Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cornell.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!chris From: chris@cornell.UUCP (Christopher F. Harrison) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: What if they did make Old Coke again? Message-ID: <2666@cornell.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 10:14:53 EDT Article-I.D.: cornell.2666 Posted: Mon Jun 24 10:14:53 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 05:45:57 EDT References: <397@moncol.UUCP> Reply-To: chris@gvax.UUCP (Christopher F. Harrison) Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept. Lines: 38 Summary: In article <397@moncol.UUCP> john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) writes: >With human nature the way it is, would these same people really like a >"New" Old Coke were one to be produced? Would it really matter if the >Coca-Cola Company were to go back to the old formula or would everyone just >say that it's another "New" Coke and not as good as the "Old" Old Coke? > >It is said that you can't go home again. If this is true then it really >doesn't matter what formula Coke uses- someone will always say it's just >not the same. I really don't think that the manufacturers of this product are above doing anything that would show profit. Furthermore, I'm sick of having my tastebuds jerked around for the sake of free enterprise and the pursuit of profit. As a result, those fine producers of Coke have lost a former patron of theirs. I used to run my tab up to ten dollars a week on the Coke fund at work, due to my distaste for cofee. As soon as I tasted the new product, I was convinced that concern for a quality product was again thrown out the window in lieu of a better marketing scheme. We still have plenty of the old stuff around here,(they're most likely having problems producing new artwork for the 6 1/2 ounce bottles we drink here at our CS dept.) but I won't drink it unless there's nothing else in the soda fund. The change in taste prompted me to drop a bad habit, one that has nearly cost me most of my teeth and probably about a years pay. I bought a cooler jug and lots of tea bags. Now I'm drinking ice tea and loving it. I use only 2 tsps. of sugar per half-gallon of tea, so my sugar consumption has been cut about in half. I still get my caffeine (12 oz coke-@57 mg. caffeine, tea- @42 mg.) and my plumbing thanks me every morning! To top it off, the per ounce cost is much less, so I've seen a little change left on payday. Would I go back? Let me put it this way; If you were a long-time patron of a fine-foods restaurant, and they switched to a Mickey D's fast food type of menu and service, would you continue to do your fine-foods dining there? I may drink either new or old coke when need or occasion states, but I'll never be the addict I used to be again. Thanks for helping me kick the habit, Coke... Chris Harrison Cornell Computer Science