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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It goes:

Pepsi
Diet Pepsi
Pepsi Max
Coke
Coke Zero
. . . Diet Coke
. . . . . Crystal Pepsi ๐Ÿ˜ญ

They're right though, Pepsi is not god damn "okay". Pepsi is great. (though I'll drink any of my top 5 interchangeably, except for the sugar, and I only have any of them as a treat now after years of drinking way too much.)

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If diet Pepsi is your #2, your taste buds are broken.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Diet Pepsi tastes much more like Pepsi compared to Diet Coke/Coke. Pepsi Max could easily be second though depending on my mood.

I've convinced people with blind taste tests, but not much I can do over the internet.

Coke is too sweet and makes my teeth feel weird which is why most of the Pepsi products go above the Cokes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I don't think Diet Coke was ever meant to taste like Coke. My conspiracy theory is when New Coke bombed, they rebranded it as Diet Coke when they brought back "classic Coke." I just prefer the flavor of diet coke.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

If you prefer diet coke your taste buds are broken :-P

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And thus, the soda wars began.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Being this passionate about cola is just the marketing that has been internalised as part of one's identity.

Is Pepsi ok? No I'd rather have a real drink please.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

if you don't have Melon Fanta I'm burning your establishment to the ground ...

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What part of the world are you from? I've had various melon-flavored sodas, but they were at World of Coke. I've never seen it in a restaurant.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, it's not common anywhere but it is objectively the best soda on the planet

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Coke
7-Up
Any passionfruit soda
Reluctantly and if it's the only thing I'd drink, Pepsi

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because you don't like the taste?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Not a fan of the spiced cola flavour, but it's not the worst thing out there, it's really nice out of a soda fountain tho.

[โ€“] brb 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What the hell is diet pepsi? Pepsi max is already 0 calories?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Diet Coke and Coke Zero are both 0 calories but taste very different.

Pepsi Max was meant to compete with Coke Zero (also uses black in the marketing/logo)

Edit to add: also Diet Pepsi has been around way longer than Pepsi Max, so the correct question is "what the hell is Pepsi Max!?"