Does COKEII=NewCOKE? I live in an...

[BJ_M]

remember Wild Cherry Pepsi?

Crystal Pepsi is history -- it is sold on ebay though

http://search.ebay.com/Crystal-Pepsi_W0QQfkrZ1QQfromZR8

I heard it's still made and sold in certain places, though. I wouldn't want those bottles or cans though. THey're a bit old, and I'm sure the flavor has gone stale by now.

no longer made says pepsi -- but some places have old stock .. most has gone bad -- pepsi ran a recall for several years on the stuff ...

[Doramius]

I thought I saw something that says they stopped it because of poor sales, but their released sales numbers on the product were not bad at all. They were quite high, in fact. Was there something in the soda that was known to be bad or something? If it was Sacharin, anybody that chews 'CareFree' gum knows sacharin causes cancer in laboratory rats. Use another sweetener. Honestly, Coke is probably going to find some method of a different formula and release it at some point in time. They might as well get Crystal Pepsi out there and take in the income while they can. I mean they've done the Blue Pepsi & Holiday Spice Pepsi. Might as well throw them all out into the mix. Why hold back the revenue?

[BJ_M]

as i mentioned before --coke anounced a new sweetner today for its diet coke ... they wil sell both types as the jury is still out on which one is more harmfull

[Doramius]

It's not Splenda is it. That's known to cause cancer in cockroaches when they sit in the sun too long near mecury diluted pond water. :P

[BJ_M]

It's not Splenda is it. That's known to cause cancer in cockroaches when they sit in the sun too long near mercury diluted pond water. :P

i though that was only during odd numbered months ?

[Doramius]

It's not Splenda is it. That's known to cause cancer in cockroaches when they sit in the sun too long near mercury diluted pond water. :P

i though that was only during odd numbered months ?

I think you mean it skips 50% of half the generations during odd numbered months where the moon is full. And there's only an 80%chance of that happening.

[BJ_M]

in other words - in english ... ::: a 20% chance during odd numbered months during a full moon ..

[Doramius]

in other words - in english ... ::: a 20% chance during odd numbered months during a full moon ..

with 1/4 the exposed roaches.

[BJ_M]

not if you step on them first

[Doramius]

not if you step on them first

ANIMAL CRUELTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Grimey]

not if you step on them first

ANIMAL CRUELTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No, it's self protection :P

[Doramius]

not if you step on them first

ANIMAL CRUELTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No, it's self protection :P

How would you have known wether that cockraoch was going to infect you with some form of bacteria rather than help the ecology of the local environment for some odd reason PETA is trying to think of concocting out of their imaginations?

[BJ_M]

Cockroaches only can infect you with dysentery, gastroenteritis, typhoid and poliomyelitis, as well as salmonella, staphylococcus and streptococcus..


oddly enough - these are the same diseases humans often carry ...

[Doramius]

Cockroaches only can infect you with dysentery, gastroenteritis, typhoid and poliomyelitis, as well as salmonella, staphylococcus and streptococcus..


oddly enough - these are the same diseases humans often carry ...

This is why I step on all those little people.

[yoda313]

Hello,

remember Wild Cherry Pepsi?

They still have CHERRY PEPSI. They relabeled it. Now instead of being in the shock purple can its in the blue pepsi can with a red logo for the CHERRY part... GOOD STUFF

Kevin

[doppletwo]

I thought I saw something that says they stopped it because of poor sales, but their released sales numbers on the product were not bad at all. They were quite high, in fact. Was there something in the soda that was known to be bad or something? If it was Sacharin, anybody that chews 'CareFree' gum knows sacharin causes cancer in laboratory rats. Use another sweetener. Honestly, Coke is probably going to find some method of a different formula and release it at some point in time. They might as well get Crystal Pepsi out there and take in the income while they can. I mean they've done the Blue Pepsi & Holiday Spice Pepsi. Might as well throw them all out into the mix. Why hold back the revenue?

Pepsi Clear and Crystal Pepsi hurt other Pepsi sales.

Basically instead of gaining new customers they lost regular Pepsi customers. And these customers were not fully replaced by the Pepsi Clear and Crystal Pepsi customers.

Basically they figured that the transparent sodas made regualr Pepsi seem less desirable.

[offline]

We have Lea and Perrin's Worcestershire sauce and they are the ones who invented it while trying to copy an East Indian sauce.

It was Lord Sandys who discovered it. He imported a sample from India along with the recipe and some ingredients. He went to Lea and Perrin's shop in Worcestershire and asked them to make more.

True Worcestershire sauce you make yourself and
it takes a couple of weeks to come together and mellow. It is like Vanilla. Do you use the factory essence/extract or do you use the pod and seeds? The
true and vastly better vanilla flavoring comes from making it yourself- same idea with Worcestershire sauce.

not quite true - though this story was around for many many years...

according to a privately published history of the Lea & Perrin's firm by a former employee, "No Lord Sandys was ever governor of Bengal, or as far as any records show, ever in India." And according to R.W. Apple, a spokesman at the Lea & Perrin's plant admitted last summer that the long told saga "may not be God's own truth."

Not proven false would be the correct term. I never said that Lord Sandys was a governor of Bengal or ever in India. In fact his first
name was not Marcus, but William, possibly named after his famous ancestor - Lord Chamberlain in King Henry VII's court.

The Sandys were a prominent name in British history. It seems that there
was an early association with the East India Company. Legend has it that
the fourth Lord Sandys encounted the recipe while dealing with matters
pertaining to the company. He either arranged the import of the traditional
recipe from India or took over from some one elses action. What is clear is that the recipe was sold to Lea and Perrin's and that it existed as a real sauce in the India.

[ZAPPER]

Don't be fooled! Coca Cola is one big ass company! I have done some millwork in their Atlanta headquarters. Nice stuff too. They own so many brands it ain't funny. Mogan David wine is one of the funnier ones that I remember. Minute Maid is another that comes to mind.

The headquarters has a game room that they call the "Decompression Chamber" where you can chillout if the need arises. I have always liked Coke products and I have never heard anything bad about the company. (other than some layoffs or such, but that's business) I have seen my fair share of high school score boards with the Coke logo on them too. No problem from me, it beats beer ads or cigarette ads. All in all a fairly good holsem company, I think.

I have heard that pepsi is almost an exact copy of the coke receipe and it is actually supposed to be pretty hard to tell the difference. Apparently years ago pepsi tried to sell their product at half the price of Coke to gain the advantage in the sales wars. The plan backfired. Everyone figured that if it was so much cheaper that it couldn't be good, and pepsi has been second fiddle ever since

[Doramius]

They both used the Cola Nut. Pepsi used pepsin, instead of Coca as the main 'healing' ingredient. in actuality it was the caffine that worked the best to help with headaches. The drugs were removed and replaced with sweeteners and other ingredients. Coke had the ability to destroy Pepsi in it's early years, but brushed away the opportunity to buy it. So someone else made a gamble that paid off. Pepsi had a few years where it died and wasn't sold after it's first few years of sales. The Cola recipe for soda's is very similar between most all brand names. There's usually sweetener differences along with amounts or certain phosphorous acids. Pepsi is very strong in these acids, but uses a stronger and smooth sweetener. This is why it tastes VERY SWEET and often hurts foreigner's teeth when they visit the US. Coke uses a combination of Dry Ice and Carbonic Acid. The Dry Ice gives it's sharp bubbly & refreshing 'SPARK', where the Carbonic Acid Helps preserve this during a shelf life. However, Coke tends to go flat faster than Pepsi too. Coke doesn't use as much sweeteners and keeps a more natural flavor. The sharp flavor is strong for some people who prefer a smooth drink. This is one reason why Vanilla Coke is so popular. The natural flavor of Coke is there, but feels smooth with the Vanilla ingedient. Pepsi has a Vanilla Cola as well, but many people feel the vanilla drowns out the flavor of the cola, so it's sales do show less than Vanilla Coke's.

The story that Crystal Pepsi took away regular Pepsi customers is not really true. It's Pepsi. If someone switches from one Pepsi product to another, they'll still send money towards Pepsi. There's something larger regarding the Crystal Pepsi, but they've kept their mouth shut tight. If it was sales of people choosing the one over the other, they would've just cut back on the production. They've done that with several other sodas in other companies. Mellow Yellow is a Coke Product, but it's still made and sold even though Minute Maid has a similar Product that is also rarely sold. The formulas probably identical or close to it. Minute maid is the Coca-Cola company. They make Minute Made orange, Cherry, citrus, grape, lemon & grapefruit sodas. The most common is Minute Made Orange.

[offline]

never heard anything bad about the company

fairly good holsem company

(pepsi) supposed to be pretty hard to tell the difference

I've heard of rose coloured glasses, but coke coloured
glasses... ??!

[ZAPPER]

never heard anything bad about the company

fairly good holsem company

(pepsi) supposed to be pretty hard to tell the difference

I've heard of rose coloured glasses, but coke coloured
glasses... ??!

Hey I would like to keep a happy client
The same is true of pepsi for me. And we are only talking about sugar water here! :P

[Faustus]

I have always liked Coke products and I have never heard anything bad about the company. (other than some layoffs or such, but that's business) I

Can't find it on the orignal site (http://www.gnn.tv/) but I'm sure its there somewhere. Instead check out the very short version here.

http://www.davidicke.net/newsroom/america/usa/072801b.html

[Roundabout]

It's not Splenda is it.

Yup, it's Splenda...

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Coca-Cola Co. to introduce Diet Coke with Splenda

The Coca-Cola Co. said Monday it will begin selling Diet Coke sweetened with sugar substitute Splenda in the spring. Shares of a major manufacturer of the sweetener's key ingredient rose on the news. Diet Coke with Splenda will have a distinct label with the name of the sweetener on it as well as a yellow streak. The world's largest beverage maker will continue to sell traditional Diet Coke, which is flavored with aspartame, separately.

Diet Coke with Splenda is expected to be launched in the second quarter, the Atlanta-based company said in a statement.

The launch follows Coke's rollout of new flavors of Diet Coke, including lime, lemon, cherry and vanilla.

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I actually prefer the taste of Splenda over the Nutrasweet (aspartame) that they are using now. I drink TONS of Diet Coke and Pepsi, whichever is cheaper at the time I'm shopping. I don't really have a preference of either brand.

I'm looking forward to tasting it.

[ViRaL1]

Anybody seen Pepsi's new 14oz cans? They have 15-packs of 14oz cans at my local Wally World for about the same price as a 24-pack of 12oz cans. Apparently math isn't very strong in these parts. It even says on the case '2oz more than 12oz cans' for those of us that can't be bothered to break out the slide rule.

[doppletwo]

I haven't seen that.

What a rippoff ~73% for 100% of the price.

Pop costs a lot where I live, so it's probably still cheaper than here.

[BJ_M]

coke had CLEAR TAB about the same time -- it was

also - hardly anyone ever drank it ..

BIRCH BEER was/is also clear (so is a lot of cream soda - but it always was until they started to add food coloring to it) ......

crystal pepsi switched to a citrus flavor for a short time before it was pulled - pepsi has never said why they pulled it -- they spent millions (about 75) on advertising ... remember crystal gravy ?

[doppletwo]

Crystal Gravy is a classic.

[Doramius]

Can the crystal gravy add be found somewhere online. That was awesome. I also remember the citrus Crystal Pepsi. I didn't care for it, though I didn't think it tasted bad. I don't think it would have gotten a lot of sales based on the taste either. They way they quietly, but immediately shut down the manufacture of it makes me think either there was some sort of potential FDA risk or some legal issue that had a gag order or something of that nature due to an unintended violation of a patent or of similar sort. It may not be those reasons, but they way it just instantly halted in sales and production, along with a recall, gives a small impression of that.

As for the 15 14oz. canns at the same price of a 24 pack, DAMN your getting ripped off. I'd stick to the 24 pack and get more soda. Apparently, they are counting on the fact that people don't know math.

[BJ_M]

SNL did a crystal gravy ad spoof on pepsi it seems ..

it was right after this that crystal was pulled says this web site

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1070589&lastnode_id=18397

[Doramius]

A lot of things end their production after it's shown in SNL. Ashlee Simpson records for starters.

Sorry, just couldn't hold that one back.