One of these days MouthShut is going to put up my review of Dr. Pepper. Until that time, I have to be satisfied with writing about other things.
One of those other things is Pepsi. I am not that fond of Pepsi for the simple reason that I don’t feel it can even hold a candle to its competitor, Coca-Cola, never mind Dr. Pepper. It has little to distinguish it from the competition in terms of flavor - no heavy note of lemon as can sometimes happen with Coca-Cola, not much of anything, to tell you the truth.
Matter of fact, the major mistake Coca-Cola made was to try to imitate Pepsi too closely. Coke’s people found through doing focus groups that people really seemed to prefer the taste of Pepsi, so when they developed New Coke and brought it out on the market, they thought people would snap it up enthusiastically based on its similarity in flavor to Pepsi. NOT!