WARNING: ALUMINUM SHEET (MINIMUM*) BASED GOVERNMENT MIND PROBE DISPERSION HEADGEAR REQUIRED
*RECOMMENDED: FARADAY CAGE, ALIEN TECHNOLOGY
There is no difference between the taste of Coke and Pepsi, they use the same formula. Both Coke and Pepsi are owned by a soda pop cartel. The advertising campaigns are designed to radicalize and divide the public into two separate and unreconcilable groups. Not only does this keep the public from discovering the truth, but it encourages them to purchase more and more soda. Local differences in bottling plants were enough to keep the taste debate going: MTBE laden Coke from the West would taste different from DDT infused Pepsi in the South and Cola produced from the rainwater-fed acidic wells of the North. Over the decades, Americans have evolved the ability to taste the "difference" between Pepsi and Coke, which no longer required the soda pop cartel to manufacture unique tasting products - soda could be produced at regional centers for much cheaper. Local bottling plants slipped into disuse at the cost hundreds of American jobs. The grand soda cartel now had the funds, but they didn't have the political power required to pass the legislation that would truly raise their profit margins to previously unimagined levels. They replaced the sugar cane in their soda with high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). With the huge subsidy provided by the soda industry, the corn industry flourished - and the loyalty of Mid-Western politicians was assured (at any moment, the soda cartel could go back to sugar cane). Using their new found political power, the soda cartel was able to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act, leading directly to the current economic depression.
Statistics have shown that during periods of economic turbulence people turn toward sweets and other sugary substances.