Calobi:
Am I the only one that can't taste a difference?

No, Dr. Pepper FTW!

coke, it isn't as sweet. However, I would drink either.

Either or, really. Though, I've found myself drinking Coke (specifically, Cherry Coke) more often as of late.

As for bottled water - I hate drinking chlorine, thank you. That's all that bottled water tastes like to me. I'd also rather spend my money on some drink that I can't obtain for free myself, like juice, or soda, or, well, anything BUT water.

Whichever is on sale.

i think the universe would implode

AnGeL.SLayer:
Coke. Pepsi is wayyyy too sweet for me. Coke is also more bubbly. hehe

^_^

Agree completely. Coke rules, Pepsi is like flat, too-sweet Coke. And Pepsi hardly even touches rust. Never trust a cola that won't digest a hunk of meat on its own.

cleverlymadeup:
actually it's

sewer water > aquifina > dasani

penn and teller did a bullshit episode on bottled water, ppl who had said that "new york tap water tastes like crap" picked the tap water over the bottled water if it was unmarked

you're just listening to marketing hype and bs

Didn't say Aquafina was better than tap water (though it is where I live), but you are by far better off drinking from the toilet than a bottle of Dasani. And it's not market hype that makes me prefer Aquafina over tapwater here, I've done the blind tastetest more than once and I always can tell bottled water from tap.

Also on the Pepsi Taste Challenge I can always tell Pepsi from Coke, and either of those from lesser brands. Fountain pop it doesn't matter with (all tastes the same), but from bottle or can I can ID pepsi and coke any time.

Pepsi is too dull and sweet for my liking.

Coke is sharper and just better than Pepsi.

I'm not a connoisseur when it comes to food, far from it I'd say, so I can't really explain it any better.

Coke. If a restaurant has Pepsi I promptly order water. Of course this is meaningless if said establishment has a liquor license. New Castle I said.

Personally I prefer Pepsi but I'll drink Coke also, usually because it's the only thing available where i live, whatever happened to Pepsi anyway?

Khell_Sennet:

Dr Pepper > Coke's lack of an equivilant

You mean Mr. PiBB? Or, as it prefers to be called now, Pibb Xtra...

Dr. Pepper still wins, but there is a competitor (at least in the States and the Mariana Islands).

I agree with general consensus on the mixing of Pepsi and Coke:We don't know what would happen. Maybe the universe would end- and it would be awesome!

I prefer iced tea or fruit juice (nestea/fruitopia if I go corporate). So I guess I'm Coke's little pawn then.

kateatsmouse:
I drink 'em both, but I like coke better. Except warm. If I have to drink warm soda, I always pick pepsi.

I'm the opposite. I drink coke warm and pepsi cold.

i like pepsi max. I like my drinks freezing and i dont know why but pepsi tastes better at lower temperatures.

Geoffrey42:

Khell_Sennet:

Dr Pepper > Coke's lack of an equivilant

You mean Mr. PiBB? Or, as it prefers to be called now, Pibb Xtra...

Dr. Pepper still wins, but there is a competitor (at least in the States and the Mariana Islands).

Never got Mr PiBB where I live... Hell, Mellow Yellow only went on sale for about a year at a time, only twice in my lifetime.

HAWAIIAN PUNCH! Thats the shit... Crush Tropical is just a hair under being equal.

Both the drinks pale in comparison to Dr peper!

Not a big Dr Pepper fan... Nice to have around when I eat BBQ hotdogs, but don't find it goes well with pasta or pizza.

Lime Crush is my alltime favorite #1 drink, Orange Crush or Sprite suffice most of the time, since Lime only comes in 591ml bottles up here... If I could get flats or 2L bottles of Lime Crush, I'd never drink anything else. Hell, I'd even try to cook my pasta in it.

cleverlymadeup:

that's why i reuse my plastic water bottle and fill it with tap water, cause not only is tap water safer for you to drink (it's gov regulated, bottled water isn't) and has also been treated properly to remove the crap in it

I dunno, the UK government once planned to put fluride in tap water (to improve peoples teeth), however, the didn't realise it was poisonous

dekkarax:

cleverlymadeup:

that's why i reuse my plastic water bottle and fill it with tap water, cause not only is tap water safer for you to drink (it's gov regulated, bottled water isn't) and has also been treated properly to remove the crap in it

I dunno, the UK government once planned to put fluride in tap water (to improve peoples teeth), however, the didn't realise it was poisonous

Common misconception. Fluorine is poisonous, fluoride isn't. Well, that's what my chemistry textbook says.

Pepsi just doesn't make my teeth hurt as much.

Coke. Coke, coke, coke. Infinitely coke. I'll drink Pepsi if there's no coke, but coke wins out over pepsi 100 times out of 10. That's right, each time they are compared, coke wins ten times.

coke...pepsi...coke...pepsi... which one WHICH 1! >_<

Calobi:
Am I the only one that can't taste a difference?

No you are not.

Khell_Sennet:

Didn't say Aquafina was better than tap water (though it is where I live), but you are by far better off drinking from the toilet than a bottle of Dasani.

I'm confused, isn't Dasani just the purified and filtered water for Coke without the carbonation, sugar, and artificial flavor and color?

Re: tap water versus bottle water, Lucy Ann Goldberg told a funny story about an expensive restaurant in NYC where she and some friends would meet for lunch a couple times a month. They all bought expensive bottled water (Swedish I think), $16 the bottle. The water was always delivered opened, with the cap beside the bottle. She once asked the waiter if he would bring the bottle unopened, as she preferred to open it herself. The waiter (their regular waiter) got a funny look and told her that wasn't possible. When she asked why on Earth that would be impossible, he took her through the kitchen to the back of the restaurant. There in the ally the dishwashing staff were washing these fancy glass bottles, filling them with New York City water straight from the tap, and selling it for $16 a bottle. Since they had no way to re-install the crimped-on bottle caps, they simply served the water with the cap next to it, as if it had just been opened. And people specifically asked for the fancy bottled water because it was so much better than any other bottled water.

If I remember this correctly, floride is a class of flourine compound, not a specific substance. (Literally an ionic form of flourine, but being a halogen it's highly reactive so it's never actually floride, but a floride compound. Think clorides or bromides. Halogens are also used in lights.) And some florides can be very deadly. But I think the compounds they add to municipal water are probably milder than the clorine added. I *think* it is absorbed by and strengthens enamel rather than killing or inhibiting bacteria. But I may be remembering that wrong.

Coke and I think Pepsi as well are known for their support of dictatorships occasionally resorting to outright murder in order to maintain them.

Bottled water, especially bottled water that isn't just tap water, is extremely bad for the environment.

Needless to say, I don't drink either.

cleverlymadeup:
that's why i reuse my plastic water bottle and fill it with tap water, cause not only is tap water safer for you to drink (it's gov regulated, bottled water isn't) and has also been treated properly to remove the crap in it

Oh, and tap-water is good source of fluoride, so yeh.

Oh, and on the debate, gnaw sums up my view.

- A procrastinator

Pepsi.

But Diet Coke is the best. Coke flavor without waiting 2 hours for the fizziness to go away. Bleh, feels like acid on my teeth.

Pepsi is superior, only because of the sacred nectar that is MOUNTAIN DEW.
Mountain Dew is the be all, end all of carbonated beverages, and I am drinking one as we speak at 8:23 in the morning.

Coke... is alright. It tastes way too sugary. Diet Coke tastes sort of weird too. I'm a bit jaded though, I suppose. The campus I live on is a Coke-only campus, and so when I get my hands on a Pepsi product it's like a rare treat.

The next epic poll would of course be, DIET or REGULAR Coke/Pepsi? My vote: Diet, because it contains Aspartame, a derivative of crack-rock.

werepossum:

If I remember this correctly, floride is a class of flourine compound, not a specific substance. (Literally an ionic form of flourine, but being a halogen it's highly reactive so it's never actually floride, but a floride compound. Think clorides or bromides. Halogens are also used in lights.) And some florides can be very deadly. But I think the compounds they add to municipal water are probably milder than the clorine added. I *think* it is absorbed by and strengthens enamel rather than killing or inhibiting bacteria. But I may be remembering that wrong.

As one of the poor fools currently floundering in Organic chemistry, I can tell you that just because something has Fluorine in it, doesn't make it poisonous. For instance, I'm sure many of you cook on TEFLON pans, and all teflon is is polymers of repeating carbon-carbon backbones with two fluorines attached: (CCL2-CCl2-CCl-2) N times. That's not to say you should ever, ever EAT Teflon. Or if your cheap teflon pan starts to bubble and flake off you should keep using it, due to said risk of eating it.

Elements in the pure form have entirely different properties than elements bonded to say, carbon, and then they have completely different properties if they are bonded to water. And then, the organization of molecules gives them different properties.

Then there are things like chirality. Molecules can be left or right handed, and the two versions react differently with your body. For instance, the receptors in your nose that you use to smell things are chiral, so the left handed molecule smells differently than the right handed molecule. Or, your body uses only a specific handedness of glucose if I remember my Biology correctly, and the other glucose makes the tough indigestible outer covering of plants. Or there was a drug I read about released many years ago to prevent morning sickness, which was an even mixture of right and left-handed molecules. One had the desired effects, the other caused rampant birth defects.

In short, I know nothing about the fluorine in the water, but just telling me there is a halogen in it that is poisonous in its pure form says absolutely nothing. Sodium, in its pure form, explodes violently if you expose it to water. Chlorine, in its pure form, is a gas that will put a hefty burn on your lungs and respritory system if you were unfortunate enough to breath it. But salt, sodium-chloride makes everything delicious.

Also, there's also probably trace amounts of Ecoli in the water, but that doesn't kill you either.

Pepsi, Its the choice of the new generation.

*Cheesy Grin*

Coke tastes like shit in my opinion, it's odd to me. Go pepsi! :D

coke for me. Pepsi just tastes bland.

I like both pretty much equally. In cans anyway, in bottles I prefer Coke as Pepsi seems to taste somewhat dull in bottles, for some reason. Maybe it's my imagination. >_>

I must say, having a neutral stance on this means I can just buy whichever is on special. Hello savings!

Hehe Coke wins! *dances and sprays everyone with coke*

^_^

Sorry...Odd mood today...