10 Conspiracy Theories That People Are No Longer Believing
9. Snapple Is KKK-Owned And Operated
It's often hard to pin down why a conspiracy theory didn't catch or fell by the wayside, however this one is a fairly obvious example. Often, when a conspiracy theory hinges on little more than a single clue that is extrapolated beyond recognition, it starts to fall apart. It's also another that's supported by some very scant evidence.
Take the Snapple label. You'll notice a little circled K somewhere on each bottle. On certain products, that K rests above what is said to be a slave ship, a wink to their corporate Klansman masters.
Not that it really matters, but the K is in fact on a lot of products including Dr. Pepper. It means Kosher.
The origins of this appear to stem from a 1992 rumour that also implied ties to South African apartheid leaders and the pro-life group Operation Rescue.
Leonard Marsh, then president of the company, chuckled at first. "We thought they would go away, but they didn't," he reflected grimly, parroting basically every disaster movie villain. But you gotta hand it to Marsh and his two co-founders: once they realized it was an issue, they played it smartly.
“How could three Jewish boys from Brooklyn support the Ku Klux Klan?” they said during an MTV interview, making iced tea cool for the first time.
If you do look at the particular label in question (raspberry iced tea), it can look suspect. A quick glance of an etching of the Boston Tea Party probably would.