W Niemczech Hitlera przed wybuchem II wojny - Coca Cola prosperowała fantastycznie, zwiększając w ciagu 6 lat sprzedaż swoich produktów 45- krotnie. W 1936 r. firma była oficjalnym sponsorem Igrzysk Olimpijskich w Berlinie. Jednakże po wybuchu wojny, skutkiem embarga nałożonego na Niemcy oraz braku składników - produkcja coca - coli padła. Ale w jej miejsce pojawił się genialny niemiecki ersatz (Niemcy byli mistrzami w tworzeniu ersatzów) - produkt tworzony z odpadków innych procesów technologicznych oraz nadgniłych jabłek, nazwany Fantą - od słowa "fantastyczny". Zainteresowanym detalami polecam podlinkowany tekst. Tymczasem jednakże nie polecam spożywania tak coca - coli jak i fanty. Maniaków którzy nie mogą się bez nich obejść zachęcam do wybierania wersji "sugar free".


"Coca-Cola was growing rapidly in Germany and the rest of Europe in the pre-war years. Between 1933-39 the numbers of crates of Coke sold in Nazi Germany rose from about 100,000 to 4.5 million per year, and 50 factories were built to meet demand, according to Zeit. The brand was so popular that it became one of the official sponsors of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, widely seen as a propaganda event for Hitler.
But after war broke out in 1939 it became increasingly difficult to transport the syrups needed to make Coke to the German factories due to various embargoes on imports into the Nazi Reich. Because of this, production of Coke ceased in Germany during the war.
Max Keith, the head of the company in Germany, didn't want to give up altogether though, so he got together a few readily available ingredients. The recipe included scraps and leftovers from various industrial processes. Whey was used from milk factories and scraps of various fruits, mainly apples, from the fruit pressing factories were added with various other ingredients to make the drink they called Fanta. The orange Fanta we know today only became flavoured with citrus fruits in the 1950s. A bottling plant in Naples, Italy, started producing and selling Fanta orange in 1955, using locally sourced citrus fruits, a spokeswoman told The Local.
The story behind the name is also very interesting. Die Presse reports that Fanta originated from the German word Fantastisch, meaning fantastic. The name was chosen in collaboration with Coca Cola HQ in the US, who weren't impressed by the product and thought it needed an exciting word to sell it.
But the drink proved vastly popular with the German public, although it was only introduced to the rest of the world several years after the war, reaching global popularity by the 1970s"

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