@thenostalgichq: They changed the formula. America declared war. 🥤 April 23, 1985. Coca-Cola stood in front of the world and announced they were replacing their 99-year-old recipe. New Coke was here. The original was gone. The backlash was immediate and brutal. 40,000 complaint letters. Up to 8,000 calls a day flooding their hotline. The CEO received a letter addressed to "Chief Dodo, The Coca-Cola Company." People were hoarding cases in their basements. One man in Texas spent $1,000 stockpiling the original before it disappeared from shelves. They had taste-tested 200,000 people. They ran every number. And they still missed the one thing you can't measure — how deeply Americans were emotionally attached to that red can. 79 days later, it was over. Coca-Cola Classic came back, the president of the company publicly admitted they had "clearly misread the public," and the whole episode went down as the greatest marketing blunder in American history. 41 years ago today. Some things you just don't mess with. 🧊🟥🧊 💬 Do you remember the day they announced New Coke? #NewCoke #CocaCola #OnThisDay #80s #CocaColaClassic

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