Coke is now it...

[JRHEETER]

Beyond excited to have coke in the Dome. This has been a dream of mine for many years.

That Pepsi product is meh at best.

 

[Jcuse_44]

If you have ever been to Portugal or other areas overseas and try FANTA... it's life changing. It's not the crap sugar Fanta we have here. It's like real orange juice.

 

[Hoo's That]

Coke is better. The best sports programs should have the best soda.

We usually have a "Why do we have Pepsi?" thread on our board each year (not yet this year, though). This is all driven by money, not fan preference (big surprise). Pepsi gives the University a bigger rebate than Coke will, pure and simple. Every time the thread appears, I have to ask the poster if they are going to make up the difference in lost revenue if we switch. Our board always wants to ascribe the choice to athletic department tone-deafness, but our contract with Pepsi covers the entire University, not just athletics. So I usually get "Oh, I didn't know that," as a response.

 

[JRHEETER]

We usually have a "Why do we have Pepsi?" thread on our board each year (not yet this year, though). This is all driven by money, not fan preference (big surprise). Pepsi gives the University a bigger rebate than Coke will, pure and simple. Every time the thread appears, I have to ask the poster if they are going to make up the difference in lost revenue if we switch. Our board always wants to ascribe the choice to athletic department tone-deafness, but our contract with Pepsi covers the entire University, not just athletics. So I usually get "Oh, I didn't know that," as a response.

Ive heard Coke is making a major push now and thats apparent with Syracuse's switch to Coke.

 

[FasterCuse]

If now they could also bring back fountain sodas. Fountain Coke > Bottled coke, but anything is better than a Pepsi.

 

[Hoo's That]

Ive heard Coke is making a major push now and thats apparent with Syracuse's switch to Coke.

Maybe the hopers will finally get their wish. The only bad thing in a switch to Coke IMO would be no Coke Zero, only Diet Coke. Yuck!

 

[ChrisCourt]

What a long process this was, lots of behind the scenes discussions, back and forth, as I work in the Procurement Dept at SU.

Glad to have Coke back in the Dome.

 

[Eric15]

As a kid, we used to drink soda with every meal growing up. I would drink it like it was water.

Then one summer in college in 2002, I worked at the Clinton's Ditch Pepsi Plant in Cicero, and was just immersed in soda production in that dungeon of a factory all day for three months. Something switched in my brain where the taste of it became kind of nauseating to me. Probably a blessing in disguise.

I also made $8.50 an hour. Please don't be jealous.

 

[orangemass]

Ketamine and smack are next

 

[Orangedontrhyme]

Go with Royal Crown. Taste-wise, it's halfway between Coke and Pepsi.

Here is SU trivia re Royal Crown. Lester Crown, husband of Renee Schine Crown, SU benefactor (Schine Student Center), was President of Royal Crown from 1956 to 1966.

 

[MSOrange]

As a kid, we used to drink soda with every meal growing up. I would drink it like it was water.

Then one summer in college in 2002, I worked at the Clinton's Ditch Pepsi Plant in Cicero, and was just immersed in soda production in that dungeon of a factory all day for three months. Something switched in my brain where the taste of it became kind of nauseating to me. Probably a blessing in disguise.

I also made $8.50 an hour. Please don't be jealous.

My brother had the same experience with Taco Bell in high school.

 

[Nicknack]

Once you go Olipop you never go back.

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You're absolutely right. I tried an Olipop a few months ago for the first time and haven't been back.

 

[Consigliere]

What a long process this was, lots of behind the scenes discussions, back and forth, as I work in the Procurement Dept at SU.

Glad to have Coke back in the Dome.

When I was a procurement process consultant at IBM I ran a project at Coca Cola World Headquarters in Atlanta. The competition between Coke and Pepsi was blood sport and exclusive pouring rights a life and death struggle. I can share some incredible stories about the competition between the two!

 

[Hoo's That]

When I was a procurement process consultant at IBM I ran a project at Coca Cola World Headquarters in Atlanta. The competition between Coke and Pepsi was blood sport and exclusive pouring rights a life and death struggle. I can share some incredible stories about the competition between the two!

I remember reading a news item when "New Coke" came out that said Pepsi declared that they had won the Cola War and gave everyone the day off.

For the younger folks among us, New Coke came out in the 80s. I thought it tasted sweet like Pepsi and was flat like RC. It's considered by many marketing profs as the 2nd biggest new product disaster in history after the Edsel.

 

[Nicknack]

I remember reading a news item when "New Coke" came out that said Pepsi declared that they had won the Cola War and gave everyone the day off.

For the younger folks among us, New Coke came out in the 80s. I thought it tasted sweet like Pepsi and was flat like RC. It's considered by many marketing profs as the 2nd biggest new product disaster in history after the Edsel.

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Yeah, that was a bust. I remember than in my high school days. Reminds me sorta of the constant dominos pizza ads where they keep re-creating their pizza.

 

[Toga]

I gave up soda a few years ago except for an occasional ginger ale and saranac root beer. The stuff is poison

Damn. Now I need some root beer.

 

[upperdeck]

yet when they went back to the old formula sales sky rocketed

 

[qdawgg]

Coke hasn’t been as good since they stopped making it with cocaine.

 

[Hoo's That]

yet when they went back to the old formula sales sky rocketed

My theory on what happened.

Back then many marketing surveys were conducted in malls. They probably took people into their office for a taste test. People probably said it was good. The next question was probably, "Would you buy this instead of Coke?" and people answered that they would. The real question they should have asked, since they were planning on ditching the present formula for Coke, was, "Would you buy this and never buy Coke again?" The answer probably would have been nearly unanimous, "No!"

 

[orangefog]

Coke hasn’t been as good since they stopped making it with cocaine.

Add your own and BANG

 

[HtownOrange]

My theory on what happened.

Back then many marketing surveys were conducted in malls. They probably took people into their office for a taste test. People probably said it was good. The next question was probably, "Would you buy this instead of Coke?" and people answered that they would. The real question they should have asked, since they were planning on ditching the present formula for Coke, was, "Would you buy this and never buy Coke again?" The answer probably would have been nearly unanimous, "No!"

I remember the mall surveyors. They were there every time I had to be in the mall. There was even an "office" where longer surveys could be performed and paid for. I knew a few people that would take the surveys for lunch money. Ahhhhh, the 80s...

 

[donniesyracuse]

When I was a procurement process consultant at IBM I ran a project at Coca Cola World Headquarters in Atlanta. The competition between Coke and Pepsi was blood sport and exclusive pouring rights a life and death struggle. I can share some incredible stories about the competition between the two!

How did we manage to survive both the Cold and Cola Wars?

 

[Cheriehoop]

My brother had the same experience with Taco Bell in high school.

I had the same thing happen to me with sausage, pepper and onion subs working at the state fair Chuck Wagon stand for 10 hours a day for 5 days then a day off then 3 days on. I swore I could smell it for weeks, it seemed to even get into your pores. Ended up with mono to start college. Took me quite a while before I ate it again.

 

[SanDiegoCuse]

I don’t often drink soda but if it was ok for me I would drink Cherry Coke all the time.

 

[SU2NASA]

Bunch of mouthbreathing knuckledraggers, the whole lot of you.