Submitted by ethereal3xp t3_11qwpru in todayilearned
Yeah, it was definitely a thing when my grandfather was growing up. He always laughed at the "pepsi generation" ads because he considered himself to be the pepsi generation because a bottle of pepsi was almost twice the size of a bottle of coke when he was growing up, so that was all he drank. Growing up with a single father in rural eastern kentucky in the 1930s, he took what he could get.
Pepsi was considered the "poor folks" Coca-Cola.
That's what I was thinking
Wondering what the 1965 date in the post is referring to now?
1965 was when Pepsi-Cola Company merged with Frito Lay and formed PepsiCo Inc. Pepsi-Cola was first formulated in 1898 by Caleb Bradham.
OP gonna make another TIL that Pepsi is just as old as Coca-cola with all these comments
If Pepsi came into the market in 1965, then how did the employee know what a Pepsi was when Marty McFly's tried to order a Pepsi Free in a small Hill Valley diner in 1955? Checkmate.
Or how was Joan Crawford already the widow of Pepsi CEO Alfred Steele in 1959 (who had been CEO of Pepsi since 1949)
Pepsi cola company predates PepsiCo which is when they merged with Frito Lay in 1965
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I thought we had enough science to figure this stuff out in a lab or something
Some people stole the recipe for coca cola and tried to sell it to Pepsi. Pepsi turned them in.
My first reaction: oh, that was nice of them. But I bet the real reason is that they didnât want Coke thinking they were behind the theft.
The brand is worth way more than the formula anyways. When people are buying Pepsi they are expecting something that tastes like Pepsi. So tbh there really isnât a ton of value for Pepsi to know how to make coke. Their bread is buttered by selling Pepsi.
and if you patent it you must describe every ingredients, something they dont want to do, companies such as KFC keep their secrets very tight.
KFC's secret recipe was released year's ago by one of the family members involved in the business.
Maybe it's the older recipe/method to frying
I was a big fan of the old KFC chicken recipe and soggy fries/mixed vegetable slaw
These days the chicken taste like it's overfried. Can't hardly taste the pepper and other spices. Fries is hard as chopsticks. Just overall it has gone downhill
When we were growing up, the Colonel used to say it had â11 herbs and spices,â that made it finger lickinâ goodâŚ
It's not the same formula as the original
What are you talking about? Pepsi is as old Coke.
Bring back the cocaine or I'm not interested.
Pepsi started selling a similar product in 1893. Their drink long pre-dates 1965.
Pepsi and Coca cola donât even taste the same.
Isn't a patent 17 years, or is that just for drugs?
The recipe is not that secret is it, take a drink, put something as addictive as possible in it,
You can't patent a recipe, babes. Besides, the original Coca-Cola was made with coca leaves (think "cocaine"). I understand they still use those for flavoring after removing the active ingredient, which really takes all the fun out of it.
Recipes can be patented, in the US at least.
WolfPaw_90 t1_jc656uq wrote
Pepsi dates back to 1893 (as Brad's Drink, and in 1898 it became Pesi-Cola).