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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: The "New" Coke
Message-ID: <1036@peora.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Jun-85 13:17:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: peora.1036
Posted: Fri Jun  7 13:17:42 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Jun-85 01:14:08 EDT
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>I wonder if perhaps Coke is TRYING to make Coke taste more like Pepsi
>with the hope of outdoing Pepsi in MARKETING and not in real product
>performance.

Exactly!  The sale of sodas is all marketing; "create a need and fill it".
In a few years, nobody will remember the old coke.

Myself, I'll just go on drinking Squirt and Mr. Pibb.

> "Oh yeh?  Well I speak LOUD and I carry a BIGGER stick...
> and I use it too... *BONK*"

Ouch.
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