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Isn't the right debate these days whether C2 or the Pepsi half&half drink (I have no idea the actual name) better?
Oh, and Coke, if we're basing it on the cola, but Pepsi, if we're talking about all the drinks made by the company.
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Coke is SO much better! And for diet drinks, too, Diet Pepsi is just nauseating. Diet Coke is nectar of the gods.
Diet Dr. Pepper is pretty good (isn't that made by Pepsi?) but the only Pepsi drink I really like is Diet Mountain Dew.
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Dr. Pepper, but I am curious about Vernor's... is that a regional drink? I don't think I have ever seen it.
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It may, however, be bottled locally by a company that bottles either Pepsi, Coke, or other brands of soda. Remember, the soda companies only make the syrup; they don't bottle the product or combine it with carbonated water.
quote: Er...Dr. Pepper is a Pepsi Product. Pibb is Coca Cola.
Are you sure? I never see it grouped with Pepsi products - always with Coke products - and no restaraunts that serve "Pepsi products" offer Dr. Pepper.
[Edit: Well, let's pretend that Primal Curve's post appeared after mine instead of before.]
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Vernors does tend to be regional. For instance, Porter lived in Bartlesville, OK when he was introduced. Apparently someone there was responsible for making it popular in that region. They requested that it be carried in the stores and it caught on.
Similar thing here in Provo/Orem Utah. Not all grocery stores carry Vernors--you have to find the right ones. And the ones that do only sell it in can form and it is outrageously expensive. I think it was a matter of store policy that if you can bring in a label of a certain product, they will get that product into their store for you. So apparently someone requested it, but it is still virtually "unknown" here. If it caught on, more stores would carry it because they would be confident in their ability to sell it.
Other parts of the country where Vernors is well known, it isn't hard to find at all. But I am not sure where exactly those places are. Detroit, for one.
quote: Dr. Pepper is not a Pepsi Product. The Dr. Pepper/Seven-Up Corporation is a division of London-based Cadbury-Schweppes. Though Dr. Pepper is distributed by Pepsi distributors in many parts of the U.S., the Pepsi Cola Company has nothing to do with the bottling of Dr. Pepper or the design of its packaging.
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Well, Dr. Pepper/7up is a subsidiary of Cadbury-Schwepps.
quote:The parent company of a subsidiary generally has the same policy-making powers as any majority owner and can do such things as appoint directors and hire officers. The subsidiary is controlled by the parent through these powers, and the parent may be held liable for the acts of the subsidiary if the subsidiary is found to be an instrumentality of the parent
So, technically, I'm still right.
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The only Pepsi product I regularly drink is Mountain Dew. But I'm a grocery-store-coupon-sleaze. I'll buy whichever is on sale, to avoid paying $1.59 for a bottle of soda*.
* Though I'm quite guilty of buying way more 20 oz sodas for $1 than one should.
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Actually the best is Sunkist which is bottled by Pepsi co/Seven Up but produced independently.
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It actually depends on the region of the country you are in. Northern Pepsi tastes better than Southern Coke and Southern Pepsi is carbonated Sweet Tea. IMO.
Generally speaking I'll take Coke any day but Northern Pepsi is bearable.
quote: It actually depends on the region of the country you are in. Northern Pepsi tastes better than Southern Coke and Southern Pepsi is carbonated Sweet Tea. IMO.
I agree here. I generally (of the 2) prefer to drink pepsi, but when I lived in Italy, it was coke. literally, pepsi tasted like coke and vice-versa. very odd. i noticed the difference when i arrived in Italy and again when i returned home.
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Interesting side note: original formula Coke--the real original--is still available in the south under the name "Quencher". Apparently the guy who invented Coke sold the formula (but not the name) to several people, who were then sued for trademark infringement when they tried to market it under similar names.
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quote:The original recipe of Coke is the best secret in the world (but at least somewhere in Atlanta). Coca-Cola was originally made form Coca-leaves (cocaine-plant) and Cola-nuts (which grow in Africa). So in the beginning there was cocaine in it. Mr. John Styth Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist, is the father of Coke. He made it as a medicine. He also started with alcohol in it, so that's true also. Later when Coke commercialized, the cocaine and alcohol where left out and the original recipe was replaced by the "7X"-formula.
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I prefer neither of them. Get a bottle of Guaraná Soda (from Antarctica, a brazilian company) if you can. You'll never want to taste coke again. If you doubt me, read OSC's review about a brazilian restaurant in the U.S. called "Leblon".
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