We’re holding an election at work. The COO wrote a company-wide email asking if we should replace our Pepsi Fountain with a Coke Fountain. The campaigns since have been relentless. I am in charge of the Pepsi campaign and my boss Willard is in charge of the Coke campaign. It’s been rough and, unfortunately, we’re fighting an uphill battle.
The thing is that I don’t like Pepsi very much. I’m not a big Coca-Cola Classic person either, though it’s preferable. The problem is that Coke has no equivalent to Mountain Dew. And in the young nerd world, Mountain Dew isn’t a drink, it’s a lifestyle. Coke has Mello Yello, which isn’t bad, it’s just not the Dew. They used to have Surge, which was somewhat like Mountain Dew except that it was bad (the fact that I did not realize this in my college years is testament to the tastelessness of college students).
Anyhow, I will not let the Dew be undone without a fight, which is why I’ve taken charge of the Pepsi campaign and printed signs: “For the Love of Mountain Dew… VOTE PEPSI!”
But it turns out that the dye may already be cast. Apparently Pepsi just hiked up their rates big time and Coke is now the cheaper option. It’s indicative of the problems we have here that the reason Pepsi hiked their rates was that we got six months behind on payments. But what’s done is done and what Coke doesn’t know about our dealings with Pepsi won’t hurt us.
Shortly before I first got here they held a similar election. Willard, the unofficial head of the Coke team, sent the COO the email with the vote tally: Coke won by a 5% margin or so. However, since Pepsi was cheaper they stuck with Pepsi anyway. That means that Pepsi need not just win the election, but win by a significant margin.
That is, alas, unlikely.
But you know, as I pat my gut I can’t help but think that not having Mountain Dew here might be a good thing.
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Me, too, prefers Coke over Pepsi, but truth be told I don;t really like either one.
I absolutely LVOED the old Coca-Cola! Remember when they made it with real sugar instead of that syrup they use now? And how it burned when it went down your throat!
Now that was a guilty pleasure… (40 pieces of sugar in one liter of coke they said back then).
Comment by The Boss Man — July 19, 2005 @ 2:36 pm
At the factory in Waco, Texas, you can still get a Dr Pepper with sugar. Or so I’m told.
Comment by trumwill — July 20, 2005 @ 11:53 am
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