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From: root@trwatf.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: The "New" Coke
Message-ID: <973@trwatf.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Jun-85 12:03:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: trwatf.973
Posted: Mon Jun 10 12:03:03 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Jun-85 07:04:41 EDT
References: <189@hadron.UUCP> <474@hou2g.UUCP> <946@trwatf.UUCP> <1036@peora.UUCP>
Reply-To: root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith)
Organization: TRW Advanced Technology Facility, Merrifield VA.
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In article <1036@peora.UUCP> jer@peora.UUCP writes:
>> 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.

God... that's sounds so much like 1984.  Soon Coke will be producing adds
denying the existance of old Coke.  Then they'll deny the existance of Pepsi
or claim that Pepsi is a plot created by the dark armys of Emanuelle Goldstein.

"How many cans am I holding up Smith?"

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

YYYECHHHHHH-O!
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