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Originally Posted by xepherys
Hmmm, Coke > Pepsi for sure! :-p
But aside from the zealotous debate, it's true that's it difficult to mimic flavors. If it was so easy, all the store brands would taste JUST like Coke/Pepsi/Mountain Dew. It's certainly not because they don't WANT to.
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That's true, but you also have to consider how much more money Coke and Pepsi make on each drink as opposed to store brand sodas. Coke and Pepsi are billion dollar companies devoted solely to creating drinks.
Plus I suspect if you mimicced another brand exactly you'd have a law suit on your hands. Not sure how that kind of law works aside from just knowing "Copying=Bad" but I'm guessing that it would be highly likely to happen.
Edit - And not that I have faith in pepsi any more than other companies, but I wouldn't think that pepsi would have had the chance to take a peak at the coke recipe without paying big money to the snitches, and by that point Pepsi would have lost their higher ground in the situation when turning them in.
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