Coke vs. Pepsi

According to the Independent, researchers have proven that the difference between Coke and Pepsi really is all in your head. Apparently the popularity of Coke's brand image causes people to think Coca-Cola itself tastes better, even though it really doesn't taste very different from Pepsi. As the article says: "When asked to taste blind, they showed no preference. However, when the participants were shown company logos before they drank, the Coke label, the more famous of the two, had a dramatic impact: three-quarters of the tasters declared they preferred Coke." I've long suspected this. Personally I can't taste any difference between Coke and Pepsi, but I have a friend who swears passionately that there's a huge difference. Now I can show him this research to prove that he's simply been brainwashed by advertising. Oh, and the Pepsi Taste Test also turns out to be nothing but hot air: "The findings suggest there is no scientific basis for claims made during the Pepsi ad campaign in which testers purportedly chose Pepsi over Coke when they were not told what they were drinking."

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Posted on Tue Oct 19, 2004



Comments

okay....coca cola is way better the flavor is more unique. I CAN taste the difference.Why would people want to buy a soda that is copying another? I'm gonna stick with the original...coca cola
Posted by Blaise Bayno-Krebs  on  Fri Jun 08, 2007  at  09:17 AM
I'll say it again, if you want to stick with the original you'll have to give up on Coke. Dr Pepper came out before Coca-Cola, and many other drinks preceeded DP.
Posted by Charybdis  on  Fri Jun 08, 2007  at  09:43 AM
I TINK U ARE ALL FULL OF B.S.!!!!!COKEACOLA RULES (AND OWNS)PEPSIE BY A MILLION MILES PEPSIE DRINKERS AR THE FATTEST LIERS EVER AND NEED TO SAY COKEACOLA OWNS ALL (AND SO DOSE PIE)SEE YA LATER STUPID PEPSIE DRENKERS
Posted by POOP = PEPSIE...COKE RULES  on  Sat Jun 23, 2007  at  10:34 PM
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* Wow, look at yourselves...... From what I can see a lot of the Coke drinkers seem quite rude and obnoxious.... IT IS ALL ABOUT PREFERENCE. WHAT TASTES GOOD TO ME, MAY NOT TO YOU, GET OVER IT! BUT PORTRAYING THAT ONE IS BETTER THAN ANOTHER IS RIDICULOUS!! And neither company copied eachother either, there are HUNDREDS/THOUSANDS of different kinds/brands of EVERYTHING, GROW UP!!!
Posted by Keily  on  Tue Jun 26, 2007  at  09:37 AM
OK ENOUGH I GOT THE REAL FACTS HERE! ACORRDING TO NUTRITION VALUE COKE IS MADE WITH NATURAL FLAVORS WHILE PEPSI HAS ARTIFICAL FLAVORS, AND kola nuts, vanilla beans, flavor oils, citrus, sweeteners and the purest waters we can distill. TRACES OF VANNILA SECERET! PEPSI HAS MORE SUGAR BY 1 GRAM AND HAS A LOT OF CARBONATION AND HAS A HUGE KICK IN IT COMPARED TO COKE BUT YOU MUST DRINK IT THE SECOND YOU OPEN IT TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE COKE IS BETTER WITH PIZZA BUT IF YOU WANT THE CLASSICS GET COKE YOU WANT A KICK IN THE ASS GET PEPSI RY THIS AND YOU WILL TELL THE DIFFERENCE! GET A COLD COKE AND PEPSI STRIGHT FROM THE VENDING MACHINE OPEN COKE DRINK FOR 2 SECONDS WAIT FOR 3 SECONDS THEN OPEN PEPSI AND YOU WILL FEEL THE KICK AND YOU MAY CRY BECAUSE OF CARBONATION.YOU JUST WANT A DRINK GET COKE YOU WANT EXITMENT GET PEPSI THESE ARE THE TRUE FACTS FOUND FROM COKE.COM/PEPSI.COM WHO WINS YOUDECIDE BUT REMEMBER COKE,HAD COKE IN IT/COKEANIE
Posted by Rio Uchiha  on  Sun Jul 15, 2007  at  09:25 PM
COCA-COLA taste way better than pepsi also pepsi is flat and tastes like shit!! Its True! Mos ppl who like pepsi like it becuase of the Britney Spears commercial. Coke taste better its not flat not as sweet and has a BOLD taste.
Coke All the Way!! Coke rocks! :exclaim: 😜 pepsi makes me feel :sick: disgusting

I would buy coke even if it cost 5 dollars for a 2-liter bottle
Posted by E-man  on  Fri Jul 20, 2007  at  02:40 AM
I think that Pepsi doesnt really have a sweeter taste, but that its crisper, and Coke has a more caramel/syrupy taste. Think about it. Both have an equivalent amount of carbonation and I prefer Pepsi
Posted by Kevin  on  Wed Aug 01, 2007  at  05:24 PM
Hey Austin Sims you are full of shit!
PEPSI Cola has 0.4% more sugar and is less carbonated.
This is not a matter of opinion this is fact.

Untill the next time...
GO TO HELL!
Posted by Bob  on  Thu Aug 23, 2007  at  08:24 PM
okay Enough Fighting I gave you guys the facts now you decide which is better but that would be a Personal opion so don't fight or cuzz over it hjust enjoy it now because mybe the companies will dissapear....enjoy what we have now
Posted by Rio Uchia  on  Sat Sep 01, 2007  at  11:15 PM
coke is the real thing. if anyone says pepsi is better they are idiots. pepsi is big in 5 or 6 countries and coke is known and drank world wide!
for those about to drink coke we salute you! coke kicks pepsi ass bigtime.
Posted by carter  on  Thu Sep 20, 2007  at  08:00 PM
well. hey, ive taken a many taste tests with coke. somehow i know the difference....and pepsi has more sugar an its proven it can clean off an do all that stuff my coke does but since coke is widley larger an well known in the world( 2nd most known word around the world, first most known brand) they tried an made it sound bad. Coke is differnet in many ways. smell taste, all that crap. it sux ass.
Pepsi is more popular than Coke in Pakistan an Quebec Canada. Coke dominates all other soft drinks in every other country. and obviously since those dummy scientists(which prolly is the real hoax) dont know the recipe as coke is the most famous trade secret reicpe in the world
Posted by raz  on  Tue Sep 25, 2007  at  08:29 PM
coke is the best juice in the world, pepsi isnt all as it is made out to seem.

😊 😊 😊

all the way with coke
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

xxxx
Posted by fiona wallace  on  Thu Sep 27, 2007  at  05:34 AM
;-P Pepsi is the best drink out of the two.
I'm not a "soda" drinker so i could care less.
When i do drink pop it's got to be Pepsi!!
It's the best:]

yummmmmmm WHO DEY???!!!
Posted by taylor porter  on  Thu Sep 27, 2007  at  10:49 AM
im doig a huge sciece fair thing for my freshman year in college (UT) and its about the diff btwn pepsi and coke, they both basically have the same ingrediants except pepsi has citric acid and sugar, ya coke doesnt have sugar, thats the only difference in the ingedients
Posted by Lola  on  Sun Sep 30, 2007  at  07:32 PM
yea coke is better. no question about that... but pepsi does have one very good thing about it...they came out with mountain dew
Posted by b-rizzle  on  Mon Oct 01, 2007  at  01:43 PM
ok here is the real deal of this 3 year on going form......one for the jack a.z.z. that works for coke and said the only reason pepsi is still here is because of mn dew , 1. we sell twice as much pepsi as we do mountain dew, 2. we sell 4 times the amount diet as cola does 3.we have 32 more flavores the coke, 4. is that for the last 7 years we have grown at a 23% rate as a company in whole. 5. we have beat coke in sales, (Especially in bulk sales i.e sams club cost co, etc) for 8 years running, 6. last but not lest we as a company grow and expand every year with things like the buy out of taco bell pizza hut KFC frito lay etc, what has coke done this year, forget that what has coke done in the last 15 years?.......coke will always be around thats a given but dont be surpised when your pay check has a pepsi logo on it.....
Posted by Jay  on  Sat Oct 13, 2007  at  01:08 AM
all pepsi lover can go to dustins pillow humping session tonight and learn that pillows are better then pepsi but coke rules all
Posted by bla  on  Thu Oct 18, 2007  at  04:36 PM
i think dr. pepper is better than coke or pepsi:]]
Posted by drew  on  Fri Oct 19, 2007  at  12:48 PM
I ttly think Pepsi has a sweeter taste. You can tell pretty easily that Coke is more crisp!
Kz
Posted by Kz  on  Mon Oct 22, 2007  at  08:30 PM
hell yeah coke is the best
Posted by alex  on  Thu Oct 25, 2007  at  04:19 PM
i loveeee coke, its sooo much better than pepsi. and yes there is a huge difference in the two. so drink coke
mmk?
ok
Posted by rachel  on  Fri Oct 26, 2007  at  08:16 AM
I LOVE SIERRA MIST DIET SODA.....TASTES ABIT LIKE LIVELY LIMES USED TO.....I WAS WONDERING IF YOU CAN MAKE LIVELY LIME AGAIN? OUR FAMILY LOVED THAT PRODUCT, IT WAS A THIRST QUENCHER.....WE LOVE PEPSI....DIETS PRODUCTS....REMEMBER THE 50'S AND LIVELY LIME....WOW, WHAT A PRODUCT.....I ALSO LOVE TO MIX ORANGE JUICE IN WITH SIERRA MIST FREE...ITS DELICIOUS....TRY IT......GLADIEJO
Posted by GLADYS VACANTE  on  Sat Oct 27, 2007  at  04:25 PM
The difference is obvious. Pepsi is more mellow and is less fizzy. Coke is much stronger in terms of carbonation. Pepsi maintains a constant carbonation for a while. Coke loses fizz quicker. Pepsi causes me hiccups and causes me to barf. Coke doesn't.
Posted by Heero  on  Sun Oct 28, 2007  at  10:11 PM
I think coke tastes way better than pepsi because it just does. Pepsi stinks and coke rules thats why it's better way better than pepsi.
Posted by Terry Martinez  on  Wed Oct 31, 2007  at  01:04 PM
pepsi tastes like crap.
Posted by Patrick Rawson  on  Wed Oct 31, 2007  at  01:07 PM
every thing on this website dows not convince me that I like it.

Everything stinks on this website but all in all coke rocks and pepsi sucks.
Posted by Bob Michaels  on  Thu Nov 01, 2007  at  11:53 AM
Pepsi sucks because it has way to many fizzy's when you drink it and becasue my little brother died because he drank the pepsi with some pepto bismo or however you spell it so thats exactly ywhy pepsi sucks and coke rules and this is not a a lie it is a true story and your pepsi co junk suck like cow and horse crap. you heard me taste slike crap. Go COKE GO COKE YOU RULE PEPSI SUCKS.
Posted by frogetaboutit  on  Thu Nov 01, 2007  at  12:06 PM
COKE RULES i can always tell the difference !!!!!

Pepsie sucks and they just copy every thing coke dose !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by coke monkey  on  Sun Nov 04, 2007  at  12:54 PM
OMG!I LIKE COKE MUCH BETTER THAN PEPSI (MY OPINION)PEPSI TASTES FLAT TO ME IF THAT MAKES ANY SINCE
Posted by ABI  on  Mon Nov 05, 2007  at  11:44 AM
I did a statistics research project in school. As this was a very low key study (just a few hundred participants), we found that (with no taste test), that people chose coke products over pepsi products.

We did the chi-square test to see relevance between survey questions and brand preferance, and found that taste had nothing to do with people's decisions; the only correlation out of our 10 question survey was what people were brought up drinking.
Posted by Aaron  on  Mon Nov 05, 2007  at  11:45 AM
Pepsi tastes like pure high fructose corn syrup. and i happened to take a taste test of the 2 and knew exactly what was difference. pepsi blows. bye.
Posted by Brittany  on  Fri Nov 09, 2007  at  06:30 PM
coke is by far the worst fizzy drink in the world. after one can you feel bloated and fat. but i suppose the more you drink it the less your body responds to it. the bloating and burping and farting is your body telling you "this stuff may aswell be carbonated acid with a few flavorings." if it was down to taste alone then its very hard to tell them apart. i personally can tell the taste but i even admit that at the end of 3 or 4 drinks of coke and pepsi they are hard to tell apart but so are r.whites lemonade and schwepps lemonade...infact so are heinz beans and bransons beans...its called competition and not taste. basically coke leads in advertisement because they use underage, underpaid workers in columbia to cut and stack their sugar-cane. not to mention they are drinking clumbian towns dry due to them contaminating columbias water supply to clean their bottles...strange how they refused to let anyone run tests on their water supplys. it takes 2 and a half liters of water to make one liter of coca-cola.but at the end of the day i'd just buy some water or something that is actually good for you. if you're calling me a health freak right now, just wait till your older.
Posted by terrarize  on  Tue Nov 20, 2007  at  05:45 AM
pepsi is the best!!! coke is only good when its in a glass bottle
Posted by Theo Monias  on  Thu Nov 22, 2007  at  09:12 AM
i dont have a preference,pepsi and coke, all the same.
Posted by jennifer  on  Thu Dec 06, 2007  at  10:34 AM
hey was poppin peeps i love coke way better then pepsi i can totally tell that coke is diff then pepsi.peace out peeps
Posted by bubble  on  Sun Dec 09, 2007  at  11:55 AM
heyy dude i like cream soda it is my favorite drink when me and my buds hang out that is wat i drink
Posted by teetee  on  Sun Dec 09, 2007  at  12:00 PM
coke is so much better than pepsi. pepis is B.S. it sucks remember coke will always know matter what will be better than pepis. BAM!!!!!!!! to all you pepis lovers
Posted by Jennifer Ladd  on  Sun Dec 09, 2007  at  01:09 PM
I personally love pepsi. I've liked it ever since I've been able to drink soda. It leaves a great smooth feeling in my mouth.
Posted by Amanda  on  Fri Dec 14, 2007  at  04:03 PM
i have always loved coke and i will never ever like pepsi. coke often wins in taste tests because it is sweeter but coke has more flavor.
but i actually blindfolded myself and put a bottle of coke on the table and a bottle of pepsi there too. i got somebody to move the two around on the table and i could clearly tell them apart.
i love coke.....i love coke.....i love coke.....
Posted by brandon drover  on  Mon Dec 17, 2007  at  04:21 AM
Coca-Cola hands down! Pepsi goes flat like 2 seconds after you open it.
Posted by matt  on  Sat Dec 22, 2007  at  02:27 AM
Pepsi is only popular because of their Frito-Lay division. PepsiCo's Frito-Lay division generates 60% of PepsiCo's profits. That's how they afford advertising unlike other generic colas, and they can't come up with any good ads, so they just diss Coke. Like I said, if it weren't for Frito-Lay, Pepsi would be just a generic cola as it tastes just like generic colas, while Coke has it's own taste and is the real thing.
Posted by ash  on  Sun Dec 23, 2007  at  03:40 AM
i personally think that pepsi goes down easier, and that coke has a very nasty tasting after taste and if you were to give me the test i would be able to tell the different, though some people may not people have diverent taste buds, and i think others taste buds are stronger and/or weaker then others. but to me i think pepsi taste 100 times better then coke
Posted by Kayla C  on  Tue Dec 25, 2007  at  11:00 AM
pepsi
Posted by rebecca  on  Wed Jan 02, 2008  at  01:00 PM
:P i am actully doing my science project on coke vs pepsi
Posted by lauren  on  Wed Jan 09, 2008  at  06:51 PM
PEPSI PEPSI PEPSI PEPSI PEPSI PEPSI I LOVE PEPSI!!! JUST BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE COKE DOESN'T MEAN I DON'T LIKE FUN!!!!! MY HAPPY GLAND LIKES PEPSI BETTER ANYWAYS!!! MICHAEL JACKSON SAYS SO! LOOK AT HIM, HE HAS FUN!!! HE INVINTED NEVER NEVER LAND! PEPSI HELPED HIM!
Posted by PEPSI  on  Thu Jan 17, 2008  at  12:12 AM
When I was a little girl my Dad always bought Coke. When Pepsi started their Pepsi Points, Pepsi was a lot less expensive so my Dad started buying Pepsi. When the prices evened out, he went back to Coke, I stayed with Pepsi! I still drink Pepsi almost exclusively and I can TOTALLY taste the difference.
Posted by Lenora Rice  on  Thu Feb 14, 2008  at  07:18 PM
Coke and Coke Zero both have a deep rich cola flavor. Pepsi and Diet Pepsi both have a largely sugar flavor with the cola flavoring much less perceptable. Unfortunately in America, obesity and diabetes are among the top health concerns due to widespread sugar addicition. Pepsi plays into this condition. The differentiating factor in all their products, even their diet products, is an extreme level of sweetness. The "Pepsi taste tests" conducted in the 70's and 80's have been subsequently evaluated that people will tend to select the sweeter of two beverages in a blind taste test environment.

I just tried the new Gatorade G2, another pepsi product, and guess what. Even with less sugar it tastes even sweeter than Gatorade.
Posted by Lee  on  Sat Feb 23, 2008  at  09:55 PM
just don't drink any of those colas to often. that's why you american are fat ... you drink too much soft drink and eat too much fast food !
thanks
Posted by gui  on  Thu Feb 28, 2008  at  11:00 AM
I just read all of the last comments and am doing a project on New Coke... thanks for not giving me anything to work with people. Even though my great grandpa helped found pepsi, I think coke does go better with rum so thats all that matters... I HATE YOU GREAT GRANDPA! maybe if his partners didn't sell the company to the current owners i wouldn't hate him as much cause i would have been rich!
Posted by Guyehka!  on  Thu Mar 06, 2008  at  05:55 PM
PEPSi iSzZ WAy bEttErr thAN COkeE!!!! 😝 ....All yAll PEPSi hATERzZ fAll BAqk!!!
Posted by moo  on  Fri Mar 07, 2008  at  01:16 PM
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