# Places where Coke is not the best selling soft drink **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 12, 2002, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-where-coke-is-not-the-best-selling-soft-drink/108579 "2002-05-12T02:56:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-where-coke-is-not-the-best-selling-soft-drink/108579/21 "2002-05-13T15:33:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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! ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-where-coke-is-not-the-best-selling-soft-drink/108579/22 "2002-05-15T08:16:55Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-where-coke-is-not-the-best-selling-soft-drink/108579/23 "2002-05-15T16:42:23Z")
As far as I know, Pepsi outsells Coke in the Province of Quebec. I believe it always has, too. - s.e. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-where-coke-is-not-the-best-selling-soft-drink/108579/24 "2002-05-15T17:07:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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.” > > [sub]The first person who says “Coca-Cola is Art!” I swear I’ll bite em[/sub] \*\* Coca Cola **is** [art](http://free.prohosting.com/~canpics/europe/germany/de_popart1.html). ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-where-coke-is-not-the-best-selling-soft-drink/108579/25 "2002-05-15T21:14:42Z")
“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!” ---
**Author:** ![Kyomara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@Kyomara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyomara)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-where-coke-is-not-the-best-selling-soft-drink/108579/26 "2002-05-16T01:35:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JuanitaTech \* > \*\* > Coca Cola **is** [art](http://free.prohosting.com/~canpics/europe/germany/de_popart1.html). \*\* No! **I’m** Art! _ **I’m Art!!** _ –Art ---
**Author:** ![Road\_Rash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Road\_Rash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Road_Rash)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-where-coke-is-not-the-best-selling-soft-drink/108579/27 "2002-05-18T03:02:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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). ---
**Author:** ![dono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@dono](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dono)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-where-coke-is-not-the-best-selling-soft-drink/108579/28 "2002-05-18T13:36:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-where-coke-is-not-the-best-selling-soft-drink/108579/29 "2002-05-18T17:26:14Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-where-coke-is-not-the-best-selling-soft-drink/108579/30 "2002-05-18T18:15:13Z")
[Broadway producer]Ya know New Engand, I like ya kid. 'Cuz ya got Moxie![/BP] ---
**Author:** ![Turpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Turpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turpentine)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-where-coke-is-not-the-best-selling-soft-drink/108579/31 "2002-05-19T00:36:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Yo\_La\_Tengo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/41988e/32.png) [@Yo\_La\_Tengo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yo_La_Tengo)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-where-coke-is-not-the-best-selling-soft-drink/108579/32 "2002-05-19T01:58:10Z")
My house, my friends’ houses, [Cedar Point](http://www.cedarpoint.com), and [Michigan’s Adventure](http://www.miadventure.com). The first three are strict Pepsi, and the fourth is 7up. ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-where-coke-is-not-the-best-selling-soft-drink/108579/33 "2002-05-19T01:58:27Z")
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. \Of course, most of this same area hasn’t gotten around to repealing Prohibition yet, either.\ ---
**Author:** ![Kakkerlak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bb73d2/32.png) [@Kakkerlak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kakkerlak)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-where-coke-is-not-the-best-selling-soft-drink/108579/34 "2002-05-19T04:10:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Road\_Rash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Road\_Rash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Road_Rash)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-where-coke-is-not-the-best-selling-soft-drink/108579/35 "2002-05-19T13:28:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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 .😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-where-coke-is-not-the-best-selling-soft-drink/108579/36 "2002-05-19T15:33:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-where-coke-is-not-the-best-selling-soft-drink/108579.md?page=1)