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Diet Pepsi Sales Plunge After Change In The Recipe
Yahoo ^ | 10/22/15 | Rob Waugh

Posted on 10/23/2015 12:48:42 PM PDT by qam1

Sales of diet Pepsi have plunged after the soft drink company behind it changed the recipe.

In a case with echoes of Coke’s disastrous introduction of ‘New Coke’, Pepsi has faced a huge backlash after replacing the sweetener in the drink. Pepsi chose to remove the controversial sweetener aspartame - linked to cancer in some studies - with sucralose.

But customers aren’t happy. David Zimdars of Michigan said, ‘It has a nasty aftertaste, and it’s sickly sweet. You have to wash it out with water.'

Pepsi’s choice of sucralose - known by the brand name Splenda - has been blasted online, with many consumers describing it as, ‘Yukky.’

In the month after the new recipe was introduced, sales of Pepsico’s diet drinks dropped 6.6%.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News
KEYWORDS: aspartame; chemical; dietpepsi; pepsi; splenda; sucralose; taste
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To: W.

Actually I think the ones we got out of a machine for a nickle were a lot shorter and the glass was thicker. When I was small and lived on a farm in Kansas my grandpa used to send me the Sunday funnies from Exeter, Nebraska every week in the mail. Wrapped up inside were two dimes. Neighbor girl and I would wait for the mailman to come and then walk 2 1/2 miles to the nearest gas station and little store. Spent my 20 cents on 2 Cokes and 2 packs of Black Jack or Clove gum. Store owner didn’t charge us 4 cents deposit on the bottles because he knew we would return them the next week.

Probably should have kept all the dimes. They would probably be worth a lot more than 10 cents each now. Great childhood memory.


121 posted on 10/23/2015 5:08:35 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I use BetterStevia from NOW. No other additives but a little dab’ll do ya.


122 posted on 10/23/2015 5:09:07 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: SunkenCiv

They started selling Diet Coke with Splenda just a few months (IIRC) before they started selling Coke Zero. Almost overnight, DC with Splenda almost disappeared, as they had a huge marketing campaign for Coke Zero. I just saw it for the first time in I don’t know how long a couple weeks ago and bought two 12 packs. Very similar to Coke Zero, but definitely a bit better.


123 posted on 10/23/2015 5:12:27 PM PDT by baltiless
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To: Patriot Babe

I remember having Milk and Eggs delivered to our doorstep.”

When my kids were teenagers and we lived in the suburbs, we had the Manor Man who delivered milk, eggs, butter and the best cinnamon rolls every Wednesday. Milk did come in glass bottles and we always washed them out and left them for pick-up on the front step when he made his delivery. Now we have Schwann’s but they don’t have the dairy products, just food and it’s a whole lot more expensive.


124 posted on 10/23/2015 5:14:12 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: qam1; MeshugeMikey; Slings and Arrows

Hopey-Changey Nu Diet Right Pepsi PING


125 posted on 10/23/2015 5:18:38 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Hillary's testimony on Benghazi be under oath? Baseball players were tried for perjury.)
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To: qam1

Bring back Cyclamates! They were a lot better than anything that’s followed, but were banned by Nixon administration based on famously junk science. Most of the world has it, but not the US.


126 posted on 10/23/2015 5:21:53 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change)
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To: qam1

Anyone remember TAB? You might as well hit yourself in the head with a hammer. Dieting women used to drink it. I guess dieting alone wasn’t bad enough.


127 posted on 10/23/2015 5:22:48 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: discostu
It’s the more logical scenario.

I would agree.

However, things these days are not what they seem, and logic is being thrown out the window.

Do we take crude oil from the US, ship it overseas to have it refined, and then buy it back ?

128 posted on 10/23/2015 5:32:15 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: discostu

P.S. In my original comment, I should have said “Is it possible” instead of “It is more likely”.


129 posted on 10/23/2015 5:35:19 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: qam1

Yuk. Fizzy drinks with sucradeath? Sounds vaguely communistic to me.

Try a healthy, fizzy drink that conservatives everywhere like: BEER!


130 posted on 10/23/2015 5:42:20 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Elections are Job Fairs for sociopaths)
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To: qam1
I appreciated the diet because it tasted the same as the regular.

Now I won't buy the diet until I read that they've recanted.

Leni

131 posted on 10/23/2015 5:45:27 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: qam1

I drink Pepsi Max all the time......did that change too? If so I haven’t noticed. I prefer Splenda to aspartame anyway.


132 posted on 10/23/2015 6:47:10 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: UCANSEE2

Oh gross! And you just know they would do it. :-)


133 posted on 10/23/2015 7:41:22 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: elcid1970

Sum Ting Wong. :-)


134 posted on 10/23/2015 7:42:40 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Stay thirsty my friend. :=)


135 posted on 10/23/2015 8:08:19 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Grams A
Coke was way better when it came in the green glass bottle years ago.

Lol. I dunno. I have two cokes a year. They taste so good to me that I HAVE to limit myself to that few. They open a wellspring of hunger in me and I eat like a hog when I have a coke.

136 posted on 10/23/2015 8:24:39 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: GOPJ
I remember learning about that little item in regards to Coca Cola.
Sigh, it is delicious and that is NOT the cocaine. It's just sugar and flavor. Yum.
137 posted on 10/23/2015 8:37:46 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: GOPJ

And it was invented/marketed as a hangover cure. And it would have been very good at that!


138 posted on 10/23/2015 8:48:42 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Vernor;s!


139 posted on 10/23/2015 9:21:17 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

i did a search on the butterball halal thing, it seems they haven’t been halal since 2012.


140 posted on 10/23/2015 9:33:29 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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