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* [[Image Boards|Anonymous]] '''''really''''' likes to do this to anyone who even so much as makes one stupid decision on the internet, especially if said person responds to any one of them. Yet another good reason [[Just Ignore It|not to feed the trolls]].

* Coca Cola is still ridiculed over New Coke. This despite the fact that the original Coke was already losing ground to Pepsi at the time, and that New Coke used the same formula as Diet Coke which was also outselling the original. Or that they switched back less than three months later due to the backlash. Apparently the stupidest thing a company can do is go with what looks like a good idea by the research and then quickly correct their mistake when it doesn't work.

* Pepsi has had a hard time shaking off the "Number Fever" or "[[Arc Number|349]]" incident in the [[Philippines]] where what was to be a run-of-the-mill sales promotion intended to boost sales of the cola brand–which was being [[Curb Stomp Battle|outsold three to one]] by arch-rival Coca-Cola (a minuscle 4% for Pepsi compared to around 96% for Coke)–ended up in [[Serious Business|a series of protests and deadly riots]] from those let down by Pepsi's promises of quick fortunes in a country plagued by widespread poverty and still reeling from the aftermath of the EDSA Revolution and subsequent calamities. Pepsi executives and employees got death threats, and as if the outrage wasn't enough, cargo trucks carrying PepsiCo products were torched, turtled or otherwise vandalised. The cause? An computer oversight leading to over 800 thousand bottle caps stamped with the winning number 349, and while only two of them were the intended winners as distinguished with a unique security code, the resulting number combination led droves of people to believe Pepsi owes them a million pesos. Pepsi managed to weasel out of the case in what was a typical protracted legal battle in the Philippines, but they still end up playing second fiddle to the dominant Coke.<ref>[https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/558202/pepsi-number-fever-promotion-failure-philippines The Computer Error That Led to a Country Declaring War on Pepsi]</ref>

* On top of the previous incident with religious groups calling for a boycott over their use of the controversial [[Madonna]] single "Like A Prayer" whose use of Christian iconography alarmed the [[Vatican]], Pepsi has had a hard time shaking off the "Number Fever" or "[[Arc Number|349]]" incident in the [[Philippines]] where what was to be a run-of-the-mill sales promotion intended to boost sales of the cola brand–which was being [[Curb Stomp Battle|outsold three to one]] by arch-rival Coca-Cola (a minuscle 4% for Pepsi compared to around 96% for Coke)–ended up in [[Serious Business|a series of protests and deadly riots]] from those let down by Pepsi's promises of quick fortunes in a country plagued by widespread poverty and still reeling from the aftermath of the EDSA Revolution and subsequent calamities. Pepsi executives and employees got death threats, and as if the outrage wasn't enough, cargo trucks carrying PepsiCo products were torched, turtled or otherwise vandalised. The cause? An computer oversight leading to over 800 thousand bottle caps stamped with the winning number 349, and while only two of them were the intended winners as distinguished with a unique security code, the resulting number combination led droves of people to believe Pepsi owes them a million pesos. Pepsi managed to weasel out of the case in what was a typical protracted legal battle in the Philippines, but they still end up playing second fiddle to the dominant Coke.<ref>[https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/558202/pepsi-number-fever-promotion-failure-philippines The Computer Error That Led to a Country Declaring War on Pepsi]</ref>

* Vauxhall, for creating the odd-looking (at the time) 1980 Vauxhall Astra, which is an automobile now [[Vindicated by History]], but [[Convicted by Public Opinion]] at the time. Nevertheless, it sold well enough.

* [[wikipedia:Freedom fries|The one incident]] where the cafeterias of the US Congress and certain eating establishments in the US renamed French fries to "Freedom fries" and French toast to "Freedom toast". Because France didn't want to help them in the Iraq War. The world is NOT going to let America forget this.