Nothing fills our hearts with joy and appreciation like a couple Tumblr users swapping knowledge about the history of soda and carrier pigeons in a totally random Tumblr thread. But hey, that's what Tumblr is all about. Can't say that we knew that drinking Pepsi cold and Coke warm would result in them tasting the same. Is that real life?
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Via Rare Earth
Astronaut Chris Hadfield shows us what happens when you shake up a soda can beyond belief, and then open it. Basically a whole bunch of nothing. Also, Chris Hadfield has lived in space, on earth, and underwater. The dude is clearly too dangerous for this planet.
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The lesson here seems to be clear. If you live with someone who likes to drink your leftover soda, don't hide you aquarium testing chemicals in a leftover soda. Thankfully this person is fine, but wow, what a way to accidentally harm yourself. For another mistaken person who messed up, here's a dude who thought a date was a job interview.
This is one of those fails that might just manage to make people feel a bit better about their most mindless, embarrassing moments. Sometimes we fall below a conscious state, and kind of just go autopilot, and dumb stuff happens. It's okay, whatever. Sounds like in this situation, the dude forgot that Mentos and Diet Coke are a cocktail for foaming at the mouth.
This employee was gifted a very old can of Coke that definitely sounds like it was a sugary toxic waste dump. And like any rational human being, they decided to drink it. The good news here is that they somehow didn't get sick from the 35-year-old can of Coke. Definitely didn't see things going that way.
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Via wmn life
Pepsi is vastly inferior to Coke and everyone knows it. The over-sweetened bullshit that Marty McFly uses as an anchor to whatever year he's in has been the scourge of Taco Bell patrons for decades. Sure, it means we can get Baja Blast for fourth meal, but at what cost.
Even more shocking that in the Pepsi challenge, people prefer the taste of Pepsi to the actual nectar of the gods, Coca Cola, beverage king. How could that be when Pepsi sucks in comparison to Coke.
Well, Malcolm Gladwell has the answer, according to Wales Online:
“Pepsi is sweeter than Coke, so right away it had a big advantage in a sip test. Pepsi is also characterized by a citrusy flavor burst, unlike the more raisiny-vanilla taste of Coke. But that burst tends to dissipate over the course of an entire can. Pepsi, in short, is a drink built to shine in a sip test.”
So while Pepsi might be initially more inviting, it's actually shittier upon further inspection. Figures. Enjoy your fleeting moment of joy, Pepsi drinkers, because your moment in the sun is fleeting.
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They grow 'em big out in Missoula, Montana--literally. The smalltime organic local grocer, Orange Street Food Farm is displaying a bewitching, window-length installation of Toadstool, Luigi, and Mario that consists of 12-pack soda bottles.
The store's weekend manager disclosed to the press that the whole operation's the ingenious brainchild of a Coca Cola Sales rep (a raise probably fast approaches on the horizon). Here's a closer look at the 12-foot high display:
