Coincidence? New Coke introduced 30 years ago today. (nfm)***
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Actually, did not complain in this thread. I can see why you might consider it a complaint. You have been all over these threads telling both truth and lies.
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The New Coke was a reformulated version of the Old Coke due to the switch from more expensive sugar to the the less expensive corn syrup as the sweetener. They obviously didn't get the formula right the first time but "changed" it back to the "old formula. " But not really because they didn't add the sugar back in. Other countries versions of Coke still use sugar and that's why they taste like the original Coke.
Actually Coke did an independent taste test in the public. The results were that Pepsi and RC Cola each returned 26 percent preferential votes. New Coke garnered 28 percent preferential votes and original Coke returned only 18 percent preferential votes.
The clown out in San Francisco, who used his money to fight New Coke, was given at least two tries (I think it was three tries) to show people just how much he loved original Coke and why he was using his finances to fight for original Coke. Pretty simple, right. All he had to do was choose the taste he was so much in love with he would spend his money for it. Long story short, he didn't choose original Coke in any of his chances.
The man got all fired up to fight New Coke, and it was an emotional response and he got much of the Nation fired up too. Emotional not factual. A lot of the responses to this new format is emotional. Give it four weeks when we will start to use and appreciate it's features and many of the unhappy posters will be happy again.
The clown out in San Francisco, who used his money to fight New Coke, was given at least two tries (I think it was three tries) to show people just how much he loved original Coke and why he was using his finances to fight for original Coke. Pretty simple, right. All he had to do was choose the taste he was so much in love with he would spend his money for it. Long story short, he didn't choose original Coke in any of his chances.
The man got all fired up to fight New Coke, and it was an emotional response and he got much of the Nation fired up too. Emotional not factual. A lot of the responses to this new format is emotional. Give it four weeks when we will start to use and appreciate it's features and many of the unhappy posters will be happy again.
Do you just make shit like this up? Had nothing to do with a switch to HFC. Some bottlers never migrated to HFC. It was all about consumer focus groups that revealed a clear preference for sweeter colas like Pepsi.
If that's a typo it's hilarious. If it's not a typo then Bill was into some weird stuff.
Why all the vitriol? I did not make this up. This was mentioned on a program I saw a couple years ago on History Channel, Discovery or one of those type of so-called education channels. So obviously they misreported what happened, and you know the media people never get the story wrong (sarcasm).
During the time that the switch from "old" to "new" happened many of the bottlers were changing from sugar to High Fructose Corn Syrup to cut down on their costs. Because of this, when they went back to the "old" formula after the new Coke failed, the original "old Coke" formula actually had been changed slightly by some of the bottlers and people were suspicious that they were relabeling the "new" Coke formulation as "old" Coke (or Coca Cola Classic, Coke Classic, or Coke or whatever numerous monikers given to the original formula during this era).
It is apparent to me now that the writers of the show I watched fell for the conspiracy theory that the switch had been planned all along to cover the change from sugar formula Coke to much less expensive HFCS version.
Hah! I'll leave it stand as-is.......but it was an autocorrect fail on my part.
It was meant to say "Coke"
That was the day that one could say that Pepsi officially kicked Coke's ass and made them change their product to taste more like Pepsi's. I remember saving a full page thank you add in the USA Today, from the Pepsi CEO, thanking every Pepsi worker who made Coke say 'uncle'. He even gave all Pepsi workers a day off as an "Thank You" to them.
Dad's been gone now for several years but to be raised in a Pepsi family was great!!!!!!
The word 'Coke' was jokingly referred to as a swear word in our house.
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Hey MM2:
Now that 90s retro foods are in (Fench Toast Crunch, Surge, etc)....any chance we see a limited run of Crystal Clear Pepsi?!?!
"Functional beveages" is where the action is... But with all the hubbubb about artificial sweeteners (Diet Pepsi is changing its sweetener this August) the next shoe to drop will certainly be coloring... I am certain that another round of clear beverages is not far down the road - heck, there's a clear Mountain Dew out right now... to my knowledge "Teem" is not among the innovation plans I've seem
Way back when we did our own taste test of all the assorted colas. Truth be told I am a Pepsi drinker. Have never really liked Coke. Anyways, I was able to pick all of the colas out correctly but two. I switched them. I thought that Pepsi was New Coke and New Coke was Pepsi. For a short time I bought the New Coke and then they took it off the market. It was back to Pepsi for me.
Make it happen Massimo!! ;-) And make sure they bring it back in those distinctive green beveled bottles!!! Beehive like with the twist!!
If you read carefully, I actually am agreeing with you. I am not debating anything. It was the era around the time of the switch to the New Coke and back to the Old Coke that bottlers were changing their sweeteners. At least that is what I have read. Some did it before the switch and a few others around or after the time of the switch.
Some consumers became conspiracy theorists about why the New Coke tasted different from the Old Coke, and then after the switch back to the Old Coke, that the Old Coke tasted different than it originally did. I remember this debate because sometimes was the topic at parties.
The sugar vs. corn syrup conspiracy was purportedly spurred on by the sugar trade association who wanted to keep selling their product to the bottlers. Obviously what I saw on TV was a revisitation of the speculative non-facts the conspiracy theorists had promulgated back at that time.
There is a misconception that a change from sugar to HFCS prompted KO to abandon the original formula and introduce New Coke... Simply not true. Their data revealed that consumers overwhelmingly preferred a sweeter cola , and felt they needed to change.
