Pepsi Max, my Fury, and why Rolling Stone Really Has to Shove It (1564 hits)
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Submitted by Lita <cpcreed2000.at.yahoo.com> (View user info) at 2004-06-22 21:37:15 EDT
I have found that I am a pretty emotional person. I wax and wane through all of the beautiful, yet common emotions every day--glee, anger, vexation, depression--I've felt them all; sometimes all of them at once. But there is one emotion that I have felt that I have not really been able to aptly name. I can only describe it to be something like a mixture of rage, humiliation, and frustration all rounded up with general symptoms of queasiness.
This Molotov Cocktail of sheer, white-hot hate, and despair was experienced by myself during my junior year of high school while spending spring break in London, England.
I was having a ball wandering around the city of London (which reminds me a lot like downtown NYC) and after about five hours or so of walking I stopped at a deli for some liquid refreshment. Now I had a lot of choices before me--I could go for something new or something familiar. Looking over the botles my eyes caught sight of something. Blue familiar wrapper...it seemed like a normal Pepsi bottle.
But it was different.
Slashed across the pepsi emblem was XTREME letters spelling out the XTREME word "MAX". I was floored. It was Pepsi...but...TO THE MAX! This had to be great. I was so happy. I was excited spending two pounds (somethine like that) on it. Alright, I admit...I was young, I was curious and naive...I was totally lured into temptation by XTREME marketing...but I was almost positive that this cola experience was to be something memorable. Something TO THE MAX.
I took a sip, expecting to be totally floored by the awesome pepsi taste that is so rocking that i spent two pounds on it and I can't find it in the US---
But no such thing occurred.
It tasted like Diet Pepsi.
This couldn't be...
This isn't to the MAX! I took another sip and I whipped a peek at the nutritional facts. SONOFABITCH. This isn't Pepsi Max...The shit was Pepsi One in disguise.
I felt so used. I was violated in the worst way. Not only was I scammed monetarily, but I had vested so much in the taste...I picked the empty hidden box prize....I was the weakest link.
Now, this emotion has washed over me again. Something else has made me feel this despairing shame--Music today and Those Who Advertise It ie. Rolling Stone and other such shitheads.
A friend made me listen to this band Franz Ferdinand. He was very intent on showing me this band. He shook me screaming "THIS IS THE NEXT BEST THING!". I listened to the said band. It wasn't bad. It was like The Cars and The Strokes combined. I was confused...The "Next Best Thing" is simply a cheap, pop rehash of music that worked in the past...
I don't blame Franz Ferdinand for their mediocre talents. It makes 'em happy yo play...Then play on, man.
I blame the fuckers at MTV and Rolling Stone who reward their musical shit. It encourages bands to just fuck talent, originality, and skill and to simply mindless produce. Not to make music for passion or to make music because the love music...It's just for fame and money...
This disgusts me. My core is shaken at this reality and I taste Pepsi Max all over again.
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Submitted by DJGM (user info) at 2006-02-21 10:55:41 EST (#)
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I should point out here that Pepsi Max came before Pepsi One did. Pepsi Max was launched here in the UK, back in April 1993,
with the slogan "Maximum Taste - No Sugar". It was introduced to compliment the existing Pepsi and Diet Pepsi brands, and
offering a low-cal, sugar free cola, with a taste more like regular sugary cola, and less like the diet variety of Pepsi.
Pepsi One was introduced in the USA with a similar formula to Pepsi Max in June 1998. To all intents and purposes, Pepsi One
is a rebranded copy of Pepsi Max, not the other way round as the original poster had suggested. And while Pepsi Max is still
a sugar free cola drink, Pepsi One has since been relaunched containing a sugar based sweetener called Splenda.
More information about Pepsi Max and Pepsi at Wikipedia . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi_Max
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi_One
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2005-02-16 23:33:32 EST (#)
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Submitted by wazzawazzayo (user info) at 2004-06-23 10:44:56 (#)
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I love you Pepsi.
That's Pepe.
Whatever.
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HA!
Submitted by Damez (user info) at 2004-11-03 23:50:52 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
The word Re-post comes to mind
Submitted by EchoBoxing (user info) at 2004-11-03 23:36:08 EST (#)
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check your e-mail
Submitted by funk_boy (user info) at 2004-06-23 11:00:37 EDT (#)
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Pepsi used to prevent my migranes.
What the fuck is in it?
You are right by the way.
Submitted by wazzawazzayo (user info) at 2004-06-23 10:44:56 EDT (#)
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I love you Pepsi.
That's Pepe.
Whatever.
Submitted by StonedSilly (user info) at 2004-06-23 07:35:14 EDT (#)
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+2 for being a 9000+ user and writing this.
+2 for making me nod in agreement.
+2 for deterring me from buying Pepsi MAX!!11!/111!seventy-two!11!1
+2 for being cool.
=6 for not hacking Über and making it so I can rate you a +8.
Submitted by youarsoghey (user info) at 2004-06-23 00:09:30 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Snuggles_The_Assassin (user info) at 2004-06-22 23:54:17 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2004-06-22 23:40:22 EDT (#)
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This is why I drink water.
Submitted by Random Joe at 2004-06-22 22:50:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
fuckin cool