Taking Sides- Coca-Cola VS Pepsi

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

i think Pepsi sucks

― Christian Vasbotn Braaten (Christian Vasbotn Braaten), Friday, 8 August 2003 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i bet even Britney does

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 8 August 2003 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I agree; however, Pepsi is better with mixed drinks. (cf: jack/coke vs. jim/pepsi)

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 8 August 2003 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Coke. I drink a great deal.

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Friday, 8 August 2003 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

(Of coke.)

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Friday, 8 August 2003 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

pepsi may be greater with that when u look at vanilla coke eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww times 45636845

― Christian Vasbotn Braaten (Christian Vasbotn Braaten), Friday, 8 August 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

but i like everything From the coca cola company (been in Atlanta)

― Christian Vasbotn Braaten (Christian Vasbotn Braaten), Friday, 8 August 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

COKE is better

― Christian Vasbotn Braaten (Christian Vasbotn Braaten), Friday, 8 August 2003 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

i think Coke sucks (so does coke)

― oops (Oops), Friday, 8 August 2003 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

no matter what u say. terminating oops. Terminating complete

― Christian Vasbotn Braaten (Christian Vasbotn Braaten), Friday, 8 August 2003 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

coca-cola does make Mr. Pibb though, so I can't hate 'em too much

― oops (Oops), Friday, 8 August 2003 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

not accsepted terminating oops. terminating complete

― Christian Vasbotn Braaten (Christian Vasbotn Braaten), Friday, 8 August 2003 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

TS: malted battery acid vs. rival brand of completely different-tasting malted battery acid

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 8 August 2003 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

you so crazy!

― oops (Oops), Friday, 8 August 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

They're both amongst the foulest things this side of the waste treatment facility.

― Chris P (Chris P), Friday, 8 August 2003 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

WTF?! Why all the Coca-Cola hate?

― David. (Cozen), Friday, 8 August 2003 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Coke = grate. I haven't had Pepsi in a long time; I know I used to hate it.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 8 August 2003 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Coke, Pepsi, all brown sugar water. Both equally foul, both heavenly. Either is amazing from a 300 ml bottle (rip).

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 8 August 2003 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

today: PEP 45.46 +0.47

not bad considering I got my 15 shares for only 30 7/8

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 9 August 2003 01:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I got nothing but love for KFC, except that they serve PEPSI. YUCK

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 9 August 2003 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)

probably cause they're owned by them

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 9 August 2003 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

oh.

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 9 August 2003 09:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Either is amazing from a 300 ml bottle (rip).

They have been discontinued? Aw, I haven't had either for a really long time. – Sad. Why? Teeth.

― nestmanso (nestmanso), Saturday, 9 August 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"probably cause they're owned by them "

Actually a couple of years ago KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut split off from Pepsi to be their own company (YUM! brands inc.), But they were once owned by Pepsi.

today: YUM 29.09 +0.29

http://www.yum.com/

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 9 August 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't drink soda.

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 9 August 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Diet Coke is great. Diet Pepsi is acceptable. The regular versions of both are foul.

― adam (adam), Saturday, 9 August 2003 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, I was always goin' to mcdonald's and gettin', like, big macs and that and then I found out for real that the whopper was flame broiled, man, and that was good as hell but I never went to burger king cuz burker king used to sell pepsi, man, fuck that, anyway, man, when I tasted that whopper and it was charbroiled and it was good as hell and then, co-incidentally, burger king started selling coke, so the whole thing got wrapped up; now you can go to burger king and get a whopper and get the Goddamn coke and you're set but that whole pepsi thing just turned me off from burger king and it's great how things work out, sometimes, like that.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 9 August 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

RJG, can I, like, get a 40?

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 9 August 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

i prefer sprite or ginger ale meself. when i need caffeine, it's coffee or tea for me.

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 9 August 2003 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Normally I only have one soda per day BUT TODAY I HAD TWO.

Am I punk rock?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 9 August 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Emo.

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 9 August 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

So emo that I'm PUNK ROCK?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 9 August 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

No, just emo.

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 9 August 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Just a slight difference in the flavoring formulas (I've read educated guesses at the Coke and Pepsi recipes), yet the results are one of the greatest divides in the industrialized world.

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 10 August 2003 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

i choose danger

― The Four Singing Beatles (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 10 August 2003 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I choose Coca-cola with guns so i can shoot the guys from Pepsi

― Christian Vasbotn Braaten (Christian Vasbotn Braaten), Sunday, 10 August 2003 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Irn Bru

― Calz (Calz), Sunday, 10 August 2003 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

no matter what u say. terminating oops. Terminating complete
-- Christian Vasbotn Braaten

Christian Vasbotn Braaten for CA governor.

― Leee (Leee), Monday, 18 August 2003 04:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Arcade game of the absurd: CVB vs Hanle y

― nestmanso (nestmanso), Monday, 18 August 2003 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

It always used to be pepsi for me, but now it is diet coke all the way!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 18 August 2003 08:37 (twenty-two years ago)

To far away what about a Prime minster of Norway.

― Christian Vasbotn Braaten (Christian Vasbotn Braaten), Monday, 18 August 2003 10:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Pinkie, you've made an horrible mistake. Diet drinks are as bad as the Daily Mail. Cure yourself!

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 18 August 2003 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"THE COLA CONQUEST
A documentary series by Irene Angelico,
Produced by DLI Productions / Abby Neidik
In association with CBC,Channel 4,(UK)
Telepool Germany and Canal Plus France
Canada, 3 x 52'
Challenging, fast-paced, irreverent, serious and funny by turns, The Cola Conquest explores the delicious paradox at the heart of Coke:

How did an innocuous soft drink, more than 99% sweetened water, come to wield such enormous economic and marketing power and assume such significance in so many people's lives? What does it say to us about who we are and what we are becoming?

The Cola Conquest tells the story of Coca-Cola - the "sublimated essence" of all that America stands for - and the century-long competition with its rival, Pepsi. Shot in the United States, Canada, Russia, England, France, Mexico, and China, The Cola Conquest takes us from Coca-Cola's invention by a morphine-addicted Civil War veteran to the 21st century and China, where Coke is trying to wipe out the 3000 year-old tea drinking habit. "

I've seen it and agree with this review that says it's not a left-wing filmmakers' attack on a corporation but their point of view on history + were amazed of the power of their influence.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 18 August 2003 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

B-b-b-but what's so wrong with the Daily Mail Mark?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 18 August 2003 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe I'm reading a bit too much into Mark C's argument, but isn't it the case that Daily Mail and Daily Express readers *think* that they're better read than (and generally a cut above) Sun and Star readers, when really they're still reading a reactionary tabloid, just as diet drink drinkers are still drinking a horribly sugary synthetic liquid that's not actually going to help them become any thinner?

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 18 August 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Along those lines, MarkH. Being sold something which implies it has superiority over the alternative but is actually worse for you than the more honest original (red top tabloids in the case of the M**l). And both leave a nasty taste in your mouth.

Pinkpanther, you're joking about the Daily Mail, aren't you?

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 18 August 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

Man, pepsi is some nasty shit.

― G00blar, Friday, 7 December 2007 13:05 (eighteen years ago)

Yum! pwnd by mafia t/f?

― libcrypt, Friday, 7 December 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

Dr.Pepper, obviously.

― Alex in NYC, Friday, 7 December 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

In May of 2002, Yum! Brands (then known as Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc.) acquired Long John Silver's and A&W Restaurants to accelerate the Company's multibranding strategy and drive global growth by offering consumers two brands and more choice in one restaurant.

― libcrypt, Friday, 7 December 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

Skipping 63 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

;)

― roxymuzak, Saturday, 10 January 2009 00:32 (seventeen years ago)

we've gotten this far w/o mentioning pepsi's demographic orientation?

― a mountain climber who plays an electric guitar (gabbneb), Saturday, 10 January 2009 00:38 (seventeen years ago)

People with no taste buds?

― Alex in SF, Saturday, 10 January 2009 00:39 (seventeen years ago)

fags apparently

― roxymuzak, Saturday, 10 January 2009 00:41 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.amazon.com/Real-Pepsi-Challenge-Inspirational-Breaking/dp/0743265718

― a mountain climber who plays an electric guitar (gabbneb), Saturday, 10 January 2009 00:41 (seventeen years ago)

well don't that just BEAT ALL

::puts hands on hips::

― roxymuzak, Saturday, 10 January 2009 00:42 (seventeen years ago)

Oh the "Negro market"

― Alex in SF, Saturday, 10 January 2009 00:43 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.pepsico.com/Purpose/Diversity-and-Inclusion/Timeline-of-Diversity.aspx

― a mountain climber who plays an electric guitar (gabbneb), Saturday, 10 January 2009 00:52 (seventeen years ago)

Diversity isn't just the right thing to do. It's the right thing to do for our business.

"doing diversity"

― roxymuzak, Saturday, 10 January 2009 00:54 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.slate.com/id/2198198/

― a mountain climber who plays an electric guitar (gabbneb), Saturday, 10 January 2009 00:55 (seventeen years ago)

establishment Coke

otm, now we get somewhere

― roxymuzak, Saturday, 10 January 2009 00:55 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.refresheverything.com/

― a mountain climber who plays an electric guitar (gabbneb), Saturday, 10 January 2009 00:57 (seventeen years ago)

I would say that the average American Pepsi consumer has rolled with the punches so far and will probably not do anything but keep drinking Pepsi as normal.

Pepsi design is just about the art, then? That's kind of interesting.

― Sundar, Saturday, 10 January 2009 00:58 (seventeen years ago)

i prefer the taste of coca-cola, but do not drink soda

― a mountain climber who plays an electric guitar (gabbneb), Saturday, 10 January 2009 00:58 (seventeen years ago)

Ok, I guess "manly" can still describe totally gay things.

― roxymuzak, Friday, January 9, 2009 10:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This reminds me of 300 doing way better business than The Spirit because the guys who loved 300 think The Spirit is too gay, despite the fact that 300 is way gayer. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything though.

― caek, Saturday, 10 January 2009 01:00 (seventeen years ago)

Pepsi design is just about the art, then? That's kind of interesting.

― Sundar, Friday, January 9, 2009 7:58 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

That's not exactly what I'm saying, but I do think it would take a pretty O_O design change to change much at this point in Pepsi's trajectory as a company. I think the design is not only inoffensive enough to not put people off, but is actually appealing to prevailing aesthetic tastes. Things can't look XTREME!!!!MONSTERMEGABEASTSODAhereisagradienteffectLOL forever.

― roxymuzak, Saturday, 10 January 2009 01:02 (seventeen years ago)

― caek, Friday, January 9, 2009 8:00 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

Which is funny, because iirc both have logos in the same shite font

― ichard Thompson (Hurting 2), Saturday, 10 January 2009 01:03 (seventeen years ago)

I'm not a shill, but wow does Coca-Cola have an attractive site!! I like Coke better, although I'm not a cola drinker.

― u s steel, Saturday, 10 January 2009 02:06 (seventeen years ago)

I notice Coca-Cola is still paying for a 24-year old marketing blunder, having to slap the word "classic" on all their labels.

― Josefa, Sunday, 11 January 2009 16:53 (seventeen years ago)

i like the 'minimalised' styling of the new cans. i don't like the altering of the wavy line tho - apparently it's so it represents a smile better (with a thin smile for diet and a bigger open-mouthed smile for the MAX), doesn't work for me.

― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Sunday, 11 January 2009 17:02 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.authorsden.com/NewsImage/8547.gif

― Josefa, Sunday, 11 January 2009 17:12 (seventeen years ago)

Coke > Pepsi
but
Diet Pepsi > Diet Coke
but
Mexican Coke [cane sugar] > American Coke [High Fructose Corn Syrup]

― Chelvis, Sunday, 11 January 2009 18:34 (seventeen years ago)

but
Diet Pepsi > Coke
and yet
Brain without tumors > Aspartame
so
Tea or Coffee > Soda

― Chelvis, Sunday, 11 January 2009 18:38 (seventeen years ago)

we were at my mother in laws for an xmas lunch and i asked for a coke and my brother in law pulled out a mexican coke from the fridge. such a golden moment. suprise mexican coke. it felt like christmas or something.

― There's a Grady now?? (sunny successor), Sunday, 11 January 2009 18:55 (seventeen years ago)

but
Diet Pepsi > Coke
and yet
Brain without tumors > Aspartame

not saying that shit's good for you, but:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/265559_soda05.html

― tired (latebloomer), Sunday, 11 January 2009 21:26 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/pepsi_new_bottles.php

lmao the bottle look like a dick

― and what, Friday, 16 January 2009 00:03 (seventeen years ago)

coke.

it kind of pisses me off when ppl go "i never drink soda, ugh, the idea of filling my body with something so awful" when you know like 80% of those people can't go a day without coffee.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 16 January 2009 02:53 (seventeen years ago)

even worse is when smokers pull that shit

― velko, Friday, 16 January 2009 02:57 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://www.suckatlife.com/images/pepsiLogoBlowatlife.jpg

― James Mitchell, Monday, 9 February 2009 19:24 (seventeen years ago)

four months pass...

I just bought a Diet Pepsi because of the new design. Thought you should know.

― Sundar, Monday, 22 June 2009 20:37 (sixteen years ago)

The design is actually quite a coup on Pepsi's part. I've bought a few because my eye was drawn to the bottle or can even before I even knew it was Pepsi.

― the fantasy-life of nations has consequences in the real worl (fields of salmon), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 03:10 (sixteen years ago)

the only cola i drink these days is pepsi max

― task force vs the brisbane punks (electricsound), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 03:11 (sixteen years ago)

Do you crush the can on your forehead when you're done with it

― throwbookatface (skygreenleopard), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 01:28 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

pepsi throwback!

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Saturday, 11 July 2009 21:59 (sixteen years ago)

pepsi RAW ugh

― jed_, Saturday, 11 July 2009 22:00 (sixteen years ago)

tastes like sugared water with ground black pepper.

― jed_, Saturday, 11 July 2009 22:00 (sixteen years ago)

* Sparkling water.
* Cane sugar.
* Apple extract.
* Colour: plain caramel.
* Natural plant extracts (including natural caffeine and kola nut extract).
* citric, tartaric and lactic acids.
* Stabiliser: gum arabic.
* Thickener: xanthan gum.

So basically what cola bottles would taste like if cola actually tasted like that?

― snoball, Saturday, 11 July 2009 22:18 (sixteen years ago)

went for this taste test last week:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3594/3670699334_7e10140354.jpg

green tea coke vs. shiso pepsi

wuz gnarls dudes

― (*ﾟーﾟ)θ L(。･＿･)　　　°~ヾ(･ε･ *) (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 11 July 2009 22:57 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

coke

― surm, Monday, 6 February 2012 15:50 (fourteen years ago)

i guess pepsi is cheaper tho cuz everybody fuckin has it

the movie theater, the diner, other places

― surm, Monday, 6 February 2012 15:59 (fourteen years ago)

i drink coke all the time

― markers, Monday, 6 February 2012 16:06 (fourteen years ago)

pepsi is garbage

vanilla coke 4 lyfe

i miss drinking soda s0 much r.i.p.

― Lamp, Monday, 6 February 2012 16:30 (fourteen years ago)

diet pepsi tastes like sweetened windex

― adolf jingle bells (latebloomer), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 06:43 (fourteen years ago)

Do you mean Pepsi Max? CauseI quite like that. Diet Coke is awful to my stomach. Chemical warfare.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 09:44 (fourteen years ago)

green tea coke -> the bomb. but didn't find it anymore when i was in tokyo the other month. BAH

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 09:45 (fourteen years ago)

I like Pepsi max a lot (thanks UYD!) but I really dont need that much caffiene. OTOH, plain old diet pepsi tastes good, but fucks with my stomach.

― beachville, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 11:28 (fourteen years ago)

pepsi max >>>> diet coke

― meat o.d. (electricsound), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 11:49 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/business/media/31adco.html

― j., Friday, 26 June 2015 03:19 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

http://i.imgur.com/dVIBIEq.png

― 龜, Sunday, 14 August 2016 13:10 (nine years ago)

seven months pass...

Awwww sheeeit.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/mar/28/coca-cola-police-human-waste-drinks-cans

― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 19:31 (eight years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.