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Do You Remember Tom’s Commercial For Pepsi…Kona?
Monday, March 8th, 2010If you missed it yesterday, please scroll down to see the video of Tom and Sammy Davis, Jr.
Several years ago Pepsi briefly marketed a product called Pepsi Kona. As the name tells us, it was a combination of Pepsi and Kona coffee.
The product, produced in a Pepsi plant in the Philadelphia area, was test-marketed in a few places on the east coast. Couldn’t find an exact date but, if this really was a commercial, it looks like the late 1990s or early part of this century.
Pepsi Kona was pulled as, apparently, the consensus was that it tasted terrible. But the commercial is clever and fun.
If anyone knows about this, please email me using the contact link at right so I can post the info where all can see it.
You can watch the commercial here.
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March 8th, 2010 at 4:17 am
What a treasure that video is of Sir Tom and the great late Sammy Davis Jr – thanks so much!!
March 8th, 2010 at 11:47 am
I think the Internet said that it was given out of trucks to people somewhere around 1996. I don’t remember it in my area (NC) though. Sounds terrible, but after watching Tom’s commercial, I would have tried it anyway!
March 8th, 2010 at 12:24 pm
Pam: It was only distributed in the northeast — PA and NJ — but the dates I’ve found vary from the mid-90s to about 2000.
March 8th, 2010 at 4:05 pm
that advert is so random.ha.