I just tried Pepsi Blue. It is bad. REALLY bad.

Looks like anti-freeze...

Never heard of it. What is it supposed to taste like? Kinda reminds me of that clear cola fad a few years back.

The new Vanilla Coke is pretty tasty, though.

I guess it's supposed to taste like Pepsi with berries mixed in. It totally misses the mark. I'm not a fan of sweet drinks (don't like cola in general), but adding more sugar would be a good start toward making this junk more drinkable.

Yeah I like the vanilla coke also. Tastes even better with some rum (not that I drink much).

I've seen the blue Pepsi but have not bothered to try it yet.

IMO, Pepsi has always missed the mark. Did you ever try Cherry Pepsi? It tasted exactly like Cherry Coke. Why have they always been a ste behind Coke? Because their stuff just doesn't taste as good. Although I am a Dr Pepper fan.

Vanilla Coke is pretty good, but I'm not the biggest fan. My favorite soda? Coke and grenadine. It's my main drink at restaraunts, although I never, ever ask for a "Roy Rogers"

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We got lemon diet coke here recently. I tried one in a radio station promotional thing, hey, it was free.

The strangest taste I've had for a while. glad I didn't buy it.
I think they put out these alternative flavours so that after a while they can say how good the original is like it's a new thing.

At Sonic Drive-Ins, Dr. Pepper with vanilla is amazing. I thought Vanilla Coke was miserable (the only thing Vanilla Coke was good with was Vanilla Stoli), but Sonic knows how to do it right with Dr. Pepper.

Coke with actual lemon juice is good I think the reason the stuff they are selling tastes bad is because they probably just use citric acid. (Plus diet coke tastes bad anyway give me sugar !)

Looks like Pepsi is skipping the small taste test days and goinf all out on the market. Colorado Springs was a popular test bed for Pepsi, since they have a local bottling plant somewhere around here. One thing I remember was the fruity Pepsi. They had 4 or 5 different types, like strawberry and such. We also saw no less then 3 versions of the "Crystal" Pepsi stuff.

Frito Lay used to test tons of stuff here as well, like hot versions of about all their chips. The hot Cheetos arethe only things I still see now.

Dr. Pepper w/ Vanilla (using a mix in ala Sonic) is the divine Ambrosia... truely the drink of the gods!!!!!

edit: oh yeah, and the new Dr. Pepper Red Fusion sucks!!! It tastes just like cherry 7up with a tiny hint of Dr. Pepper

No Sonic in the area, so I have never had Dr. Pepper with vanilla. I do, however, like Dr. Pepper as my favorite soft drink.... well, Dr. Pepper flavored drinks that is. Dr. Thunder anyone?

like the new jingle with the black eyed peas says... "Dr. Pepper the original".... stick with the one and only!! And add vanilla.... lots of other resturants do mix-ins... just ask

Because their stuff [Pepsi's] just doesn't taste as good. Although I am a Dr Pepper fan.

You seem to be implying that Dr. Pepper is a Pepsi product. It is not. Although Dr. Pepper is distributed by Pepsi distributors in some areas of the country, it is owned by Seagrams, which purchased the Dr. Pepper/Seven-Up company a few years back, which had previously been a totally separate company, and had been two separate companies before that.

In other areas of the country, Dr. Pepper is distributed by Coca-Cola distributors, and in those areas, it's often hard to come by its competitor, Mr. Pibb, which is a Coca-Cola product, as the Coca-Cola corporation often doesn't distribute its own product there, especially at soda fountains.

Coke with actual lemon juice is good


Yeah, I agree.

I find it perverse that you can buy Coke with fake lemon flavor, and Dawn (British Translation: washing-up liquid) with *real* lemon.

7-Up has to have the best slogan out there (except for maybe Sheik condoms, 'Get some or get none') - 'Make 7-Up yours!'

I had the Pepsi Blue over the weekend too...I have to agree that it's pretty bad. I reminded me just slightly of guarana - a popular carbonated beverage in Brazil. Except it wasn't near as good. It pretty much sucks.

Pepsi Blue tastes like chloryseptic throat spray.... If it made your throat numb it might actually have a purpose.

The different distribution methods of Dr. Pepper (read as liquid manna) is interesting. It leads to different bottling procedures, styles, and even tastes.... My family still brings me Dr. Pepper from OK when they come to see me in SC. No one here believed me (that there was a taste difference) until I let them compare the two.

You find that in all soft drinks. It has to do with the water that the bottler used, which is usually just local tap water. In fact, there are certain areas where I can't drink the sodas because the water has so much sulfur in it. I can't remember where. Possibly down in your neck of the woods in SC. I know it was somewhere around here (I'm in NC), and I'm pretty sure it was to the south, and I was thinking GA, but it could easily be SC. Are you near the coast?

I drank a lot of Mr. Pibb in Georgia recently and it tasted fine to me.

EDIT: I'm from New York by the way.

Yes, I'm about an hour from the coast, about 20 minutes from Florence. When I came here to check out the church I now serve at I couldn't figure out why no one had Dr. Pepper. Then I tasted it...blah. My coffee intake greatly increased...which was difficult to do.

Well, I'm pretty sure that they're going to do a good job bottling Coca-Cola products in Georgia, since it's an Atlanta-based company, but whatever I was drinking might have had a regional bottler down in northern Florida or something. Of course, this was years ago and has probably changed by now.

This place knows Dr Pepper. One of my favorite places on Earth!!! And it's in Texas, of course!

It reminded me just slightly of guarana - a popular carbonated beverage in Brazil.
Speaking of guarana whatever happened to Josta is it still around but only in certain areas? I liked it and it was a 'real' energy boost.

What? Like Slurm classic? (S02E04)

- Trevor

Speaking of really bad soft drinks, does anyone else remember the bizarre buoyant experience that was the floating balls of Orbitz?

One of my friends who lives in Kansas is a total Dr. Pepper freak. He orders it from the Dublin site you linked too. I think he said something about it being the only bottler (almost said brewery - must be time to go home) that still uses sugar cane in it.

Hells yes. That stuff was horrid, but people bought them just because it was cool. Gotta admit, it was the coolest drink I've ever seen

Oh, and Futurama kicks serious ass. Not as good as Simpsons, but still really funny.

Reading that extinct Orbitz write-up brought tears to my eyes I was laughing so hard. The other guy here working late with me thinks that I'm crazy now, thanks...

On the whole, I agree that the write-up was 100% accurate though. I tried Orbitz once, just because. Once is all it took.

All it took for me was watching a friend of mine drink(?) it.