Places where Coke is not the best selling soft drink

[Road Rash]

Not by a long shot in Waco, Tx. Dr. Pepper outsells it by about 5-1. Of course, it is the birthplace of Dr. Pepper. It is the official drink of Baylor University. Actually, most of central Tx is likely Dr. Pepper territory.

Any other soft drink anomolies?

[Bryan Ekers]

Well, there's my house.

I don't like Coke.

[Atreyu]

The employee break room at Pepsico Headquarters.

[Airbeck]

Taco Bell
KFC
The UIC (Illinois Chicago) campus - all pepsi products

[LurkMeister]

I've been to a number of hotels that only had Pepsi products in their vending machines and restaurants.

[TheOnlySaneOne]

Mars

*sees the many Dopers staring at him*

Well, it 's true...

[Doug Bowe]

Long ago on Wall $treet Week with Louis...

You remember Louis?

There was a guest who specialized in worldwide soft drink sales.

Don't know why I recall this, but when he was asked about the #1 drink in the WORLD...Coke or Pepsi?...he had an interesting answer.

He said the most popular drink in the whole world (one that was sold in almost every culture) would be an orange soda.

[käse]

I'd guess the Netherlands. Nor is Pepsi.

The most popular softdrink would be mineral-water [Spa-rood]

[Merlyn]

Sorry, as of 2 months ago, coke is now the most popular drink on Mars... just beat out the local drink "Tryqqbiyiiertypzckz"
Well actually, it is only bottled locally but manufactured on Uranus.

[Fouccalt]

damn Coca-cola and their lucrative 10 year contract with the University of illinois, tehy just optioned the last 5 years of it, meaning all campus buildings serve coke...bleh!!

[Ukulele Ike]

MPSIMS?

Yeah, MPSIMS.

[Alphagene]

New New York, year 3000. It's Slurm all the way, baby.

[Road Rash]

I'm a little stunned. I really thought there would be places, as in cities or regions, where Coke is not number 1. My question was "Cafe Society." The answers have all been MPISM's. Maybe I will have better luck here.

[mrblue92]

I recently read a non-fiction book set mostly in the Middle East, and it seems like people are always offering the author a orange soda.

Mr. Ruckheyser (sp?) may have been correct, though I don't know if there's one particular brand...

Interestingly enough, McDonalds sells "Persia Cola" in Iran. I suppose it sells better than "Great Satan Cola".

[delphica]

Pepsi outsells Coke in Western NY (Buffalo/Niagara Falls area). My source is my mother, who does reseach these things, but still, I think citing my mother is clearly MPSIMS territory.

[ITR champion]

At my college, both Coke and Pepsi products are available, and A&W Cream Soda easily outsells anything else.

[MarkyDeSade]

Iraq! North Korea! Iran!
..well, that is why they're part of the axis of evil, no?

[Futile Gesture]

Originally posted by Road Rash
I'm a little stunned. I really thought there would be places, as in cities or regions, where Coke is not number 1. My question was "Cafe Society." The answers have all been MPISM's. Maybe I will have better luck here.

I fear Mod Ike acted too fast. There is a factual answer to the OP. There are only two countries in the world where Coca Cola is outsold by a local soft drink.

One is Peru, where their Inca Cola reigns supreme. This doesn't worry Coca Cola Company much, as they market it.

The other is Scotland, home of Irn Bru. Barr's Irn Bru is the no. 1 seller in Scotland. Always has been, probably always will be.

[SpaceDog]

Originally posted by Futile Gesture
The other is Scotland, home of Irn Bru. Barr's Irn Bru is the no. 1 seller in Scotland. Always has been, probably always will be.

Sadly not, Coke overtook Irn Bru last month. I'll see if I can find a cite.

Here you go ...

I'm doing my bit by drinkin' a can of Bru right now.

SD

[Ukulele Ike]

Originally posted by Futile Gesture
I fear Mod Ike acted too fast. There is a factual answer to the OP.

Jesus, don't ANY of you muffinheads know the forum descriptions yet?

Please point out to me where discussion of soft drinks, whether factually based or not, belong in the forum devoted to "art, drama, literature, movies, music -- all the artistic disciplines -- if it's about art or entertainment, it goes here."

_{The first person who says "Coca-Cola is Art!" I swear I'll bite em}

[Futile Gesture]

Originally posted by Ukulele Ike
Jesus, don't ANY of you muffinheads know the forum descriptions yet?

Yeah, factual question and answer => GQ, not MPSIMS.

But this is insignificant compared to:

Coke overtook Irn Bru last month

Is nothing sacred!? Teeth all over Scotland are being denied their birthright of rotting from a sugary, metallic orange fizzy water. Falling to the evil, underhand, assult of a sugary, black fizzy water is dishonourable demise!

I'm off to buy a big 48 pack of Bru. This just isn't right!

[Rilchiam]

Um...Isn't Cafe Society the place to talk about food? I mean, soft drinks are something you consume, so technically they would be a food...

[scott evil]

As far as I know, Pepsi outsells Coke in the Province of Quebec. I believe it always has, too.

- s.e.

[UrbanChic]

Originally posted by Ukulele Ike



Jesus, don't ANY of you muffinheads know the forum descriptions yet?

Please point out to me where discussion of soft drinks, whether factually based or not, belong in the forum devoted to "art, drama, literature, movies, music -- all the artistic disciplines -- if it's about art or entertainment, it goes here."

_{The first person who says "Coca-Cola is Art!" I swear I'll bite em}

Coca Cola is art.

[Lissla Lissar]

"It is the official drink of Baylor University." You're joking, right? I have friends at Baylor. I must interrogate them regarding this allegiance switch. Coke all the way! Dr. Pepper just doesn't have the oomph to be a good early-morning espresso-substitute, and you can't feel it burning away at your insides like Coke does. Hmm. I don't think that would be a good slogan. "Drink Coke! Feel the highly acidic fluid dissolving your internal organs!"

[Kyomara]

Originally posted by JuanitaTech

Coca Cola is art.

No! I'm Art! I'm Art!!

--Art

[Road Rash]

Originally posted by Lissla Lissar
"It is the official drink of Baylor University." You're joking, right? I have friends at Baylor. I must interrogate them regarding this allegiance switch. Coke all the way! Dr. Pepper just doesn't have the oomph to be a good early-morning espresso-substitute, and you can't feel it burning away at your insides like Coke does. Hmm. I don't think that would be a good slogan. "Drink Coke! Feel the highly acidic fluid dissolving your internal organs!"

It was back when I graduated, back in the late 80's. I also remember a Time Magazine article referencing Dr. Pepper's popularity in Waco. Please don't challenge me to cite. I'm not in the mood for that challenge. Just take my word for it. Even at "Coke" hour at the Student Union they served Dr. Pepper floats. During football games, they made the mascot, a bear cub, drink Dr. Pepper. There was, likely still is, a big Dr. Pepper scoreboard at the football field.

As for the rest of small town central Tx. it is personal observation. I have relatives and spouses of relatives, plus I have met friends of the above, and they all prefer Dr. Pepper. I too prefer Dr. Pepper. Although I prefer Coke with breakfast (how's that for white trash).

[dono]

No cite, no stats, but I'd bet my bottom dollar that Pepsi outsells Coke in the little town I live in.

The two "major industries" here are a Pepsi bottling plant, and the plant that supplies the cans for Pepsi.

[ralph124c]

I f you visit "CocaCola World" in Atlanta (which is a ripoff as you must pay to basically get inundated by Coke advertising), at the end of the tour there is a hospitality room-where you can sample all of the weird permutations of soft drinks sold around the world. In SE asia (I think), Coke sells some shit that is flavored with citrus and ginger-damn, that crap tastes AWFUL! And I recall, in some African countries, coke markets some equally strange concoctions as well. However, here in New England, some people still drink a god-awful soft drink called "MOXIE". I understand that MOXIE (up to the 1950s) outsold coke here. I can't imagine why, because the stuff tastes unbelievably FOUL!

[Biggirl]

[Broadway producer]Ya know New Engand, I like ya kid. 'Cuz ya got Moxie![/BP]

[Turpentine]

Oh, come now.

I love Moxie.

Of course it's an acquired taste, and you hicks out there in the midwest just aren't refined enough for it.

Then again, I originally drank Moxie eight years ago because I had a crush on this guy who loved it. he had a pair of lucky socks that he hadn't washed in five years that smelled like ammonia.

This was during the Kurt Cobain years, and people who didn't wash were unbelievably sexy.

It's been years since I've seen him, but I still drink Moxie and think of him.

[Yo La Tengo]

My house, my friends' houses, Cedar Point, and Michigan's Adventure. The first three are strict Pepsi, and the fourth is 7up.

[Kilvert's Pagan]

Much of Eastern Kentucky. (No cite here, just a suspicion.) There is a caffienated semi-flat ginger ale made in Winchester, KY, called ALE8-1 (which is like naming a drink after a dumb vanity license). It is hugely popular in that neck of the woods. You see their machines all over the region - all 8 buttons for their own product.

<gratuitous slap>Of course, most of this same area hasn't gotten around to repealing Prohibition yet, either.</gratuitous slap>

[Kakkerlak]

Around my apartment. My girlfriend's brother works for Dr. Pepper back in Texas and I'm not allowed to buy anything else. That plus she suffers from some mean acid reflux and swears by Diet Dr. Pepper to cure her attacks.

And that's likely to remain the case. I rebelled today and bought a new Vanilla Coke. "Mildly redolent of bile." just isn't a marketing slogan I'd choose.

[Road Rash]

Originally posted by Roachman
Around my apartment. My girlfriend's brother works for Dr. Pepper back in Texas and I'm not allowed to buy anything else. That plus she suffers from some mean acid reflux and swears by Diet Dr. Pepper to cure her attacks.

And that's likely to remain the case. I rebelled today and bought a new Vanilla Coke. "Mildly redolent of bile." just isn't a marketing slogan I'd choose.

Sorry about this but that is just weird. This is like playing six degrees of Dr Pepper. The.....brother of your....girlfriend works for..........Dr. Pepper back in.........Texas. That is too remote to tolerate. I know why you put up with it. Coke or sex. Snuggling with a pretty girl or drinking Coke with the smelly guys. Someday a pretty girl will tempt you more than six degrees from Dr. Pepper and provide an escape .

[Cerowyn]

Originally posted by Turpentine
I love Moxie.

Of course it's an acquired taste, and you hicks out there in the midwest just aren't refined enough for it.

Not that I'm doubting you, of course, but with a user name like Turpentine, I'm not sure I'll take your advice on taste.