Poll: Coke Vs Pepsi

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You should watch this programme that was on BBC last week:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b010tbnd/Business_Nightmares_with_Evan_Davis_Doomed_Designs/

One of the sections in it was about New Coke and how, when Coca Cola launched a new product that most people preferred in blind taste tests, it absolutely flopped when launched in public.

Beat me too it

 

[Darkman]

Sodastream cola every time made with RO water


Coke and Pepsi are too gassy imho.

 

[vicisthebest]

Pepsi!

More specifically, Pepsi Max!

 

[snowdog]

Pepsi Max everything, Coke is too sour.

Isn't that sugar free ?

Ugh, diet coke makes me feel sick, it tastes like nothing. Can't see how people can drink that crap every day, or even not taste the difference between diet and normal Cola...

 

[POB]

Isn't that sugar free ?

Ugh, diet coke makes me feel sick, it tastes like nothing. Can't see how people can drink that crap every day, or even not taste the difference between diet and normal Cola...

Yes sugar free, I think there is extra caffeine as well, it tastes amazing, so sweet and syrupy.

 

[V1nny]

definitely coke for me

 

[buchtis]

Coke. Pepsi tastes too sweet to me even though both have stupid amounts of sugar in.

 

[dannyjo22]

Isn't that sugar free ?

Ugh, diet coke makes me feel sick, it tastes like nothing. Can't see how people can drink that crap every day, or even not taste the difference between diet and normal Cola...

I hated diet coke the first few weeks of drinking it. It doesn't take long to aclimatise to it and then you can never go back.

The only thing I use full fat coke for now is too remove oil stains from my block paving if I get a leak/spill. Nothing removes it like coke will, not even the cleaners designed to remove oil stains

 

[Gribs]

Normal Coke for me. Diet and Pepsi are far to sweet.

 

[Hastarius]

I like both but if I had to choose it would be Coke.

 

[Tute]

For me, it entirely depends on my mood. I think I prefer the taste of Pepsi on the whole, but it's really close.

I don't drink either at home mind, I seem to have developed a liking for Drench instead (I know, I know, sugar galore etc).

 

[fewfe3]

i vote coke, but pepsi max on days when i want to feel more healthy, dont like diet coke or zero

 

[danza]

Tesco American Premium Cola > Coke/Pepsi, but in this instance Pepsi wins. The daddy of all colas is Fentimans.

 

[Burnsy2023]

Actually you are completely wrong. There was a program on BBC last week about the very subject.

The pepsi challenge was slaughtering coke in blind taste tests, cokes own tests proved dispite being the market leader people preferred the taste of pepsi. So they assumed they had a problem they altered the taste of coke to a flavour people preferred.

I saw the same program and I think you're making conclusions that the programme didn't make. The Pepsi challenge was not empirical proof that people preferred Pepsi. It was a taste taste performed by Pepsi and so is hugely biased. It did, however, put massive marketing pressure on Coca Cola.

Secondly, the programme only proved that the brand of coke is hugely important, not that people don't prefer the taste.

 

[Oynas]

Definitely Coke for me. In fact, I think I might have a mild addiction to Coke Zero.

 

[gjrc]

Coke. Pepsi sucks.

No poll required.

 

[Gilly]

I'd disagree with you there Gilly, the brand image is hugely important to the success of coke. Some people may prefer the taste, but don't disregard that many, many people buy the stuff primarily due to advertising and the brand culture.

I'm not denying that it has an impact, but when someone makes a blank statement they believe to be fact when there is a very discernible difference between two products, I call it rubbish

 

[rG-tom]

i swing between the two, whichever ive had the least of recently i prefer! need a both option

 

[Burnsy2023]

I'm not denying that it has an impact, but when someone makes a blank statement they believe to be fact when there is a very discernible difference between two products, I call it rubbish

Which is a fair point. I can taste the difference although I don't have a preference. I was just questioning your equally blank statement As normal the truth lies somewhere in between.

 

[Crixus00]

Diet Pepsi or Max.