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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
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Reply-To: chris@gvax.UUCP (Christopher F. Harrison)
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept.
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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