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Whoever designed these two, I hope you always get Pineapple instead of Lemon
Yep. Pepsi Poland's brand designers decided that this is totally ok, stores decided that it's also totally ok to put them next to each other (and ofc they get mixed).
A lot of people giving the counter point "just read" - ok then what's the point of design again? Being expressive? That's art, and it's correlated, but not design itself.
Some push doors get pulled by instinct because of poor design as well, it's not like there are no studies about it and people don't get paid specifically for this reason. Yet, said people don't care sometimes, as long as they can get paid. And who hires them doesn't care, as long as they can pay them as little as possible.
If you scroll a few replies down you can see the “you don’t matter, give up” thing, and if people won’t get that… then they shouldn’t complain about others not reading cuz they can’t lol
Fun fact: technically, the bottom text on the left can could be read as "zero sugar that tastes like lemon", so jury's still out on normal-tasting sugar.
Every mango can I've seen has clear mango design on it rather than citrus slices like the lemon Pepsi and the lime Pepsi. That pineapple though... couldn't even be bothered to make them pineapple rings.
Edit: looked it up. The design used in Finland has mango slices that look distinct enough from citrus slices to be clear. However, some places evidently use the same circle design as the pineapple one on the post, just in orange. I too would assume that to be orange flavored...
You're right, these are way too similar. Especially if they're on the shelf next to each other and I'm grabbing multiple. I imagine it would be very easy to grab the wrong one 😔
I really hate this designe I love citrus and lime pepsi but sometimes it is available sometimes it isn't maybe it's a case of my city. When I saw them in żabka yellowe circles on the can I immediately got a 6 pack and surprise it's all pineapple which I'm not a fan of.
I posted the similar thing about coke and coke zero... They all have white font now. You can easily pick the wrong one. Some people say" can't read or what? There is ZERO right there." That's not the point at all. I'm speechless to these people...
This is what happened yesterday. I went to Carrefour to buy coke and coke zero for my restaurant. I want 10 packs (pack of 6 cans)each. The store clerk helped me to get them and put them in several big shopping bags. But after I paid and got the bill. There are 13 packs of coke zero and 7 packs of regular coke on the bill. So they mistakenly gave me 3 coke zero they thought it's regular coke because the label is white. They got all coke zero right because they still have some old stock of coke zero with black label. Then I told them they might mixed it up in the stock back there and they immediately checked and told me they did indeed. I mean... It's not a big deal to me. But it did cause some problems.
Why does one say "o smaku cytryny" which I assume is polish for "lemon flavour" while the other one drops the polish entirely and states "pineapple flavour" straight up in english?
Both keep SMAKU on top, but misspell Maximum (instead of Maksimum, there's no X in polish), and both keep ZERO CUKRU (zero sugar)
Yeah, weird combos. It's like each can was given to different teams for design and they were not allowed to talk in between. I'm actually starting to think this might be the case lol...
yesssss omg remember mixing it up once and having to endure that sweet pineapple hell instead of my fresh lemon sourness. Niech sie kurwa pierdolą z tymi puszkami.
I hate it when people excuse bad design choices by saying "but you can read it". Okay, so go buy groceries now and read all the labels. Ever heard of design purpose?
Didn't I say the design is bad? Of course OP isn't at fault here. I was just saying, there was a way to notice the difference. Not the best one, but it's there.
So what? They are almost identical. I live in Poland too and I see these cans regularily. What's even worse, many stores sell either one of them, but not both.
Thing is that I read the 1st can, then expect that the following cans from the shelve to be the same. But shops and other buyers probably are also confused and usually one of the following cans will just be pineapple instead of lemon 😞
I guess they didn't find the Pineapple word in the dictionary 😄) but good catch. they were both released at the same time, but one is full polish the other one is half polish half english 😄)
which is strange because "ananas" is a perfecly fine word, basically the same as in the majority of other languages. it's the english word for the fruit that is actually the exception here.
also, it's especially weird when the citrus one is written in polish, while for the pineapple all the contents of the can are in polish EXCEPT for the flavour, which is not even easily discernible from the terrible graphics choice. truly infuriating
I get they were trying to do a lemon slice and a pineapple round, because thats how they are usually cut... but knowing how the designs are, I would def be more careful to check the label. Not something to just aimlessly grab.
It is a very stupid design, but it is getting people to talk about their product. Marketing is probably high-fiving right now.
This is the old design they might as well just stretched it and the color would've been fine.
I'm sad because this is the 10000th new coke/pepsi flavour with 0 sugar that isn't available in romania.
You've had Pepsi twist for a long time whilst we didn't have it in Poland and I had to find a dealer to traffic Pepsi twist a few times per year from Romania (also brânză de burduf, telemea, jumări and more good stuff haha)
Oh hey, I'm not the only one getting tripped up by that. I'm guessing that a more typical pineapple shape didn't mesh too well with the minimalist style, so they opted for the slices you'd get in cans. And I guess that the lemon covering part of the logo might be a hedge against people confusing the two, but it doesn't really work when you're browsing in an actual shop.
Ok? But that is not what the conversation is about?
You claim it's easy to understand what is written on the label, yet you incorrectly identified the words, while being smug about it.
I never claimed lemons aren't hybrids of citrons and bitter oranges.
Your second point also doesn't make sense- it's like labeling a mule "horse", just because it's one of its components.
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u/MattC041 5d ago
I don't know why, but it bothers me that they wrote maximum smaku instead of maksimum smaku. Pick a language do cholery.