The evidence speaks for itself: New Coke was never as good as old Coke!

[sasquatch]

:D :P

[Spider Jerusalem]

1. But Crystal Pepsi was better than either.

[sasquatch]

2. BLASPHEMY!!

Pepsi Clear taste like stale Dr. Pepper.

[Huckebein the Raven]

10. It tasted like a very weak pepsi to me

[ashmanonar]

11. crystalmeth pepsi?

;)

[coloradodem2005]

3. Kind of like Van Halen.

Van Hagar was never as good as Classic Van Halen.

[sasquatch]

5. David Lee Roth could get on your nerves though

[coloradodem2005]

7. True.

But the chemistry was there. Everything came together so seamlessly when Roth was there.

Besides, better to occasionally annoy than to be a hypocritical Republican (Hagar).

[yvr girl]

4. I will go to my grave believing it was a marketing ploy.

[coloradodem2005]

6. Wouldn't be the first time.

Do you think Crystal Pepsi was a marketing ploy too?

[yvr girl]

8. Not a very good one

It was more of a marketing initiative

[coloradodem2005]

9. I remember that well.

It was launched and it crashed and burned within a year.

[GaYellowDawg]

12. It actually wasn't!

I know someone who was fairly high up in the advertising/marketing department at the time, and he said that it was a stupid decision by stupid corporate people. These people were "change agents" - in other words, people who like to mess with things that are working for the sake of messing with them. They thought they could improve on a product that had been solidly selling for 70 or so years.

There are few infinite things in this world, but CEO ego, CEO greed, CEO arrogance, and CEO stupidity are among them.

[hlthe2b]

13. Old Coke disappeared long before the "new Coke" debaucle:

It coincided with the substitution of high fructose corn syrup for sugar to please the US agricultural lobby (and to rebuff S. American sugar growers).

Anyone who ever drank sugar-sweetened "Old coke" (or any of the other soft drinks which have all similarly gone to h.f. corn syrup for sweetener)-- well, we lost out big time. Thus, the strong trending towards diet soft drinks. One crappy sweetener substitute is as bad as any other....

[sasquatch]

14. Also they used to put cocaine in Coca-Cola

That's when shrubbie was really upset over the fact that they changed the formula.
:D

[Celeborn Skywalker]

15. In SW New Mexico

you can still find sugar sweetened Coke and Pepsi in convenience stores. I think they're imported from Mexico, and yes, they taste a hell of alot better than the corn syrup ones.