Trump's latest demand: Washington football and Cleveland baseball teams should change names back

[John1956PA]

38. Recommended. However, I have a question about the 1985 Coke change.

There is a theory (perhaps totally untrue) that Coke perpetrated a con upon its customers via the 1985 stunt. The theory is that Coke wanted to switch from cane sugar to corn syrup because of cost reasons. Coke knew that, if the change in recipe were to be suddenly foisted upon the customers, they would recognize the subtle change in flavor and voice complains to it. Therefore, the plan was hatched to replace the old recipe with a temporary dummy placeholder (having a notably unappealing taste) so that the customers would forget the nuanced taste of the original with its cane sugar. Coke gave the new product about a half a year to wash away the memory of the original's taste, and then it brought back the "original" recipe which replaced cane sugar with corn syrup.

The above theory may be complete nonsense, I but I wanted to throw it out for purposes of historical perspective and conspiracy-theory reference.