——Worse than “New Coke”? That would take some doing!——
Actually ‘new coke’ was coca cola reponse to their 99 year old patent on the coke formula expiring....
They screwed up big time because it tasted bad but they did recover and responded quicky with bringing back ‘old coke’ under a new patent.... Thus protecting their product brand
I never knew that. I have always been a Pepsi fan myself, but I remember reading about the “Cola Wars” in a book by a former Pepsico exec.
I only had new Coke a couple of times, but yeah, it was pretty bad. Worse than the generic colas you get in cheap supermarkets.
With the patent thing, it makes more sense now.
“Classic Coke” is absolutely not the same as the original pre-New Coke coke.
After some discussion with other freepers, I thought it may be that classic coke no longer contained regular sugar like the original coke did.