Cola wars
I’ve always had a sweet-tooth. I much prefer sweet tasting foods and beverages over spicy-hot or bitter or sour. So it would stand to reason that I prefer Pepsi-Cola over Coca-Cola; the taste is much sweeter. I can remember quite a few years ago that Coca-Cola changed its recipe to be sweeter in order to compete better with Pepsi. What an uproar it caused among loyal Coca-Cola drinkers! I remember that for a time, to try to keep the consumers happy Coca-Cola then started selling both recipes, the original AND the new one; they marketed the original as “Coke Classic.” To be honest, I DID like the new recipe better because it WAS sweeter and tasted much like Pepsi. However, I now tend to drink the Pepsi-Free soda because it is caffeine free and I try to reduce my caffeine intake as much as possible. That being said, when I drink a diet soda, (and I avoid diet sodas because they have a nasty aftertaste) I think that the diet Coke tastes better than the diet Pepsi! The aftertaste is not as nasty.