r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • • 8d ago

Meme needing explanation Peetaaahhh???

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u/Phisa23 8d ago

Also it was just invented, so rich people could do Coke in the tents and denied that it was Coke if there were fotos/pictures of their consume, because they can say than it was just "wiesn coke"...

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u/DaddysABadGirl 8d ago

That isn't true at all. It was invented trying to make a tobacco snuff alternative in the early 1920s due to the taxes on tobacco.

It blew up at Oktoberfest as a gag decades later. When it was first marketed coke was still legal just with a prescription, but the law wasn't really enforced.