# Pepsi Is Unpatriotic! Drink Coke! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 29, 2003, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-is-unpatriotic-drink-coke/164956 "2003-03-29T02:16:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sqube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Sqube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sqube)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-is-unpatriotic-drink-coke/164956/21 "2003-03-29T09:24:33Z")
I wouldn’t really call it an overruling. I guess, arguably, you could say that it belonged in IMHO. However, once people started going off the deep end with your commie pinko red cans and your backward conservative states and what have you, it pretty much delegated itself to MPSIMS. I liken drinking Coke to a 40 in a paper bag. You just need what you need, really fast. Pepsi is like a fine liquer. It’s got a flavor that’s beyond raw caffeine. What’s the word I’m looking for…? Oh yeah. **Sugar.** ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-is-unpatriotic-drink-coke/164956/22 "2003-03-29T10:33:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tuckerfan \* > \*\*I’ll stick to Dr. Pepper, thank you very much. \*\* I knew I liked you. ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-is-unpatriotic-drink-coke/164956/23 "2003-03-29T10:55:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lobsang \* > \*\*Oh. It’s been in three forums. Is that a record? One mod overruling another one? \*\* Let’s get this sonnuvabitch moved to the Pit! To hell with Pepsi and its commie, Nazi, Saddam-kissing policies!! ---
**Author:** ![severin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@severin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/severin)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-is-unpatriotic-drink-coke/164956/24 "2003-03-29T11:29:18Z")
drink mekka cola! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-is-unpatriotic-drink-coke/164956/25 "2003-03-29T11:44:38Z")
Oh my, I needed the laugh this thread has given me. I would be a Dr Pepper drinker if they were easy to find in diet form (in the UK). But I drink both Coke and Pepsi, whichever has a special offer on at the time. Does that make me a coke whore? ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-is-unpatriotic-drink-coke/164956/26 "2003-03-29T11:48:04Z")
Dr Pepper? Clearly this thread concerns the Staff Report [Does the soft drink Dr Pepper contain prunes](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mdrpepper.html)? I think it needs to be moved to Comments on Staff Reports. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-is-unpatriotic-drink-coke/164956/27 "2003-03-29T13:28:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arden Ranger \* > \*\*I knew I liked you. \*\* So, how YOU doin’? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-is-unpatriotic-drink-coke/164956/28 "2003-03-29T15:01:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duckster \* > \*\* > Pepsi attracts consumers with America’s slut puppy, Brittany Spears. > 😃 \*\* And with Viagra-bonered war hero and Republican stalwart Bob Dole. OTOH they also lure youth with that Colombian-Arabic blend of bleached slutpuppyness and lozenge-deprived throatiness, Shakira. call it covering all your bases… ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-is-unpatriotic-drink-coke/164956/29 "2003-03-29T15:14:17Z")
I heard from a reliable source that Pepsi’s original name was Pepsovichoff. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-is-unpatriotic-drink-coke/164956/30 "2003-03-29T15:28:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elucidator \* > \*\* > the finest President we have had this century! > \*\* Isn’t that like saying that the Salt Lake Olympics were the best of this century? ---
**Author:** ![Fibonacci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Fibonacci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fibonacci)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-is-unpatriotic-drink-coke/164956/31 "2003-03-29T15:40:15Z")
This is exactly the kind of story the vast right wing conspiracy wants to foist on the public. “You’re either with us or against us.” Need more proof? If you notice, the red Coke can only represents the red states of the country that went for Bush (including the Supreme Court decided Florida, which just happens to be next door neighbor to Coke’s HQ.) The red, white and blue Pepsi includes both the red Bush States and the Blue Gore states. An all inclusive beverage. “Uniter, not a divider.” Ha! Coke is driving a wedge through this great nation of ours. Now let’s take a closer look. What is used in a [Cuba Libre](http://cuban-exile.com/photo/misc/coke-ad1958.jpg)? [http://cuban-exile.com/doc\_226-250/doc0240.htm](http://cuban-exile.com/doc_226-250/doc0240.htm) “…During the Spanish-American War in the late 1800’s American soldiers took Coca-Cola®, a new soft drink, with them in the fight for Cuban independence. At that time a new drink was created- the “Cuba Libre”, the freedom of Cuba drink, which consisted of Coca-Cola®, BACARDI® rum, and a lime wedge.” So, doesn’t “Iraqi Freedom” sound all too familiar? Coincidence??? I think not! ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-is-unpatriotic-drink-coke/164956/32 "2003-03-29T17:56:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by peepthis \* > \*\*Let’s get this sonnuvabitch moved to the Pit! To hell with Pepsi and its commie, Nazi, Saddam-kissing policies!! \*\* Won’t work. We’re not allowed to swear in here which is a moderator decision I respectfully disagree with! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Azael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@Azael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azael)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-is-unpatriotic-drink-coke/164956/33 "2003-03-29T18:49:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Pepsi comes in patriotic red, white and blue cans while Coke comes in commie pinko red cans. \*\* Those are the colors of the FRENCH FLAG! Pepsi is for frog sympathizers! ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-is-unpatriotic-drink-coke/164956/34 "2003-03-29T18:51:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shade \* > \*\*Won’t work. We’re not allowed to swear in here which is a moderator decision I respectfully disagree with! > > 😃 \*\* (that’s what I meant: if everyone starts ranting and swearing up a storm, the Mods will have to move it Pit-wards, earning this thread an award for Most Forums Visited By a Thread at this year’s Cecil Awards!) &#^$\*@ Pepsi, you ^#%ing pile of ^&@&!!! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-is-unpatriotic-drink-coke/164956/35 "2003-03-29T18:51:44Z")
The hell we’re not. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-is-unpatriotic-drink-coke/164956/36 "2003-03-29T20:58:10Z")
Alas, my poor thread! Scorned, abused, orphaned. Cast by heartless moderators from forum to forum, finally to be exiled in the Place of the Mundane and the Pointless, the Leper Colony of the SDMB. So be it. I go now to the river, to perform the Ancient Tasmanian Ritual of Self-Abasement, accompanied by a Chorus of Bitter Virgins, intoning Dirges of Woe and Humiliation. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-is-unpatriotic-drink-coke/164956/37 "2003-03-29T23:44:44Z")
You see, luce, m’man, the problem seems to be staring at us right out in the open. You’re performing **self** -abasements, and the virgins are (a) bitter and (b) virgins. Connect the, um, dots, 'cause it sounds to me y’all could be a mutual answer to your woes… ---
**Author:** ![Littlekitty666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/838e76/32.png) [@Littlekitty666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Littlekitty666)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-is-unpatriotic-drink-coke/164956/38 "2003-03-30T04:28:12Z")
I was a Pepsi Addict for 5 years…and just recently gave it up since last december…Coke is a stale pepsi!!! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-is-unpatriotic-drink-coke/164956/39 "2003-03-30T04:44:11Z")
So, where are you gonna finds virgins in Minnesota? And Diet Coke rules! ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-is-unpatriotic-drink-coke/164956/40 "2003-03-30T18:07:41Z")
Let’s move it to ATMB first and _then_ the pit. So uh, if I wanted to make a practice post concerning Nazi moderators who banned the Hamburgler while drinking RC Cola, would the hamsters be drinking Coke or Pepsi and would Ed Zotti be involved? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-is-unpatriotic-drink-coke/164956.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-is-unpatriotic-drink-coke/164956.md?page=3)