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From: bjr@alliant.UUCP (Josh Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Coke, classic coke and new coke
Message-ID: <306@alliant.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-Aug-86 18:38:03 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 26 18:38:03 1986
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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.
>
>I think that everyone agrees (except the Pepsi drinkers) that new coke is
>terrible so I won't talk about new coke any more.
>However, there is a clear difference in taste between coke and classic coke.
>When Coca-cola announced they were changing the formula, I stocked up on
>
>These are my opinions of course (and my friends) and I am truly disappointed
>that I can no longer but the best soda (soft drink, tonic) that ever was.
>
>
>Sincerely,
>Stephen Serrenho Corbin
>Usenet {ihnp4, allegra, linus} ! encore ! corbin


It is not possible to draw a conclusion about the formula of classic coke
based on a taste test with year old real coke.  There are two reasons for
this, first the taste of coke changes with time and secondly the coca-cola
bottlers have virtually no quality control.  I have found that the taste
of coke is radically different from plant to plant.  Before the new coke
fiasco the coke from the Needham, Ma. plant was undrinkable while the coke
from the Northhampton, Ma. plant was fine although not as good as the coke
bottled in Illinois (which comes in glass bottles,  something that most
New England bottlers have never heard of).  After classic coke came back
I noticed that Needham coke had lost it's polluted taste and now tasted 
normal.  If nothing else the change over must have given them a chance to
clean their equiptment,  something they may never have done before.