Ah, Pepsi Cola… the arch nemesis of the beloved Coca-Cola. Pepsi was created in the late 19th century by pharmacist Caleb Bradham. Pepsi had a very slow start, but was able to increase its sales during the Great Depression by slashing the price of a 10 ounce bottle from 10 cents to 5 cents. It furthered its market share over the years with specific targeted advertising, but never had the same advertising success as Coca-Cola. In 2007, Pepsi re-designed their can for the fourteenth time… proving it is not nearly as iconic as the Coca-Cola stripe.
As a dark brown carbonated liquid, Pepsi is definitely sweet. In fact, it is so damn sweet it is almost sour to the tongue! It has an acidic aftertaste and is hardly a settling beverage.
With a foul sour taste, high calorie count, extremely high in sugar content, and not a single decent advertising campaign behind it… I can find no reason to voluntarily drink Pepsi unless it is as a beverage of last resort.
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- While drinking the tart soft drink you should definitely watch Mommie Dearest (Special Collector’s Edition)
to see just how crazy Pepsi executives can be. “NO MORE WIRE COAT HANGERS!”Popularity: 11% [?]
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Pepsi sucks. Also, it uses sugar cane which is processed outside of this country. Coke uses corn syrup which is processed in the US.
Drink Coke and support US workers!
Oh and also drink it because pepsi is flat, gross and disgusting, icky pooey yuck.
Miss Ann Thrope’s last blog post..And you can quote me on that
Yay! A Coke-Pepsi battle!
I enjoy Pepsi.
I enjoy both Coke *and* Pepsi. Nothing wrong with liking both, either, or neither!
I agree with Miss Ann about the gross, disgusting, and ickey pooh part.
The fact that Pepsi isn’t even made in the USA (which makes sense since ALL the Chinese immigrants only drink that crap from it being the gateway soft drink in China years ago) just furthers my opinion that it is craptastic in a bottle.
I do like Mountain Dew though.
OMG!
Pepsi is just sweeter than Coke and you both can’t take things that are sweet like me.
If everything were made in the USA we would have too many products and no room for the people. So, settle it down on your Nationalist views.
Mountain Dew is green piss. You’re reviewing that one, buddy.