New Coke taste test, decades after it was discontinued!
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- This is a quick little video where I taste test New Coke - something I never would have thought I could say in the year 2019. New Coke was Coca Cola's answer to the Pepsi Challenge in 1985, only instead of just introducing a new flavor, they completely replaced their iconic soft drink with this new formula. The backlash was swift and severe and Coke's original formula was brought back less than a year later as Coca Cola Classic, which is still on the market as just Coca Cola.
Now in a tie-in with nostalgia factory Stranger Things, Coke has brought back New Coke for a limited time and by mail-order only. I thought that was weird/interesting/funny, so I bought a box of it. Watch me taste test it here!
I thought he would taste test an original 34 year old can of it
Me too. I wonder if the content of a 34 year old can is still drinkable. In another channel somebody tastes field rations from all wars the US was involved down to WW II. Amazingly it tasted good he said. Coffee made from the powder had a nice taste you don't get today anymore.
Eighties Seeker well no duh. WW2 rations were meant to be able to stay edible for long periods of time. Lmao 😂 wtf u mean we don’t get that anymore. I’m sure we could make it if we wanted to but there’s no point. And I’m sure the Coke would be fine. It would just be very flat
Watch the video of the guy who drinks an original Pepsi crystal
@@TheAnkMan I dont think so tbh, i saw other videos of people with softdrinks from 30 years ago, and the just vomited
@@truckpalumbo4430 This? ua-cam.com/video/CGwibPdEOVk/v-deo.html Vomitting alert!
immediately reminded me of the Futurama Slurm episode.
"when everybody hates it, we'll bring back Slurm Classic and make billions!"
That's what made me think of New Coke again lol
I'm a big fan of the Mexican Coke -- real sugar & comes in the contour bottle.
When american products nowadays are better made in Mexico.
What a twisted world, that's literally "murica as whole"!
Or as we call it in Europe: Coke.
Only alternatives are Zero, Light and Life (Uses Stevia as sugar replacement getting rarer).
You're telling me coke doesn't even come in a coke bottle in the US? As someone from Europe that kind of blows my mind.
@@nygren83 He probably refers to aluminum cans, if i want Cola in regular glass bottles, i can get them, but they cost a bit more. They are a bit of a novelty item, but they are available in normal shops too.
My father liked drinking a coke once a year in a glass bottle, i guess it's a bit a thing with people who grew up in the 50s/60s.
@@Ichinin In Germany we moved from glass to plastic in the first half of the 90s. Same here, if you want a 0.2l, 0.33l or 0.5l glass bottle it'll cost a little bit more.
But totally worth it.
Correction: New Coke was introduced on April 23, 1985. The announcement of Coca-Cola Classic's return came on either July 10 or July 11, 1985. New Coke would be renamed to Coke II in 1992, and it would continue to be sold in select areas until it finally left the shelves forever in 2002.
Coke II also became Diet Coke.
Actually, Diet Coke predates New Coke by 3 years. Diet Coke debuted in 1982, and New Coke debuted in 1985. In fact, the New Coke formula was apparently created by modifying the Diet Coke formula.
Eddie Miller You are correct. Apparently they are both based on Tab.
TaB is Coke's original diet drink from 1963. Here's how things went down.
1963 ~ TaB is created
1982 ~ Diet Coke replaces TaB as Coke's #1 diet soda*.
1985 ~ New Coke debuts, it's formula being based on the 1982 Diet Coke formula.
* On a side note, TaB is still available in some parts of the country, but only in 12 packs of cans. One of my local supermarkets has it in stock, and I love it.
Eddie Miller From Wikipedia:
“Diet Coke does not use a modified form of the Coca-Cola recipe, but instead an entirely different formula based on the Tab formula. The controversial New Coke, introduced in 1985, used a version of the Diet Coke recipe that contained high fructose corn syrup and had a slightly different balance of ingredients.”
Pepsi in a mini can, New Coke in a regular can, and Coke in a tall-boy; Trying to tell us something? 😜
Worst-Better-Best 😀
Stranger things brought the coke
I'm sorry, but if you give me two solo cups with soda in them, one with coke one with pepsi... i'd be able to tell the two. How can you NOT tell the difference?
True. Coke is more syrupy whilst Pepsi is more bitter
Everyone does not have the same developed sense of taste. Some people truly think that a thing may "tastes like chicken", while probably you and i can tell the difference.
Yeah anyone who says they’re the same probably just doesn’t drink much cola bc they are 2 completely different sodas. Pepsi almost takes like a diet or a flat coke.
8:02 Whoa whoa whoa... I like RC. I think it was that when you went to an Italian pizza restaurant in Chicago, RC was the drink they served. So I associate it with great thin crust pizza.
RC is cheap shit cola lol
I haven't seen RC cola in many years.
@@TPIR_Fan_1972 It's still around.
@@TomZ23 must be a regional thing? I'm in Utah and don't recall having seen it since maybe the '90s?
@@TPIR_Fan_1972 I live in South Carolina and RC is a staple of my childhood. My Pop would always give me the rest of his when he was done with it or pick me one up from the store. I’ve always considered RC on the same level as Pepsi and Coke. Now seeing these comments, I realize it’s nowhere near the same level but it still holds a special place in my heart 😂 I think it’s a damn fine cola
You know why New Coke was sweeter? To hide more caffeine and more salt than in regular Coke. Caffeine makes you lose water faster and more salt in a body makes you more thirsty
I remember seeing a study that people chose Pepsi at first but found that on a regular basis they preferred Coke Classic because the sweetness was toned down.
The reality is, New Coke tasted better than regular coke to most people in a blind taste test. The problem was that the non-blind taste test people who drank coke wanted regular coke not new coke. People who drank pepsi would probably still drink Pepsi. So it would only alienate your dedicated fanbase. We do know that while "new coke" was a failure of a product when the original coke came back the attention they drew from their alleged fiasco had the exact opposite effect making it a massive success for coca-cola. People even think they sabotaged their product for the media attention on purpose but that was almost certainly not the case....
Objection, you didn't rinse before switching!
Nit picking aside, this actually intrigues me now. I was way too young in 1985 (plus I wasn't in the States, and still am not), but the sheer notoriety of New Coke has always made me wonder what it actually was (is?) like, and now that it's out again I'm gonna try and see if I can import a can or two
Now THIS is the quality content I'm subscribed for!
"I love Coke.." - Modern Classic 2019. 😉🥤
I college when New Coke came out. One of my roommates was a big Coke fan, always had it on hand. He laid in a big stockpile of real Coke before the switch, smart move. We tried New Coke and it was universally a big disappointment around the house. My recollection was that it was a lot more "chemical" tasting than real Coke, things that could not have come from Nature, if you will. I ended up buying regular Pepsi instead, and that was fine.
Not that I hated New Coke, but when they supposedly brough back the original Coke recipe, they changed a major ingredient, being the switch from cane sugar to HFCS and even though it still tastes good the fact that most countries have banned HFCS should be very telling especially because they don't have near the problems with obesity the USA has.
Not that my opinion counts,or anything, but many years ago, when I was a kid, there was a blind taste test of all colas; not just for Coke or Pepsi, and you know which one won?, R.C. Cola won by a landslide; I never forgot that; so whenever I want to impress someone (with a nice tasting Cola) who never sees the bottle,or cans, I always choose R.C. Cola from the Royal Crown Co. Without even thinking twice.
Cola is mostly citrus based flavors with pine. Yes really.
My recollections are the same. New coke just had no subtlety to its flavor. It achieved its goal of giving you a shot of sweetness and carbonation . Here in California the mexican grocery stores came to the rescue. They had already been “unofficially” importing mexican coke because their customers preffered it because it still had real sugar. They eventually started sticking english content labels on the bottles to comply with regulations. To this day you can still buy mexican bottled coke in those stores.
My husband and I prefer Mexican Coke. I don’t drink if often because I’m diabetic and have to avoid sugar, but every once in a while I have a few sips because it’s just sooooo good. I’ve always preferred Coke in glass bottles, anyway. I miss when you could get the glass bottles from Coke machines!
@@tarabooartarmy3654 As a frequent traveler to Mexico I would bring 3 liter bottles home for years. For a couple of years, the bottler in the region I visit switched to corn syrup and it was immediately tasted in the product. They have since gone back to sugar but now imported Coke is easily available where I live.
i remember drinking the new coke back in the early 80s and actually liked it better than the original. it was sweeter and had more of a coke syrupy flavor like it came from a soda fountain.
Love the mood of the news reporter/copywriter there, that mood of “this is news apparently”
I remember taking the "Pepsi Challenge", and consistently preferred Coke. Yes, Pepsi is sweeter, but that doesn't make it better. Not a dumb vid, just not what we expect from you, but a worthy topic!
@Grey Lives Matter First world problems...
new coke was only out for 79 days in 1985 before it was discontinued
JDog American Patriot no that’s when they brought real coke back, new coke was still out but was eventually renamed to coke II until they discontinued coke II
Spencer Coonway that’s true i forgot thanks for explaining
Seems to be doing better this time compared to in 1985 though. People made it seem as though it tasted drastically different. It tastes a lot better than people said and we are glad they brought it back. Here is my thought on the 3 (Pepsi, Coke and New Coke)...New Coke tastes basically the same as old Coke/regular Coke, just slightly sweeter but not by much, and it does not have that bitter, chalky aftertaste on your tongue that old Coke has. It has a cleaner finish. As far as Pepsi it is sweeter than all 3. But honestly...if you gave someone New Coke without telling them it was New Coke they would not notice the difference and think they were drinking old Coke instead. Having the word "NEW" on the packaging is really the only thing making us aware there is a difference, and it is a very subtle difference. So it heightens our awareness to it being a different taste before we even drink it. Not sure what the big deal was in 1985, perhaps the backlash was all a marketing scam and planned all along? But it is not that much different and most people would not notice the difference.
I don't think it tastes *anything* like regular Coke. I don't think it tastes like anything at all, really. It's bad.
I heard that New Coke uses high fructose corn syrup similar to Coke, but the rest of the New Coke formula is similar to Diet Coke. So New Coke is Diet Coke with high fructose corn syrup.
New Coke always fascinated me, because it never left the USA. So basically no one in Europe knew it.
Coca-Cola was founded in 1886.
Pepsi-Cola was founded in 1893 as Brad's Drink.
Modern Marvel's has a episode on soda and how it was invented.
5:37 if you can drink that mixed corn syrup thingy, imho the best is from a glass bottle with cane sugar. No corn syrup.
RC is good. Have some in the fridge at this very moment.
I forgot that existed! (Maybe because it's just not widely available where I live, same going for Green Spot)
Cherry RC is good stuff. Sadly, there is only one Grocery store around me that still sells it.
prefer rc more than pepsi and coke too
Yeah! I prefer RC too. I tell myself the cola wars were just to shut RC out. Like Dem. and Rep. do to 3rd parties.
Ill take a rc over a pepsi any day. Rc is pretty good.
New Coke lasted until 2002 in the USA and until 2007 in Micronesia. New Coke lasted 77 days before Coca-Cola classic was sold along side it. So from 1985-2002 both versions were still sold in the USA. It was renamed Coke II in 1992. The only difference was Caffeine Free New Coke was the only variant until 1990 when it was replaced by Caffeine Free Coca-Cola classic. New Coke on the other hand Had 4 logo changes (the one with the "New!" banner, which lasted 6-12 months, the same logo with the removal of the "new" banner in 1986-1988, an italic styled logo with blue replacing the silver in the dynamic ribbon in 1988-1992, and a name change to Coke II in 1992). Once the name change happened it was sold in select cities and was never advertised oddly. As far as taste.... Most people still mix up New Coke and old Coke in blind taste tests though. I have seen nearly every taste test video on here and they usually chose New Coke over old Coke and Pepsi without realizing it, or they think New Coke is old Coke and old Coke is New Coke.
"Coke II" was a *reintroduction* of New Coke in 1990 that was only available in certain cities. It was never available nationally. And I'm sorry, but New Coke tastes absolutely nothing like original Coke. Give me a break.
Knowing American companies they wanted to sell more coke with cheaper ingredients ay the same price.
I'm a Pepsi guy personally. I really like the sweeter taste. Coke has too much of an aftertaste for me. Mexican Coke is better but I still prefer Pepsi.
Thanks for taking one for the team :) Never tried it myself, but I think your reaction and review has satisfied my curiosity. Cheers!
Awesome comparison. I like New Coke too.
Thanks for spending 20 bucks so we didn't have to!
The next burning question is, which one goes best with whiskey?
You might be interested to know that Coke in Australia has always been made with cane sugar and I personally prefer the new "coke no sugar" - imo it has the same coke flavour but doesn't leave you with a coating of sugar in your mouth.
Ps thankfully they never launched "new coke" here.
Same in Sweden :) real sugar
@tone167 I though zero and no sugar was the exact same thing, tastes the same to me
@@bollensrandomgamingclips2172 it's the same way everywhere that's not the US. Everywhere uses real sugar, except for the yanks. They seem to be under the impression that it's only Mexico that uses real sugar, but it's just everywhere outside their own country.
I love this channel. It is like visiting with a good friend.
That was great for a "dumb" video! Really nice and interesting.
Since it's discontinued, I am very curious to try it out and see if the drama around it, is really true as they say..
New Coke/Coke 2 actually lasted in certain markets until 2002. New Coke didn't really taste bad. It was actually pretty good. Coke's mistake was not leaving the original on the market, letting us have the option to buy the one we preferred. Had they done this from the get-go, New Coke/Coke 2 would probably still be around today.
If you've ever read Gump & Company (the sequel to Forrest Gump), Forrest is actually the one who invented New Coke. I seem to recall one of the ingredients he used was Tabasco sauce. 😂🤣
The problem with those taste tests is that the participants only had a sip. Something different happens to your sense of taste if you drink a whole glass of something, compared to just a sip. And that's what the field testing of New Coke missed. If they sold it in those little coffee creamer sized containers, I guess it could have flown.
It was sold into the 90s as Coke II.
I remember both new & classic being in stores at the same time. Do we all remember Crystal Pepsi?!
Wow only two cans of new Coke in that box!? I would have guessed it was at least a 6 pack!
I don't consume any added sugar and never have, but diet coke has always been my favourite sugar free drink, always much preferred it to anything from Pepsi or any other brand. Irn Bru is close second.
물고기 Irn Bru is a drink that is difficult to forget. I only recently found it at a grocery in the States. Needless to say, I bought a few bottles.
If you drink Diet Coke, that is new Coke. Only difference was the sweetener
@@musclesmouse yep, diet coke was never meant to taste like a sugar free version of Coca-Cola (that's what coke zero is, these days, the same coca cola formula but sweetened with sweeteners instead of sugar). Instead, diet coke was meant to taste very different to coca cola so it's not just a diet version of coke but an alternate product that wouldn't necessarily compete with coca cola.
Diet coke proved so popular, that yeah New Coke was essentially just the diet coke formula, but sweetened with sugar instead of sweeteners.
That's why the logo/can design of new coke looks so similar to diet coke logo/can design.
Though if they had changed coca cola gradually to new coke without ever saying anything about it, people would probably never have noticed. Nobody really knows what coke tastes like. It just tastes familiar, tastes like what they remember, and that's all that matters.
I am old enough to remember when Coke did this, and my family was scrambling to get original coke still on the shelves after New Coke came out. New Coke was just absolutely terrible, all of my friends and family hated it. I remember boxes of the stuff stacked in the isles of our grocery stores because no one wanted to buy it.
Shame they didn't do a ring-pull can for this!
Ring pulls were discontinued in 1975 way before New Coke
Correct, pull tabs were long gone by '85, but what they could have done was the old school straight can, rather than the modern can with the contouring at the top.
The Coca Cola company was still selling New Coke until the early 2000 as Coke II, but had it disappeared in most markets long before that.
Unbravewintermute I had Coke II. You had to be in the Midwest to get it.
@@86twin but how did it taste?
Unbravewintermute to my surprise, it tasted the same as it did in the mid 90’s. Sweeter, not as much carbon so it was smoother than the original.
I never had the true original because the New formula came out a year before I was born.
Also, the original patent was running out and using High fructose corn syrup over real sugar was a cost reduction no brainer.
The closest thing to the true original formula barring cocaine is drinking the Mexican version.
@@86twin Yeah, the stuff from Mexico is good.
Weren't we using ring-pull cans in 1985?
I always like soft drinks most from a glass bottle, while I like it least from fountains.
For me, fountain comes first, then can, then glass, then plastic bottle
When they brought back "coke classic" everyone said it didn't taste like the original.
It didn't. They used corn syrup as opposed to cane sugar
You: "It's a new product again." Me: "What...? What...?! WHAT?! Why would anybody DO that?"
Many people have suspected that they took away original coca cola for a brief period purposely, with full intentions from the start to bring it back, just so people would miss it and buy more upon it's return. During the short period that only New Coke was available, enough people would be intrigued and buy it that it would make up for the original being off the market. In other words it was a big marketing ploy where the new product was intended to fail to make people want the original even more.
Pepsi has always tasted like sugar water to me way to sweet and goes flat a lot quicker than coke.
The New Coke formula was based off increased sales of diet soda, so it was Diet Coke made with either sugar or HFCS.
We never got any in my area. I hope they bring it back for a limited time run again in the future.
From now on whenever I take a first sip of something I'm going to look at it in puzzlement and exclaim, "weird!"
Judging by his weight and teeth this guy drinks coke all day every day and twice on a Sunday
Retro Pepsi or Mountain Dew. You should do a sugar vs hfcs test.
FYI, new coke is Diet Coke using hfcs or sugar instead of diet sweetener.
So, this is a New Coke can or an Old New Coke can ???
It's a New, New Coke can.
Fun fact, the "new" formula never went away. Diet Coke never went back to the classic formula. Coke Zero is the diet version of Coke classic. That's the major difference between the two.
Diet Coke is really the only version of any regular Coke or Pepsi product that I can't stand. To me it tastes like it was drained from a solvent sump at a black-budget aerospace research lab.
New Coke was available until the late 90s or so, alongside Classic Coke.
I just cracked open a can of the stuff that I got from my Stranger Things promotion pack, and I thought it wasn't bad. It tastes very close to RC which I like so interesting
Just found out that new coke was literally just the Diet Coke recipe but they replaced aspartame with hfcs
They changed my Coke...Stuck with 'em through three wars and a couple a' dust storms, but this is too much.
All joking aside, I'm rather partial to the Mexican Coca Colas in the tall glass bottles, their Sprites and Fantas are great too. The local Bucheit store tends to stock a big selection of glass bottle sodas, and every so often I take a couple of milk crates over and get a little bit of everything, then keep 'em cold in my 50's fridge.
The 20 dislikes were from the 20 people who actually liked it
unless my memory going bad but i remember there was 2 coke one reg (new) coke than there was (old) coke classic because there a market for both am i wrong or am i getting really old
Pepsi was originally called Brad's drink after Brad the founder in 1893, My parents always drank Pepsi, or RC
Bro was mad high after that
My new coke is on order, thanks for the heads up!
I just ordered one.
One time my uncle was diving and found a closed rc cola can at the bottom of coer d alene lake so that’s why rc colas my favorite
As I recall, here in the DC area, Coke was made with real sugar before New Coke. I don't remember not liking New Coke myself. I was fine with it. I may have to get some to find out for myself. Now you've made me curious.
I was 19 in '85. By then I had my own spending $ earned from working at BK. By then I bought Diet Coke (Whitney Houston ads).
Today Coke has 44 grams of corn syrup-based sugar. Not very healthy. I have seen some cans list 39 grams. But they really need to REDUCE the amt. of sugar they put into it because for me, too much sugar just ruins the taste of it.
I think would Coke should've said after the New Coke outrage was that they made a Pepsi-like tasting so they could prove Classic Coke tasted better. I myself believe all cola is disgusting but if I had to drink one or die I'd probably die lol. Jk Coke because Pepsi has that pepper like after taste. Great video!
Not a year, only 2 and a half months. 74 days to be exact.
In my opinion the bottle tastes better than cans. Glass doesn’t leach out toxic chemicals or a metallic taste like plastic or metal cans do.
PyRoOWL 1995 Mmm BPAs from plastic bottles are so good for you
Being from the UK what did he mean by 'it 's better from the fountain'? And also what is RC?
"Fountain" is what we call sodas that are mixed on-site, e.g. at a restaurant where they buy the syrup, buy the soda water and then mix them when they pour it. Coke almost always tastes better that way. RC is Royal Crown Cola, which at one point was the third ranked cola by sales but I'm not sure it even still exists now.
@@ModernClassic Thanks for the the info. I am wiser on two American colloquialisms 😊. This will come in handy on my first visit this year 😊
Wow Jennings, the shade. You can tell he was annoyed he had to talk about this. Unabomer doing his thing, a earthquake in mexico killing many, but no we got to talk about a stupid soda retrain.
Pepsi has been around since the 1950s?? Actually Pepsi has been around since 1898.
What about a taste test between American Coke and Mexican Coke. I hear they still use sugar.
They changed my Coke...
I like to call this Tryhard Pepsi. It tries hard to be the competition and fails. I prefer coke classic.
0:58 I imagine it's just a limited edition thing to promote the show, and maybe also because they had some leftover cans after using some as props in the show. I thought it was going to be the BTTF 25th anniversary "Pepsi Perfect" where it was the stylised bottle from BTTF Part II, but the actual drink inside was regular Pepsi,
If you were in the Midwest, New Coke was renamed Coke II and remained on store shelves until 2002.
I remember in the 80's there was also transparent coke or pepsi, don't remember which one it was
It was crystal Pepsi basically just clear Pepsi with cane sugar.
my mom doesn't remember so idk if it was memorable or not or maybe she didn't drink much soda, she was 7 when the new coke thing happened so its probably the latter as kids should not be drinking coke less they want health problems when they are older
I liked new Coke.
You should have cleansed your palate with water between sips so one flavor didn’t adulterate the next.
Here in Australia we use cane sugar in our Coca-Cola
I got a pepsi ad.
I always take the bottle over the can. I don't know if it's just me but everything in cans have a metallic taste
Beverage cans are coated in plastic as not to leech any aluminium from the cans themselves.
How can we be sure it's not the NEW New Coke?!
Pepsi = flat Coke. New Coke = flatter Pepsi.
I’ve never understood how people can like Pepsi better than Coke, or how they can’t tell the difference. Pepsi has always tasted like medicine to me. When I go to a restaurant and order a Coke and they ask if Pepsi is okay, I’m like, “If you order a hamburger and I ask you if a wax disc between two sponges is okay, would you be happy?” When I find out a restaurant I like has switched from Coke to Pepsi produccts, I don’t go back. (Unless they have diet Dr. Pepper, which is rare.)
Idk man I think your taste buds are a bit different
Now compared with a real new come from 30 years ago
If I wanted to drink a Coke that tastes like a Pepsi I would just drink Pepsi.
I wish we could get New Coke, or Crystal Pepsi in the UK!
I’ll take coke over Pepsi all day. More flavor. More sweetness. More carbonation. Mouth feels more alive when I sip it
I got my kit and loved new coke.
I always love coke from glass bottles. I also thought I had liked the new Coke when it came out and tried the Stranger Things release of it. It reminded me more of Coke Zero flavor more than Coke. So much fo rthirty something year old memories being accurate
I brought it! It was actually amazing to be fair