{"id":78411,"date":"2024-09-29T05:04:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T11:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=78411"},"modified":"2024-09-29T05:04:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T11:04:36","slug":"obscure-ww2-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/29\/obscure-ww2-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Obscure WW2 Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78412 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Fanta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualmirage.org\/60063-2\/\"><strong>Fanta<\/strong><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">Due to the English blockade of Germany from the onset of World War 2, Coca-Cola Deutschland (Coca-Cola GmbH) had great trouble sourcing Cola Coca-Cola syrup for making Coca-Cola. This even became entirely impossible after Germany attacked the Soviet Union and after the war was declared on the US following Pearl Harbor.<\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"auto\">To keep the company going, Max Keith, the head of Coca-Cola Deutschland (Coca-Cola GmbH), decided to create a new product for the German market, using only ingredients available in Germany at the time, including apple peelings and pomace, sugar beet root &amp; whey (a cheese byproduct).<\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"auto\">The origin of the name is contested. Some say it came from Keith encouraging his team to \u201cuse their imagination\u201d (Fantasie in German), while others say it came from Keith saying \u201cFantastisch\u201d when sampling what would become the final product for the first time. In either case, a Coca-Cola Gmbh Salesman, Joe Knipp, coined the shorter \u201cFanta,\u201d which became the name of this new product.<\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"auto\">In 1943, 3 million Fanta cases were sold in Germany. Many bottles were not consumed as beverages but as cooking ingredients to add sweetness and flavor to soups and stews, as sugar was severely rationed.<\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"auto\">After the war, the US main office of Coca-Cola was surprised to find their German sub-branch alive and thriving. They adopted the Fanta product back into the company\u2019s mainstay, although the recipe was heavily reworked in 1955 and again in the late 1980s.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><em>{Hermit Note: Please Bookmark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualmirage.org\/\">The Virtual Mirage Blog<\/a>. It&#8217;s definitely a keeper!}<\/em><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Fanta &nbsp; Due to the English blockade of Germany from the onset of World War 2, Coca-Cola Deutschland (Coca-Cola GmbH) had great trouble sourcing Cola Coca-Cola syrup for making Coca-Cola. This even became entirely impossible after Germany attacked the Soviet Union and after the war was declared on the US following Pearl Harbor. To&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[475,476,478,479,5662,1899],"tags":[18015,18016,8798,12072,1902],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78413,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78411\/revisions\/78413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}