Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Dannyalcatraz]

Pure marketing to cultural conditioning.

There are actual differences in the formulas (and flavors) for Coke Zero and Diet Coke, though, so it’s not purely a marketing thing.

 

[Mannahnin]

My own leanings are toward Dr Pepper, though either Pepsi or Coke will do in a pinch.

Dr. Pepper Zero is the only canned soda I keep on hand routinely. And 2L bottles of Coke Zero. But 90% of the time I'm having lemon seltzer, so I go through diet soda quite slowly.

 

[Mannahnin]

There are actual differences in the formulas (and flavors) for Coke Zero and Diet Coke, though, so it’s not purely a marketing thing.

That was my whole point. Diet Coke is more bitter, so the flavor profiles would imply the opposite demographic split. But the actual split and marketing is based on the naming and branding, not the flavors.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

That was my whole point. Diet Coke is more bitter, so the flavor profiles would imply the opposite demographic split. But the actual split and marketing is based on the naming and branding, not the flavors.

TBH, I haven’t looked at the demographics- ‘cause it’s not important to me- so I don’t know who is drinking what. Got a source?

 

[Scribe]

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"Why are you online, its a holiday."

 

[Mannahnin]

They only made Coke Zero because Diet Coke had been marketed so hard towards women that men refused to drink it. Not a problem until men started to be health conscious and Coca-Cola couldn't sell them their existing sugar free drink, so they made a new one and made it "manly".

This was definitely true at the onset of diet sodas. Very much a for women product. Which is why it was so funny when my buddy and I asked why there wasn’t a diet beer?

Though there has been a softening of this idea that beverages are famine or masculine. Seltzers for example caught on with men quickly and few have any issue of drinking a diet soda. Much to chagrin of the makers of Zima.

TBH, I haven’t looked at the demographics- ‘cause it’s not important to me- so I don’t know who is drinking what. Got a source?

 

[The Soloist]

I'm also thinking about @Scribe are you? Or you being selfish and only thinking of yourself?

If by that you mean the millions of people who created art using a computer in the last 40 years, to entertained you, then yes I'm selfish.