Coke dropping 'Classic' tagline from logo

YahooFinance ^ | January 30, 2009 | Vinnee Tong, AP Business Writer

[neb52]

“Dr Pepper taste like fizzy prune juice”

LOL, that is because Dr. Pepper is prune juice based! I don’t know if it still made with prune juice or (as typical of today’s mass production) artificial flavoring.

[Daffynition]

Very cool! The price of Coke remained a nickel from 1886-1959, which is an amazingly long time. Can you think of anything that had that price-point endurance?

Early Coca Cola bottle circa 1899 - referred to as Hutchinson style.

[DieHard the Hunter]

> LOL, that is because Dr. Pepper is prune juice based! I don’t know if it still made with prune juice or (as typical of today’s mass production) artificial flavoring.

(grin!) Dr Pepper and Mr Pibb are two beverages that have never (to my knowledge) landed on NZ soil. There is an opportunity for somebody somewhere, perhaps...?

[neb52]

I think it is due to CC and Pepsi owning the foreign distribution rights to Dr. Pepper. They bought the rights during the 80s when Dr. Pepper almost went out of business. I am sure they want a nice licensing fee for whoever wants to bottle and distribute it there.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Now I know what you folks are talking about because we use cane sugar here in Panama.

Sugarcane is grown here to make into sugar.

Now I know, after all these years, why cokes taste different in the U.S.

[Verginius Rufus]

Coca-Cola is a Georgia company. The governor of Georgia in 1985 was Joe Frank Harris, a Democrat.

I'd blame him before Reagan.

Before he drove his Oldsmobile off the bridge at Chappaquiddick, Teddy Kennedy was drinking rum & cokes. I don't know if they made sure he really meant Coca-Cola and not Pepsi. He might have gotten into some hot water if he said "coke" when he really meant Pepsi.

[BuckeyeTexan]

I took some Dublin DP (glass bottles) to my dad in Ohio. He drank nearly the whole six-pack in one day. Later we were watching a game and he said, “You want a Coke?” I said, “Uh, huh. Dr. Pepper.” To which he responded, “I thought you said you wanted a Coke?” I had to explain that in Texas everything’s a Coke. You have to specify what kind of Coke you want. He didn’t get it. He calls it pop.

[neb52]

“I had to explain that in Texas everything’s a Coke. You have to specify what kind of Coke you want. He didn’t get it.”

ROFL! I am the same way.