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From: toma@tekchips.UUCP (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: net.misc.coke
Subject: Re: The fight is NOT over!
Message-ID: <21@tekchips.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 11:25:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekchips.21
Posted: Tue Jul 23 11:25:35 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Jul-85 03:21:40 EDT
References: <1073@pucc-i> <1354@peora.UUCP>
Reply-To: toma@tekchips.UUCP (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Keywords: Coke Pepsi RC-Cola Royal Crown

In article <1354@peora.UUCP> jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) writes:
>>  Fountain outlets (e.g., McDonalds)?
>>       Maybe, but only if we push for it.  Most fountain machines have only
>>       4 taps ...
>
>You've hit on one of the most irritating abuses of statistics I've seen in
>the "cola wars".
...
>A little over a year ago, when I was in Nashville, Pepsi cola scored a
>major "coup" over Coke.  Somehow they managed to sell their cola for a
>better price than coke, and to sell it to nearly all the fast-food
>restaurants thereby.
>
>Within a few months, it was almost impossible to get anything but Pepsi in
>most fast-food establishments!  

I have found that the "better restaurants" around here, the ones
that don't have big Pepsi or Coke signs all over and tend to have
waiters/resses, tend to serve RC.  I always felt they did because
they got a better price.  The trouble with RC is that it is a
nothing cola -- the cola flavoring of Pepsi combined with the
sweetness of old Coke.

B.T.W. the Tektronix cafeteria here used to have both Pepsi and Coke
from the same fountain -- you could vote for your favorite every
day, but when NEW! Coke came out they droped the Pepsi!