AHC: Make RC cola as popular as coke and Pepsi.

DougM

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I am all for bigger variety in soft drinks. I drink a good amount of non cola soft drinks. I just think this thread has a couple problems. It is hard to get a third cola unless you eliminate one of the big two. It is impossible to get a big cola player without having a good tasting cola and while some like RC (I have NO idea why anyone would like it) most folks do not like RC.
Now if you want other soft drinks to be big then you have LOTS of good flavor options and brands.
I would suggest using Michigan’s Feygo brand. The sell just about every flavor you can imagine and back in the 50s and 60s even did a lot of local TV spots. (Look up the Feygo Boat song cermercial Youtube).

So we can knock the big two down a peg or two but I think it needs to be non cola doing it.
 
So I had to come back to this one. Yesterday I was picking up dinner at the local Mission BBQ - https://mission-bbq.com/

As I was leaving, I noticed they had a chest full of ice and individual bottles of several varieties of soft drinks, common and obscure. There were even a few bottles of RC and because of this thread, I decided I just had to buy one. I enjoyed it with my BBQ brisket and jalapeno sausage along with a pint of Heavy Seas Double Cannon IPA. I have to say I enjoyed the RC, no better or worse than Coke or Pepsi, just different in a good sort of way. It's probably been 40 years since I last had an RC Cola and I'm glad I noticed them last night.

Of note, I read the ingredients. It was made with sugar, not high fructose dog piss, or some sort of artificial sweetener.
 
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nbcman

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So I had to come back to this one. Yesterday I was picking up dinner at the local Mission BBQ - https://mission-bbq.com/

As I was leaving, I noticed they had a chest full of ice and individual bottles of several varieties of soft drinks, common and obscure. There were even a few bottles of RC and because of this thread, I decided I just had to buy one. I enjoyed it with my BBQ brisket and jalapeno sausage along with a pint of Heavy Seas Double Cannon IPA. I have to say I enjoyed the RC, no better or worse than Coke or Pepsi, just different in a good sort of way. It's probably been 40 years since I last had an RC Cola and I'm glad I noticed them last night.

Of note, I read the ingredients. It was made with sugar, not high fructose dog piss, or some sort of artificial sweetener.
Thanks for the link to Mission BBQ! Always looking for new BBQ places to try - and they have a great story and mission statement.
 
After reading all the posts on this subject in the last few minutes, a few observations from a non-cola drinker:
1) Vernor's ginger ale is good stuff but I prefer Seagram's
2) Ate at Po' Folks...OK, but not half as good as Cracker Barrel
3) Didn't drink even 6 colas a year at any time in my life except as a mixer in Cuba Libres, but even I know old Coke takes radically different from the stuff today
4) Pretty sure that RC doesn't stand a chance at supplanting Coke unless the POD is a world full of people with my taste buds, and that would be ASB...and there's still no guarantee...
 
It already is... if you live in Tajikistan! For whatever reason RC cola is super popular in Tajikistan, it's more popular than Pepsi or Coke and everywhere there. So if Tajikistan conquers the world we'll be drinking RC Cola with our Tajik overlords.
 
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