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Pepsi vs Coca-Cola; which cola do you prefer?

Pepsi or Coca-Cola; which cola giant do you prefer?

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Matt N

Matt N

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Hi guys. After a contentious debate on the matter derailed the 2025 General Discussion thread earlier, I thought it might be fun to make a poll asking people their views on which of the two cola giants, Pepsi and Coca-Cola, people prefer. Are you a Pepsi person or a Coca-Cola person? And on a fun side note; which drink is your preference from your chosen company? Are you a diet/zero person, or does full-fat rule all for you?

I’ll get the ball rolling with my take. For me, personally, Pepsi is the superior cola. I like how it’s a little bit sweeter and more peppery (for lack of a better term) than Coke.

In terms of a preference for diet/zero or full-fat; I’m diet/zero all the way! Perhaps controversially, I don’t particularly like full-fat Pepsi or Coke, and find them to have a weird, overly syrupy taste. My preference in the Pepsi camp, and among the colas overall, is Pepsi Max, and my preference among the Coca-Cola camp would be Diet Coke. I do like Diet Coke, to be fair, and will very happily drink it, but if given the choice, I would always pick Pepsi over Coke. I don’t drink soft drinks in general nearly as much as I used to these days, mainly reserving it for when I go out nowadays, but I used to be a fiend for Pepsi Max at one time!

Whatever the brand, I also bizarrely find cola to be nicest on tap (or is it draught?) rather than out of a plastic bottle or a can; is it weird that I find it to taste slightly different out of different receptacles? I even find different sizes of plastic bottle taste different, with the 2 litre bottles providing a nicer taste than the smaller, meal deal sized ones for some reason.

But I’d be keen to know; do you prefer Pepsi or Coca-Cola, of the two cola giants?
 
For me, it's Coca Cola

It would be the regular one for me

Pepsi is fine if it's regular and Coke Zero is ok although prefer regular Coke.

I hate Pepsi Max with a passion. It tastes awful and causes a lot of wind so am surprised why restaurants and KFC prefer Pepsi Max over Coca Cola (regular or zero) or Regular Pepsi. 🤮🤢

I would do a campaign to ban Pepsi Max but that's my controversial opinion 🪧
 
Beer, water, tea or milk.
Cola comes a poor fifth.
But if I have to...
Full fat Coke.
It is, apparently, the real thing.
You to me are everything.
 
I prefer Pepsi but not fussed with a coke.

Draw the line at that Panda Pop Cola though, makes me teeth feel all funny.
 
As full fat options I'll always go Coca Cola, always enjoy the cherry, vanilla, and Mezzo Mix variants as well.

In reduced/no sugar options I'd always go Pepsi Max. Didn't mind Coke Zero for a period but went off that.
 
I prefer the sweeter taste of Pepsi. My favourite Pepsi is Pepsi Max.
 
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Pepsi Max is the best tasting cola for me, and I've thought so since it's release in the 90's. I also prefer Pepsi to Coke in full sugar variant. Coke Zero isn't a patch on Max, and Coca Cola know it speaking to the numerous reps I've met over the years. It's gone through many revisions.

Coca Cola are a good example to use for the success of nudge taxation. The sugar tax was one of the few good ideas that came from the last government, and it worked a treat. Suddenly when faced with lower sales, it turns out that Sprite, Fanta and Dr Pepper can be made with less sugar after all, and suddenly huge amounts of investment went into a zero variant of their original product. But the government never expanded it and went for that silly HFSS dictatorship law instead.

I do prefer Cherry Coke to Cherry Pepsi however, and Mezo Mix is awesome.

Both Diet variants are awful though. Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi are like drinking foamy soap water. Horrible the pair of them.
 
Pepsi Max is the best cola, but in order.
Pepsi Max
Diet Coke
Pepsi
Coca-Cola
Coke Zero
Diet Pepsi.

Not answering the poll as Max is better than full sugar so won't choose Pepsi when it is Max I want.
Pepsi Max has been the preference since the 90s.

Also UK Sprite is better than the American one was the HFCS in it.
 
Pepsi has also been recently butchered. Used to be close to Coke in quality, now is very much inferior.
 
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