Yeah, we went an entire summer.
For those of you too young to remember or weren’t alive yet, in 1985 it was discovered in taste tests (“The Pepsi Challenge”) in random places such as grocery stores that most people preferred the taste of Pepsi over Coke. even though Coke sales were much, much higher than Pepsi.
So the Coca Cola company changed the formula of Coke and called it ‘New Coke’. New Coke tasted a lot like Pepsi (but was a little sweeter than Pepsi—tasted more like Pepsi than even Pepsi did).
It was a VERY bad decision and very bad for Coke’s P.R. Nobody bought the stuff. Coke realized they had made a mistake. By the end of the summer or early fall—theystarted making the old regular Coke again. Although it wss NOT exactly the same as they started using Corn Syrup insead of Cane Sugar, otherwise it was regular Coke we have today. For a while they made both the old coke (:Coke Classic) and “New Coke”
Eventually they stopped making “New Coke” altogether, gradually phasing it out in the late 1980s, and “Coke Classic” is regular coke.