Product Placement in Seinfeld

With the amount of branded products that are seen on Seinfeld, I wonder whether the show did deals with manufactures to show their products.

Coke Light for instance seems to feature heavily, Snapple etc.

BB

"brother_bacon" <brother.bacon@visionfile . com> wrote in message news:Jcza8.6138$ZO2.304924@stones...

Is Coke Light Diet Coke?

"Joe3k" wrote in message news:a4eh1c$lk$[email]...

In most of continental Europe, yes - in many countries it's called "Coca" for short, rather than "Coke", as in "Un Coca Light, s'il vous plait."

Here in the UKoGBaNI, as in the US, it's Diet Coke. Not sure about other places, but maybe in all English-speaking territories?

Snapple never took off here - I think it's been dumped. There are several variants, though, which seem to sell well.

Ian

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 01:10:26 -0000, "Ian F." wrote:

Okay, I'm veering sharply off-topic here, but...

I was waiting for an overnight train from Madrid to Andalucia the last time I was in Europe. I had been walking around all day (Ohhh, I'm exhausted. I've been on this street a thousand times! It's never looked so strange! The faces...so cold! In the distance, a child is crying. Fatherless...a bastard child, perhaps. My back aches...my heart aches...but my feet...my feet are resilient! Thank God I took off my heels, and put on my... Merrells!!!) and I was parched. I had been drinking vino tinto and cafe con leche the whole time I was in Madrid, but at that moment I saw a guy at the refreshment counter with a big frosty Coke. So I asked the waiter for "un cola, por favor", pointing at the soft drinks. The guy came back with an espresso, and said "un corto por la senorita!" So I drank another damn coffee and got to stay awake all night on the train.

So what do they call Coca-Cola in Spain, anyone? I was sure if I asked for a "cola" anywhere in Europe, heck, anywhere in the world, I would get one. My haccent, it cannot be dat bhad, eh?

Sophie

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:39:42 GMT, [email]. (Sophie) wrote:

LOL!

IIRC - un Coca por favor.

Good enough to be Prime Minister.

"Sophie" wrote in message news:[email]...

It's not your accent, it's just that the word "cola" is meaningless in Spain.

In my post to which you replied, I said:

Best to always ask by brand - everyone in continental Europe understands "Coca" or, of course, "Pepsi". Diet variants are called "Light" in Europe. And, er, that's it!

If you'd have said "Una Coca, por favor", yoiu'd have had a good nights' sleep! ;-)

HTH

Ian

Or a back-alley deal resulting in the purchase of a small bag of cocaine... :-)

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:43:27 -0600, "John Twernbold" wrote:

In the 60's in Spain I got coca cola buy ordering a "coca" - perhaps things have
changed.
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On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Ian F. wrote:

Actually, it has many meanings:

• Glue
• Tail
• Carbonated soft drink

Getting back on topic, does anybody remember the episode where the K-man attempts to return the unsolicited catalogs he gets in his mailbox?

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Sophie wrote:

Wrong gender and shortened name... Try:

"Una Coca-Cola, por favor".

Coke is feminine in Spanish. Don't ask me why.

I've found that, "Gimme a god-damned Coke please!" works relatively well.

Maybe it's the curvy bottle. ;-)

Dave (who would never put his home and fax numbers in a Usenet post. Thar be nutjobs here.)

Let's all call Victor's telephone number! We can pretend it's Moviefone. Or if that's too fancy and/or obscure, we could just ask him if his refrigerator is running...

John Twernbold wrote in message ...

I think we'd have more luck if we were cable guys.. we could get in, right?'

homerr..

Well, I had the number changed. But they gave me a new area code. Rats...!

"Sophie" wrote in message news:[email]...

It is just Coca-Cola - I'm pretty sure. Hoewever I remember when I was younger a friend about 10 years old came back from Spain, wearing a T shirt featuring the famous red on white logo and saying "Enjoy Cocaine." His parents who had bought it for him thought just thought "cocaine" was what they called coke in Spain.

-TF

Ans what about "the dealership"? Longest Twix commercial I've ever seen!!

Bart

"brother_bacon" <brother.bacon@visionfile . com> schreef in bericht news:Jcza8.6138$ZO2.304924@stones...

No Twix for me, thanks. Can't stand coconut.

"Bart Tijmensen" wrote in message news:a4ehc0$1c3$[email]...

Twix doesn't have coconut.. it has chocolate nugget and caramel! comon watch the show

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 21:57:21 -0000, "Jayenkai \(JNKLTD\)" wrote:

No snapple, "too fruity". :-)

East

"Jayenkai (JNKLTD)" wrote:

Were the pretzels in These Pretzels Are Making Me Thirsty, the same that Jason did ads for?

East

brother_bacon wrote:

I wonder what kind nearly did Pres. Bush in.

Dave (the evil kind?)

"brother_bacon" <brother.bacon@visionfile . com> wrote in message news:...

There's that Skip Barber logo/magnet on his refrigerator.

Skip Barber is a driving/racing school.

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