Crystal Pepsi...

[Franklin]

I mixed Coke and Pepsi together once to see what would happen. Turns out Coke + Pepsi = RC Cola.

That's living dangerously. Coke + Pepsi = Worlds Colliding! (Actually, I like RC.)

For what it's worth, does anyone else out there believe Coke just doesn't taste the same any more since the switch years ago from sugar to high-fructose corn syrup? A couple of friends I have agree with me, especially in the fountain version. It just used to have a sharper flavor. But more folks I ask say I'm just showing my age.

 

[Kryton]

If you happen to live in a heavily Jewish area, check cans of Coke that have the Kosher stamp on them around Passover. Apparently, HFCS isn't considered Kosher, but cane or beet sugar is okay. Ask your store and if they don't know, call your local distributor and ask if they're distributing "the good stuff" in your area.

Sadly, there are apparently not enough Jews in my area for them to do that...however YOU may be more fortunate. If you find "the good stuff", buy up a bunch of it and stash it away...they only do it around Passover.

 

[RoJoHen]

I mixed Coke and Pepsi together once to see what would happen. Turns out Coke + Pepsi = RC Cola.

That's living dangerously. Coke + Pepsi = Worlds Colliding! (Actually, I like RC.)

For what it's worth, does anyone else out there believe Coke just doesn't taste the same any more since the switch years ago from sugar to high-fructose corn syrup? A couple of friends I have agree with me, especially in the fountain version. It just used to have a sharper flavor. But more folks I ask say I'm just showing my age.

I never drink Coke anymore unless I'm at work, and I agree that it tastes off. But that might have more to do with our pop machines than anything.

 

[Franklin]

If you happen to live in a heavily Jewish area, check cans of Coke that have the Kosher stamp on them around Passover. Apparently, HFCS isn't considered Kosher, but cane or beet sugar is okay. Ask your store and if they don't know, call your local distributor and ask if they're distributing "the good stuff" in your area.

Sadly, there are apparently not enough Jews in my area for them to do that...however YOU may be more fortunate. If you find "the good stuff", buy up a bunch of it and stash it away...they only do it around Passover.

Didn't know that. Thanks. It shouldn't be a problem to find it here in the DC area.

 

[Gil T.Azell]

Mmmm ... invisible cola ....

Invisible Cola

Pepsi=Puke
Crystal Pepsi= X2 Puke!

 

[CaptainStoner]

I seem to remember Coke II tasting different. That's why it failed. I remember it being a bit sweeter maybe. A bit more like Pepsi.

I was working my first "real" job at a beverage center when Crystal Pepsi was happening. I don't think it sold that well. That was a fun job. They let me use the forklift without an official license. We used to do all sorts of dangerous things with that forklift. Drive it into the side of the building, run guys all the way up on the forks and shake the hydraulics until they'd had enough. My favorite was the day I took it through the McDonald's drive-through.

 

[Moocey]

I remember it. I don't miss it.

 

[Farquard]

I remember it, if you do not you are very fortunate.

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[Agent Richard07]

I liked the novelty. I also remember that it didn't quite taste like regular Pepsi.

 

[cardinal biggles]

I take my Pepsi brown, like my women.

I like my coffee like I like my women... in a plastic cup.

 

[AJBryant]

Diet clear Pepsi was the first diet drink I could stand the taste of. I miss it.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I remember it, if you do not you are very fortunate.

Farquard, we don't allow sig images at TrekBBS. That's a clever attempt at getting around it, but it's a no go. Please don't do it anymore.

 

[freak]

OH YEAH! I do remember Crystal Pepsi. I used to drink it all the time. But it got old after a while. Everyone stopped drinking it after '93. I remember drinking it in middle school and loving it.

 

[Dale]

I take my Pepsi brown, like my women.

I like my coffee like I like my women... in a plastic cup.

I like my women like I like my Pepsi... bubbly and sweet.

(awwwwwwwwwwwwww)

 

[Capt_Piett]

I remember it, but can't remember what it tasted like. Pepsi Blue, OTOH, taste like Windex....

 

[USS Triumphant]

I loved Crystal Pepsi, and miss it. Other food products I miss:

Chocolate Soldiers (like Yoohoo, but better.)

Sundance Fruit Coolers (looked and tasted like wine coolers, but non-alcoholic. The ancestor of the Mystic. Used to get carded for these, like a previous poster mentioned about Mystics.)

Nacho Cheese Doritos with the original cheese formula (they consolidated and started using Cheetos cheese powder to save money, back around '90, and changed the bags to say "Nacho Cheesier". They only changed the name back a year ago or so - still the Cheeto powder, though.)

Bellbeefers (aka Bellburgers) from Taco Bell (basically, Taco Bell taco makings on a hamburger bun. I still make these myself, sometimes, but it's a pain to get the Taco Bell not-hamburger "meat" to use.)

Cheez Whiz Nacho Zap-A-Paks (I'm fairly certain the secret ingredient was the probably-carcinogenic plastic cup melting into the cheese in the microwave, but this was good stuff.)

McDonald's Cheddar Melt (a "limited time offer", that they've run two times, for a couple of weeks each time, in the last TWENTY FRIKKIN' YEARS! Not that I'm bitter or anything. I figured out how to make these, myself, too, so screw them. )

Pizza Hut pizza from back when they used real ingredients. Same for Chuck E. Cheese's pizza.

Kentucky Nuggets from KFC (the much tastier, much more questionably constructed predecessors to the Colonel's Crispy Strips.)

And the most recent addition to this list: Sweet Sixteens chocolate donuts, before they recently got bought by Hostess.

 

[Dale]

I miss Wonder bread. Can't get it in California any more. I don't see Quisp cereal often enough, either. The McRib should be a year-round thing, as well.

 

[FordSVT]

^A few people believe it was a purposeful attempt to create demand for "old Coke".

A rumour no doubt spread by the morons who came up with New Coke.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

I miss Wonder bread. Can't get it in California any more. I don't see Quisp cereal often enough, either. The McRib should be a year-round thing, as well.

I agree with you on the McRib.

 

[blablover5]

I miss Wonder bread. Can't get it in California any more. I don't see Quisp cereal often enough, either. The McRib should be a year-round thing, as well.

I agree with you on the McRib.

Due to the cut of pork they use it can't. Basically the McRib rolls in uses up all of the I want to say pork shoulder in the area then rolls out to a new state.