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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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 [b]I had a black acquaintance say that Pepsi was more popular among African Americans than Coke.[/b] Who knows if this is true. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

Sorry, autocorrect didn’t like “desegregated”. [/quote]

Really interesting bit of history, thanks. [/quote]

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