17th May 2003, 2:12 AM
I hate both, but LL is correct. I can call up a soda lore page in a sec if you like. New coke DID taste EXACTLY like Pepsi, because at the time people liked it better. Being morons, they didn't notice it, but instead thought they ruined coke, which had suddenly become a national past time due to this "scandel". Coke switched to the original, unliked, formula, and have been ever since.
In other words, though I can't really tell a difference myself, there IS a difference in taste, as physical reality. As much as people still love to make fun of "new coke" for being "terrible", in the end it really was just a perfect clone of Pepsi.
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/newcoke.asp
Read all about it, with some source links so you can check the data for yourself. As per usual, LL is right.
In other words, though I can't really tell a difference myself, there IS a difference in taste, as physical reality. As much as people still love to make fun of "new coke" for being "terrible", in the end it really was just a perfect clone of Pepsi.
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/newcoke.asp
Read all about it, with some source links so you can check the data for yourself. As per usual, LL is right.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)