Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 January 2016. It was a little sweeter than I’ve been making my own elderflower soda at home, with more lemon (it’s technically elderflower & lemon Fanta), but very delicious. Fanta comes in a huge variety of flavors, to appeal to local tastes, around the globle. This is the shokata fruit (Shokata lime), it's only found in central Africa and the amazing properties of this fruit where only discovered as late as a couple of years ago. Josh. Here is a complete list of all Fanta … An associated television ad referenced the history of the drink and said the Coca-Cola company wanted to bring back "the feeling of the Good Old Times" which was interpreted by many to mean Nazi rule. Primary competitors to Fanta have included Tango, Mirinda, Sunkist, Slice, Sumol, Crush, Faygo, Tropicana Twister, and Orangina. Dutch Fanta had a different recipe from German Fanta, elderberries being one of the main ingredients. The New Zealand market includes the Fanta variants Fanta Blueberry, Fanta Sour Watermelon, and Fanta Strawberry Sherbet. Orange Fanta is available in Canada. Three years later, in June 2009, Fanta re-launched the campaign. The ad was subsequently replaced.[10][11]. Many bottles were not drunk but used to add sweetness and flavor to soups and stews, since wartime sugar was severely rationed. Fanta Shokata (Elderberry-Lemon) Soda, 0.5 L. Instead of the usual soft drink, r efresh and quench your thirst with a different kind of Coke product that contains natural lemon and elderberry flavours! [2][3] The name was the result of a brainstorming session, which started with Keith's exhorting his team to "use their imagination" (Fantasie in German), to which one of his salesmen, Joe Knipp, retorted "Fanta!". Made overseas by the Coca-Cola Company, t his beverage is a fruit-flavored, carbonated soft drink imported from Europe.. Enjoy the refreshing taste of lemon and elderflower with the new Fanta Shokata. [17], https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/was-the-soda-drink-fanta.html, "How Fanta was invented in Nazi Germany to quench people's thirst for Coke", "Fanta e arancia, un matrimonio all'italiana", "Coca-Cola pulls German Fanta ad over Nazi controversy", "Coke pulls Fanta ad over Nazi controversy", "Fluffy Goes To India, Gabriel Iglesias, Minute 2:21", "Why Coca-Cola Invented Fanta In Nazi Germany", U.S. v. 40 Barrels & 20 Kegs of Coca-Cola, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fanta&oldid=989861239#International_availability, Short description is different from Wikidata, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 21 November 2020, at 13:09. Fanta shokata is a new fanta flavor that's rapidly gaining popularity in Europe, mainly due to it being one of the first healthy sodas. Available for a limited period only … which became the jingle for the Fantanas in the broadcast campaign. After a brainstorming session, the Ogilvy creative team of Andrea Scaglione, Andrew Ladden, and Bill Davaris created the tagline "Wanta Fanta!" Fanta is a brand of fruit-flavored carbonated soft drinks created by Coca-Cola Deutschland under the leadership of German businessman Max Keith.There are more than 100 flavors worldwide. [16], The comedian Gabriel Iglesias has made references to Fanta having a substantial fan base in India and Mexico. The drink was heavily marketed in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. "Wanta Fanta?" [3], The plant was cut off from Coca-Cola headquarters following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
“Fanta Shokata” (a wordplay between “soc” -elderberry in Romanian- and “shock”) based on an elderflower blossom extract drink, traditional in Romania (where it is called Socată), Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and other Balkan countries. Fanta originated as a Coca-Cola substitute during the American trade embargo of Nazi Germany, which affected the availability of Coca-Cola ingredients, in 1940; the current version was created in Italy. Following the launch of several drinks by the Pepsi corporation in the 1950s, Coca-Cola relaunched Fanta in 1955.
There are more than 90 flavors worldwide. During the Second World War, the US established a trade embargo against Germany—making the export of Coca-Cola syrup difficult. [5], The orange Fanta of today was produced for the first time in Italy, in Naples, in 1955, when a local bottling plant started producing it using locally sourced oranges.[6][7][8].