Pepsi vs Coca Cola

I've changed over years .

I think as you get older you realise the sugar in traditional Coca Cola is just not sustainable. Fair enough if you get it a once off, holiday , bar , error. It is the nicest in the right circumstances and drink preparation. Glass bottles etc.

For a few years went to diet and zero. Just habitual for caffeine hit.

Have moved more and more to pepsi . Then to max as that 50 % free bottle whilst hard to find . Is class.

As you get older again your taste needs more a hit . And fentimans is class . Hard to get and probably harder again with Brexit.

It reminds you of what coke may have been like originally in drug stores.

To be honest most modern companies have made a mess of their food / drink products. Why hipster products in the spaces are opening up more.

I liked Vigin and a few fake Colas too.

Anyway all the plastic is a disgrace ..no getting away from.that.

Normal One wrote: »

Gluten-free filtered water plz

Haven't seen that one.

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

...there really is no difference between Coke and Coke Zero.

Ah there is though. I can clearly tell the difference between the 3. The closest I came to actual coke was that Coke Life that was out for a while. It was basically Coke but less sugar instead of no sugar. But still didn't taste like coke.

Quite annoyed the other night I got an Abra takeaway, large CBG and large Katsu Curry chips, lare Diet Coke. All in a bag and didn't realise until I got to start eating it that i got a bottle of Coke Zero... [insert Hercules "Disappointed"]

Original Coke is superior to Pepsi .

Fritz Kola and Fentiman Cola are both lovely but not too easy buy here.


Dr.Pepper is absolute piss water .

Feisar wrote: »

What annoys me about Lucozade is it’s supposed to be an energy drink. And now there are zero calorie versions, on what planet does that make sense?

Diabetics with a hypo used to rely on a small bottle of it.
Now that's changed.
https://www.diabetes.ie/lucozade-energy-is-changing/

DS86DS wrote: »

Which tastes better, which do you prefer?

Pepsi all the way.
It tastes so much better.

Possibly the reason for that for me is that it was only one of that two available when I was a small child.
My granddad used to get ma a bottle of pepsi on special occasions, and it was a real treat. Coca Cola was not available in my country due to political situation, so I didn't have a chance to taste it until I was about 9 years old.
That's a simple reason why I'm so much more into pepsi than coke.


And I'm not interested in all low/none sugar stuff. Diet, zero, max, etc...
I think they all taste awful.
I prefer to drink a proper can of pepsi even if it's only once a month, than drinking this awfull desugared drinks....

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Some chilled water with winter herbs is a far more satisfying drink.

My automatic response was ewww, but then I remembered that water gives me indigestion so that's a no from me!

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

All things fanta are terrible

Fanta Cassis (blackcurrant, of course, not available here) is actually really nice. I tasted it years ago while in Amsterdam and loved it. As did my friendzoned BFF at the time. Ended up importing a crate of it for her bday the next year.

But yeah, it's lovely.

Not a big fan of normal Pepsi or Coke but Pepsi Max is the best of all the diet drinks by a long shot.

Does anyone remember back in the 90s Dunnes had their own vending machine of Cola and Diet Cola? I cant remember the name now but it wasnt bad for an own brand drink.

Steyr 556 wrote: »

THE CHOICE OF A NEW GENERATION



All unbelievers will be wiped from this earth.

Would be refreshing if the next Cold war/ Clash of civilizations/etc. was Cola based.

New Home wrote: »

St Bernard's used to be Dunnes' own brand for everything, from food to clothing (jus like St Michael's for M&S). I think they had the normal version in red cans, and the diet in white ones, but I've a niggling thought that it wasn't just the one brand of cola that they had... my memory is shot.

They had the lemon and lime ‘Fizz Up’ not too long after. Was recalled later though, it went an unsettling yellow colour if it was left in the sun.

Didn’t affect the taste, as far as I know, but wouldn’t have fancied trying it.

ManOfMystery wrote: »

Was in Sainsbury's doing shopping and saw these Coca Cola mixers for spirits, never seen them before (I'm probably late to the party........!)

Anyone tried them? Wonder how far from normal coke they taste.

I had them a few years ago, the herbal one was ok. Rest were bad particularly the spicy one which was vile stuff.