View Poll Results: What's your prefered Cola?
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Coca-Cola
5 41.67% -
Diet Coke
4 33.33% -
Coke Zero
0 0% -
Pepsi
2 16.67% -
Diet Pepsi
0 0% -
Can't taste the difference
1 8.33% -
Don't like any
0 0%
Thread: Coca-Cola or Pepsi?
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14th Aug 2012, 10:06 PM #1
Coca-Cola or Pepsi?
It's been a long time since the Cola wars happened. But most Cola drinkers seem to have a preference between Coke and Pepsi.
So, I want to know - what is your preference? Do you even notice a difference in flavour? How about between the Diet options?
Personally, I favour Diet Coke, although I can do regular Coca-Cola, too. Pepsi is a big no-no for me!
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14th Aug 2012, 11:04 PM #2
I'm more of a Pepsi Person - although whichever brand I buy it has to be diet. It all stems from a Biology lesson in school many years ago, when Mrs Bailey dangled a tooth in coca-cola for two days and showed us the rotting results
I remember I had various "taste tests" at a party I once hosted. From what I can recall, these were some of the tests:-
Aldi Tea v PG Tips
Expensive wine vs cheap plonk
McVities Bourbons v Kwik Save Bourbons
and I also had Coke v Pepsi. Unfortunately a rather drunk party guest mistook the experiment for a drinks bar, and added the coke to her vodka before the test started!! I still rib her about it now
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15th Aug 2012, 4:23 AM #3
Pepsi for me. Full strength only though. Aspartame is evil stuff.
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15th Aug 2012, 8:57 AM #4
Pepsi.
Although Bars only serve one or the other.
If I ask for what they don't offer the bar staff say "we have XXX, would that do?" and I always have the opinion "yeah, that will do; they are the same"Assume you're going to Win
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15th Aug 2012, 9:37 AM #5
Neither! Hideous stuff!
Si.
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15th Aug 2012, 10:28 AM #6
It's been pointed out to me by my very caffeine allergic girlie reading over my shoulder that you don't have caffeine free Coke on the list. She doesn't particularly like it, but it's the only one that won't have her in hospital within 30 minutes of imbibing.
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15th Aug 2012, 12:34 PM #7
I usually go for Diet Coke, although I have caffine-free in the house at the moment.
I'm not totally sure what Coke-Zero is for. Zero calories, sugar, caffine, additives, taste?
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15th Aug 2012, 12:38 PM #8
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Argh! Please change my vote to Pepsi! The aborted human fetal tissue they put into the drink reflected back at me and made me cast the wrong vote!
http://www.naturalnews.com/035276_Pe...perations.html
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15th Aug 2012, 1:29 PM #9
They all taste OK to me except:
1) Coca-cola gives me painful trapped wind and
2) Diet Coca-cola contains psycho-active agents that make you depressed.
So overall I probably prefer Pepsi, however I haven't carried out a long-term scientific test on the effects of drinking the stuff.Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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15th Aug 2012, 2:55 PM #10
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Coke, particularly the cherry variety. Not keen on the diet version though.
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15th Aug 2012, 4:44 PM #11
I like Pepsi better than Coke, as it is a bit more sweet. I don't care for any diet soft drinks as they are vile stuff. In fact, I've heard it said that while pediatricians and the like obviously prefer that you do not give your kids any soft drinks, as they are all bad for you, they apparently say that if you DO let your kids indulge, they prefer that you give them the regular soda than the diet as the diet is worse for you.
By the way, the Coke Zeros and Pepsi One, Pepsi Next, Pepsi Max and all of that stuff is pretty much just different versions of the Diet Soft Drinks.
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15th Aug 2012, 8:19 PM #12
That is a legal requirement. If you ask for a specific brand of drink and they give you a different drink, they are breaking the law.
I used to work in a bar and got very fed up with all the people who rolled their eyes at me when I had to say what you quoted.
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Diet Coke for me, I prefer the flavour and the regular version gives me trapped wind. I will drink Pepsi if it's there, but it tastes "off" to me and reminds me strongly of that cheap Panda Cola. Anyone remember that?Why build an engine when you have a perfectly good whale?
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15th Aug 2012, 9:54 PM #13
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16th Aug 2012, 5:07 PM #14
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16th Aug 2012, 7:51 PM #15
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16th Aug 2012, 7:57 PM #16
In the US, I think that both Coke and Pepsi are what's known as a "Cola" - so you could ask for a Cola. Though I don't know what you'd get if you asked for that in the UK
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16th Aug 2012, 9:02 PM #17
It's made from watered-down syrup in pubs and never tastes right, plus costs twenty times too much anyway. Stick to cans I say.
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16th Aug 2012, 9:37 PM #18
I think it is Cola over here to.
Don't we have things like Sainsbury's Cola and such?Assume you're going to Win
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16th Aug 2012, 10:45 PM #19
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17th Aug 2012, 11:36 AM #20
Given the chance, I drink Diet Coke from the glass bottles. I like those a lot, and it changes the taste for me a bit. Probably a psychological affect.
Why build an engine when you have a perfectly good whale?
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17th Aug 2012, 1:23 PM #21
I know what you mean - when I drink water from a mug it doesn't taste as nice as water from a glass!
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17th Aug 2012, 2:03 PM #22
I prefer my Diet Coke from a can - again, I believe it tastes different to from a glass or plastic bottle
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17th Aug 2012, 2:48 PM #23
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17th Aug 2012, 7:27 PM #24
On the subject of cans and bottles I was surprised by an article that says that cans actually keep beverages fresh the longest, and plastic bottles the least. Glass bottles are somewhere in between, but closer to the cans. That's why if you look at the 'best before date' on a plastic soda bottle it is usually only a few months out, whereas the best before date on a can may be a year or more away. In the case of beer there is also the fact that cans keep light out much better than bottles.
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17th Aug 2012, 8:32 PM #25
Can you still get Virgin Cola and Sainsbury's Classic Cola?
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