# Vanilla Coke: I love the commercials but it tastes like drek!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 10, 2002, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanilla-coke-i-love-the-commercials-but-it-tastes-like-drek/123224 "2002-08-10T01:51:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanilla-coke-i-love-the-commercials-but-it-tastes-like-drek/123224/21 "2002-08-10T06:30:17Z")
To each their own, I’m glad somebody enjoys that taste. I loathe Pepsi so the thought of Pepsi Blue or any other spinoff product doesn’t sound inviting. Oh wait, this is the Pit. Fuck that Pepsi Blew shit! I’d drink carbonated kerosene first! But if it tastes like Crunch-Berry cereal, it sound tempting but many years too late. My sweet tooth isn’t what it used to be. When I was a kid I wanted them to make some kind of Crunch-Berry candy. Sell just the Crunch-Berries in big pouches like jumbo packs of M&M’s, or formed into little bars or blocks like Kit-Kats. I would have rotted every tooth out of my head eating something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Genseric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Genseric](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genseric)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanilla-coke-i-love-the-commercials-but-it-tastes-like-drek/123224/22 "2002-08-10T06:33:44Z")
Y’know, when I started writing my post above, **widdershins** hadn’t been posted yet, so that was just a weird bit of coincidence, not a direct response. ---
**Author:** ![dawnjoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@dawnjoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dawnjoy)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanilla-coke-i-love-the-commercials-but-it-tastes-like-drek/123224/23 "2002-08-10T06:36:14Z")
I love Vanilla Coke. But I also enjoyed OK Cola and Crystal Pepsi. ---
**Author:** ![Teelo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@Teelo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teelo)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanilla-coke-i-love-the-commercials-but-it-tastes-like-drek/123224/24 "2002-08-10T07:06:17Z")
I LOVES Vanilla Coke. ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanilla-coke-i-love-the-commercials-but-it-tastes-like-drek/123224/25 "2002-08-10T12:57:39Z")
I like Vanilla Coke and Pepsi Blue. Pepsi blue tastes like melted blue raspberry ICEE. I’m the only person at my job that likes it. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanilla-coke-i-love-the-commercials-but-it-tastes-like-drek/123224/26 "2002-08-10T17:52:56Z")
Whatever weird chemical thing they have to do to keep the vanilla taste mixed into the coke makes it taste bitter to me somehow. Of course, I’m spoiled rotten because of the hand-mixed vanilla cokes of this great little pharmacy in Harvard Square that has an actual soda counter. Mmmmmmm…we need an mmmmm smiley. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanilla-coke-i-love-the-commercials-but-it-tastes-like-drek/123224/27 "2002-08-10T18:02:15Z")
Vanilla Coke is okay. Not outstanding, but okay. The kids like it. Pepsi Blue is… retched. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanilla-coke-i-love-the-commercials-but-it-tastes-like-drek/123224/28 "2002-08-10T19:38:33Z")
Pepsi Blue tastes like All Sport. Remember All Sport? Worst. Idea. Ever. Carbonated sport drink? 1. It made you pee a lot. 2. The sugar crash sucked, especially in a game situation. 3. Hi, Opal! Anyway, I bet that the Pepsi-Cola Co. had some leftover All Sport and are trying to market it differently. Then again, I’m not sure if PepsiCo owns All Sport… ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanilla-coke-i-love-the-commercials-but-it-tastes-like-drek/123224/29 "2002-08-10T20:04:15Z")
Vanilla Coke hasn’t hit London yet, but I was in New York a couple of weeks ago and tried it. Yuk. Gave it a second chance to be fair. Yuk again. I just can’t see it succeeding, even with all their marketing muscle. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanilla-coke-i-love-the-commercials-but-it-tastes-like-drek/123224/30 "2002-08-10T21:25:43Z")
**Monster104** - Cheez-whiz Cola **Genseric** - Beef Cola Once I invent Bread Cola, I’m in liquid heaven, baby! ---
**Author:** ![evilhanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba8739/32.png) [@evilhanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilhanz)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanilla-coke-i-love-the-commercials-but-it-tastes-like-drek/123224/31 "2002-08-10T21:27:18Z")
I hated it the first time I tried - no subtlety in its flavor. The second time I tried at a dinner party. It wasn’t nearly as bad, but I’ll never buy the stuff on purpose again unless the only other choice is Moxie. 😃 I’m not a cola snob either. ---
**Author:** ![auliya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/90db22/32.png) [@auliya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auliya)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanilla-coke-i-love-the-commercials-but-it-tastes-like-drek/123224/32 "2002-08-11T11:06:07Z")
Do you have Lemon Coke? It has recently arrived in a fridge near you here in Oz, and its foul. Haven’t seen any Vanilla Coke though. Maybe you guys are acerbic enough and we are sweet enough 😛 ---
**Author:** ![SWABLR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f475e1/32.png) [@SWABLR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SWABLR)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2002, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanilla-coke-i-love-the-commercials-but-it-tastes-like-drek/123224/33 "2002-08-12T02:45:18Z")
The stuff is nasty. But then again so is Moxie, that is 2 cycle oil with some fizz. BLECH!! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2002, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanilla-coke-i-love-the-commercials-but-it-tastes-like-drek/123224/34 "2002-08-12T03:04:23Z")
I went into it with great expectations, but felt disappointed upon realization. It tasted very chemical to me, completely unnatural. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2002, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanilla-coke-i-love-the-commercials-but-it-tastes-like-drek/123224/35 "2002-08-12T14:09:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RexDart \* > \*\*Diet Vanilla Coke is coming in September or October for those of us diet-cola drinkers and the diabetics. So if you enjoy it, look forward to enjoying it at “just one calorie.” \*\* I’m looking forward to Diet Vanilla Coke. I prefer diet sodas and Diet Coke gives me indegestion. BTW: I tried the new Dr Pepper this morning. My reaction: “Eh, at least it’s not as bad as Mountain Dew.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanilla-coke-i-love-the-commercials-but-it-tastes-like-drek/123224.md?page=1)