Does the Public Prefer Coke Over Pepsi?

By Jen Matilda

The Coke vs. Pepsi debate has gone on for decades, and there are millions of people on both sides of the debate, swearing by their preferred soda brand.

Let's take a look at four of the more popular types of soda and see who wins the debate in the most recent of taste tests and surveys. Are your favorites their favorites too?

This is based on a collection of surveys as opposed to just one, so while there's no scientific method behind my findings, you can still take these with a grain of salt. At the end of the day, it all comes down to your personal opinion anyway.

As far as Coke and Pepsi go, these are two of the top selling drinks in the world. They have a huge international presence and if I asked you to name the more global drink, you'd probably say Coke. People did prefer coke over Pepsi.

In the diet soda realm, the rivalry is nearly just as big as those conscious about their caloric intake. Each calorie free drink strikes to taste like the real thing. When polled, more people preferred the taste of diet Pepsi to the taste of diet Coke.

How about the lemon lime drinks? There's Sprite, 7up, and Sierra Mist. Sierra Mist is more widely produced than 7up now, and this is the drink that was put up against Sprite. Interestingly, more people said that they preferred Sprite, but they preferred the taste of Sierra Mist in blind taste tests.

The last set of drinks will look at is the cherry colas. There's Pepsi's wild cherry, and Coca Cola's Cherry Coke. In the end, Wild Cherry Pepsi was preferred in taste tests, though people were more likely to buy Cherry Coke.

That wraps up my findings. I hope you enjoyed them! - 31875

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