# Wow, they brought back Crystal Pepsi **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 22, 2016, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-they-brought-back-crystal-pepsi/763667 "2016-08-22T20:22:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-they-brought-back-crystal-pepsi/763667/1 "2016-08-22T20:22:50Z")
Never expected that. No link, I just happened across it at Krogers a few days ago. Bought a bottle but haven’t opened it yet, so can’t say if it’s exactly the same as the original, which I liked. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-they-brought-back-crystal-pepsi/763667/2 "2016-08-22T22:42:55Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Never expected that. No link, I just happened across it at Krogers a few days ago. Bought a bottle but haven’t opened it yet, so can’t say if it’s exactly the same as the original, which I liked. They say it tastes the same. But they went and put caffeine in it, making it completely useless to me. I mean, if I wanted one with caffeine, I would have just ordered some Not-See Kola. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2016, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-they-brought-back-crystal-pepsi/763667/3 "2016-08-23T12:56:30Z")
I did think that the flavor was slightly better than opaque Pepsi (though I never did a blind test), but at least half the reason I liked it was that it brought caffeine-free cola into the mainstream. If you have one choice, it’s regular caffeinated. If you have two, it’s regular and diet, both caffeinated. If you have three, it’s regular, diet, and diet decaf. You would almost never see cola with sugar but without caffeine. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2016, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-they-brought-back-crystal-pepsi/763667/4 "2016-08-23T12:57:54Z")
How do you know it hasn’t just been sitting there for 23 years? ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2016, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-they-brought-back-crystal-pepsi/763667/5 "2016-08-23T13:39:40Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > How do you know it hasn’t just been sitting there for 23 years? If it had been sitting for 23 years, it would have lost all its color by now. …oh wait… ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-they-brought-back-crystal-pepsi/763667/6 "2016-08-23T14:35:59Z")
I preferred Crystal Gravy: [http://www.hulu.com/watch/291086](http://www.hulu.com/watch/291086) ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-they-brought-back-crystal-pepsi/763667/7 "2016-08-24T23:44:14Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > They say it tastes the same. But they went and put caffeine in it, making it completely useless to me. I mean, if I wanted one with caffeine, I would have just ordered some Not-See Kola. > [@Chronos](#): > > I did think that the flavor was slightly better than opaque Pepsi (though I never did a blind test), but at least half the reason I liked it was that it brought caffeine-free cola into the mainstream. If you have one choice, it’s regular caffeinated. If you have two, it’s regular and diet, both caffeinated. If you have three, it’s regular, diet, and diet decaf. You would almost never see cola with sugar but without caffeine. Pretty sure it always had caffeine, just no color. Pepsi Free brought caffeine free cola into the mainstream, even if Marty McFly mistook it for sugar free (there was a diet version as well, but regular Pepsi Free had sugar) > [@DCnDC](#): > > How do you know it hasn’t just been sitting there for 23 years? The various nutrition labels are of the modern type. > [@Folly](#): > > If it had been sitting for 23 years, it would have lost all its color by now. …oh wait… I’ve actually seen youtubes of people drinking bottles that had been saved since the original release. They’ve turned a brownish yellowish color. > [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > I preferred Crystal Gravy: > > [http://www.hulu.com/watch/291086](http://www.hulu.com/watch/291086) Didn’t we all? Didn’t we all…