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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: The "New" Coke
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 12:53:26 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 23 12:53:26 1985
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> Let me state, for the record, that I have always been a Pepsi
> drinker.  (If you can't handle that, don't bother "n"-ing this
> article, just turn off the terminal so its condition will match 
> your mind.)
> 
> The other day, I participated in a blind taste test involving
> Coke, "new" Coke, and Pepsi.  I found I liked the new Coke the 
> best.  It was certainly sweeter than the old stuff, but not as 
> sweet as Pepsi (Pepsi has always been a little TOO sweet, although 
> much prefered over the *relatively* bitter Coke).  It was certainly
> NOT bong water.

     Finally we hear from someone who actually likes the new stuff!  A
friend of mine claimes to like it too; she is also a Pepsi drinker.  It
seems that the only people who like the new coke are people who like
pepsi.  I guess this was Coke's goal, to try and entice Pepsi drinkers to
switch to coke, but I wonder how many other Coke drinkers they're chasing
away at the same time?
     Maybe they'll actually be reasonable and continue to market *both*
kinds of coke, thereby picking up a few pepsi drinkers without alienating
the people who liked the old coke....  Somehow I doubt it, though.
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
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    "Time has passed, and now it seems that everybody's having those dreams.
     Everybody sees himself walking around with no one else." - Dylan