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What's the difference...

sn00p

17:35 / 23.03.06

Yeah, so what's the differnece?
Aren't pepsi max and pepsi diet the same thing?
If so why?
If not why not?

astrojax69

23:26 / 23.03.06

no. they have different names.

iamus

23:49 / 23.03.06

It's simple.

Diet Pepsi lets you and your girlfriends get one over on pretty, beefcake streetworkers and office-block window cleaners.

Pepsi Max lets you pull of some truly sick 360s.

Squirmelia

09:57 / 24.03.06

I find that Pepsi Max has a stronger taste than Diet Pepsi.

Check out the Wikipedia entry for Pepsi Max. Basically, it says the main difference is the use of acesulfame potassium in Pepsi Max, where as Diet Pepsi just has plain old aspartame.

Spyder Todd 2008

19:38 / 24.03.06

Pepsi Max is more X-treme.

Mourne Kransky

20:51 / 24.03.06

They're equally crap. Neither is teh Real Thing™

In Malcolm Gladwell's excellent Blink, he talks about how blind tasting sessions always favour Pepsi but, if you make the sampler drink the whole can, they always prefer the Coke. But I'm a Diet Coke addict, so I cannot be trusted.

Benny the Ball

21:42 / 24.03.06

Xoc, is Blink good then? I've been tempted to get it for a while, as I'm quite interested in intuitional psychology, but also trying to save money... Library trip?

Difference between the drinks

Diet Pepsi = fat people
Pepsi Max = Fat Face

Mourne Kransky

21:58 / 24.03.06

I liked it Benny. Others not so much, I gather. Been a while but I still remember stuff I read in it and I use it in my teaching sessions. Lots about experiential learning and heuristics. Good analysis of the forces at play in the shooting of Amadou Diallo in NYC. Anecdotal rather than reams of research quotes but that's a good thing sometimes. The research is there, mostly, just not smotheringly deployed. He makes it all pretty foot-on-ground. Out in paperback now so will be cheaper and it's 3 for 2 in the big city centre bookstores.

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