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** Pepsi was making huge advances on all fronts in the Cola Wars with campaigns like, \
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** Pepsi was making huge advances on all fronts in the Cola Wars with campaigns like, \\\"The choice of a new generation!\\\" and their devastating blind taste test commercials. Pepsi actually surpassed Coke sales in that era and started winning out. Coke\\\'s response was to do the same; New Coke beat out Pepsi in \\\'\\\'blind\\\'\\\' taste tests, and Coca-Cola was going to run with that. The real stupidity was ignoring how much of their sales was due to brand loyalty. It was like Coca-Cola was a cash cow, and rather than milk it while introducing their new product, the execs decided to make it into burgers.
** The big problem, from the execs point of view, at least, was that if they released New Coke and kept regular Coke, it would split sales. Which would pretty much guarantee that Pepsi sold better. Since that would be counter-productive, they got rid of the original Coke, not realizing the enormous backlash this would cause.
** To some, the drink wasn\\\'t the same when they switched to high-fructose corn syrup. Nowadays, getting Coke with cane sugar domestically is more or less a rarity, with the exception of a passover variant. Coca-Cola\\\'s frequent claims that [[BlatantLies there is no taste difference]] doesn\\\'t help. There is, however, a [[http://www.seriouseats.com/2007/05/costco-is-selling-mexican-coke.html growing following]] for imported Mexican Coke, which is starting to be sold domestically in stores like Costco and UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}}.
** In the US, there are only two bottling plants (UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}, Ohio and Allentown, Pennsylvania) that make all of their Coke products with real cane sugar. Devout fans of the older sweetener have been known to make special out-of-state trips to stock up on their “true” original formula.
** How ironic. The exact opposite is happening in Cincinnati. King\\\'s Island used to have Nickelodeon characters everywhere, but they are replacing them with \\\"Peanuts\\\" characters.
*** Fortunately, Peanuts is returning to Minnesota in 2011, as CedarFair now owns the rights to use the brand and they own a park (Valleyfair) in Shakopee, a Minneapolis suburb.
** The \\\"Journey Into Imagination\\\" ride at EPCOT gets this a lot as well.
** And the Tiki Room, which is now \\\"Under New Management,\\\" which in reality means that the original characters have been replaced with the birds from the Disney movies.
*** After an electrical fire in 2011, the Tiki Room in Florida is now an abridged version of the original, with no trace of the \\\"Under New Management\\\" version. Opinions are mixed as to whether this version is more nostalgic or more boring than the \\\"Under New Management\\\" version.
**** Disney does this to their rides a \\\'\\\'lot\\\'\\\'. \\\"it\\\'s a small world\\\" was recently refurbished to include various Disney and Pixar characters (in the style of the ride\\\'s pre-existing characters), provoking exactly the same reaction.
** As of July 2011 they have updated Star Tours as well. It now has \\\"random trips\\\" that include various characters and places from all [[StarWars 6 movies]]. Which itself hurts a classic ride for many people, but to make matters worse, they made it all 3D meaning anyone who can\\\'t handle that combined with the main attraction of a moving theater alienates a fair chunk of people. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero You let Lucas design it himself there Disney?]]
** Hey, he got an agreement with the [[ArchEnemy Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]] to collaborate against [[EnemyMine Sweden]]. Needless to say relations all went downhill from there.
* Weblink only:
* Many of the \\\"first world problems\\\" documented on [[http://whitewhine.com/ White Whine]] involve this.
* Already on the page and might not be the last entry
* Last, but not least, the people that we are close to. It\\\'s not uncommon for people to be disappointed that they no longer have as much in common with those they are close to, whilst failing to realize that they themselves may have also changed.
** The big problem, from the execs point of view, at least, was that if they released New Coke and kept regular Coke, it would split sales. Which would pretty much guarantee that Pepsi sold better. Since that would be counter-productive, they got rid of the original Coke, not realizing the enormous backlash this would cause.
** To some, the drink wasn\\\'t the same when they switched to high-fructose corn syrup. Nowadays, getting Coke with cane sugar domestically is more or less a rarity, with the exception of a passover variant. Coca-Cola\\\'s frequent claims that [[BlatantLies there is no taste difference]] doesn\\\'t help. There is, however, a [[http://www.seriouseats.com/2007/05/costco-is-selling-mexican-coke.html growing following]] for imported Mexican Coke, which is starting to be sold domestically in stores like Costco and UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}}.
** In the US, there are only two bottling plants (UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}, Ohio and Allentown, Pennsylvania) that make all of their Coke products with real cane sugar. Devout fans of the older sweetener have been known to make special out-of-state trips to stock up on their “true” original formula.
** How ironic. The exact opposite is happening in Cincinnati. King\\\'s Island used to have Nickelodeon characters everywhere, but they are replacing them with \\\"Peanuts\\\" characters.
*** Fortunately, Peanuts is returning to Minnesota in 2011, as CedarFair now owns the rights to use the brand and they own a park (Valleyfair) in Shakopee, a Minneapolis suburb.
** The \\\"Journey Into Imagination\\\" ride at EPCOT gets this a lot as well.
** And the Tiki Room, which is now \\\"Under New Management,\\\" which in reality means that the original characters have been replaced with the birds from the Disney movies.
*** After an electrical fire in 2011, the Tiki Room in Florida is now an abridged version of the original, with no trace of the \\\"Under New Management\\\" version. Opinions are mixed as to whether this version is more nostalgic or more boring than the \\\"Under New Management\\\" version.
**** Disney does this to their rides a \\\'\\\'lot\\\'\\\'. \\\"it\\\'s a small world\\\" was recently refurbished to include various Disney and Pixar characters (in the style of the ride\\\'s pre-existing characters), provoking exactly the same reaction.
** As of July 2011 they have updated Star Tours as well. It now has \\\"random trips\\\" that include various characters and places from all [[StarWars 6 movies]]. Which itself hurts a classic ride for many people, but to make matters worse, they made it all 3D meaning anyone who can\\\'t handle that combined with the main attraction of a moving theater alienates a fair chunk of people. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero You let Lucas design it himself there Disney?]]
** Hey, he got an agreement with the [[ArchEnemy Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]] to collaborate against [[EnemyMine Sweden]]. Needless to say relations all went downhill from there.
* Weblink only:
* Many of the \\\"first world problems\\\" documented on [[http://whitewhine.com/ White Whine]] involve this.
* Already on the page and might not be the last entry
* Last, but not least, the people that we are close to. It\\\'s not uncommon for people to be disappointed that they no longer have as much in common with those they are close to, whilst failing to realize that they themselves may have also changed.
