the pepsi test
I have actually wanted to do this for a while, but my housemates and I are often very thirsty. In total I have bought and re-bought all these different cans 4 times now.
Here we go.
Pepsi X - Energy Cola. It is actually sort of dark reddish colour and it tasted like something I have never tasted before. And sometimes that is not a good thing. Cool design, though sort of misleading you into thinking that hey! this might actually taste good. And where does the energy come from? Oh, the immediate effort to rush to the nearest garbage bin.
Pepsi Fire - Cola on Fire. I do not understand the relevance between a raspberry/uglyberry flavoured cola and a Mother Nature’s element, but if it is meant to provide a burning sensation when you have drunk the cola, it failed miserably. Also overwhelmingly sweet; the colouring doesn’t really help.
I have seen the Pepsi ad for Pepsi Fire and Pepsi Ice, where a boy and a girl saves an assembly from being burned to oblivion by a misguided effort of two kids. If it is Yin and Yang they wish to portray, bravo. Now let’s get back to the ad where Beyonce is drinking Pepsi in a half-naked state.
Pepsi Ice - Ice Mint Cola. The first thing you notice is the colour of the drink. Sure, every cola contains ‘permitted colouring and flavouring’ but may I gently remind Pepsi’s marketing department that consumers do not really like to think about all that artificial stuff unless it is staring at them in the face. Such is the case of one woeful Pepsi Ice, used to be called Pepsi Blue (for very obvious reasons). Nevertheless if they are looking for word association, may I suggest Pepsi Sky? Pepsi Ocean? Pepsi River? Pepsi Longkang?
Pepsi Twist - This is not really new though the headlines are. It screams at you, double the lemon taste! and somewhere on the can it says, double shot. A double lemon taste it is, for like everything else it is all flavouring. For 135.5mg calories, 33.44mg carbohydrate, 33.44mg total sugars and 36.48 caffeine, you get a salty cola. Not bad for RM1.05.
Pepsi Twist Light, only 36.48mg caffeine. It sucks.
Pepsi Light - 32.5mg caffeine and a shit loads of aspartame. It still sucks.
Pepsi - The original, the mother of ‘em all. It doesn’t taste half bad especially when there is no choice.
But…
Give me a Coke anytime.
Which one do you hate/love the most?