Is Pepsi a sign of low socioeconomic status?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I truly don’t understand why people care if they eat or drink or do “low class” things. I grew up working class. People will always be able to tell my origins because it’s kind of apparent in so many ways. If someone is going to judge me for going about my life as I try to be a good person, that’s on them.

That said, we only got pop for special occasions and I miss when it tasted strong. Even cane sugar pop just tastes sweet and I can’t seem to get a strong enough cola flavor. I wish coke would make a pop with a third less sugar but more flavor (bergamot, orange... whatever makes it taste of cola). In the meantime I will treat myself to the odd Spring Grove Rhuberry which is tart enough to curl your hair.

Where can I get this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it is.

Official Soda Class/Prestige Rankings (excluding artisinal small batch sodas and club sodas/seltzers; low class begins at 5):

1. Schweppes Ginger Ale
2. Diet Coke
3. Coke
4. Diet Dr. Pepper
5. Sprite
6. Root Beer (any)
7. Diet Pepsi
8. 7-Up
9. Pepsi

....

435. Using ranch dressing
436. Mountain Dew

Wait--root beer????

Does longevity or quality count? As in MUG root beer--sugarly yuck, A&W -- more depth, less sickeningly sweet, Hires--have not seen in years.
Seven-Up predates Sprite by decades.
Diet sodas--why????? (my SIL and BIL stock them, I just don't often drink sodas, I'll occasionally buy ginger ale for at home, but sometimes when shopping I crave a cold root beer which is almost impossible to find in the coolers at, say, Wal-Mart, which is the kind of place where suddenly I REALLY need one.
I remember my grandmas making some kind of white dressing for leaf lettuce (back when iceberg was what we kids thought was normal, along with French dressing), don't know if it was buttermilk based, if it had mayo, it was not seasoned much that I can remember; the lettuce came from their gardens. This was long before I ever saw a bottle of Hidden Valley.

Pepsi flavor makes me think of institutional bathroom cleaner smells.

[Anonymous]

Does no one remember the Pepsi Challenge? Pepsi always wins taste tests - it's slightly sweeter and less harsh.

I grew up in a pepsi household. I switched to Coke in college because it seemed "edgier." (eyeroll)

Soda is soda. My parents still drink pepsi (and they are lower income, but have plenty of class). I hardly ever drink soda, but my husband does - he prefers Pepsi made with natural sugar, which is definitely better.

[Anonymous]

According to this page: http://civicscience-design.s3.amazonaws.com/Design/blog/coke-vs-pepsi.pdf

Coke drinkers are, on average, more educated and higher income. (Linked from https://civicscience.com/pepsi-drinkers-vs-coke-drinkers/ . The organization says, "We are a high-energy group of talented, experienced people dedicated to delivering amazing market intelligence solutions")

They do explain their analysis or cite a source.

[Anonymous]

I think so. Restaurants that serve Pepsi instead of Coke are typically more likely to be down market. It’s the same places that have Hunts ketchup instead of Heinz.

When you order diet cola at a restaurant, wait staff often say “we have Pepsi, is that ok?” And no one ever asks or apologizes about coke.

I live in an upper middle class bubble and I never see anyone drinking Pepsi. I do see people drinking Pepsi when I visit family in Ohio and the people I see drinking it are what some would call “white trash”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does no one remember the Pepsi Challenge? Pepsi always wins taste tests - it's slightly sweeter and less harsh.

I grew up in a pepsi household. I switched to Coke in college because it seemed "edgier." (eyeroll)

Soda is soda. My parents still drink pepsi (and they are lower income, but have plenty of class). I hardly ever drink soda, but my husband does - he prefers Pepsi made with natural sugar, which is definitely better.

My university was a coke campus--meaning the dining halls, vending machines, etc. were all coke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think so. Restaurants that serve Pepsi instead of Coke are typically more likely to be down market. It’s the same places that have Hunts ketchup instead of Heinz.

When you order diet cola at a restaurant, wait staff often say “we have Pepsi, is that ok?” And no one ever asks or apologizes about coke.

I live in an upper middle class bubble and I never see anyone drinking Pepsi. I do see people drinking Pepsi when I visit family in Ohio and the people I see drinking it are what some would call “white trash”.

Don't most of the major fast food chains only have Coke fountains?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The company I work for holds training classes all over the US. When we're in the South for a class, Coke is mostly Coca Cola and the word 'Coke' is used in place of 'Soda'. However, Pepsi is a Pepsi and god help us all if you run a class down south and do not provide Pepsi and Mt. Dew. They also drink coffee like it's water but hardly ever take any of the bottled water provided.

For Northern areas, Diet Coke is what is restocked the most during the classes along with water and Keurig coffee.

Very few people actually drink plain Coke at any of our training classes.

I don't consider Pepsi a 'low class' drink but more a Southern drink like sweet tea.

I'm not sure what you consider "the South," but when I lived in Atlanta back in the 1980's you would be hard pressed to find a Pepsi served or in a vending machine anywhere in the city. Maybe it's changed now.

Of course, coke headquarters are in Atlanta. It's a coke town.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know. I live in Montreal where Pepsi is a lot more popular than Coke.

Yeah, I see a lot of Pepsi in Canada. And I see a lot of Pepsi in Dubai.

Pepsi is very popular in Quebec, more so than in the rest of Canada. According to this article, the reason is Pepsi’s advertising strategy:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/how-pepsi-won-quebec/article1059953/

But this article is more entertaining. It explains why anglos in Montreal called Francophones “pepsis”:
https://maisonneuve.org/post/2010/02/4/how/

[Anonymous]

Man, we are some kind of low-class trash in my house. We only drink Pepsi!

[Anonymous]

It’s pop! Mt Dew is the gold standard for trashy low and class in my area.

[Anonymous]

Not if you drink it ironically.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think so. Restaurants that serve Pepsi instead of Coke are typically more likely to be down market. It’s the same places that have Hunts ketchup instead of Heinz.

When you order diet cola at a restaurant, wait staff often say “we have Pepsi, is that ok?” And no one ever asks or apologizes about coke.

I live in an upper middle class bubble and I never see anyone drinking Pepsi. I do see people drinking Pepsi when I visit family in Ohio and the people I see drinking it are what some would call “white trash”.

So true! Whenever they apologize for having Pepsi, I say please tell your manager that coke is better

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think so. Restaurants that serve Pepsi instead of Coke are typically more likely to be down market. It’s the same places that have Hunts ketchup instead of Heinz.

When you order diet cola at a restaurant, wait staff often say “we have Pepsi, is that ok?” And no one ever asks or apologizes about coke.

I live in an upper middle class bubble and I never see anyone drinking Pepsi. I do see people drinking Pepsi when I visit family in Ohio and the people I see drinking it are what some would call “white trash”.

Don't most of the major fast food chains only have Coke fountains?

Pretty sure Taco Bell has Pepsi. I know we never get drinks if we have to go there.

[Anonymous]

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