The Power of Cola
A friend of mine organized a cola-drink blind test of 17 different brands of cola sold here in Finland. (That's not all the brands out there, just a selection.) There were ten people of us testing and I thought the results may well interest fellow Finns.
Background information: 17 brands, 10 blind testers, scores from 1 to 10. The results:
- 7.5 Pepsi
- 7.4 Coca-Cola
- 6.0 Dr. Pepper
- 5.8 Spar Cola
- 5.3 Rainbow Cola
- 5.2 Spar Cola Light
- 5.2 Olvi Classic Cola Light
- 5.0 Olvi Classic Cola
- 5.0 Pirkka Cola
- 4.3 Lidl Freeway Cola
- 4.2 Pepsi Max
- 4.2 Coca-Cola Light Lemon
- 4.1 Lidl Freeway Light
- 3.8 Rainbow Cola Light
- 3.7 Coca-Cola Light
- 3.6 Pepsi Max Lemon
- 1.9 Organic Cola
The Coke-zealots needn't worry about Pepsi winning; the margin of error is large enough to call it a tie... Personally I was surprised how hard it was to tell what's what (we all tried to guess). I actually ended up guessing that Pepsi was Coke and vice versa, as did quite a few other people too. One thing that surprised me was how badly Coke Light did. Not that I drink any light stuff though, they're all pretty bad. I prefer to cut my consumtion and drink the sugary stuff when I do drink soda.
Minor progress
I have been making minor progress to the new site engine during the last week. Things aren't moving along very fast, but at least the project isn't stalled any longer.