the scoop on throwback pepsi

[alocispepraluger102]

the scoop Edited August 11, 2010 by alocispepraluger102

[Big Al]

All's I know is it tastes NOTHING like the wonderful nectar I grew up on in the 70's & 80's before HFCS came along and ruined me for life.

Still, I'll take an artificially sweetened Pepsi any day of the week over whatever version of Coke is floating around out there. THAT'S where Obama's stimulus money should be going: Pepsi is too big to fail! Pepsi must not fail!!! If they fall, then I'm left with Dr. Pepper which, while a more-than-worthy substitute (and sometimes a preferred drink, if I'm in the right mood), is not available everywhere (another advantage of living in Texas: EVERYONE has Dr. Pepper and anyone that don't gets shot! ).

So, I implore you, Mr. President: I hope that you will change your mind about who gets the money and give it all to Pepsi. Or me.

[BruceH]

I like Coke Zero.

[JSngry]

[DukeCity]

I had no idea that "Throwback Pepsi" has a different formula. I thought it was just a packaging thing.

At some local restaurants (and our local Costco) some have been selling Mexican Coke. It's sold in the old style glass bottles, and uses cane sugar.

[JSngry]

They're doing Throwback Mountain Dew too.

[Free For All]

I got some of the Pepsi. It's OK, no huge epiphany for me. I do like the retro packaging though. Back to the 60s........simpler times.....(cue flashback harp arpeggio)........

[RDK]

Much prefer Coke over Pepsi in any formulation. Tried the Throwback Dew and thought it tasted less like Mountain Dew than the "fake" stuff. Seriously, though, comparing tastes over decades is harder than comparing CD masterings.

[Quincy]

Read the label on the Mexican Coke as some do indeed contain HFCS rather than sugar. A recent article in the WSJ (I think) suggested that that may become more common in Mexico due to costs, though now that China is having to import corn perhaps it won't be.

There's a chance that because so many Americans think that cane sugar is "healthy" that Coke & Pepsi may go back to sugar full time and stop using HFCS someday. The mandated use of ethanol, along with poor grain yields in the Eastern hemisphere this year are changing the old cost advantages of corn vs. the usual artificially high price of sugar in the US. Given it's a way to sell an old product as new you'd think they'd go for it in a big way, but I guess it runs the risk of admitting that they've been selling an inferior product for the past 25 some odd years.

Edited August 12, 2010 by Quincy

[Big Al]

Much prefer Coke over Pepsi in any formulation.

This could seriously jeopardize our FacePage Friendship!

[RDK]

Much prefer Coke over Pepsi in any formulation.

This could seriously jeopardize our FacePage Friendship!

It'll have to be one of those topics we avoid talking about.