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  • kelpie0

    the whole myth and cult of the Pepsi challenge was genius brand marketing, it nearly scunnered Coke completely way back when.

    • haha, I took the pepsi challenge and fucking nailed it.Jnr_Madison
    • People started clapping and everything.Jnr_Madison
    • thing is they don't so sip test anymore because they're completely unrepresentative. they give people packs to drink at home.kelpie
    • ...at home. Coke shite it when their own sip tests came back pro pepsi and no one thought to wonder if maybe, just maybe...kelpie
    • ...Pepsi only wins cos its sweeter, and people react to sweetness in sip challenges. idiots, cost them millionskelpie
    • I have been on both sides of the fence but you can't beat ice cold coke from a glass bottle.Jnr_Madison
    • Michael Jackson + Sip test mythology = massive WINkelpie
    • *sips from ice cold glass bottle of coke.Jnr_Madison
    • I like pepsi too, but at that time Coke actually redesigned the drink to lose its sharp taste just because of the pepsi challenge.kelpie
    • Fuckwittedness of a magnitude rarely seen in the soft drinks sector ;)kelpie
    • Yeah, I remember that, what a massive fuck up having to change back so soon after.Jnr_Madison
    • There was a prog on the TV about that not long ago, pretty funny.Jnr_Madison
    • yeah, too funny. what a bunch of corporate retardskelpie

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