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

omg!! are you serious pepsi is sooo much better than coke [in my opinion]. i just think coke is too fruity tasting and not enough soda-tasting [if that makes sense].
Posted by Khaneisha  on  Tue Dec 19, 2006  at  08:07 PM
I've always drank coke and last week, I drank a can of Pepsi (thinking there was little difference). WRONG! I get no kick from Pepsi, drinking it was like drinking SUGAR WATER. PEPSI SUCKS, period.
Posted by Jessica  on  Sun Dec 31, 2006  at  09:29 PM
Pepsi is way better than Coke. Coke has way too much gas.
Posted by Christine  on  Wed Jan 10, 2007  at  06:59 PM
Pepsi has more calories per serving, because it has more sugar. It is noticably sweeter, tarter, and less carbonated.
Generally, i go for Coke, although I enjoy Pepsi with pizza for some reason.
Posted by doot  on  Mon Jan 22, 2007  at  07:40 AM
i think that coke is better than pepsi and i did a science fair progect and the people thought coke is better than pepsi and i only had 2 people to think pepsi is better than coke. And the people said,The more i drink coke it is better than pepsi. but the other people said the more i drink pepsi i like it better and the fact is that coke is better than pepsi.
Posted by kameron comans  on  Sun Jan 28, 2007  at  02:47 PM
help!!!!!!!!!
i am also doing a science expariment and this is my first time
im doing a project and i need it done by MARCH 1, 2007
i need other uses of pepsi , how ur taste buds react when u drink pepsi and coke and rc !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllpppppppppp
Posted by olivia  on  Wed Feb 21, 2007  at  09:48 AM
i canot tell the difference between pepsi and coke cuz they both taste the same
so y do you people fight on whether it is the same or different
they r both the same
geeze!!!!!!
shesh!!!!!!
and y r u even fighting when there is no difference except that they r two different products and one is in a red can the other is in a blue can!!!!!!!
you people r so imature when u fight like "o pepsi commmercials r dissing coke because they r desperate cuz coke makes more money "
shesh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> <
=^_^=

peace out
confused
Posted by project  on  Wed Feb 21, 2007  at  11:09 AM
I cannot believe what a bunch of liars there are commenting on here.

I've seen several clinical studies done and participated in two of them. These are done with 1 ounce small cups of Pepsi and Coke, six of each, for a total of 12 samples. Between each sample a small cracker is eaten to clear the palate. In every study, fewer than 6% of people were able to figure out which drink was which.

The one I remember most clearly was one I actually got tested in myself, in which only 2 people out of 47 were able to pick out which drink was which. In fact, one of the two missed one. No one else was even close. In ever other instance, the 45 people tested missed 4 or more guesses as to which product they were drinking at the time.

This was a blind test, in which the small cups were labeled only with numbers corresponding to what was in the cup, the numbers and types of course kept out of view.

Also, Pepsi does NOT have more sugar, Coke has some 10 to 12 percent more sugar/syrup than Pepsi does.

Get educated about a product before you go posting.
Posted by fraNkMinion  on  Sat Feb 24, 2007  at  01:08 PM
well i think pepsi is better.

so burn.
Posted by Jen  on  Mon Feb 26, 2007  at  11:26 AM
to me pepsi is better than coke. It is less sweeter and has less gas. The reason why i think that people preffer coke over pepsi is because it gives them a sugar rush because of all the caffeine.
Posted by nirvana hetfield  on  Tue Mar 20, 2007  at  01:46 PM
April,2007
::::::: TRY THIS EXPERIMENT::::::::::

I Always Always get a metallic, stale, too sweet, syrupy taste. I prefer PEPSI, IF I HAD TO CHOOSE , Because I do not drink soda very often. But I did just do the PEPSI VS. COKE challange, by lableing the bottom of two identicle cups and then pouring one of each then switching them around.******* PEPSI WINS.******* I did this 5 times, only once did I choose coke. Do It YourSELF!!!!! If your of age, try the same with MILLER LITE VS. BUD LIGHT- Bud light IS STALE AND HAS TWICE THE AMOUNT OF CARBS>>>>>> MILLER LITE ACTUALLY HAS FLAVOR TO IT AND HAS HALF THE CARBS> DID THIS 5 TIMES TOO AND MILLER WON EVERYTIME!!!!!!!
Posted by Keily  on  Wed Apr 18, 2007  at  08:01 AM
SORRY..... THE STALE< SYRUPY> METALLIC> TOO SWEET TASTE WAS COKE YA'll. In case ya'll didn't catch that from my last blog.. Sorry!!
Posted by Keily  on  Wed Apr 18, 2007  at  08:07 AM
I find that Coke and Pepsi both leave a bad after taste in my mouth. To the point that I can not drink either of them. I have no problem with other soda flavors just these two.
Posted by Tom  on  Wed Apr 18, 2007  at  06:28 PM
ok let's get to the bottom of this crazy bodacious concept. It is only the image of a Advertising. Now after a hard days work, you sit down and your dying of thirst, the best thing to frink in this situation would be coke. Coke was the original! And when someone tells me a fully written or typed paragraph explaing why Pepsi is better that coke maybe ill change my mind.Wait no i wont because coke is better. Also, dont give me that freckin Hydrochloric crap! i don't want to hear it.
Thankyou
cp
Posted by connor  on  Thu Apr 26, 2007  at  04:22 PM
pepsi tastes like watered down coke to me. but i drink whatevers near me.
Posted by dan  on  Mon Apr 30, 2007  at  08:12 PM
i think that pepsi is well i am just gonna tell the truth everyone knows that pepsi coppied coke!! this is very true and i am very angry about it cuz coke is the better of the two pepsi is well... just plane stupid i am very mad when i see pepsi sings because coke is the all time best ((cooler name, cooler design, made way before pepsi and its just way cooler!!)) GO COKE!!!!!!
Posted by **coke lover**  on  Tue May 08, 2007  at  10:53 PM
That research is stupid. There really is difference between coke and pepsi. Diet pepsi is absolutely disgusting. Take the pepsi challenge...guarantee you will also get the same drink everytime you take depending on your preference. Its not advertising...its taste. And from location to location the taste is different...I dont know about west coast vs. east coast, but country to country the drinks taste really different.

Drink diet coke...so much better!
Posted by R  on  Thu May 10, 2007  at  10:08 AM
I am srry but i hate pepsi..((for all you pepsi lovers)) its stupid they basically copied coke and so if you like pepsi better than coke, you obviously dont know a whole lot!!!! coke has a frickin awesome logo, it taste a lot better, and they made it first. Someone once sayd that pepsi is for sissies, well its true if you want to be reall cool than drink coke!!!! COKE ALL THE WAY !!!!!!
Posted by **coke lover**  on  Thu May 10, 2007  at  06:17 PM
I am srry but i hate Coke..((for all you Coke lovers)) its stupid they basically copied Dr Pepper and so if you like Coke better than Dr Pepper, you obviously dont know a whole lot!!!! Dr Pepper has a frickin awesome logo, it taste a lot better, and they made it first. Someone once sayd that Coke is for sissies, well its true if you want to be reall cool than drink Dr Pepper!!!! DR PEPPER ALL THE WAY !!!!!!

And it's true, Dr Pepper did come out the year before Coca-Cola. 😉
Posted by Charybdis  on  Fri May 11, 2007  at  09:38 AM
Put same substances in bottles that are couloured differently. They will not taste the same.
Posted by Stan  on  Fri May 25, 2007  at  11:02 AM
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
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