The only good thing about that stuff was it was so foul you couldn't even use it in mixed drinks, so more people started drinking their whiskey straight just as God intended.
I don't know when I stopped drinking soda but probably early twenties. Just lost my taste for it. Now in my seventies in the last couple months I've gotten into miniature bottles of A&W root beer. I might drink a bottle a week. If I drink a half a bottle and put it back in the reefer with the cap on tight two/three days later it still has carbonation when I re-open it.
Theory on my part: New coke was used as a bumper between regular coke with cane suger (old formula) and the "classic coke" made with corn syrup. Kept folks from comparing the old with the classic and making trouble. No proof but why do large companies make any decision? Money, always money. . .
Your theory is absolutely correct. It was nothing more than a way to increase profits by switching from real cane sugar to high fructose corn syrup. Here in Houston, you can still buy 16 oz bottles of Coca Cola made with cane sugar. There is a Coca Cola bottler in Mexico that distributes the Holy Elixir. If I’m in the store and they are on the shelf I’ll buy the entire lot just to have as a treat every so often. MadMarlin
I'd rather drink my own piss than that "new coke" shit. First time I tried it back in the 80's, I spit the shit out and threw the remander can in the friggin' trash.
Granny may have a mess to clean up in the ol 'fridge, because that's the same shit I use on my car battery posts to eat the corrosion! Just a couple of drops on each post, don't want to overdue it with that nasty shit.
New Coke was a way for Coke company to charge more for their product to restaurants that sold the syrup mixed with carbonate water, for fountain drinks. After awhile, when people got sick of the New Coke, they brought back Coke Classic, which since it was not called Coke, they could charge a higher price for to their customers at the restaurants, bars, etc. Of course, it ran it's way through the courts, and eventually the restaurants won, and they got back the overpayments, and the original price that was in the contracts. But just know, it had nothing to do with trying to change the taste, and everything to do with getting to raise the price of all of their written in stone contracts. My parents had a restaurant, and so they saw it. But they cheated and changed machines and brought in Pepsi for awhile. Because nobody, absolutely nobody, liked New Coke.
I don't know when I stopped drinking soda but probably early twenties. Just lost my taste for it. Now in my seventies in the last couple months I've gotten into miniature bottles of A&W root beer. I might drink a bottle a week. If I drink a half a bottle and put it back in the reefer with the cap on tight two/three days later it still has carbonation when I re-open it.
ReplyDeleteLemmy drank jack and coke.
ReplyDeletesince Lemmy is God, god has therefore ordained and sanctified the consumption of jack and coke, and it shall henceforth be known as a Lemmy.
https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/a-jack-and-coke-is-now-officially-called-a-lemmy/
I wouldn't know what the "new" Coke tasted like. Never drank it and never went back to them after they messed with the formula the first time.
ReplyDeleteEvidently, you have never experienced TAB.
ReplyDeleteTAB could take the chrome off a trailer hitch!
DeleteI'm surprised that it hasn't corroded its way out of the can in 37 years.
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Theory on my part: New coke was used as a bumper between regular coke with cane suger (old formula) and the "classic coke" made with corn syrup. Kept folks from comparing the old with the classic and making trouble. No proof but why do large companies make any decision? Money, always money. . .
ReplyDeleteYour theory is absolutely correct. It was nothing more than a way to increase profits by switching from real cane sugar to high fructose corn syrup. Here in Houston, you can still buy 16 oz bottles of Coca Cola made with cane sugar. There is a Coca Cola bottler in Mexico that distributes the Holy Elixir. If I’m in the store and they are on the shelf I’ll buy the entire lot just to have as a treat every so often.
DeleteMadMarlin
I'd rather drink my own piss than that "new coke" shit.
ReplyDeleteFirst time I tried it back in the 80's, I spit the shit out and threw the remander can in the friggin' trash.
Granny may have a mess to clean up in the ol 'fridge, because that's the same shit I use on my car battery posts to eat the corrosion! Just a couple of drops on each post, don't want to overdue it with that nasty shit.
ReplyDeleteNew Coke was a way for Coke company to charge more for their product to restaurants that sold the syrup mixed with carbonate water, for fountain drinks. After awhile, when people got sick of the New Coke, they brought back Coke Classic, which since it was not called Coke, they could charge a higher price for to their customers at the restaurants, bars, etc.
ReplyDeleteOf course, it ran it's way through the courts, and eventually the restaurants won, and they got back the overpayments, and the original price that was in the contracts. But just know, it had nothing to do with trying to change the taste, and everything to do with getting to raise the price of all of their written in stone contracts.
My parents had a restaurant, and so they saw it. But they cheated and changed machines and brought in Pepsi for awhile. Because nobody, absolutely nobody, liked New Coke.
As I recall, New Coke tasted just like Pepsi and just as awful.
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