Man, pepsi is some nasty shit.
― G00blar, Friday, 7 December 2007 13:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Yum! pwnd by mafia t/f?
― libcrypt, Friday, 7 December 2007 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Dr.Pepper, obviously.
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 7 December 2007 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
In May of 2002, Yum! Brands (then known as Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc.) acquired Long John Silver's and A&W Restaurants to accelerate the Company's multibranding strategy and drive global growth by offering consumers two brands and more choice in one restaurant.
― libcrypt, Friday, 7 December 2007 15:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Wonder why they changed name was it 'cause Tricon Global Restaurants sounded too much like MOB?????
― libcrypt, Friday, 7 December 2007 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
The terms KenTaco Hut, Kentucky Fried Taco Hut, and Colonel's Taco Hut are used colloquially to refer to a building that includes a KFC, a Pizza Hut, and a Taco Bell, all Yum! properties. The menu at each restaurant may be more limited than at the standalone versions. Also, in the same sense, locations with a KFC and Pizza Hut are often known as Kentucky Fried Pizza, a KFC and a Taco Bell are referred to as Kentucky Fried Taco, KenTaco, or KFBell, and a Taco Bell and Pizza Hut as Taco Hut.
Did not know dat.
― libcrypt, Friday, 7 December 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
ice cold pepsi or coke okay when hungover. mostly dud and big massive dud if not cold or served in those horrible unrefreshing plastic bottles.
give me 'cloudy' lemonade any day, or ginger beer.
― Ste, Friday, 7 December 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone ever see an A&W + KFC + Taco Bell? WHY NOT????
― libcrypt, Friday, 7 December 2007 15:36 (sixteen years ago) link
http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/061113/061113_kfc_logo_vmed5p.widec.jpg
HE'S NOT DAVE THOMAS. HE'S THE FUCKIN' COLONEL.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 7 December 2007 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
THAT BETTER BE HIS MASONIC APRON HE'S WEARING.
http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/7985/kfcpi0.png
― libcrypt, Friday, 7 December 2007 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
A startling coincidence, wouldn't you say?
― libcrypt, Friday, 7 December 2007 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Pepsi's new look:
http://www.onefloorup.com/uploaded_images/January09/0106-Pepsilogos.jpg
― roxymuzak, Friday, 9 January 2009 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link
what say you
Is that for the States? If so I think it's too effete and European looking to sell with the kind of Americans who still drink cola.
― ichard Thompson (Hurting 2), Friday, 9 January 2009 22:36 (fifteen years ago) link
The diet ones, maybe.
― ichard Thompson (Hurting 2), Friday, 9 January 2009 22:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Do you think people would stop buying Pepsi over something like design? It's not like they made it pink.
― roxymuzak, Friday, 9 January 2009 22:37 (fifteen years ago) link
It's also bizarre -- though interesting -- that there are different variations on the circle logo, which, incidentally, is slightly reminiscent of the profile of a woman with long red hair.
― ichard Thompson (Hurting 2), Friday, 9 January 2009 22:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think people will consciously stop buying it because of the design but I think it could cause a slight shift toward coke.
― ichard Thompson (Hurting 2), Friday, 9 January 2009 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
But is it really more effeminate than this?
http://moon.ouhsc.edu/dthompso/namics/gifiles/coke_can.gif
Sleek and modern I can see (and I can see these things maybe turning people off, also), but effeminate? Tab is effeminate.
― roxymuzak, Friday, 9 January 2009 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link
No the coke logo is totally manly cuz it has a thingy going into a hole. Plus the name's sound is reminiscent of "cock."
― ichard Thompson (Hurting 2), Friday, 9 January 2009 22:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Ok, I guess "manly" can still describe totally gay things.
― roxymuzak, Friday, 9 January 2009 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link
The American consumer's response to homoeroticism =/= the American consumer's response to effete European-looking stuff.
Hey, don't blame the messenger, I'm just telling it like it is.
― ichard Thompson (Hurting 2), Friday, 9 January 2009 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
If it turns out you designed it I'm going to feel really bad.
Yeah, I'm sure if I was in charge of Pepsi's design overhaul I'd be really upset about ILX poster Hurting's critique of the cans' relative manliness.
― roxymuzak, Friday, 9 January 2009 22:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Effeminate is something different than it used to be, and so is manly. By your definition, I guess Axe Body Spray is also effeminate.
― roxymuzak, Friday, 9 January 2009 22:59 (fifteen years ago) link
This is not my definition.
― ichard Thompson (Hurting 2), Friday, 9 January 2009 23:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I wouldn't drink Pepsi if it came in a platinum statuette of Randy Macho Man Savage piledrivering Hulk Hogan.
I just think that the design is not going to work for the typical American Pepsi consumer. I actually think it's a nice design.
― ichard Thompson (Hurting 2), Friday, 9 January 2009 23:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I think it is a nice design, too. I hate Pepsi, but I would probably drink it if it started coming in a platinum statuette of Macho Man Randy Savage piledriving Hulk Hogan (provided the expense stayed low). I would say that the average American Pepsi consumer has rolled with the punches so far and will probably not do anything but keep drinking Pepsi as normal. I am glad we had this lengthy talk, though.
― roxymuzak, Friday, 9 January 2009 23:10 (fifteen years ago) link
That would be appropriately manly AND homoerotic, eh?!
Perhaps Pepsi ought to start listening to ME a bit more.
― ichard Thompson (Hurting 2), Friday, 9 January 2009 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
It looks a lot like the Obama logo to me.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 9 January 2009 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^^^^Thank you.
America bought Obama, didn't they?
― roxymuzak, Friday, 9 January 2009 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link
How could you look at that and think "profile of a woman with long red hair" (??!!!?) and not "Obama campaign"?
― roxymuzak, Friday, 9 January 2009 23:14 (fifteen years ago) link
It's a Krusty Kinda Khristmas, brought to you by ILG - selling your body's chemicals after you die - and by Lil' Sweetheart Cupcakes, a subsidiary of ILG.
― and what, Friday, 9 January 2009 23:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Hmm, interesting point. But moreso than the old Pepsi logo?
― ichard Thompson (Hurting 2), Friday, 9 January 2009 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link
i gues its fitting that lil sweetheart cupcakes is a sub of i love games
― roxymuzak, Friday, 9 January 2009 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost Yes, because it's on a plainer field.
Also: http://www.adweek.com/adweek/photos/stylus/65090-PepsiL.jpg
Probably intentional, I'd say.
― roxymuzak, Friday, 9 January 2009 23:16 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.sff.net/people/raymund/uploaded_images/Obama-logo-712385.jpghttp://www.amazingskies.org/Images/PepsiLogo2.jpg
― ichard Thompson (Hurting 2), Friday, 9 January 2009 23:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Uh yeah, those look rather different in design terms, lol.
― roxymuzak, Friday, 9 January 2009 23:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Old pepsi logo is ugly as sin, btw, imho
― ichard Thompson (Hurting 2), Friday, 9 January 2009 23:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, agreed the new one looks more like the Obama logo
PHEW
― roxymuzak, Friday, 9 January 2009 23:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think 'effeminate' is the problem, I think the problem is it looks more like a luxury soda to me. And it seems like a particularly poor time to be re-branding yourself as a luxury item. The font choice is a bigger mistake than the logo.
― iatee, Friday, 9 January 2009 23:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, agreed. It looks more appropriate for a new brand of fitness water.
― ichard Thompson (Hurting 2), Friday, 9 January 2009 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think it says luxury. I think it says "simplicity", and that it is probably a v v good time to be branding yourself as such.
― roxymuzak, Friday, 9 January 2009 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Pepsi always be changin' it up on 'em. Coca-Cola stay real.
Also Americans love ugly graphic design.
― ichard Thompson (Hurting 2), Friday, 9 January 2009 23:23 (fifteen years ago) link
It needs like some digitized shiny metal effect or something.
― ichard Thompson (Hurting 2), Friday, 9 January 2009 23:24 (fifteen years ago) link
There is a change happening, though. Tastes change, zeitgeists shift, especially in design. Nothing looked like this:
http://www.langleycreations.com/andrew/kick-ass-stuff/codered/images/codered_logo.gif
in the 60s. Things were still ugly some of the time, but streamlined and simple were v much marketable and in fashion.
― roxymuzak, Friday, 9 January 2009 23:27 (fifteen years ago) link
That's not bad -- it has a terrible color scheme and it looks alarming like it might be able to cut you or something. Extra points for shitty gradient effect. I say it's a winner.
― ichard Thompson (Hurting 2), Friday, 9 January 2009 23:29 (fifteen years ago) link
pepsi max >>>> diet coke
― meat o.d. (electricsound), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 11:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/business/media/31adco.html
― j., Friday, 26 June 2015 03:19 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/dVIBIEq.png
― 龜, Sunday, 14 August 2016 13:10 (seven years ago) link
Awwww sheeeit.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/mar/28/coca-cola-police-human-waste-drinks-cans
― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 19:31 (seven years ago) link