Comments on: ARGH BLEH PTOOIE

By: citizenx

citizenx — Mon, 21 Apr 2003 11:22:03 +0000

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.

By: frobisher

frobisher — Sat, 19 Apr 2003 14:42:43 +0000

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.

By: deviant_

deviant_ — Sat, 19 Apr 2003 14:23:13 +0000

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.

By: peculiah

peculiah — Sat, 19 Apr 2003 10:51:00 +0000

Pepsi, Coke and colas in general are all horrible things. However, I had real faith in Sprite. What a let down.

By: frobisher

frobisher — Sat, 19 Apr 2003 03:00:39 +0000

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.

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 19 Apr 2003 00:57:34 +0000

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.

By: peculiah

peculiah — Sat, 19 Apr 2003 00:39:14 +0000

But how can it be bad when it looks so good? I swear, I almost bought some the other day.

By: srl

srl — Fri, 18 Apr 2003 23:39:48 +0000

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.

By: pegs

pegs — Fri, 18 Apr 2003 23:35:47 +0000

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.”