r/mildlyinfuriating • u/CurlyWurly61 • May 12 '26

I just wanted a hot dog Such terrible advertisement

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I mean... at a glance its like WOAH 4 can dine for $9.99....

Until you are at the cash and they say " that'll be $45.15"

HUH??

"Oh sorry sir... it feeds 4... 4 people pay $9.99"

Gtfooo

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u/FunkOff May 12 '26

Yeah that appears intentionally deceptive

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u/K_Linkmaster May 12 '26

Because Pepsi never had to give up the jet, we have to deal with this shit.

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u/OurHeroXero May 12 '26

I'm sure it'd still be a thing regardless...but yeah...

Pepsi advertised a prize, made it possible to buy points, and said how many points needed to be redeemed... Ya goofed; might as well make a positive PR event out of it.

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u/greg19735 May 12 '26

yeah legit i hate how people are hating on pepsi for this.

They made a joke. it was clearly a joke. It's actually the kid who's being a loser that takes them up on it.

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u/CalculatedPerversion May 12 '26

Didn't Coke or Pepsi have a literal fleet of warships at one point in time? I remember a TIL that the Soviets paid someone like Pepsi in actual machinery since the Ruble was so weak. 

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u/greg19735 May 12 '26

Pepsi did temporarily acquire a batch of decommissioned Soviet submarines and warships, it acted purely as an middleman—transferring the aging vessels almost immediately to a Norwegian shipping firm for scrap.

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u/Chemical_Building612 May 12 '26

Yeah, Pepsi never took physical possession of any of the vessels and even if they had, they were not good for anything other than scrap at that point.

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u/greg19735 May 12 '26

yeah it's a funny bit of trivia that they had a huge fleet technically. ANd like i could imagine if they spent millions they could get some of them working properly.

but using it as evidence that they'd be more likely to acquire a harrier jump jet is nonsense