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

I don't like coffee, but neither of these has as many medical uses as a pot of coffee -- especially when it come to cleaning out the lower GI tract.

So seeing doctors talk about Coke and Pepsi isn't too impressive to me.
 
Sun Baked said:
I don't like coffee, but neither of these has as many medical uses as a pot of coffee -- especially when it come to cleaning out the lower GI tract.

So seeing doctors talk about Coke and Pepsi isn't too impressive to me.
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coffee and medical uses don't belong in the same sentence. you want to clean out your GI tract? eat a vegetable. you want a legal alternative to speed? have a starbucks.
 
BrianKonarsMac said:
coffee and medical uses don't belong in the same sentence. you want to clean out your GI tract? eat a vegetable. you want a legal alternative to speed? have a starbucks.
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Some people skip the vegetables and go straight to the coffee enema.

But I can understand how some people would still love trying the vegetable anyways, even if they don't plan on eating it. :eek:
 
Did someone say enemas? :D


I am a sick sick bastard....


Anyways, I've always preferred Coke, but the 20 oz. bottles always seem to have more fizz than cans and the 2-liter bottles... :confused:
 
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Its nice too see medical funding going to something so useless. That being said, you can tell the difference, Coke has more of a carbonation and Pepsi is watered sugary and flat.
 
Timelessblur said:
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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Obviously, you DO notice the differences.

And I could never mistaken a Coke for a Pepsi. Coke is so much better.
 
Both taste OK out of a new bottle or can - both taste awful out of a dispenser. Sadly a lot of pubs here seem to think it's OK to give you that flat crap out of a dispenser then charge as much as a beer for it.
 
i dont especially like coke or pepsi anymore. i used to, but since they came out with C2 coke and pepsi just taste thick and gooey somehow...when i want a serious caffeine boost i eat one of those caffeinated chocolate chews from thinkgeek.com
 
i like neither coke nor pepsi. i prefer Barq's root beer. it's more subtly sweet and very carbonated then fizzles out.
 
I was always a coke drinker (I'd occassionaly drink Mt. Dew or Dr. Pepper or what-have-you) but in the last year I've switched to diet coke to cut back on the sugar - in doing so my preference for Coke over all other soda has grown even stronger.

If I have a choice of any soda... its going to be Diet Coke. Hands down.

Has anyone else experienced this? You drink coke and like coke.. but then when you switch to diet coke you want it even MORE than before?
 
cr2sh said:
Has anyone else experienced this? You drink coke and like coke.. but then when you switch to diet coke you want it even MORE than before?
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Oddly enough it happened the other way 'round for me. Used to drink diet coke, had a few 'full-fat' cokes then couldn't drink the diet. Not that I drink 'soda' that much anyway...I prefer beer :D
 
Diet Soda in general tastes like crap, its flat and tasteless, I like Coke over Pepsi, Coke has more carbonation as Pepsi seems like something is missing. I disagree about the tap, I think Coke and Pepsi both taste better out of the fountain.
 
In a blind taste test, not only can I tell a difference between canned coke and canned pepsi, but I can also tell a difference between the soda from the local Wendys, Taco Bell, Jack in the Box, Burger King and Subway. :p

If I recall correctly, I think Pepsi sells better in the US, but Coke sells a lot better world-wide.
 
cr2sh said:
I was always a coke drinker (I'd occassionaly drink Mt. Dew or Dr. Pepper or what-have-you) but in the last year I've switched to diet coke to cut back on the sugar - in doing so my preference for Coke over all other soda has grown even stronger.

If I have a choice of any soda... its going to be Diet Coke. Hands down.

Has anyone else experienced this? You drink coke and like coke.. but then when you switch to diet coke you want it even MORE than before?
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I have definitely noticed that too. Now that I have been drinking Diet Coke for several years, I can't stomach regular Coke. I have found that I also drink a lot more soft drinks now with the Diet Coke than I ever did with regular Coke.
 
I'm a soda lover. It doesn't matter which brand it is. But I'm picky on how the soda is served. I refuse soda from a dispenser, reluctantly accept soda from a can or a 2 liter bottle. If I have a choice, I will go for the 20 oz bottles. Always. They just taste so much better. It's like Pepsi and Coca-Cola put the soda they meant to make into 20 oz bottles, and the leftovers go into the cans and 2 liter bottles.
 
I don't really notice that much difference between Coke and Pepsi. Coke is the one that I drink the majority of time, because it is always on sale. During the iTunes campaign that was the most Pepsi that I drank since my childhood. Come on Pepsi and have some better sales than Coke.
 
MacNut said:
I disagree about the tap, I think Coke and Pepsi both taste better out of the fountain.
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I also agree. To me, soda tastes better when I get it from a restaurant or fast food joint.

Coke is "sharper" in taste and texture; Pepsi is softer and sweeter. I like both, and I'll drink any brand of cola without complaining. :cool:
 
Raven VII said:
I'm a soda lover. It doesn't matter which brand it is. But I'm picky on how the soda is served. I refuse soda from a dispenser, reluctantly accept soda from a can or a 2 liter bottle. If I have a choice, I will go for the 20 oz bottles. Always. They just taste so much better. It's like Pepsi and Coca-Cola put the soda they meant to make into 20 oz bottles, and the leftovers go into the cans and 2 liter bottles.
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Pepsi and Coca-Cola only sell they syrup that is mixed with the carbonated water. They offer incentives to bottlers to sell the larger oz sizes. Maybe the bottler is "adjusting" the mixture to make the 20oz taste better. You drink 20oz per serving instead of 12oz and the cola company sells more syrup. Also, this is why fountain sodas taste so different. Sometimes they use straight tap water. A properly calibrated fountain machine with filtered water will almost always taste better than bottled.
 
No one is going to stand up for Dr. Pepper?

By far the best.

I drink Coke & Pepsi to mix it up though. To behonest they are all beginning to taste the same...boring.

And Fountain is by far better.
 
Blue Velvet said:
I'm going through an intense smoothies phase.

There's a brand here in the UK called Innocent.

Absolutely no concentrate, preservatives, colours etc. just grape juice or bananas used as 'binder'

Seriously nice, but a bit expensive...

http://www.innocentdrinks.co.uk/us/us.html
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Try Marks and Spencer - their range is good and I think a bit cheaper.

Of course this study has two sides, the blind and not so blind taste testing. It was not really about the product but the power of advertising. the results are no great surprise - advertising works - wow. Obviously Coke adverts taste better than Pepsi adverts.
Basically 'My product may or may not be any good but you will buy it cus its been advertised'.
 
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