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- From: bhjelle@carina.unm.edu ()
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: PEPSI CLEAR & TAB CLEAR
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 17:28:57 GMT
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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- In article <1k10npINN399@dayub.dayton.saic.com> Tom Haberlandt <haberlat@ccmail.dayton.saic.com> writes:
- >In article Tom G. Krajna, krajnatg@infonode.ingr.com writes:
- >>Okay, it's clear that no one seems to like the new stuff. But am I
- >missing
- >>something here about it *tasting* so different? Didn't they just ditch
- >>the coloring, leaving the flavor alone? Can you identify Pepsi Clear in
- >>a blind taste test vs. Pepsi Unclear?
- >
- >What really seems to suck is Pepsi's marketing. Nearly every
- >person posting expected it to taste like Pepsi - it doesn't - so
- >naturally everyone thinks it sucks !
- >
- >The articles in the newspaper seemed to indicate that Pepsi
- >Clear (or whatever its called) is a new recipe. It does not
- >have caffeine, coloring, or the carbonation that Pepsi has.
- >
- Is this really true? If those are the missing ingredients,
- only the carbonation would be expected to alter its palatability-
- although not its "taste". I wonder if the posters who have
- tasted it and don't like it are really responding to the
- lack of coloring, ie, strictly "placebo effect". Can anyone
- prove that the recipe itself was altered?
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- Brian
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