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Coke or Pepsi? It's all in your head.

EminenceGrise said:
I've noticed a similar thing when I've been in Canada - Sprite in Canada does not taste the same as Sprite in the US. And I don't live near a bottling plant. I think they muck with the formulas a bit for the various markets, to better match the local palette. I seem to remember seeing a TV show where they talked about it; it wasn't a big secret or anything, but it wasn't widely known either.
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Hmmm, actually that may be possible. When I was at Disney World a couple of years ago, they had a gift store setup for Coke. There was this small fountain where you can get a sampling of Coke (or Coke products, cannot remember) in other countries. Some of the things were really whacky. Like one country's Coke was basically like Sprite. Another was this pink soda that had a watermelon flavor. Fun stuff.

krimson, what's special about a Koscher Coke?
 
krimson said:
Frostyfries! that's great and so much easier than saying Fries dipped in Shake. Im gonna have to borrow that term :)
most people i've met have never tried it, and are usually disgusted at the thought, until they try it.

kinda like pepper/ketchup and fries
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That's just nasty. :D How can you ruin good potatoes by putting nasty sauces or chocolate on them? The furthest I'll go is seasoned fries.

By the way, glad to see that someone else has seen Audition. That was bizarre.
 
bousozoku said:
That's just nasty. :D How can you ruin good potatoes by putting nasty sauces or chocolate on them? The furthest I'll go is seasoned fries.

By the way, glad to see that someone else has seen Audition. That was bizarre.
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One of my favorite movies, by one of my favorite directors, when I heard of the R1 release, i pre-ordered as soon as i could find it :)


applekid said:
krimson, what's special about a Koscher Coke?
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it's made with sugar not corn syrup. tastes much better, and the bubbles aren't as large, so you dont get the throat burn if you drink it too fast. (strange to mention, i know)
 
bousozoku said:
I wonder if they could tell me why Coca-Cola makes it harder for me to sleep than Mountain Dew, since the latter has more caffeine added.
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heh- try "jolt", then try and sleep, and if you fall asleep quickly it's definitely not the caffeine in coke that's keeping you from sleeping ;)...
 
The interesting thing here, is that Coke is made from cane sugar while Pepsi uses corn syrup. While Pepsi is about 30% cheaper, most people still prefer Coke....

I remember that around 5 years ago, there was a huge strike that made sugar almost triple in price and Coca-Cola started using corn syrup... good thing it only lasted for 2-3 months.
 
applekid said:
Hmmm, actually that may be possible. When I was at Disney World a couple of years ago, they had a gift store setup for Coke. There was this small fountain where you can get a sampling of Coke (or Coke products, cannot remember) in other countries. Some of the things were really whacky. Like one country's Coke was basically like Sprite. Another was this pink soda that had a watermelon flavor. Fun stuff.
::snip::
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The thing at Disney is still there, I think it'll be there for a long time. The soda fountains are to sample sodas from other cultures. The sodas weren't their "versions" of coke, but rather their cultures' sodas which Americans might find odd, much in the same way France (for example) might think Dr. Pepper is pretty messed up.
 
Laslo Panaflex said:
Wow, what a great use of an fMRI machine, to find out why people like Coke instead of Pepsi, and yet, still no cure for Cancer or AIDS (not like a fMRI machine helps but the money and time to use it does).
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You said it, brother. Particularily, with all these pseudo-medical break throughs that the needy won't ever need, the US still doesn't have a public health care system out of all the other first world nations.
 
cheekyspanky said:
I can taste the difference between Coke and Pepsi, I rather Coke, but if one is much cheaper than the other thats the one I'll buy.
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Same here. A 1.5 litre bottle of Pepsi is 99c, and Coke is $1.65 :eek:
Actually, I tend to buy Mountain Dew at 99c instead of Pepsi ;)
 
Cadence said:
One of the main reasons why Coca Cola is #1 is because McDonald's carries them. If McDs's switched to Pepsi, Pepsi would be the new #1 soda.
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actually it is impossible here to get pepsi in a restaurant...even burger king serves coca cola (last tiem i were in one)

here you have to go into special stores to even get pepsi (etc.)

prices for pepsi is ranging from 99 euro cent to 49 cent for 2 liter bottles
coca cola is about twice as much

mountain dew is not available except some pit stops across the border
 
musicpyrite said:
Yea, coke and pepsi are nasty.

Loaded with sugar. (except for diet coke/pepsi, in which case are loaded with aspritame)

I prefer milk.
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Coke is too sweet. Aspartame makes me get the jitters (like my mom), a cold Pepsi once in a while is great, milk is for babys. :)
There is a difference between Coke and Pepsi, but it's pretty subtle.
Most anything in moderation is fine. Enjoy whatever you choose. (Except Clamato, which is swill flavored with dead shellfish)
 
musicpyrite said:
Yea, coke and pepsi are nasty.

Loaded with sugar. (except for diet coke/pepsi, in which case are loaded with aspritame)

I prefer milk.
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i think milk is worse for you, although I don't drink any of the mentioned beverages. Loaded with antibiotics, growth hormones, casein proteins which leach calcium from your body, actually causing osteoperosis and bone density loss. The idea that milk is good for you is a marketing ploy by the immense dairy industry in the US (and West Europe, to a lesser extent) Look at the osteoperosis rates in Asia and Africa, where consumption of cow's milk is virtually zero...

you heard it here first.
 
PBGPowerbook said:
::snip:: The idea that milk is good for you is a marketing ploy by the immense dairy industry in the US ::snip::
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Aside the osteoporosis rates (which could be attributed to their massively different diet) do you have any sources to back that up? I'm interested in hearing more.

/Wisconsinite
 
PBGPowerbook said:
i think milk is worse for you, although I don't drink any of the mentioned beverages. Loaded with antibiotics, growth hormones, casein proteins which leach calcium from your body, actually causing osteoperosis and bone density loss. The idea that milk is good for you is a marketing ploy by the immense dairy industry in the US (and West Europe, to a lesser extent) Look at the osteoperosis rates in Asia and Africa, where consumption of cow's milk is virtually zero...

you heard it here first.
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This is only partial. You are correct that milk is loaded with all that junk, especially terrible are the rBGH or rBST, as well as antibiotics because the hormones cause the cattle to sick and produce puss in their udder and hardening and enlarging their udder due to infection. This only affects the United States, not Canada where bovine growth hormones of any kind is banned. The united states right now is paying farmers to NOT produce milk due to a huge surplus. Osteoperosis is especially evident in the European and descendants population due to their genetic make up (a good read up on this yields many similar issues), where the culture traditionally calls for drinking milk, removing it definitely would not help, more than a certain amount per day doesn't help either, infact, the recent development of a huge increase in people becoming resistant to antibiotics and mutated super bacteria/virii is a result of the general population consuming antibiotics in their daily diet. This indeed is marketing ploy/scam, for some more information refer to the documentary movie "The Corporation". As well, most things we think we need are all manufactured needs, for this refer to "Manufacturing Consent" where Noam Chomsky covers this topic. Believe it or not, a typical north american's life is so full of these types of scams its really hard to pinpoint what the underlying problem is, which I won't go into here.
 
takao said:
actually it is impossible here to get pepsi in a restaurant...even burger king serves coca cola (last tiem i were in one)
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Over here, McD's, BK and Subway have Coke, and KFC and Pizza Hut have Pepsi.
 
Nermal said:
Over here, McD's, BK and Subway have Coke, and KFC and Pizza Hut have Pepsi.
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Being that Pizza Hut, KFC, Taco Bell, A&W, and Long John Silver's are all part of a subsidiary of Pepsi, it's no wonder they serve Pepsi products there. :)
 
Nermal said:
Same here. A 1.5 liter bottle of Pepsi is 99c, and Coke is $1.65 :eek:
Actually, I tend to buy Mountain Dew at 99c instead of Pepsi ;)
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Here in the Boston area it's Coke that is on sale week after week. So that is what my wife buys. If and when Pepsi is on sale then my wife would happily purchase Pepsi. :D
 
Coke, Pepsi, No Thank You :)

Follow this logic: Coke C2, with half the carbs and sugars of a regular Coke. :rolleyes:

Yeah, that's nice. Atkins friendly, not likely.

F*ck Coke and Pepsi; I drink Safeway Select and Sam's Colas -- half the price. :p
 
chanoc said:
Follow this logic: Coke C2, with half the carbs and sugars of a regular Coke. :rolleyes:

Yeah, that's nice. Atkins friendly, not likely.

F*ck Coke and Pepsi; I drink Safeway Select and Sam's Colas -- half the price. :p
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Giant, the local supermarket carries 2 store brand colas. One called Rally and the other one spin. One in a red can, one in a blue. One tastes like pepsi, the other like coke.

I typically prefer coke but there are times when I want an RC.
 
wdlove said:
Here in the Boston area it's Coke that is on sale week after week. So that is what my wife buys. If and when Pepsi is on sale then my wife would happily purchase Pepsi. :D
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Stop Americanising my spelling :eek: :p
 
I don't like either of the Big Two. When it comes to soda (no, not "pop") I go straight for the Dr. Pepper. That is some gooooooood stuff. :D

Is Coca-Cola seriously made with cane sugar? Why do I doubt that? I believe both Pepsi and Coke use high-fructose corn syrup. Of course, some local markets have different blends. For example, Dr. Pepper uses high-fructose corn syrup nationwide, but in Texas, it purportedly (I heard about this from several independent sources, but can't confirm) uses cane sugar, which makes the taste better. Maybe this is also the case with Coke and/or Pepsi?

For caffeine, I usually down a Mocha Frappuccino, though if I want to pull two all-nighters in a row, I down a Red Bull. Seriously, my body is SO sensitive to that stuff. One night, I downed one at around 1 am, and didn't fall asleep for the next 40 hours, I kid you not.

Yes, milk does indeed rule. Does milk really contains proteins which leach calcium? Even juice companies keep saying "Contains the same amount of calcium as one glass of milk" in their ads. Are they just inadvertently (or out of necessity) spreading the marketing ploy? Damn cow people.
 
Hah, yeah, that was posted a while back. Though oddly enough, I still don't find it all that insightful.
 
personly I can noticed the diffence bettween the 2. Cokecola is just slightly more acidic and not as sweet. Either way I perfer pesi over cokea cola.
 
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