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  1. Knew It All Doramius's Avatar
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    I don't know about anyone else, but this article hasn't increased my desire to get this soda. I see this brand at Target and have only bought a 6-pack of the blue raspberry about 1 year ago. Opened 2 cans and threw away the rest. How does this company stay in business?


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    Regular, diet or ... salmon soda?
    Seattle beverage maker continues wacky holiday-season flavor trend

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    “When you smell it, it’s got that smoked salmon aroma,” says Jones Soda CEO Peter van Stolk of his company's newest flavor.

    Updated: 8:59 p.m. ET Nov. 14, 2005
    SEATTLE - For beverage connoisseurs tired of turkey-and-gravy or green-beans-and-casserole flavored sodas, there’s a new choice being offered this year by specialty U.S. soda maker Jones Soda Co.: salmon.

    Jones Soda, the Seattle company that scored a hit during the last two holiday seasons with its turkey and gravy-flavored sodas, said it is offering the orange-hued fish-flavored drink this year in a nod to the Pacific Northwest’s salmon catch.

    “When you smell it, it’s got that smoked salmon aroma,” said Peter van Stolk, chief executive of Jones Soda.

    The artificially flavored salmon soda will be offered as part of a $13 “regional holiday pack” that also includes other unusual sodas such as turkey & gravy, corn on the cob, broccoli casserole and pecan pie.

    While those five bottles will be offered locally, Jones Soda is also selling its similarly-priced “holiday pack” of turkey and gravy, wild herb stuffing, brussels sprout, cranberry and pumpkin pie sodas across the country.

    Van Stolk, who built his Seattle-based soda company by selling traditional sodas as well as exotic flavors such as green apple, bubblegum and crushed melon, said that “the most important thing (about Jones Soda) is that we can laugh at ourselves.”

    Asked whether he liked his new salmon soda, van Stolk said: “I cannot finish a bottle, I just can’t.”
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    H-E-B sells grapefruit cola, grape cola, apple cola, orange cola, etc. Most of them are actually quite good. And they cost 99 cents per 6-pack. Or at least they did.
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    Coca-Cola is stopping production of Vanilla Coke. I guess the great sales they had when it came out in 2002 had dropped too much. They are going to try and Make a Black Cherry & Vanilla Cola and see if that takes off.

    Honestly, I see this flavor ending up like Crystal Pepsi. I like Vanilla Coke. Better than Coke or Pepsi with Lemon or Lime.

    Crystal Pepsi or Pepsi Clear should make a come-back and Coke should keep Vanilla Coke, But what do I know. I'm only a consumer.
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    I like Vanilla Coke, that would suck if they took it off the market.


    And didn't Jones come out with a turkey flavoured cola last thanksgiving or soemthing like that?
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    HERE'S THE ARTICLE. I know it's pretty disappointing. So everyone should go out & stock up so you can sell it for $40-$100 on eBay 10+ years from now.


    http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051104/bs_nm/food_coke_dc

    Coke to phase out Vanilla Coke in US
    By Anupama Chandrasekaran
    Fri Nov 4, 5:52 PM ET



    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co., the world's largest soft drink maker, said on Friday it would phase out its Vanilla Coke, Vanilla Diet Coke and Diet Coke With Lemon beverages in the United States by end of this year.

    Coca-Cola shares were down 1.1 percent in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

    The announcement came a day after Coca-Cola said it would phase out Vanilla Coke and Vanilla Diet Coke in the United Kingdom early next year. The company said sales have declined.

    Coca-Cola added that it plans to introduce Diet Black Cherry Vanilla Coke and Black Cherry Vanilla Coke in the United States in January 2006.

    The company said Vanilla Coke, which was introduced in the United States in 2002 and Diet Vanilla Coke in 2003, could return sometime in the future. Details about whether Diet Coke With Lemon, which made its U.S. entry in 2001, would be brought back were not available.

    "I don't know if we have ever taken out a flavor and brought it back to the market, but the landscape continues to change and we want to be as flexible as possible to adapt to the changing landscape," said Scott Williamson, a spokesperson for Coca-Cola.

    The phase out follows declining sales for the brands in the United States. Vanilla Coke sales slipped to 35 million unit cases in 2004 from 90 million unit cases in 2002, while Vanilla Diet Coke sales dropped to 13 million unit cases last year from 23 million unit cases in 2003, according to Beverage Marketing, a beverage research and consulting firm.

    Sales of Diet Coke with Lemon have fallen to 9.9 million unit cases in 2004 from 24 million unit cases in 2001, data showed.

    Analysts have said that one of the keys to the company's future is to innovate new products that will help Coca-Cola capture more consumers who have moved away from sugary soft drinks to diet versions, or to healthier low-or no-calorie beverages such as water and orange juices with reduced sugar.

    Both Coca-Cola and PepsiCo Inc., the No. 2 soft drink company, are battling for the allegiance of increasingly picky U.S. consumers. The United States is the largest market for the soft-drink companies.

    "It is a rapidly changing beverage landscape and it is important for Coke to move quickly to deliver on what the consumer wants," said Gary Hemphill, managing director of Beverage Marketing. "The competition for shelf space is intense."

    Shares of Dow Component Coca-Cola were down 44 cents at $42.15 on the NYSE.
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    I'm just going to assume that when they say they're pulling it off the market in the U.S. that it includes Canada as well. dammit
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    You could probably get a bootleg/blackmarket knock-off of it from Russia. I'll have to check with a friend, but apparently you can go somewhere online and order Crystal Pepsi/Pepsi Clear and several other sodas that aren't made in the US anymore. Of course, you have to keep in the back of your mind they don't have the same FDA laws we have here in the US and you might end up with a giant porcelain bottle of Vanilla Coke with "floaties" of some kind in it.


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  8. I prefer lime twist coke. Pretty good and imo better than Diet Vanilla Coke which I also like. On rare occasions I'll indulge in a Spider (Coke with vanilla icecream)

    My favorite is Adult Cola (chinotto)
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    I've tried Jones before, not even a crazy flavor either. Even their normal flavors are not that good.
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    I think that company is staying in business more as a gag gift type of thing, maybe supplementing its income with a few serious colas on the side. I mean in regards to the salmon drink the owner himself says that he cannot even drink it. Its kinda like those Harry Potter every flavor beans candy. They taste terrible on purpose, I mean on most flavors you are supposed to spit it out in disgust. But they've just got tremendous novelty value.

    Vanilla coke is awesome and always seemed like a decent seller just from my observation. I prefer it to regular coke.
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    I can't stand the bottles of Vanilla coke. The vanilla just taste... wrong.

    Now if I'm at sonic where they will add flavor to my drink a Vanilla coke or better yet Dr. Pepper really hits the spot.
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    Pre-made vanilla and cherry will never be as good as custom-added cherry and vanilla from a soda fountain.
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    I have to agree with Lordsmurf on that one, but sometimes you get a crappy fountain mix. Sonic Drive-in Restaurants are cool for getting whatever flavor soda, or virtually any drink they have, the way you like it. I hate their Coney Dogs though. The person who runs the company obviously has never been to Coney Island and had a real Coney Dog.

    Watch, in a few years Jones will come out with the Coney Dog Soda.
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    I tried some of Jone's stuff recently - I liked their Peach D'Peche Mod and Sour Apple flavours. Entirely chemical, but nice

    Coke with anything added is just wrong - it's not Coke anymore. Vanilla Coke is sickly sweet and the lemon or lime twist ones aren't much better.

    Saying that, I was a big fan of TAB when it was around....
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    vanilla coke was a great mixer with rum and ciclone. sad.
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    Originally Posted by rhegedus

    Saying that, I was a big fan of TAB when it was around....
    Its still around if you now where to look. But quite pricey from what I've seen.
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    They still make TAB, but nowhere near the quantities they used to produce. TAB didn't use sugar.


    I can't remember if it was TAB that used saccharine? There was a cola company that used saccharine as the sweetener and people didn't buy the soda anymore because it caused cancer in laboratory rats. It may be another cola, but I think it's TAB that I am thinking of. Look on the side of Care-Free gum pack, as they use saccharine too.

    Did anyone try that Mountain Dew PITCH BLACK for Halloween? honestly I didn't care for the stuff, but I didn't think it was an awful flavor.

    I wonder What Pepsi's new flavor is going to be, or maybe they'll just bring back Holiday Spice.
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    Originally Posted by Doramius
    They still make TAB, but nowhere near the quantities they used to produce. TAB didn't use sugar.


    I can't remember if it was TAB that used saccharine? There was a cola company that used saccharine as the sweetener and people didn't buy the soda anymore because it caused cancer in laboratory rats.
    Yep, the original TAB had the sacchrine in it....they still sell that stuff here where i live at the local Walmart; and still remember those TAB commercials too from the old days.

    Aspartame (Nutrasweet) was really bad at one time; I heard when it first came out it killed quite a few people based on the formulation so it was taken off the shelf pretty fast. Nowadays you see the Splenda brand in some sodas...imo its better than the aspartame stuff....cant stand it.

    Also I saw a website where you could order some Dr Pepper with the original cane sugar formula in it...has anyone tried that yet?

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    Ah, Yes. I remember Diet Pepsi 'with Nutrasweet' commercials. Lasted about a year or 2 and then you heard nothing of nutrasweet ever again.

    There's a small soda company I saw recently around Oak Glen, California with my wife. They actually have a Mocha Latte soda. I'm not a coffee drinker (can't stand the stuff), but I can't imagine that would be any more popular to someone who is. My wife reminded me about it last night when we passed by a Starbucks. It was only a matter of time before someone HAD to carbonate coffee. What's next, carbonated milk?


    Interesting news on New Coke from the 80s:


    http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/newcoke.asp

    Claim: Coca-Cola halted production of its flagship beverage in 1985 and introduced New Coke in its place as a marketing ploy to combat declining market share and rekindle interest in the original drink.

    Status: False.

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    much as we'd like to believe that The Coca-Cola Company is infallible, it proved in 1985 that it isn't.

    It's inconceivable to us mere mortals that a company of the size and scope of Coca-Cola could make a mistake on the scale of the one it made in 1985. Although company officials have been honest (albeit a bit redfaced) about the blunder all along, the legend has arisen that New Coke was nothing more that a throwaway product created as part of a greater plan. People refused to believe any decision that colossally disastrous (and ultimately that colossally fortuitous) could have been the mere result of a very human miscalculation.

    And yet it was. It was also a very logical — indeed, reasonable — mistake to make.

    The early 1980s found Coke teetering on the edge of losing the cola war to Pepsi. The previous fifteen years saw Coca-Cola's market share remain flat while Pepsi's continued to climb. Pepsi was winning in the supermarkets (where shoppers had free rein to choose either beverage), and it was only Coke's greater availability in restricted markets (such as soda vending machines and fast food outlets) that was keeping its numbers ahead of Pepsi's. (Coke's market share had been shrinking for decades, from 60% just after World War II to under 24% in 1983.)

    Coke's market share problems were exacerbated by the relative success of other types of sodas, including some manfactured by Coca-Cola and Pepsi themselves. The more consumers drinking diet, citrus, or caffeine-free beverages, the fewer sugar cola drinkers there were to sell to. The pie was getting smaller. This market segmentation should have been affecting Coke and Pepsi equally, yet only Coke had to fight to hang onto its share. Despite the competition, Pepsi was gaining new customers. No doubt about it, people liked the taste of what the boys in blue were selling.

    Adding to Coca-Cola's segmentation problems was the runaway success of their own child, Diet Coke. Rather than replacing the sugars in the Coca-Cola formula with artificial sweeteners and then attempting to bring the taste of the new beverage back to more closely resemble the original, the company formulated Diet Coke the other way around. An entirely new flavor was created — one that was smoother and had less bite to it but was still a cola. People loved it.

    Introduced in 1982, Diet Coke shot up the charts to become the uncontested #4 soft drink in America (with only Coke, Pepsi, and 7-Up ahead of it) by the end of 1983, and by 1984 it was comfortably nestled in the #3 spot. It was also helping to speed the ascendency of Pepsi over Coca-Cola, because the more Diet Coke drinkers there were, the smaller the pool of available sugar cola drinkers became.

    Unless something was done to stem the tide, it was only a matter of time before Pepsi pulled ahead of Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola management couldn't allow this to happen because Pepsi could then honestly claim more people drank Pepsi than Coke, not just that people preferred the taste of Pepsi to Coke (which they were already proclaiming in their "Pepsi Challenge" commercials). It was panic button time in Atlanta; time to figure out how to beat Pepsi.

    When all other factors were eliminated, it came down to a matter of flavor. Batteries of well-controlled taste tests showed folks liked the taste of Pepsi better. Seemingly confirming that original Coca-Cola had a taste problem was the popularity of Diet Coke, a beverage formulated in such a way that it ended up with a flavor a lot closer to that of Pepsi than to its parent beverage.

    Enter New Coke. When traditional methods of developing a new taste failed, Coca-Cola pulled a reverse on the old method of creating diet soft drinks. Diet Coke was stripped of its artificial sweeteners, and high fructose corn syrup was added in their place. After a year of fiddling with the flavor balances, New Coke was finally as good as the company could make it. It tasted smoother and sweeter than original Coke, more like Pepsi. Sounds like a good idea so far, eh? Well, it sounded like an even better one when the results came in from a battery of taste tests utilizing the new formula. People said they liked the new Coke better than Coca-Cola or Pepsi, and by a significant factor, too. Taste for taste, it was a winner.

    The next hurdle was what to do with the original: continue to market it, or discontinue the product? The company was already seeing its sugar cola market shrink thanks to competing lines; it wasn't going to make its market share problems any worse by splitting its entry in the sugar cola category. Although New Coke and Classic Coke drinkers combined might outnumber Pepsi imbibers, it was a lead pipe cinch Pepsi would claim to have a more popular drink than one or both of them. This was too big a marketing advantage to hand to Coca-Cola's #1 competitor. Thus the decision was made to discontinue Coca-Cola when New Coke was introduced. Again, this looked great on paper — wage the war between Coca-Cola and Pepsi, not Coca-Cola and itself.

    So what happened? When Coke went ahead with its plan, an immediate and very loud outcry was raised. Long before they'd tasted a sip of it, millions of Americans had decided they hated New Coke. Yes, in blind taste tests people had consistently said they liked the new formula better. However, a soft drink is so much more than merely its flavor; a soda is also its marketing. Coke had spent more than a hundred years convincing the North American population that its product was an integral part of their lives, their very identities. Taste be damned: to do away with Coca-Cola was to rip something vital from the American soul. Americans (never ones to peaceably go along with anything perceived as violating their identity) weren't going to stand for it, and they weren't shy about saying so.

    Although the company had known all along a segment of Coke drinkers weren't going to switch to the new product, they had no way to even roughly estimate how large this segment would be. The New Coke project had been kept secret for years; this secrecy wouldn't have been possible if company personnel had been questioning test subjects on how they'd feel about the new cola if it were to replace the old one. That secrecy lay at the heart of the fiasco, for it prevented Coca-Cola from asking the key question during its product tests.

    New Coke was introduced on 23 April 1985, and production of the original formulation ended that same week. The outrage of millions of Americans didn't take long to sink in, and not all that much longer to be redressed. At an 11 July 1985 press conference, two Coca-Cola executives announced the return of the original formula. "We have heard you," said Roberto Goizueta, then Chairman of Coca-Cola. Donald Keough (then the company's President and Chief Operating Officer) said:

    There is a twist to this story which will please every humanist and will probably keep Harvard professors puzzled for years. The simple fact is that all the time and money and skill poured into consumer research on the new Coca-Cola could not measure or reveal the deep and abiding emotional attachment to original Coca-Cola felt by so many people . . .

    The passion for original Coca-Cola — and that is the word for it, passion — was something that caught us by surprise . . . It is a wonderful American mystery, a lovely American enigma, and you cannot measure it any more than you can measure love, pride, or patriotism.
    How important was this news of the beloved beverage's return? Vital enough that Peter Jennings of ABC News interrupted General Hospital to break the story on national TV. Company insiders referred to the decision as "the second coming," and that's how consumers reacted to it. Anger melted into forgiveness, and then turned to celebration.

    Having two sugar cola products on the market did indeed split the market share as Coca-Cola had feared: market surveys at the end of 1985 showed Pepsi ahead of New Coke and Classic Coke combined. Even so, a miracle was underway. Against all expectations, Classic Coke began outselling New Coke, and to everyone's surprise it kept gaining in popularity until it had reclaimed the sugar cola crown from Pepsi in early 1986. New Coke sort of faded away (it quickly settled to a 3% market share in its first year and was redubbed "Coke II" in 1990) and now holds onto a 0.1% market share.

    Those who'd liked New Coke (but wouldn't, one would suppose, be caught dead drinking it due to all the bad feelings associated with the beverage) gravitated to Diet Coke, the product that tasted most like what they really wanted.

    An interesting little claim sprang up in the wake of the introduction of Classic Coke, one having to do with its sweetener. People swore they detected a change in the flavor between Classic Coke and the original. This gave rise to the rumor that the product had been reformulated, dropping cane sugar in favor of high fructose corn syrup. Depending upon whom you listened to, either the demand for the return of original Coca-Cola afforded the company the opportunity to switch from cane sugar to corn syrup or the whole fiasco of taking original Coca-Cola off the shelves and reintroducing it three months later as Classic Coke was all a brilliant scheme to mask the change in sweetener. According to whispered wisdom, the company had hoped to slip the modification past consumers by having it take place during the original beverage's absence from the shelves. People would be so darned glad to have Classic Coke back that they wouldn't notice it didn't taste the same as original Coca-Cola. (Another twist to this rumor had it that New Coke had deliberately been formulated to taste awful in order to facilitate the switch — this supposedly gave Coca-Cola an excuse for pulling the original formula and then putting it back on the market after a brief absence, making it look all along as if they were simply responding to consumer demands.)

    The change in sweetener wasn't anything that diabolical. Corn syrup was cheaper than cane sugar; that's what it came down to. In 1980, five years before the introduction of New Coke, half the cane sugar in Coca-Cola had been replaced with high fructose corn syrup. By six months prior to New Coke's knocking the original Coca-Cola off the shelves, there was no cane sugar in American Coca-Cola. Whether they knew it or not, what consumers were drinking then was 100% sweetened by high fructose corn syrup.

    In the wake of the discontinuation of the original cola, the introduction of New Coke, and the return of the original a few months later as Classic Coke, persistent rumors sprang up that it had all been a gambit to rekindle Coca-Cola's declining sugar cola market share. Various people have claimed to have known someone who saw the original Coca-Cola still being bottled and canned during the New Coke-only phase. Such claims are best considered in light of two things: freshness of product, and what was written on the can itself.

    It's inconceivable that Coca-Cola could have been continuing to bottle the original during its discontinuation phase, stockpiling it in anticipation of its reintroduction into the market. Soft drinks don't stay fizzy and sharp-flavored forever. Utilizing product from such a stockpile to meet a sudden high demand for the original product would have required the company to risk its reputation on a supply that might have died in the can. Coca-Cola wouldn't have willingly risked following one marketing disaster with a second, particularly at a time when confidence in the company itself had been severely shaken.

    The can itself is another point against this theory. Prior to New Coke, Coca-Cola's flagship product was bottled and canned under a label of "Coca-Cola." After its reintroduction, the soda's labels read "Classic Coke." Claims by those who heard the original was bottled under the Coca-Cola label during this period have to be dismissed, because any product so marked wouldn't have been sellable after the second coming. Harder to dismiss would be claims that Classic Coke cans were being produced during this period. Oddly enough, this rumor is the one that doesn't surface. Whenever anyone claims to know someone who saw the cans, it's always the original "Coca-Cola" cans they claim to have seen.

    These rumors are an attempt to make sense of the unthinkable, that a company of the size and reputation of Coca-Cola could have effected such a blunder. It's more comforting to cast it all off as a brilliant conspiracy than to live with the notion that a large company might not be infallible. We defend our icons, and Coca-Cola is as American an icon as there's ever been. Far better to admire its verve than to recognize its feet of clay.

    The company's rebound from this disaster was nothing short of a miracle (hence the persistent belief that the whole thing must have been planned). Yet it's a very understandable miracle once you think about it. It took the loss of the beverage people had grown up with and fallen in love over to remind them how much it meant to them. No longer taken for granted, Coca-Cola had been reaffirmed in their affections. As for the debacle's being a deliberate marketing ploy, Donald Keough said: "Some critics will say Coca-Cola made a marketing mistake. Some cynics will say that we planned the whole thing. The truth is we are not that dumb, and we are not that smart."
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    Here's a new flavor. I lost the site and am trying to get it back, but Jones Soda Company& The McIlhenny Tabasco Company are working on producing a McIlhenny Tabasco Flavored Soda.

    My question is what would you use to douse the heat with. Drink another one?
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    No No No...That article is different from all others I read about New Coke. The ones I read said they created New Coke to have a BAD TASTE, and to use it to transition the original Coke to use Corn Syrup. Original Coke previously used pure sugar. So once New Coke failed, consumers didn't even know that the original Coke formula was changed!!! The Original coke is NOT the original with sugar!!! Damn Coke to hell for changing it!

    I stay away from any products that have artificial sweetners. Do you really think Splenda is any more safe than Aspartame (Nutrasweet)? The companies are getting away with producing a cancer causing agent and putting it in our food! Nutrasweet used to always have a warning on it, now this seems to be lacking too.

    I don't buy it, that those products are safe. Like the above person said, people have already died from them. A lot of people in this world are having health problems, cancer, etc..., and yet the doctors have no clue what is causing it? Look at all the artificial chemicals that is in our food! They need to pull all this stuff off the shelves and start back to using real ingredients. But of course they won't, because it's all a major cover-up and a money-making thing for the big name companies. They are in bed with the Food and Drug Administration.
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    If you read enough health warnings, from all the organizations on the planet, the human race should have been extinct years ago. Everything is bad for you, from air to water to veggies to meat. All bad.
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    I wonder What Pepsi's new flavor is going to be, or maybe they'll just bring back Holiday Spice.
    oh god i loved that stuff. i wish they would bring it back. last year i drank that stuff nonstop for 3 months
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    One thing that seems to be agreed upon is that Crystal Pepsi or Pepsi Clear should be brought back. And the main reason for the Pepsi company to remove it from shelves was because it affected the sales of the primary product.

    The sales for the company are pretty public And sales didn't start dropping on the crystal/clear product until a long while after they limited production of the product. Of course sales will drop once you stop production, People can't buy it if it's not on store shelves.

    According to the sales, they tried an additive of citrus to it and that's where the name transitioned from pepsi clear to crystal pepsi. The citrus flavor looks to be a way of separating it from the cola line and get it's sales separated too. Unfortunately sales went up from the looks of it, and the standard Pepsi product sales slipped further. Dr. Pepper shot ahead of Pepsi in sales for a period at that time. People liked clear/crystal pepsi.

    I know people who had braces loved the stuff because they could drink cola and not worry about the stains.

    As far as the real sugar vs corn syrup in Coke, I don't quite think they were trying to hide it. It was heavily publicized when they did it.


    Has anyone else seen the flavor mix-ins that Coke has been selling. You can have Chocolate, Lemon, Lime, Cherry, or whatever other flavors they have available. I think it's cool, but I haven't heard of anybody trying it, so I don't know if it's any good. There are tons of restaurants that have flavored Colas available anyway though.
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    I saw some of that odd-flavored jone's soda at target. It was a package box set with about six of them, and they were diet btw which made them seem more appealing.

    However they wanted about $12 for it! $12.00

    Hell NO! Maybe if they priced it at $4.00 i'd have tried it...
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    $12 is odd. Normally they are really cheap. Were you at Target? You can get 6-packs for $2.50 when it's not on sale.
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    Was about $2.50 a bottle in San Fran over the fall.

    Then again the water in my hotel room was $4.50!!!!

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    Originally Posted by rhegedus
    Was about $2.50 a bottle in San Fran over the fall.

    Then again the water in my hotel room was $4.50!!!!

    No thank you, I'd rather dehydrate. I'll take my chances by drinking directly from the river. If I really feel the need to filter it, I'll just burn a few willow trees and make some charcoal filters.
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    My favorite from jones
    Whoopass!

    Open up a can!
    http://www.runwiththelittleguy.com/
    http://www.jonessoda.com/files_new/energy.html

    I leave one at work on my desk
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    Anyone tried Pepsi Coffee?



    Takes getting used to but not bad
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