bubble of memory: duelling boycotts
Aug. 25th, 2005 11:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pantryslutWhat the world needs now is not a gotdam Coke--we used to boycott that stuff! -- Jeff Chang
I used to boycott Coke in the 80's. (I also went on marches and participated in sit-ins in the Michigan State Board of Trustees offices.) I was a soda-swigging teenager. This was a big deal. Pepsi made a lot of money off of my ass in those years.
I convinced my whole family to join the boycott, too.
One day some colleague of my mother's (I think) came to visit the house. They brought with them their teenage daughter.
She asked for a Coke. I told her we didn't have any in the house, but we did have Pepsi if she wanted.
She told me she was boycotting Pepsi.
It had something to do with their support, somehow, of anti-Israeli regimes. I can't remember the logic.
It's hard not to see this as foreshadowing of a sort.
I used to boycott Coke in the 80's. (I also went on marches and participated in sit-ins in the Michigan State Board of Trustees offices.) I was a soda-swigging teenager. This was a big deal. Pepsi made a lot of money off of my ass in those years.
I convinced my whole family to join the boycott, too.
One day some colleague of my mother's (I think) came to visit the house. They brought with them their teenage daughter.
She asked for a Coke. I told her we didn't have any in the house, but we did have Pepsi if she wanted.
She told me she was boycotting Pepsi.
It had something to do with their support, somehow, of anti-Israeli regimes. I can't remember the logic.
It's hard not to see this as foreshadowing of a sort.
