Reason:
Before World War II, the SS was in urgent need of a sweet and delicious drink. Coca-Cola Germany Co., Ltd. reached an agreement with Hitler to start building a bottling plant in the German occupied area. Coca-Cola is very popular in Germany, with 43 bottle decoration factories and more than 600 distributors in 1939.
/kloc-in the 1940s, the relationship between the United States and Nazi Germany became tense. 194 1 Due to the trade embargo, the German branch was unable to obtain the main syrup formula of Coca-Cola from the American head office.
In order to maintain the operation of the Coca-Cola factory and the livelihood of workers, Max? Case created a new beverage by using whey and fruit residue, which are only available in Germany. In order to give this new drink an attractive name, he personally held a competition in the factory, asking his employees to give full play to their imagination and freely express their fantasies.
At this time, a salesperson blurted out-"Fanta!" (The root is the same as the German word "fantasy"), so it became the name of this new drink. Fanta was very popular after it was listed, and it was very popular at that time, especially because of the lack of food, which consumers used as soup.
Extended information modern Fanta;
Due to the shortage of various materials, the taste of Fanta in wartime depends entirely on the materials that can be found, and there is no fixed product image. Coca-Cola was unaware of this matter, and the Coca-Cola Company once firmly denied the accusation that it had sympathized with or supported the ugly policies of the Nazi regime in Germany in any form. ?
The well-known Fanta brand is 1955, a completely different orange-flavored soda introduced by the Italian Coca-Cola Company. Since then, "Fanta" has developed into a world-famous fruit-flavored beverage brand.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-Fanta