A Frosty Reception for Coca-Cola's White Christmas Cans

Started by garbon, December 12, 2011, 01:02:34 PM

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Ideologue

Quote from: Jacob on December 12, 2011, 02:53:57 PM
As for soda with meals, I do that maybe once a month on average. If you're quaffing litres of the stuff on a daily basis that's your business, but expect to get fat if you're not already.

Doubtful.
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Admiral Yi

Quote from: garbon on December 12, 2011, 08:13:44 PM
Wikipedia has this on that notion:

QuoteCoke considered but rejected gradually changing the drink's flavor incrementally, without announcing that they were doing so. Executives feared that the public would notice and exaggerate slight differences in taste. In 1998, Joel Dubow, a professor of food marketing at St. Joseph's University, tested this "flavor balance hypothesis" and argued that it was not true. He and fellow researcher Nancy Childs tested mixtures of classic Coke and Coca-Cola II and found that the gradual changes of taste were not noticed by a significant number of tasters. Coke, he said, would have succeeded had it chosen this strategy

That's a description of a rejected strategy for the original rollout of New Coke.  I was talking about after they had shelved New Coke.

Ideologue

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Razgovory

Quote from: JonasSalk on December 13, 2011, 12:53:39 AM
Quote from: Zoupa on December 13, 2011, 12:48:22 AMIt'll hit you around 28.

So it's like marriage.

Shit.


Don't worry, I don't think Cynthia McKinney is going to accept any proposals by you.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

garbon

Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 13, 2011, 07:18:20 AM
Quote from: garbon on December 12, 2011, 08:13:44 PM
Wikipedia has this on that notion:

QuoteCoke considered but rejected gradually changing the drink's flavor incrementally, without announcing that they were doing so. Executives feared that the public would notice and exaggerate slight differences in taste. In 1998, Joel Dubow, a professor of food marketing at St. Joseph's University, tested this "flavor balance hypothesis" and argued that it was not true. He and fellow researcher Nancy Childs tested mixtures of classic Coke and Coca-Cola II and found that the gradual changes of taste were not noticed by a significant number of tasters. Coke, he said, would have succeeded had it chosen this strategy

That's a description of a rejected strategy for the original rollout of New Coke.  I was talking about after they had shelved New Coke.

Do you have proof of this?
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Admiral Yi

Quote from: garbon on December 13, 2011, 10:13:51 AM
Do you have proof of this?

I have copies of internal Coca Cola memos but I can't show them to you.

Valmy

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garbon

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

JonasSalk

Quote from: Razgovory on December 13, 2011, 10:00:44 AMDon't worry, I don't think Cynthia McKinney is going to accept any proposals by you.

Oh, I know. That's okay for me, see, I can get other women, whereas you are likely stuck with nothing or something like her. Have a great life.
Yuman

DGuller

I find that coke is a poor choice to pair with food, unless the food you're eating is low grade junk.

garbon

Quote from: DGuller on December 13, 2011, 12:03:39 PM
I find that coke is a poor choice to pair with food, unless the food you're eating is low grade junk.

I don't. :)
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

derspiess

Quote from: Valmy on December 13, 2011, 10:18:15 AM
Ok but why would Coke want to change its formula?  :huh:

Corn syrup is cheaper than cane sugar.  Or what Yi said.
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garbon

Quote from: derspiess on December 13, 2011, 12:21:29 PM
Quote from: Valmy on December 13, 2011, 10:18:15 AM
Ok but why would Coke want to change its formula?  :huh:

Corn syrup is cheaper than cane sugar.  Or what Yi said.

But they were using corn syrup in the US before New Coke. Again according to wikipedia.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.