Dr Pepper is a “native Texan,” originating at Morrison’s Old Corner
Drug Store. It is the oldest of the major brand soft drinks in America.
Quick everybody, stop driving Volkswagon and BMW... stop going to the hospital if they use Siemens equipment. Stop using any elevator made by ThyssenKrupp.
re: “German family that owns U.S. brands Krispy Kreme and Dr Pepper had ‘disgusting’ Nazi past”
IF this gets them “all wound up”, don’t EVEN mention old ‘Joe’ Kennedy and Nazis ...
Isn’t Panera Bread involved in Krispy Kreme doughnuts? Didn’t they acquire them a couple of years ago?
Fanta was actually created in Nazi Germany out of a necessity due to an embargo of ingredients for other sodas.
So now that’s TWO Nazi brands in the pop section.
Dr Pepper is a “native Texan,” originating at Morrison’s Old Corner
Drug Store. It is the oldest of the major brand soft drinks in America.
Dunkin Donuts is French owned.
This as a funny history of the Founder who was born in KY. It reads like a country bumpkin wrote it. https://researchpedia.info/vernon-rudolph-founder-of-krispy-kreme-doughnuts/
I bought a German watch produced by the Junkers family carrying the name and logo of the aircraft manufacturer at Frankfurt’s duty free shop. I was thinking to myself how is this possible when I associate Junkers with the JU-87 dive bomber. The Junkers family has zero association with the Nazis. The founder of the Junkers aircraft company had his creation expropriated with zero compensation by the Nazis.
What about Baer and Volkswagen - two companies that managed to move on from their NAZI past? Even many in the America First movement were motivated by contracts they had with German chemical and industrial companies.
And the Bayer (aspirin) company made Zyklon B...
I would venture to guess most of the German Nazis corporate and family legacy stayed intact with few exceptions and benefited greatly through the Marshal Plan.
Well I had one grandfather kill a bunch of Nazis and another in the Pacific theater killing a bunch of Japanese. Does that give me the pass to buy Krispy Kreme and Sony? :)
Some of these journalists are stupid beyond belief and are just stirring crap to do so. Ever ride in an elevator? Dover elevators are owned by Thyssen-Krupp and those two companies’ owners financed the Nazis from the start in 1934 and profited during WWII and didn’t miss a beat when Germany was defeated. The Thyssens were tight with ole’ Goebbels, Goring, and Adolph.
Big hairy deal. The Bayer aspirin company (Bayer AG) is the only surviving element of the IG Farben company, which made Zyklon B cyanide gas the Nazis used in the extermination centers.
The occupying powers...
And the Federal Republic...
Have had decades.
If any of the present owners were over 18 in 1945, maybe there's still time to take a crack at 'em. No one younger and certainly no one born after that year.
I don’t believe in the Sins of the Fathers. I don’t believe in punishing the children for the crimes predecessors committed.
If JAB just bought Krispy Kreme in 2016 and the last Nazi died in 1978, that is 38 years later. That is like blaming a white guy because his grandfather owned slaves.
Einstein’s? Bruegers? Panera? Krsipy Kreme? Where the **** am I supposed to go for breakfast???
And BMW and Volkswagon and Porsche and every other German company that existed 75 years ago.