Is Pepsi a sign of low socioeconomic status?

[Anonymous]

Michael Jackson burnt his hair and scalp up hawking Pepsi.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think it means much in the US. However, when I have traveled around the world, I notice that the crappier, poorer countries all have prominent signs for Pepai and the wealthier countries have signs for Coke. You actually could tell a country was rising economically when you noticed Coke signs going up. I think it had something to do with production and licensing models.

[Anonymous]

Yes I think of Pepsi as more often being in lower income settings. But this could be because I hate it and am super annoyed anytime a resultant has Pepsi instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All soda is.

Definitely true now.

Pepsi tastes sweeter. I think people divide on that line.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it means much in the US. However, when I have traveled around the world, I notice that the crappier, poorer countries all have prominent signs for Pepai and the wealthier countries have signs for Coke. You actually could tell a country was rising economically when you noticed Coke signs going up. I think it had something to do with production and licensing models.

In travelling through SE Asia we found that diet coke was only ever available in the tourist areas. Go to more local areas it was never to be seen even though regular coke was everywhere. DH used to joke that we'd crossed over the diet coke line

[Anonymous]

It used to be that Pepsi was R and Coke was D, but those lines have blurred.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All soda is.

Yes.

[Anonymous]

Dr. Pepper forever.

[Anonymous]

I used to strongly prefer Coke to Pepsi. But no one I know drinks any soda any more, including me. Everyone drinks sparkling water. Which will probably kill us eventually. I am sure there is some hidden health issue that will come out.

[Anonymous]

Though both were invented in the South, Pepsi is for Yankees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Though both were invented in the South, Pepsi is for Yankees.

I agree. Pepsi and a slice. Yum.

[Anonymous]

Oh my God, this board.

Agreed with the "all soda" poster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure there's regional preferences. In my upper middle class childhood in the mid-Atlantic, I rarely ever saw Pepsi in anyone's houses. It was always coke/diet coke/ginger ale, if they had any soda.

I know I'm going to get a lot of flak for saying this, but I had a black acquaintance say that Pepsi was more popular among African Americans than Coke. Who knows if this is true.

Hmm, I'm black, and I don't know if that's true. Not sure all black people prefer one over the other. My husband likes Coke. I don't like either; not a big soda drinker.

I agree there’s no monolithic Black cola.

However, I wonder if there are ties or aversions to a particular brand due to racism. Growing up, my parents drank Pepsi because in their childhood Coca Cola was still sold as a syrup to take as a stomach tonic. In contrast, Pepsi was mostly sold as a beverage at segregated soda fountain counters in their community. They met in the Civil Rights Movement. Perhaps Pepsi tasted sweeter to them as it represented each small victory as they desecrated the drugstore lunch counters? My college only had coke products and I participated in the anti apartheid boycott of Coca-Cola. Pepsi actually pulled out of SA first if I recall and Coke never fully pulled out. I remember buying Coke products in the 90s after Mandela’s release. I still prefer it to Pepsi. DH doesn’t drink soda, but his mother has drunk an ice cold Diet Pepsi on her walk home from church every week since it was first sold in her rural LA town. Do not ever mistakenly buy her a Coke. Like my parents, she says Coke is medicinal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure there's regional preferences. In my upper middle class childhood in the mid-Atlantic, I rarely ever saw Pepsi in anyone's houses. It was always coke/diet coke/ginger ale, if they had any soda.

I know I'm going to get a lot of flak for saying this, but I had a black acquaintance say that Pepsi was more popular among African Americans than Coke. Who knows if this is true.

Hmm, I'm black, and I don't know if that's true. Not sure all black people prefer one over the other. My husband likes Coke. I don't like either; not a big soda drinker.

I agree there’s no monolithic Black cola.

However, I wonder if there are ties or aversions to a particular brand due to racism. Growing up, my parents drank Pepsi because in their childhood Coca Cola was still sold as a syrup to take as a stomach tonic. In contrast, Pepsi was mostly sold as a beverage at segregated soda fountain counters in their community. They met in the Civil Rights Movement. Perhaps Pepsi tasted sweeter to them as it represented each small victory as they desecrated the drugstore lunch counters? My college only had coke products and I participated in the anti apartheid boycott of Coca-Cola. Pepsi actually pulled out of SA first if I recall and Coke never fully pulled out. I remember buying Coke products in the 90s after Mandela’s release. I still prefer it to Pepsi. DH doesn’t drink soda, but his mother has drunk an ice cold Diet Pepsi on her walk home from church every week since it was first sold in her rural LA town. Do not ever mistakenly buy her a Coke. Like my parents, she says Coke is medicinal.

Sorry, autocorrect didn’t like “desegregated”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it means much in the US. However, when I have traveled around the world, I notice that the crappier, poorer countries all have prominent signs for Pepai and the wealthier countries have signs for Coke. You actually could tell a country was rising economically when you noticed Coke signs going up. I think it had something to do with production and licensing models.

Really? That’s the best word you could think of?