Is Pepsi trying to make a move on the Middle East market share?

[Nynus]

Is this a Rorschach test? Ignorance? Conspiracy? Or a marketing fuck up?

Here's a couple of pictures of Pepsi cans produced from the Dubai Pepsi Bottling Plant. Different cans, different pictures, different locations, but produced at the same bottling plant. The Dubai plant services a goodly portion of the Middle East including Iraq. These cans starting hitting the market about the same time that the US troops were pulling out of Iraq.

I can't attribute motive to the design or timing, and I don't think Pepsi has issued a statement yet, but they're in a fucked up place right now. Deny the motive and design, then pull the product and you piss off the Muslim consumers. Leave it, and piss off the US market.

Should be an interesting show.

[Moab]

That must have been the dumb terrorist who failed his flight school and flew over the buildings ... Oops on Abdula the dumb.

[Nynus]

Press release of Nov 25th, 2011....

Dubai Refreshments launches special edition Pepsi Cans for the 40th National Day celebrations 2011

Embracing the highly anticipated 40th UAE National Day, DRC is producing special Pepsi Cans, featuring famous UAE landmarks.

Dubai, 25th Nov 2011 - As the nation commemorates its highly anticipated 40th National Day, leading Emirati company, Dubai Refreshments Company P.S.C. (DRC), the sole franchisee, manufacturer and distributor of Pepsi-Cola products in Dubai, Sharjah, and the Northern Emirates, gears up to reveal more than four million special edition Pepsi Cans, symbolizing each of the seven Emirates with distinctive landmarks to highlight how their individual achievements, bound together, make the strongest of unions.

The 7 Pepsi Can designs include; Abu Dhabi's famous seafront featuring Emirates Palace, Dubai's skyline featuring the tallest building in the world, Burj Khalifa. Sharjah's design is of the traditional Old Souk, Umm Al Quwain is of the iconic horse roundabout, while Fujairah's Can features the bronze dallah statue. Ajman's design portrays the splendid museum, as well as Ras Al Khaimah's iconic dhow and castle imagery.

[Moab]

Ooh I guess I was wrong ... do the make it in diet or zed?

[Nynus]

This is what the can is trying to represent.

The artist that drew up the image, added shorter buildings in front, and the airplane overhead, in order to "fill in the scene" and make it look more cosmopolitan. Unfortunately, that "artistic license" also changes the Dubai Towers into a strikingly similar image of the two towers.

Like I mentioned at the beginning, is it a Rorschach test, Conspiracy, or Idiocy?

[Moab]

Pepsi or Coke ...

[maverick35]

Old Mav realizes old Mav still needs a miracle before it is too late for old Mav butt old Mav always thought Arabs exactly just only drank some kind of religious Islamic tea and so cofe RIGHT and so any way whutever they drink is their own business RIGHT and so old Mav still needs a miracle hope fuly 2012 may be the miracle year old Mav needs and so if so then America is gona have a lota more to deal with than marketing soft drinks in Dubai RIGHT and so old Mav is lucky the world thinks old Mav is exactly just only a crazy 67 old Jew fool and so they beter be RIGHT and so cuz if and so any way old Mav hopes all u nice friendly members have a nice week before Christmas 2011 RIGHT sorry right... sorry old Mav