Has Coke changed the formula again

I think Coca-Cola is up to something??
They did this before but told everyone & almost lost thier ass.
Anyway
Here's the deal I bought some last week, it was packaged with the Olimpic theme, tasted different less sweet.
I thought taste buds just being weird or something, same thing with second twelve pack.

A couple days ago at different supermarket different city I purchased three 12 packs, two have the Olimpic theme, one is Bears theme older stock (Damn Bears sucked in the playoffs maybe next year)
So poped em in the fridge, had one of those older stock bears labeled Cokes tasted Great!
Thinking about the Coke I had the other day that tasted odd less sweet ( crappy) I poped open one of those other newly purchased olimpic labled Cokes tasted Like Yuck?????
Next thing ya Know I have my own little taste test going!

What's the Deal?
Anyone else notice the same?
Maybe I'm nuts?
I Like Budwiser too But cant drink that all the time, and well "Pepsi" I'd rather lick monkey nuts.

 

I always found coke to be less sweet than Pepsi which is why you can flop it in a glass with ice cubes and rye, the only time I drink cola. I will notice if the taste changes... but I haven't yet. I agree with the Pepsi and the monkey thing.

 

you know.. I had gotten sick a few weeks ago and lost my ability to taste sweet things for a while. I had a coke and it tasted awful. I attributed it to the fact that I was sick. I had another one the other day and it too tasted like crap and I am no longer sick. So yeah, I have to agree, they changed something...again. I won't drink coke anymore.

 

I am addicted to Pepsi. I drink literally six or seven cans a day. I actually had to switch to Caffeine Free Pepsi a few years back, because I would have weird episodes where for no reason my heart would beat a million times per second for a good ten minutes. I don't know what it is, it's just the taste of a cold Pepsi, I love it. I don't drink alcohol, don't smoke, never did drugs. I never really considered myself "addicted" to anything (well, maybe Mortal Kombat when it first came out on the Sega Genesis).

I don't know what causes the craving. It's obviously not the caffeine, because I'm drinking caffeine free. Maybe the sugar?

I've tried to wean off of it, like switching to Nestea or Hawaiian Punch, but those have just as much sugar.

Oh well. One day my teeth will all rot out. Chicks like that, right?

Like everything else, I blame my parents for this one. I was raised on junk food.


My name is Steve, and I'm addicted to Pepsi. As for the actual topic of this thread, I don't know, I don't drink that coke crap anyway.


Viva La Pepsi!!!

 

i just had coke and it tasted fine, but it wasn't the olympic stuff, probably an old formula, I have always preferred coke over pepsi.

 

Did you know that if you eat an orange fruit gum at the same time as a lime one, it tastes like cola?

 

evel. watch that stuff. too much will do you in. My son has same probs. Caused his heart to a-fib. Prob should have it checked.

CC

 

Interesting thread. I was in a meeting yesterday and one of my co-workers opened a diet coke. She thought it tasted awful and had gone bad, so she ditched it and opened another. It tasted just as foul, so I tried it. Now I'm not a coke drinker, and certainly not a diet soda fan, but this tasted of nothing but the artificial sweetner. There was no "coke" taste to it at all...just watery. She ditched that one too. We thought we maybe had abad batch, but now I'm thinking it's the Coke recipe.

I'm a Pepsi drinker. Coke has a food coloring in it that encourages depression in those who are prone to it. It also gives me awful digestive problems. Cleans the toilet great though

 

does the coke taste kinda flat every time i buy coke i always end up getting the flat ones no wonder i switched to root beer lol

 

I totally think they change the recipe over the holidays. For years I have been a firm beleiver that the Coke with the santa claus on the can tastes better. Every holiday I load up on Santa Can Coke becuase it is sooo much better than the normal stuff.

I think I heard somewhere that they once a year they change the recipe to be kosher for jewish people or something, and that was why the santa can coke tastes different.

I dont know about olympic can or polar bear can, but santa can is great!

 

From what I am reading, coke drinkers opt for root beer if the brand Coke isn't available. Probably explains, as a pepsi preferred drinker, why I can't stand root beer either

No pepsi? I'll have a sierra mist

 

I guess I'm just not a root beer kinda girl. Been spoilt...too many years drinking fine English real ale

My husband made me a root beer float when I first got here......I about gagged! What a waste of decent ice-cream

 

Well on that theory Chas...next time someone tells me my payrise is 0% I'm going to apply the Coca-Cola Math theory and multipy my salary by 4.9999 to get the correct increase

 

Was coke not originally given it's name because it contained some quantity of cocaine in it? Or was that just an old wive's tale? If it is correct, are they telling us it still has the drug in it?

From Wikipedia

So they lied to you Chas......

 

Nothing tastes worse than Pepsi Max.

In fact, anything with artificial sweetners tastes like crap.


Only time I ever drink Pepsi is when I'm forced to, like when I order Pizza Hut (Pepsi own Pizza Hut and KFC, which is why you don't see Coke sold there).

 

My wife read this thread, she said I was nuts until tryed my taste test.
(Damn I'm runnin out of the good stuff)
She compaired it to like when Mcdonalds or similar doesnt have enough syrup in the mix.

I'm contacting Coke, time ta complain!








I didnt mean to misspell Olympic, Opps, withdraws from the good stuff

 

.... and Taco Bell

 

I've always liked RC cola. It's getting harder to come by though, around me at least.

Remember Jolt? Uggh. That stuff was nasty. It's still around, I think.


-Steve

 

RC is a big seller down here and one that i like even better thin pepsi is Pibb. i think that is a even better seller tho.

 

On the subject of sodas... Any one tryed Jones Cream soda ?? (drool) Sooooooo good .......

 

Wow, nice work Chas. Completely agree on the serving size thing. If you wanted to advertise your super deluxe bacon triple cheese burger as having only 5g of fat calories, just state that the serving size is one bite.

From what I can tell, Coke zero tastes exactly like diet coke, might as well be the same thing, aspartame and all.

 

I used to love Tab Cola. You can't get it anymore.

 

I just bought a sixer of TAB the other day. Just as good as I remember it (from when I was a kid and anything with sugar was awesome).


EDIT: was posting while you were insomniac. I actually still see TAB for sale alot, usually the grocery store will only have a couple six packs of it on hand (as opposed to a gazillion cases of other sodas), so its still around for you to buy. Probably some cult following has kept it alive or something

 

It might still be around where you are, but I've never seen it for years.

 

Yes you can.


Nickwsu just bought some.





Sorry bro. Had to do it.




-Steve

 

As I said, you can't get TAB Cola in Sydney.

I haven't seen it on the shelves of any store in years.


If anyone knows where (here I mean), then tell me instead of saying yes you can.

 

Maybe this latest recipe change is the Diet-Caffeine-Coke-Free Coke version

 

I'm not nut's
I Want My old Coke back!
Have a look here I Know They are screwing around with the Formula:
http://www.knowledgeproblem.com/archives/001483.html
http://www.cultureby.com/trilogy/2006/01/whos_coke_is_it.html
http://pratie.blogspot.com/2006/01/american-capitalism-bombs-again.html

Direct your Complaints Here:
Coca-Cola Support <coca-cola.support@na.ko.com>

 

I always get my Coke from Colombia too.

They have the best stuff.

 

I doubt that the formula is unchanged too. Especially since the original Coca-Cola was green, and contained cocaine essence. (I was an Industrial Chemist for 15 years, including C.C.A. (Coca-Caola Amital).

There are also other lovely components such as phosphoric acid contained within. The reason so much sweetener is necessary, whether it be from cane sugar, cornsyrup, or artificial, is that the syrups used to make Coke and other soft drinks are so putrid, a 350ml can of Coke needs the equivalent of one quater of a cup of sugar to make it drinkable. Drinks such as Fanta, require the equivalent of half a cup of sugar to make it drinkable. Then of course, they need dosing with CO2 and refrigerated, or else they are foul tasting, again.

And yup, I still drink Coke, LoL!

 

Anyone seen the new Jackie Chan Diet Pepsi advert? Poor diet coke, but I have to say having read this thread, it had it coming

 

Maybe I'll try some Home brew?

If anyone wants to leak me the Coke Clasic formula I'm all ears.

 

I wish someone would send me some TAB cola.

I haven't had it for 20 YRS +.

 

Water, sugar (lots of it mind), chemicals.

Yuk!!!

 

It seems like the only thing people remember from the new pepsi commercial is that it had a can of diet coke in it.

Brilliant marketing, Pepsi.... Just Brilliant.