New Coke is coming back - Failed attempt to replace Coca-Cola in the 80s is coming back to promote Stranger Things

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Judge Holden said:
From what I have heard, it was literally just Pepsi in a coke branded can, which makes sense since Coke was desperate to match Pepsi's rise and they assumed it was the taste of Pepsi that gave them the edge.
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It was easy to tell the difference between the two: Coke has stronger carbonation.

mr.moon1488 said:
At least it's better than that lime shit they both tried to push everywhere at one point.
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Wait, that stuff was real?
 
Sprig of Parsley said:
Is it a regional thing? I haven't seen it.
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Yeah not sure. I don't think so. They only sell it in 350ml glass bottles in decorative 4 packs. The bottles are actually really pretty. I expected that fake raspberry syrup in a coke but what I got was closet to honest raspberry in a cola. It's good. I recommend trying it. The Georgia Peach one is fucking terrible though. I don't know which smoothbrain decided to add peach to cola but that was a mistake.

Judge Holden said:
From what I have heard, it was literally just Pepsi in a coke branded can, which makes sense since Coke was desperate to match Pepsi's rise and they assumed it was the taste of Pepsi that gave them the edge.

So people could literally just go and buy a pepsi and get the same flavour of New Coke if they really wanted it.
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No it was its own product. In double blind taste tests it performed better than Coca-Cola Classic and Pepsi. That being said a lot of people attribute this to it being slightly sweeter, which would make it more favorable in an environment where you are only given a couple of ounces vs sitting down to a whole can.

Of course there's also just plain old confirmation bias. A lot of people swear by cane sugar Mexican Coke but Coke made with cane sugar drastically underperforms against Coke made with HFCS. Marketing >>> taste.

Also reminder that Khrushchev loved Coke so much he had them specifically make clear cola and ship it direct to him in Soviet vodka bottles.
 
The spooky thing about New Coke was that people actually liked it more than the original & Pepsi, in blind taste tests, but that by discontinuing the original recipe so bluntly & suddenly they made their "Pepsi-killer" universally hated.

Only a Coke deals in absolutes.
 
Foxxo said:
The spooky thing about New Coke was that people actually liked it more than the original & Pepsi, in blind taste tests, but that by discontinuing the original recipe so bluntly & suddenly they made their "Pepsi-killer" universally hated.

Only a Coke deals in absolutes.
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Tab soda is probably the best meme drink ever created though, and that was made by Coke. Literally the reason Crystal Pepsi shit the bed.
 
C@astrophica said:
But will it have cane sugar in it? That's all I want to know.
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No. New Coke was specifically made with HFCS. Before New Coke, Coke was made with cane sugar, when Coca-Cola Classic came back it had HFCS. Also, like I said above, the distinction is meaningless. HFCS tests far better than cane sugar among almost every demographic. If you think you like cane sugar better that's fine but you're probably wrong. Marketing >>> taste.
 
New Coke was possibly one of the most dumbest business ideas ever, and I did remember when someone said that in a video, and I have to agree with it.
 
I enjoyed New Coke though I think the Quebec version of it had a slightly different formula than everywhere else.

They changed the branding to "Coke II" and it was sold in Quebec until around 1996, though I understand it was sold in some parts of the American midwest like Illinois until 2002.

Sprig of Parsley said:
Is it a regional thing? I haven't seen it.
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Crippled Eagle said:
Yeah not sure. I don't think so. They only sell it in 350ml glass bottles in decorative 4 packs. The bottles are actually really pretty. I expected that fake raspberry syrup in a coke but what I got was closet to honest raspberry in a cola. It's good. I recommend trying it. The Georgia Peach one is fucking terrible though. I don't know which smoothbrain decided to add peach to cola but that was a mistake.
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It's even in Canada at select supermarkets, I've seen it at Loblaws, Independent, and Sobeys stores. I've been tempted to try at least the raspberry but I don't feel like paying ~$6 including tax for four small bottles of soda.
 
Judge Holden said:
From what I have heard, it was literally just Pepsi in a coke branded can, which makes sense since Coke was desperate to match Pepsi's rise and they assumed it was the taste of Pepsi that gave them the edge.

So people could literally just go and buy a pepsi and get the same flavour of New Coke if they really wanted it.
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Pepsi’s better anyway.
 
Judge Holden said:
From what I have heard, it was literally just Pepsi in a coke branded can, which makes sense since Coke was desperate to match Pepsi's rise and they assumed it was the taste of Pepsi that gave them the edge.

So people could literally just go and buy a pepsi and get the same flavour of New Coke if they really wanted it.
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That's exactly what my mother says about New Coke the occasional time that it comes up. I'm not a big fan of Pepsi (it tastes flatter and sickly sweet to me) so I don't think I'll try this if I come across it.

Crippled Eagle said:
Tab soda is probably the best meme drink ever created though, and that was made by Coke. Literally the reason Crystal Pepsi shit the bed.
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I know only one person that drank Tab. It was a science teacher in my middle school. She always had a can on her desk. That's the main thing I remember about her.

Freddy Freaker said:
2 Bring back Pepsi Blue
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Despite my complaints about Pepsi above, I have a soft spot for Pepsi Blue as when we first moved into my childhood home we got a bunch of Pepsi Blue for free and that was all we had in the fridge for a few days.

One of my next door neighbors at the time also worked for Coke so we'd get free cases of the newest Coke product at the time. Coke Blak particularly comes to mind. Then they moved :(
 
Bringing New Coke back is a way for Coca-Cola to "not take ourselves too seriously," Stuart Kronauge, president of Coke's sparkling business unit and senior vice president of marketing for Coca-Cola North America, told CNN Business.

"Maybe a while ago we wouldn't have done this," Kronauge said. "But we're changing and trying to innovate in ways that are beyond traditional new products. This is a cultural innovation."
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Niggers you make sub-par soda. Pull your heads out of your asses, your shit don't smell sweeter than anyone else.
 
I'll give it a shot. I recall it being similar to Pepsi, but that was obviously a long time ago.
Not gonna buy more than a one off thing. I'm not too into soda. I have a limited appetite for sugar coke, then corn syrup gets it into that creepy sickly hypersweet.
 
sasazuka said:
Do you mean Coke Plus Coffee, Japanese Coke Plus with added fiber or something else that's not showing up on the first page of Google search results for Coke Plus?

I just wish I could buy Cherry C0ke Zero for more than a couple of months a year (in Canada).
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I liked it a lot, but apparently nobody else did. Luckily when they were being discontinued I ended up buy several cases of it at a local discount outlet store.
 
You'd think they'd kinda-sorta want to avoid bringing back New Coke after all who was their spokesman again? Oh yeah
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