Coke Zero vs Pepsi Max, meh, don’t care. Both taste like Cola. No preference either way.
I accidentally bought some generic sugar free Cola not long back, cans looked like Coke, drank half of them before I realised it was generic brand.
"Sorry we don't have Coke is Pepsi fine?" "Actually no it's not..." Do you refuse other brand colas?
I’m not overly brand picky, but my default is Coke. Pepsi or Dr. Pepper will do fine, as long as they’re very cold.
I can tell only a slight difference between Coke and Pepsi, but don’t prefer one over the other. I only drink the diet versions of both.
I prefer the taste of saccharine over other artificial sweeteners and even real sugar, because I got used to its flavor over the decades (beginning with Tab—saccharin and cyclamate, mmm mmm good!). I was not happy when soft drinks dropped saccharine from their ingredient lineups. And, I get depressed when coffee shops and eateries don’t have my little pink saccharine packets for coffee. 
What I hate is when you ask for root beer and get dr pepper by morons who claim they thought Dr pepper WAS root beer … (for drinking I like DAD’s or barqs)
RE 7UP/sprite
A few years ago 7IP went all-natural and it totally changed the flavor … instead of getting a less sweet sprite like you used to ironically for cherry 7UP they just added more cherry to make up for it
A lot of the mom-and-pop burger places here have RC fountains …
Wow I just bought a box of starlight coke to try … not only are the quantity in the box different so is the can size
Right, there is little difference. Especially out of a soda machine where the syrup mix is not always standard, and there is usually ice.
The Coke drinkers (and it is nearly always Coke) who adamantly refuse a Pepsi and will pick water or something annoy me. Most can’t tell the difference, and of those who can, most would prefer Pepsi in a Blind test. Even those few who can tell the difference and do prefer Coke can’t possible honestly say the difference is big enough to make a little scene.
I feel the same way about vodka snobs who claim they can tell a big difference between brands of vodka. Vodka is a neutral spirit with no distinctive color, aroma or taste. The best vodka tastes like nothing. It’s a good mixer.
Prove your vodka taste difference ability in a double blind test before I believe you. In the meantime, I’ll buy the cheapest bottom shelf vodka and save money for a nicely aged rum.
And in fact, in blind test, Grey Goose does not score well- but they have a cool bottle and great advertising campaign.
But experts say - don’t take the bottom. Choose a moderately low priced vodka, like Smirnoff.
Yeah, an aged rum is like a aged single malt scotch, it is for sipping.
its the harshness the better-made ones are smoother and dont burn in the mouth or on the way down
What do you consider a “scene”? Asking for another drink because your preferred one isn’t available? What kind of “scenes” have you seen? At at rate, I’ve never seen anyone cause a “scene” when their preferred cola, beer, wine, whiskey, or whatnot was not available. They just ordered a different one.
I’m a Coke drinker, and quite partial to it when it comes to colas, but I’ll drink any cola available. That said, the difference is there. It’s baffling to me that people could say they taste identical. Try them side-by-side one day. I don’t care about the difference – I just want my caffeinated beverage, Coke if available – but if somebody else does, that’s cool. When I smoked, I wouldn’t buy Marlboro Lights if they were out of Camel Lights. I’d go to the next gas station. So I get the preference and sticking with it.
I drink Diet Coke like it’s gonna disappear any day now. It’s the only soda I drink, other than an occasional Diet Sprite. As far as sit-down restaurants go, if all they have are Pepsi products I’ll order an unsweetened iced tea. Diet Pepsi is just vile and anyone who says I can’t tell the difference is whack. It would be like me telling a coffee connoisseur that he couldn’t tell the difference between a brewed cup of coffee and instant Sanka.
Fast food restaurants? I don’t go to fast food places that only have Pepsi products. So that means no Sbarros, no KFC, no Taco Bell, etc. It’s that important to me.
I always remember an episode of All in the Family where Gloria is exasperated with Meathead’s insistence on her buying only RC Cola when shopping. They do a blind taste test to prove he can’t tell the difference and he instantly nails all three correctly. That must have come from one of the writer’s personal experience, because it is exactly the same argument I’ve seen repeated so many times. I can’t conceive of how some people taste all colas as being the same, but apparently some do. Must have something to do with individual variation in taste receptors - you’ve got your supertasters, your cola differentiators and your they-all-taste-the-samers.