Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!topaz!ll-xn!nike!lll-crg!seismo!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Coke, classic coke and new coke Message-ID: <115@eneevax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 16-Aug-86 00:43:57 EDT Article-I.D.: eneevax.115 Posted: Sat Aug 16 00:43:57 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 20-Aug-86 01:31:17 EDT References: <332@encore.UUCP> Reply-To: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Organization: Imperial Widget Research Center, Kingdom of Maryland Lines: 57 In article <332@encore.UUCP> corbin@encore.UUCP (Steve Corbin) writes: > >Well, not to start up a big heated discussion or anything, but I have >bad news for those of you in netland who think that Coca-cola is still >producing coke. There not. They make classic and new coke. Not coke. > >After I poured the classic into a glass, the head died quickly. Not like >coke where the head fizzled down slowly. Coke seemed to have a thicker >and denser colored foam when poured. >The taste test is what brought the disappointment. The 'bite' that coke >has(had) was readily missing in the classic. Classic was also a little >sweeter and citrusy (sp?). I found the carbonation to be roughly the same >though coke had a slight more than classic. I made these observations in a net posting last September after comparing Old Coke (still sold overseas) and Classic Coke on an airplane en route from Taiwan. >A friend of mine has an interesting theory why Coca-cola changed the formula. >... But what if this were so >and Coca-cola recently discovered some negative, bad or harmful aspects of >this ingredient and was forced or compelled to change the formula. The best > >Sincerely, >Stephen Serrenho Corbin >Usenet {ihnp4, allegra, linus} ! encore ! corbin You're right. Old Coke had a bad aspect...you could drink it and drink it and not stop. In little over three months in 1985, the Coca-Cola Company managed a feat the British Empire, Luddites, Communists, and Nazis had been unable to accomplish in several hundred years...they crippled the next generation of American researchers. Much as the demise of Chinese-food aficionados severely damaged the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (now now...don't you DARE touch my account on prep) I believe that we will see the rise of a new class of hackers in the next four or five years; hackers who don't know the feeling of staying up for 60 hours at a time propped up by six or eight liters of The Real Thing, who know nothing about how it burned _just so_ going down your throat, who will wonder why you maintain that hoarde of cans in your closet that looks not so different from the stuff they drink everyday. Because they won't remember. I think this must be part of some conspiracy; did IBM secretly buy Coke Inc behind our backs? I dunno about you, but a couple of us are saving a case for that day our company might go public, just to remember how (Coke Is) It was. *snif*, -dave -- David Hsu (301) 454-1433 || -8798 || -8715 "I know no-thing!" -eneevax Communications & Signal Processing Laboratory / EE Systems Staff Systems Research Center, Bldg 093 / Engineering Computer Facility The University of Maryland -~- College Park, MD 20742 ARPA: hsu@eneevax.umd.edu UUCP: [seismo,allegra,rlgvax]!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu "I haven't got a life, so you haven't got anything to interfere with..."