Food Theory: Coke is Making BAD Drinks on Purpose?! 

My mom always let me drink orange Fanta bc she thinks it's just like orange juice and thinks it's the healthiest till this day

@@trollrat2828 sprite is weak af I haven't drinked sprite since like 2018 Also i haven't drinked any soda for 2 months now

@@sebyfloristean9514 lol

@@trollrat2828 coke sucks sprite and Fanta are the best

@@benito23453 Thanks, random Russian propagandist!

Don't read my name!

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I have no pride in admitting it, but soda might be my favorite food. Yes, I drink plenty of water and love water. But that doesn't mean I don't love soda too. A frosty tall cup of soda fountain sprite on ice is exhilarating. There is no other food or drink that captures that physical "crispness" or level of refreshment. Sometimes water can't hit the spot like soda can.

These bots r getting out of hand now

I like Pepsi Crystal, great while it was around. We will see in Pepsi brings it back.

Fire pepsi

You work for PepsiCo? Cool.

What’s the difference in Crystal Pepsi and Pepsi clear?

Never tried it nor never seen it in my life😭

I’d buy it

I love crystal pepsi

Was the Crystal Pepsi THAT good @Lucky ?

Ah yes, bots.

Me wanting to search it up.. But yea good idea.

I wouldn't mind seeing this is a video. That's one of those things I always wondered about but never actively looked up. I will admit tho, my go-to for a cold is Campbell's Chicken Noodle and Oyster Crackers.

Sodium and the various nurtients needed to fight colds are in soups. A cool look is into why chicken.

we need this theory

That’s pretty cool

I just bought 2 cartons of Fruitopia today

I drank that all the time in high school. Fruitopia and a pretzel was my usual lunch.

Are you referring to those orange juice style containers or plastic bottles? Fruitopia is indeed still out there but not how it used to be here in the USA.

Fruitopia is usually at most fast food places in my province. So I guess Canadians liked it so much it became ours after the Americans didn't like it.

This is how a Canadian would tell someone they're wrong, an apologetic letter

@@auliamate we have it in certain restaurants in the mid southern US as well

Oh hey! I found another Canadian!

Duh, probably…

As far as I know, these are the facts: Right before the release of new coke, Coca-Cola was at its lowest in sales (a few decades prior coke was at 60% of the soda industry and before the release of new coke it shrunk to around 20%). They didn't really change at all for nearly a century and people slowly got more interested in other brands such as Pepsi. So then this guy comes in, and things change for the first time in a long while. At first the reaction to new coke was meh, but over time people started to really dislike it, despite the difference being quite small. After returning the old coke, with the "classic" and "original taste" branding, it quickly grew back to the leading soda brand, where it has remained to this day.

@@LovroPlaninsek While all true, there's evidence that Coca-Cola made effort to research an alternative flavor and people in blind test preferred Pepsi to the flavor of Coke, but not necessarily the whole time, only sips of it, this is something that later independent researchers noticed that Coca-Cola didn't as they used their research to just try to copy Pepsi's taste which was sweeter than Coke (at least at the time). Also, New Coke wasn't discontinued in all markets at the same time world wide, in Japan and a few other places they still have/had for decades after the disaster in the United States and North America in general.

@@sion8 Well they'd obviously want as much sugar inside it as possible, sugar is actually addictive, in some country I forgot the name of they are pushing for it to be treated similar to nicotine in the sense of a health warning on the packaging and a higher tax (I think?). I didn't know that new coke still available anywhere, huh. I don't actually know it well, the only time we drink sodas is at parties, when we usually get a completely different one (not sold in the US I believe), but honestly no soda is "best", they're all just a slightly different poison.

If you can't market yourself what's the chances of someone hiring you to market a product? lol

Wondering if an ARG is hidden in here. Let me know if you find anything

I wonder if it has something to do with the chapters. I don't think that they have those usually in these episodes and they're auto generated.

@melamoris6728 I thought so too, but two of the videos don't have chapters at all. Let me know if you come up with anything else

​@@melamoris6728I'm assuming it's just an analytic thing of "what do people do when they open a channel page? Do they go to videos first or the about page?" That kind of experiment I don't know if the link was able to track that but that's where my brain went

what are you guys talking about@@zahirlara8068

Ramune? Sparkling Water?

@@RocketShipSquid They said one of the few, meaning that there are others, and they just brought up Sprite because it's probably the only one they remember :/

7-Up as well.

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yeah editing team is even more amazing these days, like theory films were always high quality but you can see this change recently that it became eeeeeveeen better!

@@vreikezen8268 didn't know that, thanks!

exactly, I love just listening to the theory channel videos but I feel like half the experience is gone, matpat is an amazing commentator but man without the edits it's a half empty cup of content

@@coshuloser honestly, I think it's the combination of everything that hits 'cus edits ARE amazing, but your brain can't as easily latch onto them without some sort of story, like you can have a beautiful movie that isn't watchable only because the story is so boring/dumb and you can have a film that has the most amazing plot ever but you can't get through it due to graphics or the way the cuts are made EDIT: of course there's also music, scripting, ideas, storytelling graphic design etc.

I am the one who knocks

They've done it twice now. It'll be back again soon!

Yeah, I came here to the comments to see if anyone was saying anything about it. I still drink it on occasion, definitely still a thing up here

yea i was surprised to hear him say it was a failure, i have some in my fridge right now lol

I was so confused because I head to a store and can pick some up. It's pretty good ngl and sells pretty well

They even have it in the soft drink fountains at McDonald's!! Its very popular here

I briefly thought I was suffering with an extreme case of the Mandella effect because I just had Fruitopia the other day and it's a pretty common choice when I'm out and dont want something carbonated.

I was just about to comment that I literally have Fruitopia in my fridge rn

I know right fruitopia is pretty common here. My brain short circuited when he mentioned it as a failure.

i found all my Canadians!

What. I don't even know what fruitopia is-

Do you still have the same wide variety of flavors available? Last time I saw Fruitopia was 2007 in a McDonald's, but it was fruit punch only. I loved the pink lemonade and grape flavors.

same I was very surprised to see that it failed there

@@masicbemester its the us anything fruit related wouldnt go well there, unless it was deepfried fruit

@@thestonergamer420 lmao

I need to go to Canada. Fruitopia was pretty good, I miss it.

yeah!

Was going to say the same thing. Weird to call out New Coke here when it being a conspiracy is way more popular of a theory than clear Tab being one.

Yup, came to this comment section looking for this. and knowing this conspiracy actually makes me trust Zymans statements more. and believe it was Tab that killed Crystal Pepsi

How was that not a failure? Are you implying that New Coke was released to fail on purpose to hide the fact that the Coke ingredients would no longer incorporate cane sugar? If so that’s not true and another example of revisionist history.

It was not a conspiracy They just decided to make it cheaper to produce when it came back because coke is a big company and big companies like making money. Coke wouldn't tank it's market share and nearly ruin it's brand reputation to make a minor change that most people wouldn't care about anyways, especially because by that point they'd already changed the recipe several times without anyone caring Edit: I guess they could have taken the opportunity to change it at that moment but it was almost certainly not the plan to use new Coke to make a minor change to the coke recipe

if u want content abt new coke watch the EmpLemon video

What did I say

I second this. Fruitopia is alive and well in Canada.

yeah its still here in Eastern Ontario Canada

@@GDkitty what does it taste like?

@@Missingno0479 good very very good

I love fruitopia

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It’s so sad… I actually have a clear brick GB (I’m a Zoomer) but I could never get my hands on games

Sprites do pure it’s acidic

It's got that lemon/lime taste and most of the time it's carbonated and fresh And it doesn't delete some of your drink out of existence I'm looking at you coca cola Why do you turn into bubbles when I pour you

Whilst a soda simply being clear doesn't make it healthy some of the healthiest sodas out there ARE clear! Sprite is one of the healthiest sodas, though, top spot goes to similar called "Sierra Mist" (it's made with natural ingredients and flavors with no coloring added I think and no caffeine).

He could have said "santé".

But it still ended with a bite sound effect

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@@BeulahKuku duh he ate the can

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@@ProdByAngus yeah the entire reply section its bots 🙄

@@ProdByAngus I reported them all

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Get off YTB lmaoo 🤭 go outside mah guy.

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@@MAX-xd4uz He changed it a long time ago

dude, two comments, now I'm seeing you in every comment on the comment section.

@@karuki5791 It's a comment bot

99% of history is people just re-contextualising the past to fit their narrative.

Isaac newton being a pedophile is now a possibility lmfao

Most history we are taught, is probably misleading in some way. It's always streamlined with some sort of an agenda as far as I can tell. You would probably need to do a lot of independent study to understand the real history of nearly any topic.

They say "History is told by the victors" for a reason. Probably all sorts of horrible things get buried either forever or at least until every last person involved has died.

@@Yami1Hitomi yeah

I keep a sealed bottle of Crystal Pepsi in my collection

Same, i can’t tell if they just changed it to actually taste good or if nostalgia fully took over but it just tasted honestly better than normal Pepsi to me, I even distinctly remembered it having a lemony hint to it, even if they don’t give it a full permanent release I wish they gave it to a sole restaurant like how Burger King has surge and Taco Bell has Baja blast mtn dew, it would just be good business all around for both companies, the fast food chain gets more customers for their exclusive soda and the soda company gets to take a fast food chain away from coca cola’s clutches

@@hoodie1355 I drank Crystal Pepsi quite a bit when it was first released, and I can tell you without a doubt that any "lemony hint" to the flavor was entirely the product of your brain being confused by the clear soda. I used to trick myself into thinking I was drinking Sprite by looking at the clear soda in my glass. But other than that it never tasted any different than regular Pepsi to me (at least, when I closed my eyes and thought about drinking dark-colored Pepsi). The brain confusion thing REALLY messed with the taste for anyone familiar with drinking regular Pepsi. They may have changed the formula for the re-release. In fact I would assume they did just because it's been 30 years. I haven't tried the new stuff so I have no idea how it tastes. On a side note, Burger King has Surge? I did not know that. I wonder if it's the original formula or if it's the later version that Coca Cola messed with.

I love crystal pepsi

@@rars0n I never drank the original so I’ll definitely take your word for it just being normal Pepsi. Also yep, I’m not entirely sure if it’s every Burger King but if they have the Coca Cola freestyle machine chances are they’ll have surge. I think they first had it in 2019 and just a month or two ago I saw it while ordering a whopper melt, sadly no longer available at Burger King

Starve a cold feed a fever is talking about blankets and how hot u should be

Me, see's 68 likes. Also me, likes it. "nIcE"

It's entirely disingenuous. Fluids are the most important thing. Eat if you feel like it, but only small, light meals such as soup or sandwiches. Ignoring that fact that a 'cold' can make you suffer a fever, eating stimulates your metabolism, kicking your liver into action. The liver can produce quite a lot of body heat (hence why they mention 'liver temp' in shows like CSI). If you're already suffering from an increased body temperature, boosting it further is NOT a good idea.

It's absolute bollocks. Simple fact is, when one is sick/injured, they need these things three: 1) Lots of rest. 2) Good food. 3) As little stress as possible.

Here’s a heads up: A) I didn’t know it was about blankets, my apologies, my Abuela has always associated it with food, so pardon me, and B) I know it’s not true, or in the very least, isn’t as simple as it seems, I’m just more curious about why it’s been a thing for so long. I’ve done some research (IE, googling, but Google Scholar, so I can see some of the sources they’re citing), and I haven’t been able to find many sources that agree with each other.

Right!? I work in the Dairy department in my grocery store. I put up Fruitopia almost every week because of how popular it is.

Yeah i thought i was going insane too

Came down to the comments to say this

I was so lost and was searching comments for this (since it's 2am) thank you fellow Canadians!

I was thinking the same about tab! I swear I saw it at the grocery store all the time, but Google says it was discontinued in 2020 so now I'm wondering if my brain is just blurring my pandemic memories lmao. Fruitopia is still popular though, including info about Japan and stuff made it seem like he was talking about worldwide sales but I guess this was just us focused afterall.

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@@getonthecrossanddontlookba5004 why does this matter

@@getonthecrossanddontlookba5004 no

@@getonthecrossanddontlookba5004 hail satan

Wait this is crazy lol

Nice job of keeping a secret.

Wait, that's not how it has always been?

Well I can understand that LOL I cook with hot peppers and even if I used the same kind of pepper the more pepper I put into a dish the spicier it's going to be especially if that pepper is something like a habanero or ghost. There's a massive difference between putting a pinch of ghost pepper on something and adding two or three whole peppers

Isn't that common sense?

So wholesome I miss being a kid 😂

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soda

@@Dr_Steal_Computer so true

Im the 191st like.

@@ferozemohammed5339 im the 196th like

I seldom drink soda, so when the brought it into my job I was excited to see it and a bought a lot myself.

I’m my experience during the 2016 revival it has a slightly lighter flavor. When my stomach wasn’t quite feeling up to regular Pepsi, crystal pepsi hit the spot without tasting quite as rich

There’s also a theory running around that New Coke was just a play to get people missing “old Coke” and buy time to perfect the HFCS without losing much in cost on marketing a whole new thing. Swap out budgets, perfect the different formula, reintro “old Coke” with the new formulation and cost saving, look good to consumers that you went “Yo my bad there, here’s what you want back” So maybe the head of Marketing was just there for damage control. Could be that Tab was created to try to capitalize on the trend but once Pepsi released Crystal it was about tanking the product with an already failed product. It wasn’t what they set out to do, but was what it ended up being to make sure that if Coke couldn’t get into this game there was no game to get into AT ALL. Edit: last paragraph added

Yep it’s real search it up

Just made a comment on this lol. Australians still have it too apparently

Omg okay thank you for pointing this out. I thought I was going crazy because everyone I know drinks strawberry fruittopia!

@@VictiniTheGreat we definitely do lol.

I live in Nova Scotia, and it’s enormous here too. Walmart and Atlantic Superstore sell them in huge stocks and McDonald's even has it in their fountain machines, and it’s really darn good I might add. If you ask me America deserves another chance for once, and this is it

All the fruitopia flavours bussin, and I DEMAND a apology from Matpat for dissing this awesome beverage.

Yeah, I was thinking that too when he mentioned that. Frutopia? A failure? That stuff is fucking everywhere up here.

Searched the comments for this.

Yep it's all over in Canada 🇨🇦

It tastes amazing though

In Canada yeah. I haven't seen it in the US since the early 2000s.

Yeah, they added "citrus" flavor (It was called Crystal From Pepsi, I believe) and tried to revive it a little while after the original was discontinued. It was so nasty.

I recall liking Crystal Pepsi when it was new... just not as much as the regular version. Even without seeing it, it seemed like it was missing something. And the flavor seemed to get worse over time, but I assumed that was just my perception.

Yeah, it is everywhere in store over here in Canada

McDonald's, movie theatres its everywhere, orange fruitopia seems the most popular.

@@kristianl.a900 i see orange fruitopia a lot in movie theatres and mcdonalds, but i have never actually seen it in a store. every store only has a combination of red, blue, pink, and green.

@@aydenator2770 .... I love Fruitopia and worked in food service for 14 years and never noticed you can't buy orange 🧐

There’s probably not a single fruit in Fruitopia

Sprite against crystal pepsi call a ambulance but not for me

@@triggerhappy4199 Sprite: Call an ambulance, *but not for me*

@@Bombsbombsbombs exactly imao

They had switched to corn syrup in the late 70s, it's why Robertto Goizueta became the CEO.

Real sugar is better for you since the human body isn't meant to break down large amounts of fructose, high concentrations of fructose can trigger IBS

Hmm

they’re doing this with mexican coke now. since mexico passed a new law for unhealthy foods. and mexico coke tasted like american coke. i looked at the ingredients and i saw corn syrup. since then i haven’t seen it. but there is something else that looks suspicious

@Clare Hidalgo fructose is real sugar as well, but I assume you mean common table sugar (saccharose) that typically comes from sugar cane and/or sugar beet. saccharose consists of a glucose molecule bonded to a fructose molecule, and your body breaks this bond first and then processes it like glucose and fructose (it is thus 50% of each). High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) is glucose syrup made from corn starch in which subsequently part of the glucose has been transformed into fructose. It typically comes in 2 varietes HFCS42 and HFCS55 which respectively have 42% and 55% fructose. HFCS42 has somewhat less fructose than saccharose, and is commonly used in processed foods and breakfast cereal. HFCS 55 has slightly more fructose than saccharose, and is mostly used in soft drinks. So whilst it is true that soft drinks with HFCS will result in more fructose in your body than if saccharose were used, it isn't as much extra, and in different products HFCS likely even means less fructose than saccharose.

Y’all still have Toys-R-Us?! Lucky!

@@gdarcticwolf6226 Ye, it was a big deal when the American stores went bankrupt since we weren't sure if it affected us too. It was bought out by Fairfax and then it was sold to Doug Putman.

Toys-R-Us is discontinued in America!? Man, Toys-R-Us is a very cool store, still everywhere in Canada.

@@RGC_animation It's been discontinued for a couple of years now.

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At first I thought it was going to be a cake or not cake video

i was about to comment that

@@ethanslife101 Me too. I was like FRUITOPIA definitely still exists... in a large amount of flavours too.

Yep

Fruitopia and ice tea are my go to drinks at McDonald’s

That’s what I’m saying

Same

its all over canada

Although I loved crystal Pepsi, I also really dug Pepsi blue. I had bought a few but like the glutton I am, I consumed them lmao. They where too good.

I love fruitpia 💯‼️

yup, i actually like it!

I hate it lol

That's what I just said too above, so hearing the discontinuation of Fruitopia made me very confused.

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Looks like it’s largely bots

@@Purriah true