I heard that due to Pepsi gaining ground Coke ran the new flavour knowing it would fail. Then reintroduce the old flavour to a large fan fair, equaling profits when all the old fans came back. Another great video.
Slight nitpick..."rotten egg" smell is caused by hydrogen sulfide (H2S), not ammonium sulfide (though ammonium sulfide does still smell quite nasty, as do most sulfur compounds).
Ivory soap. While mixing the soap mixture. A factory worker by mistake left the machine on too long. The soap that was made that day did something that they had never seen before. THE BARS OF SOAP FLAOTED WHHE PUT IN WATER.
I use to own a pop machine. People would tell me, when I was servicing the machine, that they preferred Pepsi over Coke, but when I filled one slot with Pepsi, & another with Coke, the Coke always out sold Pepsi two to one.
Worked in a pizza restaraunt as a teenager, Pepsi raised the price on our machine so the boss stopped paying for it, they said they'd come pick it up but never did. He ran out of Pepsi and called coca cola through the local kitchen depot, and got a coca cola machine shipped out. However, coca cola wouldn't pay for shipping if the machine needed to be maintenenced, so my boss just put the coke in the Pepsi machine, and suddenly we were only selling mediums and larges as opposed to usually smalls and mediums. Good times.
When you said Coca Cola filled its cans with fart water, I thought you were talking about New Coke. The Pepsi Challenge was a stroke of marketing genius. It's a psychological fact that, when a person takes a sip of two drinks, the majority of them will "prefer" the sweeter one; if they are drinking a glass, most will prefer the less sweet one. Pepsi knew this, and since Pepsi is sweeter than Coke, they developed the Pepsi Challenge, where participants take a sip of each, and predictably, most picked Pepsi. I was a huge Coke drinker when the change was made. No one was more angry about it that I was. I put up with the new Coke, but once they released Coke Classic, I returned to the taste I knew and preferred. No one tricked me, it wasn't brand loyalty or nostalgia, and I certainly knew the difference. New Coke tasted too much like Pepsi, and if I wanted to drink Pepsi, I would have.
Coke's Christmas ads, and occasionally seeing the ad in real life, are the best part of either brands! I live by and commute on one of coke's trucking routes. Once in a great while you see a semi truck lit up with with well done Christmas lights that look just like the trucks you see in the ads on tv. They make dark, dreary roads festive at night.
I was in high school at this time and was an avid Coke drinker. When the switch happened, I did drink the NEW COKE but was wholly disappointed but Pepsi was no better, as it was too sweet. I restarted drinking RC Cola, from my early childhood, while was infinitely better tasting! That NEW COKE was too ungodly to consume!
I was in high school at the time too. I remember digging through the shelves looking for the last remnants of "old coke" as they introduced the new garbage. At the same time taking more of an interest in Pepsi. Now, I drink nothing but RED BULL all the time!
@@lostbutfreesoul exactly, yuck! 2 times in my life where it seemed like I was constantly sick, when I had to live with my sister and her four kids, just passing sickness back and forth with other school kids and....when my wife worked at a convenience store. Our money is a perfect carrier of virus from one person to the next.
@@tabbysmithfield3794 the coke contain Phosphoric Acid & Carbonic Acid which (I think) can kill the bacteria, if I burp while drinking a fresh Coke (not stale one) these thing will sting the nose badly so I think it is a potent acid.
@@lostbutfreesoul I'd imagine a large, multibillion dollar company like Coca-Cola could easily get fresh, crisp bills for their promotion. I doubt that Coke was having their employees empty their wallets and check under their seat cushions to scrounge up the cash to be used in the promotion!
I remember (barely) the COKE ads, and then when Coca-Cola Classic hit the markets, but have always preferred Pepsi personally. As a follow-up to this, could you do a video to why different regions call "soft drinks" different things in different regions? Having traveled extensively in the US, I have heard them called soda, pop, "coke" (as a generic "what kind of coke do you want?") and a few others spattered about.
Ithought that Coke only used corn syrup in the US where it is heavily subsdized by tax payers. In other words can sugar isn't just used in Mexico, but in all production facilities outside the US.
@@kpp28 no, it is an scientifically objective fact that a sugar intake with a balance of sugar types (eg. cane sugar) is better for the body than some syrup made from, say mostly fructose, it’s a subjective truth that Mexican coke tastes better
@@kirstywho1991 They are paid for the number of views they get. I support the content creators just as much as you or anyone else. It is the same thing as just "skipping" over the sponsor by clicking farther in the video.
I fear for the person that grabs a coke for refreshment on a hiking break, because they will be dehydrated before long. Please people, don't have super sugary drinks or alcohol while exercising~
@@CoalCoalJames Studies have shown soda and beer initially hydrate you faster and more effectively than water mostly due to higher electrolyte content, it's why some bottled water has salt or other electrolytes added. The problem only comes when the alcohol or caffeine take effect 30-60 minutes later when it starts to dehydrate you due to them both being diuretics. While it wouldn't be good to use soda or beer on a hike, it's not terrible to use with shorter exercise sessions. However, I still wouldn't recommend it.
At 5:30, it shows the Pepsi cool cans. The one at lower left, black with neon, has a special surprise. If you stack one on top of the other and align them correctly it will spell "Sex." I still have three of those. Great example of subliminal advertising.
I remember the advertising logo "Coke is it!"--I was a toddler at the time, and for the longest time, I thought the name of Coke was Coke-is-it, and that's what I would call it (so did my younger sister). Our parents never gave us Coke to drink that young, but anything carbonated was known as "Cokizit" in our house!
@@bubba9384 Not sure about the US law but in my country (France), while cocaine is illegal you can find coca leaf infusions. Coca leaf is pretty harmless, acts kinda like caffeine.
WOW that was such a well placed and lightly veiled snarky remark about ads partway through listening to something, IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR AD IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR VIDEO, WHICH I WAS LISTENING TO!!!! But, although my Jimmies are quite rustled, due to my appreciation of snark, puns, and dad jokes, you are forgiven entirely.
@@Robosan4000 That was really interesting. Although it seems to me there would be several thousand lawyers piecing together a False Advertising class action lawsuit as a result to try to collect a big hey day.
@@sidneyleejohnson haha true. Although I guess you could only sue the US importer and not the bottling company in Mexico. The importer would try to argue they can't be held responsible for bottler ingredient claims, and the bottler is outside of US jurisdiction so couldn't be sued directly. I'm no lawyer though. Hahaha
My brother worked for Flying Tigers Air Freight during the New Coke fiasco. He made a good bit of extra income by getting the crews to bring back cases of Original Coke from Japan and then selling it. He was bummed when Classic came back :)
You know what’s weird? I had COVID-19 back in March & after beating it certain things taste/smell different. One of those being coke, I used to love coke but now I can’t drink it it taste like chemicals to me, does anyone else had this happened to them?
Yes! I had to throw away all my lotions and makeup because the smell was so terrible to me when before it smelled good. Chocolate milk tastes sour to me now also.
@@TariqNasneed00 yes! I get that foul smell w onions now kind of like a sour sulfury smell it’s pretty weird, I smoke weed too and it does not smell or taste the same anymore
I remember that whole Coke/New Coke stuff. I was totally out of it, however since I had to give up ALL colas in the mid-1980s because of allergic reactions to them. I drank Dr Pepper just fine proving that it ISN'T a cola.
I once attended a training session at work regarding consumer perception and it's impact on sales. We learned that the sweeter cola does well for the first few initial sips but was found not to be as desirable when having a full serving was indeed confirmed when tested. It's interesting to think that when doing their taste tests neither Pepsi nor Coca Cola thought to do more than have people take just a small taste of each to determine which they liked. It's kind of like taking the result seen in the lab as confirmed behavior, then seeing something different outside the lab in the "real" environment. Food (drink?) for thought!
When are going to see the variety of mixed flavored Coca-Cola products again in the grocery stores? Really missing the orange vanilla flavor! I've checked grocery stores all over town. Keeping my fingers crossed that it will return again soon.
I must have been more stoned in the 90s than I thought as I never heard of this before right now. I rarely drink soda but when I do it’s a diet or zero one preferring Diet 7-up. If that isn’t available then it’s Diet Coke and if Diet Pepsi is the only thing available, well I stick to my normal water as Diet Pepsi is to sweet and leaves a bad after taste. I figured I was supporting Coke and Pepsi as Pepsi used to own 7up but for some reason 7-up joined the Dr Pepper/Snapple group but just in North America, so sorry PepsiCo I can’t help you get your 67.16 BILLION DOLLAR profits any higher. Hope that doesn’t mean lay offs for any of your employees. I would hate to be responsible for anyone losing their job because of a weird after taste.
Lol 2:50 a rolled up bill popping out of a coke can.... and in the 90s. Funny. Side note they were floating the idea of putting a mirror on the bottom for good measure
Are we about to talk about NKOTB??? Yes!! I never tried one of the cans, but I still have my New Kids on the Block Magic Summer Tour collectable cup! In my mind, those are New Kid farts in those cans. 😂
I only vaguely recall this promotion. I know the gist of it better from a episode of Family guy where peter has a coupon shot into his throat from a can of beer. - I did work in retail during the years when soda companies were doing the "under the cap" promotions that would tell you in plan text if you won. I would reliably find two to six opened bottles of soda all over the store at the end of a shift from kids who would look for a win, and not seeing one just leave behind the soda, usually with none of it consumed. I was rather pleased when the companies started using a code that required a phone call or text to check if you won, and they would mail the winnings to the claimant. No more abandoned bottle of soda!
"Replacing sugar with high fructose corn syrup" is like saying "replacing tires with rubber cylindrical objects". What exactly was the syrup replacing? Refined beet sugar? Refined sugar cane? So many questions...
The reformulation of original Irn Bru to reduce the sugar because of the sugar tax on soft drinks in Scotland and the subsequent uproar totally reminds me of the new Coke saga. Barr’s even released a vintage edition last Christmas...
I remember as a kid in the 90s Irn Bru tasting spicy and "hot", cos it's meant to be made from girders, now it just tastes like disappointingly weak bubblegum as though it is made from 2nd-rate crushed japanese anime girls.........
They should have just filled the Magic Prize Cans with ordinary carbonated tap water. 'My 100$ Magical prize is soaked in tap water! Oh noooes!' 'Mom, I think this Coke is flat.'
Thanks for getting the New Coke story 100% correct. It was Diet Coke but with corn syrup, and the goal was not only to beat Pepsi but also to save money. The Diet Coke/New Coke formula was MUCH cheaper to make than Old Coke. Vastly cheaper. But it sold for the same price, meaning Coke was looking at a massive decrease in costs and a huge jump in profit if they could pull off the New Coke switch. At that time, Coke was huge on giving dividends back to shareholders and also buying up their licensees. So they really wanted that extra cash to spend. It didn't quite work out. Shame, really. The New Coke taste has a place. Just don't call it Coke.
I remember theses cans. Some people that got them were upset that they didn’t get a real coke even though they won money. They acted like they got ripped off.
only use I had for the old Coke, was as a engine-un-seizer. A motorcycle with seized pistons was unseized after just one night of some Coke in the spark plug holes. The effect made me realize I never wanted to drink it again LOL
Tricky part about information from the company(or any other company), is any information supplied by a company in question is mostly unreliable, due to the conflict of interest of the source. In short. They can tell people anything they want when it favors them and they have something to gain from duping people. Hence the problem.
