In the days of yore, when I used to drink lots of sodas, I was a real Coke devotee, and drank Pepsi only very reluctantly (and very infrequently). I honestly did like the flavor of Coke more, but the thing that turned me off to Pepsi at a very early age (about five, if I recall) was an incident that my father was involved with. He was a doctor working at a city emergency clinc during the war, and one night a guy came in who was sick to his stomach (and who I think may have had his stomach pumped). The reason he was sick was because he had been drinking a bottle of cold Pepsi and had seen something solid floating around in the soda, but thought it was ice because the drink was cold. However, when the bottle was almost empty he got a good look at what it was, and it tuned out to be a dead cockroach. Sorry Pepsi drinkers, I just never had a desire to try the alternative to Coke. When I did, I never drank straight out of the can or bottle, but poured the drink into a glass to make sure there was nothing other than soda in the container.
