Ok, so a while ago Pepsi thought “Hey, we should put lemon in our cola.”
And thus was born Pepsi Twist, which is quite good.
And then someone at Coke thought “hey, we should put vanilla in our
cola.” And thus was born Vanilla Coke, which is quite good.
And then someone at Pepsi thought “Blue is pretty!”. And thus was
born Pepsi Blue, which is bearable.
And then some idiot at Coke thought “Hey, we should put mint in our
lemon-lime soda!” And thus was born Sprite Ice, which I just
accidentally bought and which is the most foul carbonated beverage I’ve had
since Spruce Beer. What the heck were they thinking? Mint? Eccch. Stay
far away, folks! Stay away!
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Pepsi Blue was not bearable. Proof is in the fact that they were trying to give it away at a local grocery store when you paid for your groceries. “Please… please… take some Pepsi Blue.”
Posted 18 Apr 2003 at 4:35 pm ¶O_o I have not heard of this “Sprite Ice” of which you speak. Perhaps they’re just testing it on the Canadians or something. However, Polar Birch Beer (a mildly minty-sweet, but not citrus, soda) is tasty to me, so maybe I’m weird.
Posted 18 Apr 2003 at 4:39 pm ¶But how can it be bad when it looks so good? I swear, I almost bought some the other day.
Posted 18 Apr 2003 at 5:39 pm ¶Don’t be fooled! It’s vile stuff.
I still haven’t got the sugar fix I was expecting when I went to the store to get a bottle of pop, so it’s sitting in front of me, and I keep opening it JUST IN CASE it’s better now, smelling it, going X|, closing it.
Posted 18 Apr 2003 at 5:57 pm ¶I note that:
a) pepsi is based on lemon in the first place
b) years ago, there was pepsi light, which was explicitly lemon flavored diet soda.
Mr. Information.
Posted 18 Apr 2003 at 8:00 pm ¶Pepsi, Coke and colas in general are all horrible things. However, I had real faith in Sprite. What a let down.
Posted 19 Apr 2003 at 3:51 am ¶It’s based on orange, not lemon.
Basicly, Pepsi was created to be, as the name implies, a peptic. That is to say, it’s designed to turn your stomach. And it does! To this day, old ladies will give little children pepsi when they’ve got a stomach ache.
Too bad about the taste.
Posted 19 Apr 2003 at 7:23 am ¶I misspoke. Pepsi, apparently admits to orange, lemon and lime oils for flavoring. The general feeling, however, is that Coke tends to lean more towards the orange and Pepsi more towards the lemon.
Granted, I’m using a slightly old source here (“Big Secrets” by William Poundstone), so this may have changed in recent years.
Oddly, I prefer lemon to orange, but prefer coke to pepsi. weird.
Posted 19 Apr 2003 at 7:42 am ¶It’s all a load of crap, although sometimes Dr Pepper breaks down my resistance. Especially when I put some Captain Morgan in it, but that’s a completely different story.
For the wlonk, and anyone else interested: mint things can easily be very nasty when done incorrectly, and this is a shame because mint is cool. My first and only exhibit: mint skittles.
Posted 21 Apr 2003 at 4:22 am ¶