🥤 Coca-Cola told parents it gave kids "vigor" (1950s)

Not a milkshake. Not orange juice. Coca-Cola.

Served at the family dinner table. Marketed to mothers as a source of energy and wholesome refreshment for their grade-schoolers.

This is a real campaign. It ran through the 1950s in mainstream US magazines — Life, Good Housekeeping, Saturday Evening Post. The framing was simple: postwar science had blessed the pause that refreshes, and your kid deserved a share of it.

Nobody asked about the sugar. Nobody asked about the caffeine. The ad just said vigor, and parents believed it.

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