bryan@ihuxm.UUCP (09/01/83)
Yes if you order Rum and Coke you better get Coke and not another brand. When I worked for Pizza Hut which is a division of Pepico they were fanatical about being sure to let the customer know "we don't serve Coke". Actually I don't thing Coca-cola really cares but, by law, they must activily protect their trademark or loose it! P.S. Any body realy look at a Coke can ant notice that the trade mark does not say Coca Cola but Cocai Cola ? This is left over from the orignal formula for the drink which did include a small amount of Cocaine. Look at some of the very early adds. Of course today cocaine has be replaced by cafine. *Coke, Coca-Cola, are trade marks of Coca-Cola *Pizza Hut is a trade mark of Pepico ihuxf!bryan Bryan DeLaney
trb@floyd.UUCP (Andy Tannenbaum) (09/01/83)
Brian Delaney claims that the Coke trademark actually says Cocai Cola. Looking at my collection of Coke bottles here, I see that the "a" in Coca has a tail and there is a short hyphen above the tail, which could be construed as an "i." However, I also have Coke bottles from Israel with the Coke logo in Hebrew, and there is a short dash between the Coca and the Cola. This dash does not signify the Hebrew pronunciation Cocai though the Hebrew letter for "y" does look somewhat like the dash. The pronunciation would be Cocahee if the dash were a Hebrew Y. An interesting little aside, though Hebrew is written from right to left, the letters on the Coke bottle are slanted in the same direction as the English letters, and the little dash has the same orientation (////'////). This seems to be a general property of cursive writing in English and Hebrew rather than a peculiarity of the Coke logo, I just never noticed it before. Andy Tannenbaum Bell Labs Whippany, NJ (201) 386-6491