Wednesday, August 02, 2006

i don't complain about the heat much

i will mention, however, that i have personally been overheating the past couple days because i haven't gotten enough water somehow and it's been so hot in the office. you'd think it was easy to stay cool when you work for a soda company, but we don't exactly get all the soda we can drink. even if we did, none of us would have teeth any more. i hear somewhere we are working on a perfect diet soda, one that tastes like regular soda, not just cola, which has been essentially perfected in its diet form by pepsi. if we can get a diet rootbeer that doesn't taste like bilge water, i'll be onboard. has anyone heard of this pepsi jazz? i'll say it right now - pepsi has the worst product development of any soft drink maker. seriously - spice, blue, or crystal? so maybe pepsi can't be "all things to all people," but there sure weren't enough people out there to support this. pepsi seems to do a better job of just ripping off coke's new flavors - oh wait...both jazz flavors are essentially ripoffs of dr pepper flavors. so can pepsi imitating dr pepper go as well as pepsi imitating coke?

oh, wait...they're getting rid of pepsi vanilla and pepsi twist as they launch these. i can just hear the boardroom battles -

"should we stake our future on imitating coke, or imitating dr pepper?"

"dr pepper's been around longer"

"hmmm...sounds like a brand we can get behind"

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