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Slightly off-topic, but: "It's like Coke vs. Pepsi, they taste 99% alike and blind tests show costumers have no preference on one over another." Sorry, but th

by axod 18y ago

Slightly off-topic, but: "It's like Coke vs. Pepsi, they taste 99% alike and blind tests show costumers have no preference on one over another." Sorry, but that's completely wrong. Pepsi is far sweeter. It wins on taste tests, whilst Coke wins in some tests where people drink an entire can. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cola_wars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cola_wars

inerte 18y ago
I stand corrected, thanks for the Cola war insight :) I guess I let out my own personal taste and bias and some faulty memory...
- axod 18y ago
  ;) I actually can't stand the taste of Coke, but love Pepsi with a passion. Some people think I'm weird/being petty, but it's just a different taste.
  - zack 18y ago
    I don't think you're being weird. I do think you are conditioned by brilliant marketing. My Decision Making class did a taste test last quarter. The professor poured some Pepsi into 5 cups, and then poured some Coke into 5 cups, and then invited a student to do a taste test. Before the test began, she indicated a strong preference for Pepsi; then, after each cup, she was asked to indicate whether it was Coke or Pepsi. The result? She choose Pepsi/Coke with exactly 50% accuracy. Go figure. It's not a different taste. It really isn't.
  - axod 18y ago
    (Reply to Zack who's comment is dead): You can tell even by the smell. Perhaps you think I'm lying, but when served a brown fizzy drink in a cup, I can tell with 100% accuracy wether it is Coke, Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, or Pepsi Max.
    - twopoint718 18y ago
      I don't know exactly why but that sounds very funny to me. I would boast of this ability all the time.
      - axod 18y ago
        The long winter evenings of blind taste testing at our house simply fly by ;)
    - froo 18y ago
      Yep, I have this ability too - I thought I was the only one!
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- Dobbs 18y ago
  Not faulty memory just accepting a common myth/advertising. It wasn't until recently that I was informed of the truth of why the pepsi/coke taste test works out the way it does.
bad_user 18y ago
I like Coke more because Pepsi is too sweet for me.

by axod 18y ago

inerte 18y ago

I stand corrected, thanks for the Cola war insight :) I guess I let out my own personal taste and bias and some faulty memory...

axod 18y ago
;) I actually can't stand the taste of Coke, but love Pepsi with a passion. Some people think I'm weird/being petty, but it's just a different taste.
- zack 18y ago
  I don't think you're being weird. I do think you are conditioned by brilliant marketing. My Decision Making class did a taste test last quarter. The professor poured some Pepsi into 5 cups, and then poured some Coke into 5 cups, and then invited a student to do a taste test. Before the test began, she indicated a strong preference for Pepsi; then, after each cup, she was asked to indicate whether it was Coke or Pepsi. The result? She choose Pepsi/Coke with exactly 50% accuracy. Go figure. It's not a different taste. It really isn't.
- axod 18y ago
  (Reply to Zack who's comment is dead): You can tell even by the smell. Perhaps you think I'm lying, but when served a brown fizzy drink in a cup, I can tell with 100% accuracy wether it is Coke, Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, or Pepsi Max.
  - twopoint718 18y ago
    I don't know exactly why but that sounds very funny to me. I would boast of this ability all the time.
    - axod 18y ago
      The long winter evenings of blind taste testing at our house simply fly by ;)
  - froo 18y ago
    Yep, I have this ability too - I thought I was the only one!
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Dobbs 18y ago
Not faulty memory just accepting a common myth/advertising. It wasn't until recently that I was informed of the truth of why the pepsi/coke taste test works out the way it does.

bad_user 18y ago

I like Coke more because Pepsi is too sweet for me.