Will Coke be ok?

Donoreo

Costco is switching back to Coke from Pepsi in their food court.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/01/26/costco-pepsi-coca-cola/77958294007/

urbanriot

Donoreo there was a time I would be cheering at this news because Pepsi tasted better than Coke what with the real sugar vs. fake sugar debate but now that they're all using foul-tasting fake sugar, it's all the same to me. Really, you could hand me current day Pepsi and current day Coke in North America and I couldn't tell the difference, they're both foul compared to how they used to be or how they are in a small handful of other countries (as we discussed in a DSLReports thread).

koira

Donoreo I havent had food from costco food counter since before covid hit. When i used the drink dispenser i make a cocktail mix of a few different flavours , its something goofy i learned from my son.

Anyway first post over here on this board, good to see some DSL reports regulars and then you have DKS getting crabby….as if it never missed a beat. LOL

DueSouth

urbanriot Viva coke mexicana!

Thane_Bitter

urbanriot Jarritos, "The little" company still make soda with sugar rather than HFCS. Also is still sold in Glass, the totally inert recyclable material that isn't made with heavy element catalysts used to make plastic bottles, or packed in plastic coated aluminum cans. Coke Pepsi made their disposal issues your problem and still didn't bother to cut their price.

Frankly I avoid that area, it's bad enough trying to get out of that place, the food court is another obstacle of slow and confused people taking up far too much space as they wander around spaced out obvious to the world around them.

urbanriot

DueSouth

Viva coke mexicana!

Yea, they also have 'real sugar' A&W Root Beer at A&W and Walmart, and I believe I also saw Coke and Ginger Ale there last year. Canada Dry with real cane sugar on a hot summer day is one of the most refreshing drinks you can have.

Nash211

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Dks01

Who cares? No Costco here.

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Dks01 Who cares? No Costco here.

Move outta buttfuck Ontario 😃

Avernar

[deleted] Did you mean "the buttfuck part of Ontario"? As there's plenty in south part of Southern Ontario:

Dks01

[deleted] there are advantages to not having a Costco. And who cares what soft drink is served there. The feisty spririt that was DSLR appears to have been lost. Costco? Coke? Give me a break.

taraf

coke tastes better at room temperature... pepsi tastes better chilled. 🙁

but we stopped eating the food at costco anyway lol. my wife pointed out that we call the hot dogs "regret sticks" (have done for years) and asked if it really made sense to actually want to eat something we call that

Donoreo

taraf "regret sticks"

There is a really bad joke there.... 😃

Avernar

taraf coke tastes better at room temperature

🤮

Although after stopping drinking it way back I don't like Coke (or Pepsi) at any temperature.

Donoreo

Thane_Bitter Frankly I avoid that area, it's bad enough trying to get out of that place, the food court is another obstacle of slow and confused people taking up far too much space as they wander around spaced out obvious to the world around them.

You just described anywhere in Toronto 🙂

Avernar

Dks01 The feisty spririt that was DSLR appears to have been lost.

A yes. Replaced by "Who cares?" and "Get off my lawn!" 😝

Dks01

koira Damn right. Get off my lawn. Go shovel snow.

markuswarren

I'm trying to recall if I've tried the zero sugar version of Pepsi, well not here, but I did consume lots of pepsi max in the UK many, many years ago (pretty sure I did not know it was sugar free). I think I might give it a try. I'm a bit of a coke zero fiend, including obtaining the syrup and making it in my sodastream. I have to say I have cut down consumption a lot though (diagnosed T2D this time last year).

I will say one thing I noticed over the holiday period when in Buffalo, which is the cans of coke zero seemed to have no real flavour to them, whereas the ones in Canada did. The bottles seemed ok though.

I suspect people here might not be too miffed about the changeover, but I can see the americans being less than enthused.