New Pepsi Logo

[IASTATE07]

Not if you get it out of a McDonald's fountain. Way better than cans or bottles.

McDonald's is about the only place I get it. For whatever reason they don't have Coke Zero.

 

[MeanDean]

I'm glad you straightened out the logos during the 50's. When I saw the OP, something did seem off but I couldn't put my finger on it. What I could remember was that Pepsi came in a larger bottle than Coke (12 or 10 oz? vs 6 1/2 oz) which made-up for the extra two cents cost (seven cents vs five cents). The bottle deposit of two cents was the same for all soda bottles.

Old man story:

We lived basically between Iowa City and Davenport growing up. Pepsi in Davenport came in 12 oz bottles and the bottle deposit was 2¢. Pepsi from Iowa City came in 10 oz bottles and the deposit was 3¢. My father worked in Quad Cities so liked to buy Pepsi there to get the larger bottles (prices were the same or even less).
His parents lived in IC so he liked to sneak the bottles into the stores there for deposit refund to gain 24¢ on the deal. He usually got away with it, but when called on it, he played stupid.

 

[cyclones500]

Old man story:

We lived basically between Iowa City and Davenport growing up. Pepsi in Davenport came in 12 oz bottles and the bottle deposit was 2¢. Pepsi from Iowa City came in 10 oz bottles and the deposit was 3¢. My father worked in Quad Cities so like to buy Pepsi there to get the larger bottles (prices were the same or even less).
His parents lived in IC so he liked to sneak the bottles into the stores there for deposit refund to gain 24¢ on the deal. He usually got away with it, but when called on it, he played stupid.

Of course this comes to mind ...

 

[drmwevr08]

It's not just that. Some doctors say that diet soda is just a bad for you as the regular stuff, especially if you drink a lot of it. Something about your body's reaction when you eat or drink something sweet. Your body immediately prepares to process it properly. When you drink a diet soda that tastes sweet but isn't your body gears up and then is let down by the lack of sweetness. The good news is your body adapts and learns to not gear up when you drink your diet pop (fool me once...). The bad news is it now doesn't gear up when you eat or drink something that is actually sweet either so your body does a crap job of processing sweets so it can result in actually gaining more weight and all sorts of associated food processing complications like diabetes.

Diet is worse all ways other than calories. Really, though, pop is just terrible and one of the first, best (and surprisingly easiest) things anyone trying to improve health should give up if they consume it regularly.

 

[Gonzo]

Diet is worse all ways other than calories. Really, though, pop is just terrible and one of the first, best (and surprisingly easiest) things anyone trying to improve health should give up if they consume it regularly.

Once worked with a guy who regularly had a literal mountain of empty Diet Coke cans stacked against the wall behind the chair to his desk. He was not a picture of good health.

 

[drmwevr08]

Once worked with a guy who regularly had a literal mountain of empty Diet Coke cans stacked against the wall behind the chair to his desk. He was not a picture of good health.

I did as well, and he otherwise looked well, fit even. Before I left though some stuff started cropping up and the first thing his doc flagged was all the diet coke. Like 12 a day.

 

[Gonzo]

I did as well, and he otherwise looked well, fit even. Before I left though some stuff started cropping up and the first thing his doc flagged was all the diet coke. Like 12 a day.

Yeah that wasn't the case with my guy. He was pretty massively overweight.