05-12-2006, 11:55 AM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by troutman
You could do the same thing with beer, wine etc. People really over-estimate how sensitive their pallets are.
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Yup! Read the book Blink, it's got all kinds of cool info like that.
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05-12-2006, 11:56 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: London, Ontario
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On a related packaging/marketing note, we redesigned a failing brand ("50") a few years ago and after the re-launch, sales increased and held at something ridiculous like a 22% increase all because of the redesign. Because of recycling issues with "painted" bottles, we had to go back to the old design after a couple of years. Now it looks like the brand will be discountinued all together. Damn recycling.
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05-12-2006, 12:06 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Originally Posted by Frank the Tank
On a related packaging/marketing note, we redesigned a failing brand ("50") a few years ago and after the re-launch, sales increased and held at something ridiculous like a 22% increase all because of the redesign. Because of recycling issues with "painted" bottles, we had to go back to the old design after a couple of years. Now it looks like the brand will be discountinued all together. Damn recycling.
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I've always wondered how Sleeman can get away with their unique bottles. Perhaps they bury the extra cost in the 'premium' price?
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05-12-2006, 12:15 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: London, Ontario
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
I've always wondered how Sleeman can get away with their unique bottles. Perhaps they bury the extra cost in the 'premium' price?
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They pay extra to have their bottles sorted seperately and sent to their own cleaning facility. I'm sure its a good chunk of the "premium" cost. But damn they make a good brew.
They also counter that extra cost by not getting into the "promo" game and naming arenas and football feilds and such.
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05-12-2006, 12:16 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: 110
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Originally Posted by mykalberta
Diet Pepsi for me, I drink that shat like water.
Diet Coke tastes like a$$ and regular Coke is too sweet.
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Interesting thing I learned, regular diet coke is based on the failed new coke formula. That's likely why it tastes like junk. I'd agree diet pepsi is better, much less aspartame taste.
Now, have you tried a coke zero yet? It is the best. Reason why? It's based on the coke classic formula.
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05-12-2006, 12:21 PM
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Ben
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: God's Country (aka Cape Breton Island)
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05-12-2006, 12:24 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: not lurking
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Definitely Coke. I find Pepsi just a tad too cloying. I've done taste tests, and I can definitely distinguish between them. I'm really more of a root beer guy, though.
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05-12-2006, 12:26 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
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Either one works really well with Crown Royal.
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05-12-2006, 12:28 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Back in Calgary, again. finally?
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Coke.
Vanilla coke especially, but they seemed to have topped making it... 
The new black cherry vanilla coke almost makes up for it though 
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05-12-2006, 12:31 PM
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I believe in the Pony Power
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Originally Posted by flamingchina
Coke.
Vanilla coke especially, but they seemed to have topped making it...
The new black cherry vanilla coke almost makes up for it though |
I found the Vanilla Coke and the new black cherry vanilla to be too sweet. Jones Vanilla Cola however is the good stuff.
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05-12-2006, 12:35 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by @theCBE
Coke, its not even close.
But diet pepsi is way better than diet coke.
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Agree completely. I can't stand Pepsi and I can tell the difference between the two in a heartbeat during any taste test.
As for diet anything...ugghhh. Diet anything tastes like crap to me. I don't know how people drink diet Coke or diet Pepsi.
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05-12-2006, 12:45 PM
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Referee
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Over the hill
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Originally Posted by troutman
Could you tell the difference between Molson Canadian and Labatt's Blue?
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No, but I can tell the difference between either of those and beer.... 
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05-12-2006, 12:47 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: insider trading in WTC 7
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whichever one's free.
when i mix whiskeys i use the cheap store brand crap.
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05-12-2006, 12:53 PM
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Seems like I am the only one who really sits on the fence here, I really don't care at all
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05-12-2006, 01:00 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Behind Nikkor Glass
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Diet Pepsi for me.
Non diet is just too sweet.
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05-12-2006, 01:05 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: NYYC
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Remember Pepsi Clear? Maybe it's cause I was a kid, but damn, that stuff was good!
Put me down as a member of the Diet-hating bandwagon. With food I tend to follow a basic rule: Go all the way, or don't do it at all. Personally, I think anything diet tastes like ass, so I don't even bother trying to salvage it. Both Diet and Regular are bad for you in the end, so I either drink the regular stuff, or just stay away from it all together.
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05-12-2006, 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Sharpen 'Em
Either one works really well with Crown Royal.
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!!!!!
What a waste of good RYE! Ginger Ale man!
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05-12-2006, 01:13 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Originally Posted by White Doors
What a waste of good RYE! Ginger Ale man!
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Speaking of which, Cott seems to have the best ginger ale.
And is there anywhere in town you can buy Fanta Orange? My wife loved it in Mexico, but I can't recall the last time I saw Fanta in Canada.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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05-12-2006, 01:18 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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Coke Zero is pretty good. Much better than diet coke.
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