The OP said (in the last paragraph) that the ingredients that go into colas are the kind that make the drink cloudy. Crystal Pepsi was clear, even without the coloring.
Presumably it's because they changed to use flavors that are completely water-soluble. That would explain a difference in taste.
(I know they tasted different with my eyes open, but I never did a blind taste test between the two. It would be interesting to know how close they really got to the original flavor.)
Yeah, that would be my guess. Crystal Pepsi tastes noticeably different than regular, and caramel color is used in such small qtys that it is considered borderline flavorless.
If you look at popular grapefruit sodas Fresca is clear, but Squirt is cloudy because Fresca uses water soluble flavors and Squirt uses oils. (Squirt is the better product by far IMO because a lot of the grapefruit flavor is from the oil in the peel.)
It’s always possible the geniuses at the flavor houses Pepsi buys from have some magic I don’t know about though. But I’ve never heard of any way to make emulsified oils clear, since they refract light differently.
I like this. I like crossword puzzles but don't like I'm just solving pre-made puzzles rather than exploring new territory. Math seems the best candidate but are there other fields with similar challenges?
* Extreme thread-safety, better than all JVM languages and on par with the best.
* Macros -
Other languages you have to reach for other languages to program in other paradigms, for example rules, logic programming, or writing a custom DAG. You'll probably say you don't need other paradigms whereas the truth is you just avoid it in other languages as it's too much of a hassle.
I think by the same reasoning Qwerty keyboard is better than Dvorak. People are just used to Qwerty, although they would type faster on Dvorak, or in the case of s-expressions use structural editing.
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