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Tenpoundbass says

Yes the worst coffee in the world is in South America. The Hotel we stayed at in Cusco, served the most vile swill in the morning. They called it Cafe Americano, it was Nescafe` ran through a Turkish coffee maker. It was black thick as mud and tasted like coffee that has been left burning in the coffee maker until it was condensed, scorched and stale. I mean they only had instant coffee back at the wife's house in Lima as well, but they didn't take the extra step to make even more shittier.

Agreed, same in Paraguay and Ecuador; they like instant Coffee crap a great deal. It's their default.

Wonder how Cokes bottom line was affected.

AmericanKulak says

Agreed, same in Paraguay and Ecuador; they like instant Coffee crap a great deal. It's their default.

This was also true in the Mideast. Somehow Nescafe is considered coffee. You'd think they would know better. Maybe things have changed since I was there, but I don't think so.

Booger says

I think that in Central/South America, Nescafe (instant coffee) was considered a status symbol when it first came out, and it just continued to sell well into the nineties, even as coffee drinking/Starbucks started ramping up in the US.

The family we stayed with in Costa Rica in 1995 used a cotton sock when they made their pour-over coffee.

brazil66 says

The family we stayed with in Costa Rica in 1995 used a cotton sock when they made their pour-over coffee.

My sister had a Columbian boyfriend who made coffee that way, and it was really excellent.

HunterTits says

1) Corporate Big Wigs Freak Out About Wokeness
2) Corporate Big Wigs Hire Some Consultant To Do A Program Or Something, Either External Or Internal Or Both
3) Consultant Is An Extremist Idiot That Institutes Something Devoid Of Common Sense Or Is Outright Jihadi Against One Group Of People
4) Woke Program Blows Up In Corporate Big Wigs Face, Either Legally, PR-wise, Staffing wise Or All Three.

5) Corporate wig gets a yuuge bonus.
6) Extremist idiot consultant gets paid anyway.
7) Rinse and repeat.

Wonder if Coke corporate knows about the Netherlands' Zwarte Piet? You want to get tolerant Dutch people up in arms telling you to go back where you came from if you don't like things? Just ask a question about Zwarte Piet!

Automan Empire says

Wonder if Coke corporate knows about the Netherlands' Zwarte Piet? You want to get tolerant Dutch people up in arms telling you to go back where you came from if you don't like things? Just ask a question about Zwarte Piet!

Bruderschaft der Schwarzhäupter

https://www.envisionreports.com/coca-cola24/proxy/HTML1/the_coca-cola_company-proxy2024_0116.htm

Shareowner Proposal

Requesting a Report on Risks Created by the Company’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts

National Center for Public Policy Research, 2005 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036, the beneficial owner for at least three years of shares of Company Common Stock having a market value of at least $2,000, submitted the following:

Report to Shareholders on Risks Created by the Company’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts

WHEREAS:
The US Supreme Court ruled in SFFA v. Harvard on June 29, 2023, that discriminating on the basis of race in college admissions
violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.1
Attorneys General of 13 States warned Fortune 100 companies on July 13, 2023, that SFFA implicated corporate diversity,
equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.2
Prior legal advice regarding the legality of racially discriminatory programs has been called into question post-SFFA.3
Recent analysis of American Fortune 100 hiring in the wake of the 2020 race riots found that whites were excluded from 94% of
the hiring decisions,4 a statistic that itself provides prima facie proof of illegal discrimination on the basis of race by these
companies, given that whites constitute 76% of the American population.5
It was reported in 2021 that Coca-Cola infamously instructed its employees to “be less white,” and that to be less white means
to be less “ignorant,” “oppressive” and “arrogant,” alongside a host of other false and discriminatory slurs.6 Ironically, this
blatant racism was part of an employee training seminar titled “Confronting Racism.” Today, the Company’s DEI webpage
reports that: “It is our aspiration by 2030 to have women hold 50% of senior leadership roles … and in the U.S. to have race and
ethnicity representation reflect national census data at all levels.”7 Meanwhile, the “Equity Accountability Councils” (EAC) page
reports that: “EACs will focus on economic equity for Asian Pacific, Black, and Hispanic communities.”8

RESOLVED:
Shareholders ask that the board commission and publish a report on (1) whether the Company engages in any practices
directly or indirectly associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives that may create risks of discriminating
against individuals who might sue the Company (including employees, suppliers, contractors, and retained professionals) for
illegal discrimination on the basis of protected categories like race and sex, and (2) the potential costs of such discrimination to
the business.

SUPPORTING STATEMENT:
In just the past year, a corporation was successfully sued for a single case of discrimination against a white employee resulting in
an award of more than $25 million.9 The risk of being sued for such discrimination appears only to be rising.10 With roughly
700,000 employees,11 Coca-Cola likely has at least 525,000 employees who are potentially the victims of this type of illegal
discrimination because they are white, Asian, male, or straight.12 Accordingly, even if only 10 percent of such employees were to
file suit, and only 10 percent of those prove successful, the cost to the company could exceed $125 billion. And while racial
equity audits can cost up to $4 million, this report should cost much less, as it need review only the potentially discriminatory
programs, unless Coca-Cola has established so many such programs that its liability for this discrimination must be expected to
be much higher.

1 https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/students-for-fair-admissions-inc-v-president-fellows-of-harvard-college/
2 https://ag.ks.gov/docs/default-source/documents/corporate-racial-discrimination-multistate-letter.pdf?sfvrsn=968abc1a_2
3 https://freebeacon.com/democrats/starbucks-hired-eric-holder-to-conduct-a-civil-rights-audit-the-policies-he-blessed-got-the-coffee-maker-sued/
4 https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-black-lives-matter-equal-opportunity-corporate-diversity/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/bloomberg-flubs-data-for-bombshell-report-that-only-6-of-new-corporate-hires-are-white
5 https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045222
6 https://nypost.com/2021/02/23/coca-cola-diversity-training-urged-workers-to-be-less-white/view pdf

It truly is amazing that we've gotten to this point. America is a shithole.

Putin recently said this of the United States.

“It is just a catastrophe — it is not democracy — what on earth is it?”

–Putin