Coca cola and Pepsi Cola
Let the cola wars began between two of the world's biggest rivals against each other once again for colas supremacy both of these companies have earned themselves immense amounts of brand loyalty over the years and we're going to examine both coke and Pepsi on several different criteria before finally settling on one empire to rule the kingdom of carbonated beverages go what round one variety sure everyone likes that colon now and again but what about those times when you want something a little different well luckily both the coca-cola company and Pepsi coke of got you covered in that department for their part offers plenty of variations on the plastic coke formula including cherry coke caffeine-free diet coke coca-cola vanilla coke zero selections for the sugar conscious somebody gets this man a drink a coke zero right.
Company's expansion never really loses focus of what got them to the dance in the first place however that being the classic coke taste this is likely in response to be disastrous new coke campaign from the nineteen eighties where the coca-cola company attempted to rebrand their flagship soda producing me massively embarrassing flop that was new coke may I offer you a drink tab for Greece new coke and I live but not right now are these robots in comparison in addition to the direct alternative to the opera mentioned coke offerings pets seems to love experimenting with as many wild flavors as they can hammering home the company's desire to be perceived as the young and rebellious upstart to coca cola's more traditional ways yes that is the choice of a new generation lemon-lime care and even spicy flavor profiles have all found themselves with a Pepsi to their name one of to pasture one could that all of this variety tends to dilute interest in Peep as their main flagship but the way we see it the lack of a new coke means that this round goes to Pepsi co no coke Pepsi winner Pepsi round two histories.
There is no one alive today who's lived in a Pepsi free hopeless world coca-cola is typically viewed as the more traditional of the big two cola coax history began and eighteen eighty-six with a pharmacist named John Pemberton who marketed his coke recipe which we did contain cocaine as a cure-all tonic of sorts promising that it would alleviate all sorts of physical ailments from nervousness and anxiety to depression I want to make our medicine that means women things that they'll never be nervous or have this one is something Pemberton a civil war veteran nursing a morphine addiction was very much in need of however the pharmacist would sell off his recipe and rights to coca cola shortly after it's initial success Pepsi the origin story has a similar beginning created an eighteen ninety-three by drug store owner.
Caleb random testing was also marketed as something other than just a pleasant fizzy drink claimed that his beverage then named brad's drink could aid in digestion and served it out of the soda fountain in his north Carolina shot noting the comparisons between his drink and the digestion enzyme pets in a new name and company was been born help coca cola company was popular and profitable it couldn't make it through the sugar rationing of world war one unscathed and Pepsi filed for see more than once brought him would sell off his shares and returned to the drugstore business in the nineteen-thirties although Pepsi co itself would continue although far from bland Pepsi its history just doesn't capture the same attention as coca cola's crazy drug-addled the beginning
Yeah, except in the winter coke rounds three taste sure we all knew that the taste of Coke and Pepsi is completely subjective and that there is no right or wrong answer but admit it we all have a favorite coke tastes like Pepsi the coca-cola recipe has been an intensely guarded secret and eighteen ninety-one when john Pemberton his original recipe was bought and then modified by one-time coke owner is a Candler it's Candler recipe that we know and some love today and the actual recipe.
He's only given to two employees at a time with a named successor given when one of those employees dies the coke formula specifically is a bit less sweet than Pepsi and has more sodium it's flavor profile it's heavy on vanilla and reason notes while Pemberton version relied on coal enough for its caffeine content of that saw thought cause hip c sweetness meanwhile goes back to the company's post-world war one owner Charles goose also owned a candy manufacturing company named lost and he tested their chemists making pet these new syrup recipes sweet enough that it could stand out from coke in the market was going through what a Pepsi noggin him a Pepsi set about proving that team blue with superior in earnest in the mid-nineteen seventies and devise to be Pepsi challenge results