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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 9475629" data-attributes="member: 85555">This might be a regional thing. I get the impression coke has more cultural power in some places than others. Where I grew up in Boston I remember lots of people drinking coke, I think it was more popular than Pepsi. Growing up drinking both coke and fanta were very common in my household. But coke was largely just about the taste and the comfort of what you grew up drinking. Coke just had a flavor that worked. When I moved out west for a bit, Pepsi seemed a bit more popular (at least where I was). I do think identity can be a part of it. Fanta on the other hand, for example, was more about identity for me because my mom's family drank it because it was one vowel off from her family's last name. Somehow we took pride in that lol. We liked Fanta but I am guessing any brand of orange soda would have been agreeable had it not been for the coincidence of the name.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 9475629, member: 85555"] This might be a regional thing. I get the impression coke has more cultural power in some places than others. Where I grew up in Boston I remember lots of people drinking coke, I think it was more popular than Pepsi. Growing up drinking both coke and fanta were very common in my household. But coke was largely just about the taste and the comfort of what you grew up drinking. Coke just had a flavor that worked. When I moved out west for a bit, Pepsi seemed a bit more popular (at least where I was). I do think identity can be a part of it. Fanta on the other hand, for example, was more about identity for me because my mom's family drank it because it was one vowel off from her family's last name. Somehow we took pride in that lol. We liked Fanta but I am guessing any brand of orange soda would have been agreeable had it not been for the coincidence of the name. [/QUOTE]

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