Ever notice that Coke doesn’t taste as good as it used to?
Yep. It’s due to two factors. First, the introduction of “New Coke” was one big giant hokey-doke perpetrated by Coca-Cola. They needed a smoke screen that would allow them to switch from cane sugar to high-fructose corn syrup and that was their solution. So when they “gave in to popular demand” and brought back “Classic Coke,” it wasn’t the same thing. Some people viewed changing the formula for Coke as sacrilege, but not me. I’m a Pepsi man. But the real travesty goes back even farther than that. In the 1970’s, plastic liter bottles surfaced. They couldn’t handle the high levels of carbonation that most soft drinks had. If your mom was coming home from the grocery store and she stepped on the brakes too fast, the plastic bottles would fall onto the floorboards and explode, drenching the interior of her Ford Country Squire with sticky, caramel-colored sugar water. So, instead of ditching the crappy plastic bottle, Coke (and all the others) lowered the carbonation of their drinks and ru
