Pepsi [temporary substitution for Coca-Cola]
Mar 6, 2016, 11:11 am
#61
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I'm now waiting for someone to post the question "How many Avios will I get for complaining about the cola enhancement?" It's only a matter of time, surely.
Mar 6, 2016, 11:21 am
#63
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In any event, I will often pass on fountain drinks. They usually bear little resemblance to the real thing. The exceptions being when at Nandos so that I can quell the Extra hot sauce with Sprite, or at Five Guys because everyone needs to find out what Sprite with lemon added to Coke with lime tastes like.
Mar 6, 2016, 11:39 am
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Excellent, I do not buy products of the Coca Cola company because I am an old hippy and dont like some of their practices so it will be great to have Pepsi however temporary.
Mar 6, 2016, 12:04 pm
#66
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Diet coke and coca cola light tastes different in pretty much every country. My preferred ones are UK and U.S. (There are differences between the two), and I had to get used to coca cola light in Singapore. It is also different to coca cola light in other countries in the region and within Europe there are differences too.
I have been known to pack and check boxes of diet coke to some countries (India being one) where I do not like the taste at all.
Another issue is Japan where diet coke simply doesn't exist (only Coke zero).
Oh and it needs to be in a can, no dispensers please. Pepsi only in 'emergencies'.
Mar 6, 2016, 12:06 pm
#67
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Mar 6, 2016, 1:15 pm
#70
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I know where you are coming from...
Diet coke and coca cola light tastes different in pretty much every country. My preferred ones are UK and U.S. (There are differences between the two), and I had to get used to coca cola light in Singapore. It is also different to coca cola light in other countries in the region and within Europe there are differences too.
I have been known to pack and check boxes of diet coke to some countries (India being one) where I do not like the taste at all.
Another issue is Japan where diet coke simply doesn't exist (only Coke zero).
Oh and it needs to be in a can, no dispensers please. Pepsi only in 'emergencies'.
Diet coke and coca cola light tastes different in pretty much every country. My preferred ones are UK and U.S. (There are differences between the two), and I had to get used to coca cola light in Singapore. It is also different to coca cola light in other countries in the region and within Europe there are differences too.
I have been known to pack and check boxes of diet coke to some countries (India being one) where I do not like the taste at all.
Another issue is Japan where diet coke simply doesn't exist (only Coke zero).
Oh and it needs to be in a can, no dispensers please. Pepsi only in 'emergencies'.
2. Can
3. Plastic bottle when kept in fridge away from strong smells at any point in its life
------- line of acceptability
4. Plastic bottles that have been near strong smells and therefore acquire that taint
5. Fountain (unless it's a bottomless glass, there is no other choice and I'm eating something spicy)
Has to be from the England (not Northern Ireland) or the US.
Mar 6, 2016, 3:14 pm
#72
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Mar 6, 2016, 4:53 pm
#73
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Tonight on the LGW-EDI run the CSD/CM (sorry, not sure of his correct title) generously offered to 'super size' my G&T, so I naturally accepted and it came with a Schweppes and a Fevertree. So in the name of scientific research for this thread I drank them both. I liked them both but I'm not really sure I could tell the difference. But I could certainly feel the difference when I got off the plane...
Mar 6, 2016, 6:08 pm
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Mar 6, 2016, 11:20 pm
#75
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Here's an interesting factoid.
My brother is a true Road Warrior. He's a long-distance trucker, criss-crossing the 48 states several times a month. He's on the interstate highways, not in the air. (At 6'5" he hates to fly.)
He has a mini-fridge in his truck cab and for the past 30 years he's kept it stocked up with Pepsi. He was drinking a couple of six-packs a day.
About four months ago, he switched to cold water instead of Pepsi. He lost 25 pounds without making any other changes in diet or exercise.
FYI.
My brother is a true Road Warrior. He's a long-distance trucker, criss-crossing the 48 states several times a month. He's on the interstate highways, not in the air. (At 6'5" he hates to fly.)
He has a mini-fridge in his truck cab and for the past 30 years he's kept it stocked up with Pepsi. He was drinking a couple of six-packs a day.
About four months ago, he switched to cold water instead of Pepsi. He lost 25 pounds without making any other changes in diet or exercise.
FYI.