BYU made big news with the re-introduction of Coke on Campus. Utah State fans had fun trolling the Cougars as they beat them handily last week.
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Favorite Cola? (Weekend Poll)
Wheat & Tares 
Do not drink any carbonated drink……..
I actually like Double Cola the best, but, is very hard to find. Coke is the next up for me.
Of the drinks listed, I only like Dr Pepper, but of course Dr Pepper, Mtn Dew, and Mr Pibb are not colas, since they do not contain the flavoring of the kola nut.
Of the actual colas on the list, I can’t tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi. They both taste bad to me.
I don’t drink sodas. The HFCS and other stuff in them is is clearly against the WofW.
Coffee and tea are sooooo much healthier for you.
No diet options? Shame! I only drink diet coke (and water, natch).
None of the above – the whole list is awful. 😛
Royal Crown Cola and Moonpies. Best snack ever.
Rumor has it the Pres McKay preferred Pepsi to Coke. I think diet Coke is Coke. We can’t list all the varieties or the list would be too long.
You forgot one option: All of the above
None of the above, I drink water. Occadionally (Once a Year?) I’ll get a soda for the caffeine to keep me awake while driving.
None of the above, I drink water. Occadionally (Once a Year?) I’ll get a soda for the caffeine to keep me awake while driving.
For those of you getting soda to stay awake while driving, try the “Crystal Lite” energy drink powder. Give you 80 mg of caffeine, and you just pore it in your 12 oz water bottle. I use it before I workout (run, swim or surf). And Target has generic brand for less ($1.79 for 10).
I stopped drinking caffienated soda many years ago–(before it became a widely accepted interpretation of the WoW)–simply because I didn’t like how it made me feel-jittery etc.
But I must confess I drink one diet Slice/day at home and water when we eat out.
Nope, I’m sorry but those Crystal Light energy drinks taste awful.
Big K
My faith in humanity has been improved seeing that Dr. Pepper was the most preferred.
Voted for Coke, but I only drink diet.
Some co-workers thing that aspartame is worse than the caffeine or corn syrup… They give me a hard time while they eat their donuts.
Not sure who MH is above (I often go by my initials) but for the record, I like both Cherry Coke and Dr pepper but I hardly drink it any more because I’m trying to limit sugary drinks
This is not as trivial as you think. When my daughter was looking at colleges, one of the most important features to be considered was which soft drink was preferred by the student body. She is zealous fan of Coca-Cola and would never consider going to a Pepsi campus. (She is a little hypocrite, she doesn’t actually drink any soft drinks more than maybe once a month, but it is so much fun to be a fan of Coke). She thought it reflected something fundamental. She determined Stanford was a Pepsi campus and did not go there, mostly for that reason. Dr Pepper? That has got to be about as unacceptable as eating silage at the Utah State cafeteria.
When the full-tuition scholarship from Emory University, the college that Coke built, materialized she had found her place. Don’t tell the police but Emory served free wine and cheese to underage students as part of certain high-brow discussion events. But you will not find ANY Pepsi or any other carbonated evil like unto it on campus. You have to keep those priorities straight. As a prank some ingenious Ga Tech students built (you really can’t find one around here to steal ) and smuggled a Pepsi machine onto Emory’s campus right into the student center. It was removed and shredded into little pieces within 30 minutes and the beverage was treated as a hazardous waste and a reward for the arrest of the wicked culprits was offered.
I used to say, drink Coca-Cola and support the education of my daughter.
I’m not into soda. Mocha Frappuccino, on the other hand….
I don’t enjoy fizz, so it’s mostly water or elderflower cordial (non-alcoholic), and sometimes Camomile tea. But I will drink the occasional sparkling Elderflower (non- alcoholic) at celebrations.
Diet Coke with lime. Or flavored sparkling water when I don’t want to be up all night.
The campus soda franchise is a high-value contract. It has nothing to do with what students prefer and everything to do with the benefit to the university administration and $$$. Even if a fast food franchise usually serves Coke, they have to serve Pepsi at the campus outlets, if that is the current contract.
Emory is probably safe due to proximity to CC corporate HQ, but at most universities the soda flips back and forth every 5 years or so depending on the contract term and which soda peddler offers the better deal.
I’m from the South, so, Coke. But only because RC is not an option.
I had a personal trainer who looked at me like I admitted to eating live infants when I said I drank Diet Coke. The anti-aspartame / anti-carbonation fringe is out of control in this country. He tried very hard to persuade me to switch to coffee which he considered much healthier. Given the caffeine content, I don’t see how 4-6x the caffeine, particularly in a desert state where it will result in dehydration, is healthy.
There is nothing like Coke. Nothing. I have been addicted for years and have finally just given into the bliss.
Coke is my preference, but I’ve learned to tolerate Pepsi. Diet anything just tastes awful to me.
For all of you Coke fans, have you tried the new sugar-free Coke? Oh my, it is delicious!
“Emory is probably safe” is an understatement.
Many of the buildings, departments, schools etc. on Emory are named after the coke barons, like Candler and Woodruff and Goizuta, who were presidents of the Coca-Cola company and donated enormous amounts of money to the school. (The million dollar letter from Candler which provided seed money for the expansion of Emory around 1915 for starters). And continue to do so. Candler also donated the land for the Atlanta campus when they expanded from the Oxford campus from his estate. Some of their family mansions happened to be in the same neighborhood and are associated with the campus, Callenwolde for example. During orientation, all Emory freshman are given a bottle of coke and do the coke toast. At the graduation ceremony, the ritual is repeated.
There is a folk legend, I can’t verify or refute it. The University was named after a Methodist bishop named John Emory back in 1836, decades before the formulation of Coca-Cola. But there was another Methodist founder named John Koch whose name was also under consideration for the fledgling college. John Emory supposedly won the coin toss. Otherwise, the university would have been named Koch University. (same pronunciation)
It was the first time I went to a restaurant when I lived in Mississippi with a native Southern friend. We were sitting there making our selections from the menu when my friend mentioned he wanted a coke. The waitress explained they had pepsi but not coke. He replied; I might as well soak my feet in that cause, I ain’t gonna drink it. I think the influence of coke is unexpectedly strong across much of the South.