Posted on 12/01/2011 12:01:37 PM PST by jazusamo
Worse than "New Coke"? That would take some doing!
Do they even sell that stuff anymore?
I thought they tasted old, like they had been in the back of my pick-up for a few weeks in the summer.
I’ve no idea if that New Coke is still sold, we don’t drink any soda.
He was referring to customers buying regular Coke in the white cans thinking they were buying diet Coke and that’s exactly what happened.
——Worse than “New Coke”? That would take some doing!——
Actually ‘new coke’ was coca cola reponse to their 99 year old patent on the coke formula expiring....
They screwed up big time because it tasted bad but they did recover and responded quicky with bringing back ‘old coke’ under a new patent.... Thus protecting their product brand
Really wasn’t that hard to call.....some things simply are obvious to those even with little knowledge In the areas they know
I never knew that. I have always been a Pepsi fan myself, but I remember reading about the “Cola Wars” in a book by a former Pepsico exec.
I only had new Coke a couple of times, but yeah, it was pretty bad. Worse than the generic colas you get in cheap supermarkets.
With the patent thing, it makes more sense now.
There is something sickening about the absolute pretense that polar bears are disappearing and that the way to prevent that from happening is to make them “cute.” They are in fact the most vicious predators of all bears. Go hunting one and it will try and circle around behind you and hunt you. They are not an animal to anthropomorphize by any stretch.
I couldn’t agree more. If they do get you they eat you, unlike most bears.
“Classic Coke” is absolutely not the same as the original pre-New Coke coke.
After some discussion with other freepers, I thought it may be that classic coke no longer contained regular sugar like the original coke did.
I remember watching polar bears in 1976 and learning that the polar bear was the only mammal that will hunt down and kill a man for sport. No eating the guy or anything... Just kill him and shuffle off to the next adventure.
You’re right, it doesn’t. Took me a while (and a trip to France, where they still use sugar) to figure that out.
Thank the Lord for imported (sugar-based) Mexican Coke...try one and you’ll never look back!
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