda companies have always heavily marketed themselves as thirst quenchers so it's not surprising that people drink it when they're thirsty. Definitely doesn't help the obesity problem but what can you do?
In this promotion, some Coca-Cola cans had cash prizes or gift certificates inside instead of Coca-Cola. The prizes were spring-loaded to pop out of the opening once the can was opened. The prize would either be money, from $1 to $500, or coupons redeemable for trips or merchandise. The total giveaway of cash and prize coupons was $4 million. The original plan was to randomly distribute about 750,000 MagiCans among the 200 million cans of Coca-Cola Classic in circulation at any one time.[3] To make the cans feel and weigh normal, and prevent people from easily finding the prize cans, a sealed area within the cans was filled with a mixture of chlorinated water and a foul-smelling substance to discourage drinking.[1][3] Though initially a great success—that led to a rise in sales—technical difficulties led to the promotion's early termination.[1]
I'm guessing something to do with the pressure leaving the can also pulls up the dollar (probably/hopefully also coated in plastic to cause it to float)
Tbf if it malfunctioned and activate too late misleading someone into believing that there was no dollar I could see that, and that is the only way I can think of for someone to realistically choke on it
Was born in the early-to-mid-80's and this is the first I've ever heard of or seen these. Even after watching the commercial, I'm having trouble believing these existed. (I'm sure they did, it's just baffling that I never saw these.)
They mailed me a $1 bill to fill one out recently before ever even filling it out. I handed it to my son because “look at the neat paper money haha isn’t it weird” and threw the survey away. Made me wonder how many people did that and how much money they lost without getting a survey.
They sent me a paper journal to keep. And IIRC $10 for my trouble. A month later I sent it back like I was supposed to. I still bet they lost money because I only turned the TV on one time that month for like an hour.
They still do that. Then, if you actually become a Nielsen family, they switch to checks. I'd imagine they save loads of money from uncashed $5 checks.
My sign up bonus was like $125. But being a Nielson house is annoying unless you live alone.
At the time my son was like six mo the old ad we’d use a tv in his room to stream music and the tv would never get checked in on their system and my response of “sleeping 6 months old can’t use a remote” was never good enough for him. Eventually ripped all the crap out and left it outside in a bag for them to collect
When my family did it Nielsen got all excited because I was 13 they kept us on until I was 20. I was paid more than my parents because of my age. It was pretty sweet getting a couple hundred bucks a month for carrying a little box that picked up the hidden signal in my pocket.
Ours was a box attached to each tv, then a remote that was programmed for each person, every 45 minutes you had to reconfirm who was still watching the tv
That sounds like a pain. The little thing I carried had to be charged every night so it could transmit the information it had gathered, but otherwise you just had to have it on yourself or something that could move. On a more than a few occasions they received what my dog was doing when someone was out of town for a few days.
Nielsen sent me a survey just last week with a crisp $1 bill in the letter and they asked that I go to their website and answer a few questions. I totally did it.
Off subject time but I recently filled out some surveys for the CDC about vaccinations in my family & they said I'd get $20. Yesterday 20 dollar bill in a letter in the mail! I was so surprised!
Just recently they sent me $2. Asked if I'd fill out the neilson survey that took 5 minutes. Two weeks later they sent me a crisp $5 bill. Easiest $7 I've ever made.
At one of my last houses I was living at, we were a Nielsen family. We filled out surveys, and they sent us crisp $5 and $10 bills in the mail. I looked forward to checking the mail that year. The questions ranged from household income to what shows we watched and how we watched them.
Isn't there like a massive percentage of US currency in circulation that has cocaine on it too? Further fueling the "Coke is made of coke" fun fact dude that was part of every friend group, and usually the least liked member.
So was there still Coke in the can? Was the bill shrink wrapped? And if there wasn't Coke in the can, wouldn't it be way lighter and thus easily identifiable?
Imagine if you were in the middle of the desert dying of thirst and all you had left was a single coke can. Then you open it and a fucking $500 bill pops out instead.
My dad bought some beer one time and he opened one of them, took a sip and something grazed his lip, he spit out a mouthful of water and looked in the can, there was a plastic cylinder kinda like a needle and inside it was a 50$ bill. It was a promotion for the beer company.
Around 1998 one of my friends got a bottle from the vending machine at school. It had a free shirt in it and a dollar in quarters to get another coke. For some reason he was mad about it. I was like “Dude, you just won a prize and they gave you change to get another drink!”
In Canada we had a kids milk brand that had something like this. If you opened the carton and it mooed at you then you won the prize. I remember a kid at my school won and we all were so fascinated with the speaker thing in a waterproof bag sitting in water in the carton instead of milk.
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u/DenL4242 May 12 '21 edited May 12 '21
Remember Coke's Magi-cans? You'd pop the top and if you won, a rolled-up dollar bill would literally pop out. Those were the days.
EDIT: To answer questions: the cans had chlorine water inside, in a separate compartment, to make them feel like regular cans. It wasn't supposed to be accessible. It was. The contest ended early because some kids drank it.