Is Pepsi a sign of low socioeconomic status?

[Anonymous]

How is this soft drink perceived in your community?

[Anonymous]

This question is beyibd stupid but since I hail from the state where Pepsi was invented I will respond: it is perceived as soda.

[Anonymous]

As a former cashier in an upper middle class area, I can tell you that the code for Pepsi was 104 back in 1991, and Pepsi was bought more often than Coke (code 101) which MIGHT make you think Pepsi was more popular than Coke, but I concluded that Coke is ACTUALLY more popular than Pepsi because when Coke was on sale, bringing the two sodas to the same price, Coke flew off the shelves and almost nobody bought Pepsi. Thank you. You're welcome.

[Anonymous]

Interesting “inside” observation! I personally don’t know of a class distinction between the two brands. I do know coke taste better. It’s crisper. Pepsi sucks and I always grumble when stores carry Pepsi beverages.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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

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435. Using ranch dressing
436. Mountain Dew

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is this soft drink perceived in your community?

Yes

[Anonymous]

All soda is.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

I don't drink Coca-Cola much but it used to taste much better. It is noticeably worse nowadays. Maybe the recession has something to do with it?

[Anonymous]

When I worked my first job at age 16 at the brand new McDonald's that opened in a very white UMC suburb (I rolled in from the poorer rural area) I always though black people would drink Coke more often than white people, but I was wrong. Black people almost exclusively ordered orange drink or less often Sprite.

[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.

Lies. I'm black and Pepsi tastes like watered down coke.
I love coke no sugar

[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

Root Beer is a classic in New England. And there was craft root beer long before any of the other craft soda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I worked my first job at age 16 at the brand new McDonald's that opened in a very white UMC suburb (I rolled in from the poorer rural area) I always though black people would drink Coke more often than white people, but I was wrong. Black people almost exclusively ordered orange drink or less often Sprite.

Isn’t there some stereotype that Black folks like Grape soda? I think at least Black-ish addresses it?

Since Atlanta is a cultural center for Black Americans and the home of Coke, wouldn’t they likely prefer Coke too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I worked my first job at age 16 at the brand new McDonald's that opened in a very white UMC suburb (I rolled in from the poorer rural area) I always though black people would drink Coke more often than white people, but I was wrong. Black people almost exclusively ordered orange drink or less often Sprite.

Isn’t there some stereotype that Black folks like Grape soda? I think at least Black-ish addresses it?

Since Atlanta is a cultural center for Black Americans and the home of Coke, wouldn’t they likely prefer Coke too?

AA woman who hails from the state where Pepsi was invented and I don't like soda generally but if forced to drink one I prefer Pepsi to Coke and I prefer Cheerwine to any other soda.