Coke to induce insomnia. Pepsi Diet for taste.

EnzoHonda:
The most amazing thing is that I haven't tried to mix them yet.

I'm from Maine, so it's got to be Moxie. Even though it tastes like a mix cigarette ash and motor oil.

Uszi:

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.

I didn't actually say or mean to imply that anything with flourine is poisonous, just that some florides are. My point was that I *think* the floride added to municipal water supplies are not added to directly kill bacteria and/or other critters, but rather to be absorbed and strengthen teeth. (I still haven't looked that up, so I might be wrong. When I last took a chemistry class, most people on this board weren't even born.)

Good luck with organic chemistry. I was never good even at regular chemistry, and listening to the horror stories I went and bought a text book on organic chemistry. Luckily EEs didn't have to take it, or there'd be a lot fewer EEs. I don't think I'd ever have made it through organic chemistry.

Aight, I have to say that I prefer Coke, because plus being the original, it has less caffeine in it than Pepsi, meaning it's not quite so bad.

P.S: I say "aight" because if any of you have played Saints Row, you'll know that Dex says that a lot, so I say it a lot, even though I'm whiter than a snowman with a bukkake fetish( to quote the words of Yahtzee, great gaming god of omni-potence).

caseyday09:
Coke put Cocaine in it so I will go with Pepsi and it is cheaper. Also it is more powerful.

your argument AGAINST coke is they put cocaine in it?

and i laughed at the pulp fiction TV quote.

COKE FTW

I was raised on Coke, so it's Coke. I honestly reckon that that's the single most likely reason that we'd have a preference in this poll.

Doctor Pepper FTW~

Pepsi just tastes so much better.

Sides... Coke has bastardized their drink so many times I shun them for their sins against beverage kind.

Coke.

I cant stand when companies bash their competition's products to promote their own, even when they are truly better. I guess it's an underdog thing.

Also pepsi advertises way too much, which annoys me. I rarely see any coke ads at all.

original > ripp-off

The Lawn:
Pepsi just tastes so much better.

Sides... Coke has bastardized their drink so many times I shun them for their sins against beverage kind.

Yes, because I found Pepsi Samba and Pepsi Blue to be the ultimate taste sensations. They are totally not money-whoring bastardizations.

Coke. And growing up, I was on the Pepsi side.

Simon_TR:
Coke.

I cant stand when companies bash their competition's products to promote their own, even when they are truly better. I guess it's an underdog thing.

Also pepsi advertises way too much, which annoys me. I rarely see any coke ads at all.

I feel like it would be hard to say who advertises more, since there are so many different mediums and outlets(?). But I recently read on the Marketing Doctor blog that Pepsi is advertising its new Tava drink exclusively on the web (although I haven't seen any ads yet): http://blog.marketingdoctor.tv/2008/03/20/tantillos-branding-bite-pepsi-goes-online-exclusively.aspx

Born and raised on Coca-cola.It just has so much more...body (I guess is the word) than Pepsi.

Nothing against Pepsi-just used to asking for Coke :D

Coke is what i always buy but given the option of supermarket cola and pepsi i would buy pepsi.

Coca Cola; I like a drink that you can really feel rotting your teeth...

I hate to rain on everyone's parade in here, but there is no difference. I'm not saying this based on personal experience (I always thought I could taste the difference) but we can't. I saw a BBC documentary about this in which scientists performed a double-blind study, and also read an article in the Independent (UK broadsheet), detailing a similar experiment, with the same results. The difference is purely psychological, a result of what we expect to taste.

For me it's Irn Bru anyway.

I cant stand coke. The last time I had it I thought I was getting sick, headache, fever, puffy feeling et cetera. After I stopped drinking it I felt better so had another few swigs and sure enough after a half hour I was back in bed. Pepsi is also far sweeter.

Vimto. It's in another league entirely to Coke and Pepsi.

Coke > Pepsi > Diet Pepsi > A poke in the eye with a sharp stick > A kick in the balls > Diet Coke

Coke tasted better, but all soda except ginger ale makes me feel sick so I dont drink much of either