Diet Dr. Pepper was actually my gateway when I switched from regular to diet drinks. I’m not sure there’s any other soda whose diet counterpart tastes so close to the regular version. Although Diet Crush is a very, very close second.
Diet Pepsi, on the other hand, tastes like dishwater soap. And I was a loyal Pepsi drinker when I was still a “regular.”
I didn’t vote because you can’t vote for both. I buy 2 liter bottles of Coke, or Pepsi, depending on which one is on sale.
No diet Coke. No diet Pepsi. Yuck.
Had some experience drinking that, have you? :dubious:
I’ve always been a reliable Coke snob, even to the point of being able to distinguish Coke bottled in different cities. However, in the last decade I’ve begun adding lemon juice or citric acid to my soft drinks, as I now find them all too sweet. Curiously, that’s caused my preference to flip: Pepsi with lemon is actually preferable to me.
I like [Diet] Coke and [Diet] Pepsi equally.
But not as much as Diet Rite. That is my go-to-cola.
Amazing as back in the 70’s Diet Rite was the worst tripe one could buy. Bye-bye saccharine, hello Splenda!
Depends who’s sponsoring me more at any given time.
Got this strange something for Joan Crawford in “Johnny Guitar”, and she married the Pepsi CEO, so that might give it the edge - that incredulous, wide-eyed look of caged sensuality of hers. Beating out Coke.
No need to ask an Eastern European-accented Dan Aykroyd, oh, back in the late 70’s.
It depends. For some reason, Pepsi tastes better when it is ice cold, but Coke tastes better at any other temperature.
For diet, I go with Diet Pepsi over any of the Coke choices (and Pepsi Max) - especially the wild cherry variety. Again, however, it needs to be cold.
Original Tab. Yum.
I prefer Coke, though I will freely admit that Pepsi has nearly always had better ads.
I hate both diet versions, though Bob Dole’s ad for diet Pepsi was the best ad ever.
Coke.
Because rum and Pepsi is nasty.
I like Coke better than Pepsi but I like Mountain Dew better than Sprite, and Dr. Pepper better than Mr. Pibb. I know Dr. Pepper isn’t officially part of Pepsi, they are just usually distributed along with Pepsi products.
In matters of taste, it’s all unprovable and subjective, but I prefer Pepsi and find adding a twist of lemon to Coke greatly improves its flavor (and yes, it slightly resembles Pepsi at that point). So the theories about the differences in citrus essence ingredient between the two seems credible.
(my bolding) See post #39.
But I only like the regular Dr Pepper, not the Diet. And to be nit-picky, for the proper spelling of the soda’s name, the word “Dr” has no period after it.
Coke. If a restaurant serves Pepsi I’ll drink water instead. In 2nd place is RC Cola, and in 3rd place is Shasta Cola.
Definitely Coke. A decade or two ago I joined in a blind taste-test that some of my co-workers put together after arguments about what to put in our soda machine. I did the test at least a half-dozen times and the one I preferred was always Coke.
That being said, I’m not much of a soda drinker, so the 24 pack we bought for our Fourth of July barbecue still has 19 cans left(beer and wine proved much more popular with that crowd).
Mind you, Qadgop never actually said that either tastes bad. To someone who regularly eats neutronium, decade-old cheese, and (shudder) Vegemite, who knows?
Sweet Tea.
No Lemon.
I have no trouble finding caffeine-free Diet Dr. Pepper, but only in two-liter bottles. I can’t find it anywhere in cans or smaller bottles, though.
Back to the main question. Coke over Pepsi, but I don’t think either Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi taste like their sugary older brothers.
Originally, there was a period. It was later removed for stylistic reasons. I’m old school. 