# Pepsi One **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 2, 2001, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-one/70992 "2001-07-02T18:01:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Father\_Pacelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Father\_Pacelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Father_Pacelli)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-one/70992/1 "2001-07-02T18:01:41Z")
I drank a Pepsi One for the first time with my dinner today. It was actually pretty good. The can design kinda stinks, though. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-one/70992/2 "2001-07-04T06:17:58Z")
What’s wrong with the can design? I love Pepsi One, both for its unique taste and for the fact that Mr. Rilch doesn’t like it. It has put an end to the necessity of marking the Diet Pepsis. ---
**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-one/70992/3 "2001-07-04T06:26:52Z")
YUCK! Thats even worse then Diet Pepsi. And regular Pepsi isn’t much better. ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-one/70992/4 "2001-07-04T09:30:49Z")
Why have a drink that has ONE calorie? Is there a use? Please tell me. Maybe if it had ten calories it would be different. Just for your info, I drink Coke. None of that diet stuff for me. Blech! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-one/70992/5 "2001-07-04T21:47:44Z")
“Pepsi One”? Isn’t that the plane that the president of Pepsi uses? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-one/70992/6 "2001-07-04T21:57:25Z")
Pepsi One…who cares? I wanna try Pepsi Twist! ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-one/70992/7 "2001-07-04T22:05:24Z")
Pepsi One is the most horrible, vile, disgusting, evil beverage to ever be created. It should be drug out to the street and shot. It should be felched with a ten foot straw. It should be munged a hundred times by a hundred men. It should be smashed and stomped and battered and beaten and destroyed, and the remains should be buried a thousand miles underground. Why is it so bad? Because they cancelled **Josta** so that they can make it. _ **DOWN WITH PEPSI ONE!!!** _ ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-one/70992/8 "2001-07-04T22:10:57Z")
I switched to diet pop recently, in the interest of saving my teeth. Pepsi One is my favorite. It tastes far less “diety” than even Diet Coke, I think. I like it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-one/70992/9 "2001-07-04T22:21:00Z")
It’s a lie, right? It doesn’t have any calories. Check the can info. I haven’t but I know that it won’t have any calories listed. Question is, why don’t they call it Pepsi Zero? ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-one/70992/10 "2001-07-04T22:25:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by handy \* > \*\* > It’s a lie, right? > > It doesn’t have any calories. > > Check the can info. I haven’t but I know that it won’t have any calories listed. > > Question is, why don’t they call it Pepsi Zero? \*\* They don’t call it Pepsi Zero because the name “Pepsi One” sounds more marketable. Pepsi Zero might be more truthful, but who wants to think they’re a zero for drinking a product? Pepsi One has this air of victory and excellence, a “We’re Number 1!” kind of feeling. It implies that the other sodas, which are NOT Number 1, must be somehow inferior. What, you thought marketing and product naming was based on fact? 😃 ---
**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:** [July 4, 2001, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-one/70992/11 "2001-07-04T22:26:33Z")
I like Pepsi One. Not as much as Diet Sprite or Dieta Sunkist Orange or even Diet DP, but it’s in my top five. Okay, is it just me, or has **handy** seriously slowed down his posting lately? Is this an attempt to foil all the bettors in the When Will handy Hit 10,000? thread? Inquiring minds want to know! ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-one/70992/12 "2001-07-04T22:29:30Z")
I am so with **dlgirl**. For the life of me I can’t figure the logic of this market segmentation. You got your calorie watchers (where they sell Diet Pepsi), and your non-watchers where they sell the leaded stuff. What is the appeal of something that’s not really in the middle, but barely off of one extreme? And they’re not even trying to claim it’s a different flavor, like root beer or something. I just don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-one/70992/13 "2001-07-04T22:33:46Z")
**Persephone** wrote > [@](#): > > I switched to diet pop recently, in the interest of saving my teeth. My teeth are a mess, cavity-wise. I drink about a six-pack a day of diet pepsi, and my dentist claims that’s the problem. She says the sugar isn’t the thing, it’s the acid, and that diet is as bad as regular. I don’t know if she’s right, but as a dentist I figure that gives her an advantage on me at least. ---
**Author:** ![Flymaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-one/70992/14 "2001-07-04T22:36:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by handy \* > \*\* > It’s a lie, right? > > It doesn’t have any calories. > > Check the can info. I haven’t but I know that it won’t have any calories listed. > > Question is, why don’t they call it Pepsi Zero? \*\* I haven’t checked the can, but the syrup boxes used in restaurants for fountains list it as 1 calorie per serving. Perhaps the cans are different, though. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-one/70992/15 "2001-07-04T22:42:43Z")
**Bill H.:** I’ve never heard anything about acid. I’ve had three different dentists tell me that it was the sugar. All of them have encouraged me to quit drinking pop entirely, but they’ve also said that if I’ve just _gotta_ have it, make it diet. Kinda like the Trident “4 out of 5 dentists” thing. Four of them say if you’ve gotta chew gum, make it sugarless, and the fifth says no gum at all. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-one/70992/16 "2001-07-04T23:33:33Z")
I was a Coke guy until faced with the necessity of cutting back on food intake or buying a new set of cloths. After trying a whole bunch of insipid, weak sister diet pops I settled on Pepsi One as a reasonable compromise between taste and calories. It isn’t good but its OK. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-one/70992/17 "2001-07-04T23:34:25Z")
Yes…Pepsi Twist is good. It was good when they originally marketed it in the 80s as Pepsi Light, too. Old faces with new masks… jayjay ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-one/70992/18 "2001-07-05T02:25:40Z")
I remember Pepsi Free, was the caffeine, sugar free stuff, right? Pepsi TWIST is the Pepsi with a touch of lemon! ---
**Author:** ![seriousart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@seriousart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seriousart)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-one/70992/19 "2001-07-05T06:16:44Z")
Sweet Fancy Moses. You like that crap?! I am a man who has drank countless bottles of soda over the years. To the point where I now just buy what’s on sale. Diet Coke/ Pepsi? I don’t care. Back in college, I was even less picky. I’d buy the cheapest, generic soda I could, just to save money. Never found anything I really didn’t like. About a year ago I tried a Pepsi One and couldn’t even finish it, it was so bad. Perhaps the worst thing I’ve had since ::shudder:: **Crystal Pepsi!** :eek:😕 ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-one/70992/20 "2001-07-05T07:19:29Z")
_What?!?_ I _loved_ Crystal Pepsi, I was so upset when the discontinued it. It was good, really sweet as far as sodas go. [sarcasm]Plus it was different, I mean, who ever heard of a soda that wasn’t Sprite that you could _see through_?? I mean, how revolutionary![/sarcasm] If I’m not mistaken, aren’t all sodas just clear anyway, don’t they add coloring to it? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-one/70992.md?page=2)