Wow - they must want a mutiny on their hands! I’m one of those folks who has divided loyalty when it comes to Coke or Pepsi. For a Cuba Libre, I want Coke. Rum & Pepsi is VERY sweet. But I like the new Cranberry Sierra Mist, so that’s Pepsi. And I like Dr Pepper & Schweppes, so that’s Coke. And I like Slice, so that’s Pepsi. Put ‘em on sale & I’ll make do w/either one. I guess you can just call me fickle!

The Pepsy vs Coke issue is a wierd one. We southerners prefer Coke, but in blind tests…Pepsi wins.

Anybody remember those giant double cola bottles in the vending machines?

I’ve driven to bluefield KY and DuQuoin County IL to get the sugar sweetened Coke-a-Colas.

20 years ago, I was in Corinth MS on the square and a Pharmacy made a coke the old way by mixing it. I wonder if that pharmacy is still there?

OK, are there any restaurants that give customers a choice of coke or pepsi? the old Danvers used to do that.

Hi Jane -
It’s been a while since I’ve been, but the last time at was at the Bogey’s on Mendenhall, they had Tab. I love the stuff, too - some say that’s why I moved here.

Sadly, I can’t drink anything with caffeine in it since developing a hyper-sensitivity a few years ago. And caffeine-free anything is nasty, I don’t know why they bother.

But coke, coke all the way! Pepsi is sweeter and tastes like drinking liquid candy. Coke has a little bite. Plus, anyone from the South drinks Coke as a matter of tradition, because of the many people they employed down here.

These days I’m stuck with hibiscus tea and ginger ale.

Why can’t we have a choice between Coke or Pepsi? Before Pepsi moved in, we had both products. I agree Pepsi too sweet, Aquafina tastes flat, and where’s my V8 juice?!! Also, Pepsi costs $25 more where I work, a 20% increase for a inferior product! (PS: I like unsweet tea, too).

As a native Atlantian - it is Coke all the way for me. And if I am in an establishment and you think you can fool me then shame on you cause I am sending it back. Pepsi is too sweet and too flat tasting.

I have heard of Cheerwine - it is extremely popular in North Carolina, where I went to college. I think it is bottled there - alond with Sun Drop.

Also Carole - you can get Delaware Punch at the Kroger in Trinity Commons. My boyfriend buys it all the time.

I think Cheerwine is an RC product. We had it at the summer camp in SC where I worked back in the day.
I’m also from Atlanta, and I prefer Coke over Pepsi. But my favorite soda is a Pepsi product: Diet Mtn. Dew.

I, too, grew up a Coke drinker. Though I’ll say “Sure, OK,” to Pepsi when it’s offered as the only cola choice, I prefer Coke’s “bite” anyday. Some of my earliest memories involve having dinner at my grandparents’ house, where Coke was served out of 1-liter glass bottles…ahhhhh.

As for Cheerwine, my pop was (and is) a teetotaller, so he discouraged us from drinking anything with “wine” in the title. Perhaps contradictorally, he DID allow us to drink root beer…though he frowned upon IBC brand root beer, whose bottles, to his eye, too closely resembled bottles that held “real” beer.

I prefer Coke products, especially Coca Cola and Sprite. Pepsi products are too sweet and syrupy, but I will settle for Sierra Mist if on sale. Overall, soda products have gotten quite expensive. I wonder why we spell Coke with a “k” though no “k” is in the full name of the product?

Remember Michael Jackson’s hair on fire? Good times, good times. Was there really ever a ‘Pepsi Generation’?

Looking back, that ad campaign was perhaps correctly presumptuous and ultimately disheartening about what our society would become in the following decades. Not that we’ve become a Pepsi Generation in the meaning they intended, but more commodified in general and less likely to make choices based on careful consideration and thoughtfullness. Or maybe that is what they intended… It makes me shudder - the Pepsi Generation. Who would cop to that?

Let’s see…the Commercial Appeal employees are worried about not having coke since the change out of the pepsi machines and all the while there is a typo on the front page of the sports section on top…Here is a new headline…”CA Staffers debate the the Pepsi -vs- Coke taste test while proof reading takes a back seat”.

Delaware punch is being sold on Ebay