School Tours to The Coca Cola Factory

RandolphEsq

Everyone went on one of these! And there was always this feeling of "wow the Coke factory" although it was more hype than actual awe
And of course, the story of the history and pop quiz where cans of Coke were given as prizes. Clever to make kids learn about coke!

Ruu_Old

My brother had stories of it for me, we didn't get to go when I got to his year. He went around us for weeks saying "Give that man a can of Coke!"

sitstill

We never got to go on one :-( But the stories I've heard about those trips!!

spiderman1885

Give that man a can of Coke! The best bit was that always the closest school to you had just been there the week before and they were always one point up going into the last question when it was worth 2 points! Brilliant!


Story was confirmed by the people in the other school a few years later as we all went to the same secondary school!

Mr.Lizard

I remember vividly the guy who did the "give that man a can of coke line" when we were there (I reckon 1987?) was named Stephen. The reason I remember is because there was one guy in our class (thick-as-****) who didn't a answer a question to get his can so yer man ended up giving him a can just because they had the same name.

Enjoyable school tour all the same. Remember getting some sort of pencil case on the way home (can you guess what what plastered all over it?).

Jip

We did both the Coca-Cola factory and the C&C one as part of summer projects rather than school tours. The C&C one was better and I can still viivdly remember the smell of the place. On of the main reasons it was better was because you got more free stuff, I remember having one of those Gola bags that are all retro cool these days and going home one day with it full of the old style drinks bottles.

dylbert

Mr.Lizard wrote: »

I remember vividly the guy who did the "give that man a can of coke line" when we were there (I reckon 1987?) was named Stephen.

did he have really bad teeth?, I remember thinking it was because he drank too much coke

sillyputty

Never got a tour of the Coke Factory but being from Dundalk i got a school tour of the Harp Lager Brewery, the smell of hops was completely overwhelming i swore drinking was not for me......

Dartz

Old Coke Guy wrote:

Give that man a can of coke!

What I most remember about the place. That, and a bottle going off like a bomb.

unreggd

The coke goes around on the "convehher-bult"

Give that man a can of coke!!

I remember it bein sticky and smellin like crap!

And I got a coke can style parer, was a great parer so twas!!

Do they still do them tours??

Dave H

Yeah, I remember going on that aswell. The "give that man a can of coke" seemed like a smashing chap, until he followed us out to bus giving out that someone had walked chewing gum all over the carpet in the room where he'd ask the questions.By Jaysis, he was a narky funker when he was riled up.
We all sat there stunned while he gave us an almighty bo11icking, but our teacher made it better on the way home by saying "Don't mind him, he's probably just a coke addict."

Redzer7

Ah These Were The Days All Them Coke Questions
If You Got 1 Right, " Does EveryOne Think Hes Right? Yes Hes Right Give That Man A Coke :pac:

Pigwidgeon

i remember going there. we barely even looked around the actual factory though, spent most of the time in that room with the questions.
got loads of free cans of coke and sprite though
can't really see it happening these days, seeing as a lot of schools have banned sweets and fizzy drinks!

Jesus Wept

The heard of these famed school tours just last year so I sent coke an email last July. :mad::(:mad:

From: <snip>
Sent: 22 July 2008 08:07
To: info@coca-colabottlers.com
Subject: Factory Tour plz?

Dear Coca-Cola,

My lady friend was regaling me with the joyful story of the time when she visited The Coca-Cola Factory (Naas Road, Dublin) on a school trip some years ago. (We are in our early 20's now).
She exclaimed gleefully how much fun it was to learn all about the Coca-Cola story first hand, and to see Coca-Cola being made and about the fond memories she has of a man asking questions and then shouting 'Give that girl a can of coke!' when she got the answer correct. She said it was like a modern day Willie Wonka and the Chocolate factory, with less oompa-loompas.

Unfortunately none of my schools ever organised such a trip, and hence, 12 years of education became a complete and utter bust.
May We come visit your Coca-Cola factory to reclaim our youths (lost, in my case)?

Yours Sincerely,

<my name>




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From: Ann Marie Brennan <ambrennan@fexco.com>
To: <my email>
Date: 22 July 2008 09:59
Subject: RE: Factory Tour plz?
Mailed-by: fexco.com

Dear <name>,

Thank you for your email which was forwarded to my desk for handling.
Unfortunately tours to the factory are not available anymore.

Kind Regards,
Ann Brennan,
Consumer Advisory Service.




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From: <snip>
Sent: 22 July 2008 10:09
To: info@coca-colabottlers.com
Subject: Re: Factory Tour plz?



I'm switching to Pepsi.

:-/

gollyitsolly

Thats right,tours are no longer available because they closed the factory over a year ago and moved up to Antrim. Over 200 men and women lost their jobs her.

Mr.Lizard

gollyitsolly wrote: »

Over 200 men and women lost their jobs .

So towards the end it was more a case of "Give that man the can"?

gollyitsolly

Mr.Lizard wrote: »

So towards the end it was more a case of "Give that man the can"?

Yeah. Sneaky move by coke up north where wages are less. Ive heard their sales are WAY down which goes to show there is better coke in Dublin1:D.

TGi666

i rember back in 98 in at the end of march we were told that we "could" be coing on a trip to the coke factory then we here the date for the tour was the 1st of april i rember the dissapointment thinking it was a april fool but was a bit of a shock seeing a coca-cola but outside the school

Mimikyu

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RaverRo808

Ahh the coke factory,twas 1994 when I was there,think was 3rd class,you walk in expecting a Willy Wonka style factory and all you get is this bland horrible smelly kip,that packages something that tastes good,but you know is very bad for you,'give that man a can of coke' man,what a ropey looking bloke to be parading kids around

Lockstep

I think Ballina have a coke factory.

I used to go out with a girl who's dad worked there or something.

Poutbutton

I never got to go there we [Presentation convent :rolleyes:] went to the museum or art gallery or natural history museum [stuffed dead things :eek:] or the botanical gardens, once we went to the cinema and got a double bill of tom Thumb and then the Wizard of Oz now in those days that was something else! 6th class used to get to go on the boat to the Isle of Man for a day, that ended when my older sisters year went and some youngone drank Shandy and the other kids ratted her out and the nuns thought it was booze tch typical right before our turn think we ended up going to a bog instead & on the way back the bus driver noting our boredom told us all to stand up and put our hands on the windows while he parked outside this delapedated house, he said it was haunted & someone had been murdered there, then he said "concentrate girls, are you all touching the glass?......can you feel the..........pane?" the things you remember.......was there any alcohol content in shandy by the way?

Scrambled egg

Give that man a can of coke ... Ahh the memories lol

missymusic

ha ha "Give that girl a can o coke"- brings back memories we went so many times in our school every year as one of the tours... i loved it you always got pencil case, ruler, can of coke parer and rubber i had these floating about until my college days! good times:P

Fozzydog3

missymusic wrote: »

ha ha "Give that girl a can o coke"- brings back memories we went so many times in our school every year as one of the tours... i loved it you always got pencil case, ruler, can of coke parer and rubber i had these floating about until my college days! good times:P

They always broke for me

Tchaikovsky

Ah, one of my favourite school trip places; up there with the zoo when they had that dinosaur exhibition.

Greenmachine

I never got to go. Changed school in fifth class and it was always the 6th class group that went as a rule.

bonerm

Trying to work out exactly where this factory was but there is some confusion. Could anyone tell me exactly where it was located? For some reason I had this idea it was located in Balbriggan but am happy to stand corrected. Was it somewhere on the way to Balbriggan perhaps?

Bigtoe107

It was on the nass road, across from the red cow

BluesBerry

In 5th class we went to the coca cola factory We all got a coca cola pencil case and a pencil plus a can of coke

One girl in our class the swot answered most of the questions and got most of the cans :mad: but everyone got a complimentary one

ChopShop

Also never went.


Plenty of trips to the traffic school off Alfie Byrne road tho.

wernstrom!

wernstrom! wrote: »

Also never went.


Plenty of trips to the traffic school off Alfie Byrne road tho.

Never went to it either but my brother did. As soon as I read the thread title I thought "Give that man a can of Coke!" and seems I'm not alone there.

L1011

kickoutthejams wrote: »

I think Ballina have a coke factory.

Just makes the goop they convert in to liquid coke in the bottling factory - its the bottling plant that the tours were in.

I managed to go in the only tour my school got for years - the 6th years for about half a decade before never got to go, and I don't think any others did after us either. Brought there in a Coke-branded ex Dublin Bus bus and all.

Irishpimpdude

Thought i was great getting loads of cans of coke on this tour back in primary school laughing at the stupid people with no cans, then your man turns into gay byrne and its like 'And guess what theres a can of coke for everyone in the audience' :rolleyes: