But the foods Jacobson included in his traveling "Junk Food Hall of Shame" in 1979 — full-sugar Froot Loops and Coca-Cola, Pop Rocks, fried potato chips — are now banned from schools, discouraged by the government's Dietary Guidelines, and increasingly shunned by an ever more health-conscious public.
Hugo Chávez this week urged citizens to eschew the sugary pop of Coca-Cola for the sweet socialism of the state-run Corpozulia's grape juice.
The strict Soviet aesthetic of his childhood was obliterated in 1989, with the fall of the iron curtain: suddenly, there was pop music, Coca-Cola, Vogue magazine, a collage of clashing visuals.
On this particular day, t3k-9 stomped upstairs carrying his favorite hack snacks chocolate pop tarts, Coca-Cola and sour jawbreakers and went to his bedroom, where he booted up his computer and listened to the comforting squawk of his modem.
(See "Coca-Cola Enterprises Pops The Top").. Videogame retailer GameStop took a dive in trading after news that the chain's chief financial officer jumped to rival Wal-Mart.
How can you enjoy a childhood without toys or pop music or Coca-Cola or television?
And the pitch has an odd new roll call, with famous names from the four corners of the pop cultural map, Coca-Cola to Greta Garbo.
During Ms. Berman's tenure at Fox the network developed "American Idol," creating as much of a product placement phenomenon, with its integration of advertisers like Coca-Cola and Ford, as a pop culture one.
Nothing says POP like Andy Warhol's Coca-Cola image.
The Coca-Cola Company stopped using a Taiwanese pop star in its mainland advertising two years ago after she provoked an uproar by singing Taiwan's anthem at the inauguration of the island's president.
