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And decades later, we all still talk about it. Classic Coke is so awesome that it cannot be changed because EVERYBODY WILL REVOLT!

Achieving that level of mythos about a product is an astonishing accomplishment.

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They revolt if they know its happening. Even today Coke has lots of different recipes. A bottle is very different from a fountain machine at a restaurant for instance. And folks don't get out the torches and pitchforks.

Yeah, I don't see how it's possible for all fountains to get the exact same syrup and gas concentrations. Especially with ice and temperature also being factors.

> don't see how it's possible

It could be computerized pretty easily, it's just not.

They use different sweeteners in bottled Diet Coke and fountain Diet Coke. Bottled Diet Coke uses aspartame, while fountain uses a combination (one being AceK, can't remember the other(s)).

I want to contrast this with your (!) earlier comment:

> Maybe they [Kraft] worried too much. Even though the change was written on the box, nobody noticed or commented. That's how much people cared.

I agree with the comment I'm responding to; I think Kraft was completely correct to worry, for exactly the reason you state here.

But it played out differently here. Kraft mentioned it; nobody blinked. They made the change and marked it on the box; nobody commented. That's a very different result than Coke's experience.

And I think we can attribute that to the strategy Kraft used to specifically avoid what happened to Coke. What if Kraft had made the change and announced it?

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