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

[Dysnomia]

I think I was one of the few people that liked New Coke. As a kid I hated Coke (and still do). Then they went and brought out New Coke and we bought a lot of it. My mom said that finally we can like drinking Coke. Then they discontinued it.

The only time I have anything Coke related is a Coke slurpee when I am nauseous. I did like Coca Cola Blak though. Why don't they bring that back? Hey Pepsi, bring back Pepsi Kona.

 

[Tookie]

In parts of Asia they're testing out Coke with Coffee, a blend of coke and black coffee, and it's amazing.

 

[AnOminous]

In parts of Asia they're testing out Coke with Coffee, a blend of coke and black coffee, and it's amazing.

Isn't that just revamping Blak?

 

[Tookie]

Isn't that just revamping Blak?

Sort of. I think Blak had coffee flavor extracts flavoring the coke whereas Coke Plus Coffee is an actual blend of black coffee with coke.

 

[Picklechu]

I'd try it if I saw it on a shelf or something, but I wouldn't go out of my way to order it online or some bullshit like that. I'm 28, so it was before my time, so it wouldn't quite be like Crystal Pepsi re-releasing a few years ago.

How's it going to go viral if they're only making half a million cans?

McDonald's did it with McNugget dipping sauce, so maybe we'll get to see some retards fight over it and try to drink it off the ground in parking lots and stuff.

 

[CWCchange]

2 Bring back Pepsi Blue

IIRC, there's a Mountain Dew flavor that tastes pretty much like it.

You'd think they'd kinda-sorta want to avoid bringing back New Coke after all who was their spokesman again? Oh yeah

Spoiler: Americas Dad

Alternatively, it's a perfect opportunity to whitewash something unfavorable. So instead of boomers and Generation X being reminded of Cosby with New Coke, millennials and Generation Z will now be reminded of a shitty Netflix series.

 

[tantric_depressive]

IIRC, there's a Mountain Dew flavor that tastes pretty much like it.

Would that be Voltage? It's the blue/rasberry Mountain Dew and I like it better than regular Dew

 

[DeathStork]

Coke makes my teeth feel like they're being besieged by the mongols but I'll probs try out a can of New Coke since I always hear about how it was such a massive failure.
I'm curious as to the taste of failure.

 

[UQ 770]

I was told by older members of my family that it was nothing special and tasted pretty much identical to Pepsi. Can any boomers confirm?

 

[XYZpdq]

I was told by older members of my family that it was nothing special and tasted pretty much identical to Pepsi. Can any boomers confirm?

That basically matches my dim memories of it.
I wonder how it compares to that weird licorice tasting Coke from McDonald's

 

[UQ 770]

That basically matches my dim memories of it.
I wonder how it compares to that weird licorice tasting Coke from McDonald's

Now that you mention it their fountain soda does seem to have little bit of anise taste to it. I've been getting soda there one and off for like 20 years and never really put my finger on that.

 

[Martys_not_smarty]

So watched most of the new season and got to say it feels pretty domesticated courtesy of that sweet sweet product placement money from Coke, Burger King and 7-11.

 

[Pickle Dick]

a little late now, but I did get a limited edition pack with two new coke cans. they tasted pretty much like what everyone said it tasted like; coke but sweeter. ive been having off-brand soda for days beforehand, so i couldn't tell the difference between that and new coke

 

[RichardMongler]

a little late now, but I did get a limited edition pack with two new coke cans. they tasted pretty much like what everyone said it tasted like; coke but sweeter. ive been having off-brand soda for days beforehand, so i couldn't tell the difference between that and new coke

Curiosity got the better of me, so I ordered the reintroduced New Coke online, too.

To me, New Coke tastes exactly like the fountain Coke served at movie theatres. Palate is considerably lighter and less flavorful than Mexicoke and Coca-Cola Classic. In short, sweet yet watered down and lacking bite. While not bad, it's easy to see why New Coke bombed.

All the calories and none of the charm.

 

[Pussyfarts]

Fun fact: the diet coke we have had and have currently on the market in the grey cans/label is actually the new coke formula with aspartame instead of sugar. Coke zero is the classic coke formula with aspartame, that's why it tastes so close to regular coke. So technically new coke never actually went away, it just remained the diet Coke we know. As a lover of diet Coke, I'm interested to see what it tastes like with sugar

 

[Pussyfarts]

1. This is stupid but the hipsters who watch stranger things will snap it all up and put on their best soy grins for InstaTwat

2 Bring back Pepsi Blue

Pepsi blue did come back, it's called berry Pepsi now and it's sold at walmart

 

[Shaved Kiwis]

At least it's better than that lime shit they both tried to push everywhere at one point.

That was fucking terrible. Unlike Pepsi Twist with lemon. Now that shit was delicious.

I think I was one of the few people that liked New Coke. As a kid I hated Coke (and still do). Then they went and brought out New Coke and we bought a lot of it. My mom said that finally we can like drinking Coke. Then they discontinued it.

The only time I have anything Coke related is a Coke slurpee when I am nauseous. I did like Coca Cola Blak though. Why don't they bring that back? Hey Pepsi, bring back Pepsi Kona.

Don't remember what either of them tastes like, but you might wanna check out Manhattan Special if it's available in your area. It's basically a sweetened and carbonated black coffee.

 

[LtCucumber]

It's an 80s nostalgia fever dream and we all know that Gen Zers are gonna be eating it up and jacking themselves off to the nostalgia of the stuff they're too young to actually remember. This worked with Stranger things, Summer of '84, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, IT (remake), which all came up generally liked or even broke records with how much they earned or were streamed.
It'll probably be a hit for like a month or something. Just like New Coke was in the first place before it all goes to shit due to formula/taste differences. Except this time it won't be advertised using Bill Cosby of all people.

The movies actually from the 80s, such as The Goonies, Back To The Future and even Monster Squad were great, if a bit cheesy. The modern re-imagining of the 80s through a polished lens seems a bit tryhard and doesn't capture the charm of the 80s as you'd think. I can't put my finger on it, but there's something that all those 80s movies have that modern movies in an 80s "style" just lack.

I didn't see anywhere that Stranger Things could even go after season 1, much like Riverdale, so I just stopped watching from there.

 

[Kulee Baba]

Fun fact: the diet coke we have had and have currently on the market in the grey cans/label is actually the new coke formula with aspartame instead of sugar. BIG, BLACK DICK is the classic coke formula with aspartame, that's why it tastes so close to regular coke. So technically new coke never actually went away, it just remained the diet Coke we know. As a lover of diet Coke, I'm interested to see what it tastes like with sugar

I personally hate the taste of Diet Coke and love Classic. But I always wondered if that was just me being down on fake sugar.

Really damn lame of Coke to be charging $20 to just taste this sugar water. But alas I'll pay for it because it's apart of American Pop Culture legend.

 

[Elaine Benes]

I have only the vaguest memory of seeing Coke II in grocery stores here in Illinois in the late 90s, but I don't remember ever trying it.

Still prefer Diet Rite to Diet Coke though. I wish they'd bring back C2.