Pepsi Has more cola taste

busterb • May 15, 2007 9:52 pm
I understand that I'm not real bright. Can someone help me about cola taste, so I'll know when I get more of it. WTF is cola taste? Please, I'm on my knees here worrying about this. HELP ME;)
Aliantha • May 15, 2007 10:02 pm
I don't drink the shit. Sorry I can't help you.
xoxoxoBruce • May 15, 2007 10:33 pm
Buster, the cola flavor comes from the African Kola nut.
So when it tastes like African nuts, you know you've got it.
busterb • May 15, 2007 10:43 pm
Aliantha;343800 wrote:
I don't drink the shit. Sorry I can't help you.
Well thanks.But that was not the question.
It's kinda like I asked at coffee shop, anyone want any cucumbers. Some some old, old man started on why he couldn't eat the sobs.
Damn me, I just if anyone wanted any. In that case a simple yes or no would have sufficed.
Thank, hell I can't spell the name at this moment. For the toon.
Aliantha • May 16, 2007 3:20 am
Whatever buster. I guess you've become the 'what aliantha can and can't say now' police.

I still don't drink the shit, and to answer your question, no I can't help you.

Doesn't look like anyone else can either. Sarcasm intended.
rkzenrage • May 16, 2007 4:13 am
Say it, sure, not a waste of anyone's time, especially not yours... thanks for all the help. LOL!

I think it has more cola taste as well.
Shawnee123 • May 16, 2007 8:24 am
I find you get the best Cola taste from the Coca-cola. Cola meaning " I don't care for Pepsi as much."


"Drinkin' rum and Coca-Cola
Go down Point Koomahnah
Both mother and daughter
Workin' for the Yankee dollar"

:)
Hime • May 16, 2007 11:59 am
Funny, my fiance just asked about that last night. The ad came on during House and he said "what's that supposed to mean? More cola taste? What's a cola taste?"

I guess it means that diet pepsi tastes more like regular (non-diet) cola than diet coke does... but it seems stupid to use a weird subjective term like that and then say that they did omg scientific! studies.
Happy Monkey • May 16, 2007 12:27 pm
Phosphoric acid, perhaps?
xoxoxoBruce • May 16, 2007 12:38 pm
Hime;343918 wrote:
but it seems stupid to use a weird subjective term like that and then say that they did omg scientific! studies.
It's perfect, nobody can dispute it or prove them wrong.
Shawnee123 • May 16, 2007 12:39 pm
Here is an article from Pepsico.

It's a funny article, because of this quote:
some talking face at Pepsico wrote:
We've always believed that Diet Pepsi had more cola taste than the other diet cola brand and now there's proof," said Cie Nicholson, SVP and chief marketing officer, Pepsi-Cola North America. "We're shining the light on this one basic, yet incredibly important fact in an ad campaign reminding people about the great taste of Diet Pepsi."


The article says the proof is that more consumers chose Diet Pepsi as having more cola taste.

Again, how are they defining more cola taste? Great subjectiveness, less scientific, to paraphrase another of the genre. To celebrate the success they handed "out more than three million samples of the newly designed cans in cities throughout the U.S. today."

It's a revisitation of the Pepsi Challenge, which meant nothing either.
glatt • May 16, 2007 12:57 pm
Shawnee123;343937 wrote:
It's a revisitation of the Pepsi Challenge, which meant nothing either.


Heres a little bit of trivia for you. At the time of the Pepsi challenge in the 80s, I was talking to the guy across the street who managed a grocery store. He told me that Coke was able to claim it's more popular, because its worldwide sales exceeded Pepsi's, but that it wasn't a fair comparison, because many of those sales were at restaurants and vending machines which do not offer a choice between the two. At the time, in stores that carried both products, Pepsi was the better seller of the two. So Pepsi wanted to be able to point out that more people choose Pepsi when they are given a choice, so Pepsi came up with the Pepsi challenge.

Then there was the whole New Coke debacle and the patriotic fervor that surrounded Classic Coke, and Coke actually experienced a huge bump in sales from that. I have no idea what is best selling now.

None of this matters when deciding what you want to drink. At least it doesn't matter unless you are a lemming.
Shawnee123 • May 16, 2007 1:02 pm
The New Coke debacle...I was discussing that last night. What a mistake, or was it? When the Classic Coke came "back" it sold like, um...hotcakes. The New Coke tasted more like Pepsi, so it must have been a quantity of "cola taste" thing.

I remember taking the Pepsi Challenge at King's Island in Cincinnati. I tried to purposely pick Coke because I'm partial to it. I was successful.

Other trivia: Somewhere between my love of Tab and my love of Diet Coke when it debuted there was a Pepsi Lite. It had half the calories but a touch of lemon flavoring. I liked that too.

Some years ago I would buy Tab if I saw it in the store just for the memories. A diet pop hater would REALLY hate that stuff, but I like it. Don't know if you can buy it any more.
elSicomoro • May 16, 2007 1:48 pm
I had a Pepsi a couple of weeks ago, and it just didn't taste very good to me. Then I had a bottle of my favoritest soda in the known universe--Dr. Pepper--and it too tasted like shit. As had a couple of bottles I had before that (not directly before, but you know what I mean). It was at this point that I came to the conclusion that I just don't have a taste for regular soda anymore and that there is no sense in my buying it in the foreseeable future.
busterb • May 17, 2007 5:50 pm
Aliantha;343843 wrote:
Whatever buster. I guess you've become the 'what aliantha can and can't say now' police.

I still don't drink the shit, and to answer your question, no I can't help you.

Doesn't look like anyone else can either. Sarcasm intended.


No Lady. That was just an aside from my old lame brain.
Elspode • May 18, 2007 12:09 am
I saw a really interesting show awhile back, a one hour special on the Cola Wars. It covered the history of both Pepsico and Coca Cola as corporations, starting with the invention of the beverages themselves. The two companies have been in head to head single combat for something like 90+ years now, with no letup in sight.

I wish I could remember what it was called or what channel carried it. I think it was simply "Cola Wars", but it was excellent.
xoxoxoBruce • May 18, 2007 2:11 pm
There is also a book called, "The Other Guy Blinked", by Pepsi CEO, Roger Enrico. The Cola Wars from Pepsi's point of view.
cowhead • May 18, 2007 3:00 pm
pffth! a pox on both houses! pepsi.. coke.. whatever.. near as I undrestand the 'cola' taste comes mostly from the evil the put into each and every can... just for you