Let’s take a look at four of the more popular types of soda and see who wins the debate in the most recent of taste tests and surveys. Are your favorites their favorites too?
None of these are scientific in nature, and they’re purely derived from some surveys and taste tests given. This means that these are by no means accurate, though they’ll be fun to look at.
As far as Coke and Pepsi go, these are two of the top selling drinks in the world. They have a huge international presence and if I asked you to name the more global drink, you’d probably say Coke. People did prefer coke over Pepsi.
Let’s take a look at the diet drinks now. Each bills itself as a healthy alternative to the original formula, free of calories and sugars. In the end, people believe that the taste of diet Pepsi resembles actual Pepsi more than diet Coke resembles actual Coke.
How about the lemon lime drinks? There’s Sprite, 7up, and Sierra Mist. Sierra Mist is more widely produced than 7up now, and this is the drink that was put up against Sprite. Interestingly, more people said that they preferred Sprite, but they preferred the taste of Sierra Mist in blind taste tests.
The last set of drinks will look at is the cherry colas. There’s Pepsi’s wild cherry, and Coca Cola’s Cherry Coke. In the end, Wild Cherry Pepsi was preferred in taste tests, though people were more likely to buy Cherry Coke.
As you can see, this is an issue that divides many, and looks to show no signs of changing.
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