Pepsi: Throwback vs Natural!

A follow up to my post about wanting to find more Pepsi Throwback. Well I found some, I was driving home along I-5 a couple of weeks ago and when stopping for gas and food (it was fast food along I-5 not sure it was food but it was fast). The little store connected to the gas station had a lot of Pepsi Throwback. I bought five bottles and should have bought more but the lady who rang me up gave me a funny look with five. I managed to not drink all that caffeinated soda in one go but I was very tempted to do so. Then a few days later I found something new in the store, I found Pepsi Natural. Pepsi Natural comes only four glass bottles to a pack, the glass bottles are fancy, the packaging is slick it looks nice. The soda packaging claims that this is all natural stuff. No high fructose corn syrup, not even Co2 in the bottling - they use something "natural" to carbonate the liquid.

The Pepsi: Natural looks different in color, has a different smell and is not very bubbly. While it is not bad Pepsi: Natural no longer tastes like a soda I remember from when I was a kid. So while Pepsi: Throwback might not be "all natural" it has real sugar, has the right color and has the proper bubbles. I have to say I much prefer the formula used for Pepsi Throwback over Pepsi Natural. Which in the end simply means I will stop buying Pepsi anything once my last two bottles of Throwback are gone. If I need my caffeine fix I'll dig out the coca-cola products made in Mexico and I will enjoy my soda drinking my way. With my way being the memories from when I was a little kid drinking a coke from the bottle or over ice in a glass.

With luck Pepsi will bring back the Throwback formula at some point so I can have some more.

Enjoy!

I want my Pepsi Throwback!!!

I really consider myself a fan of Coke (coca-cola) I go so far as to buy the bottle coke shipped in from Mexico. I really don't like the taste of the High-Fructose Corn Syrup in the Class Coke sold in the USA. I never liked the taste of Pepsi it was just to sweet. Though I am one of those people who does not care if a restaurant has Coke or Pepsi. But then along came the limited edition Pepsi Throwback which after a lot of advertising (Including a NASCAR push). It took forever for Throwback to show up in my area of California. Finally I got a taste and it tasted good. Now I know why Pepsi was always a favorite of my friends when I was a kid, the sugar version of Pepsi tasted good. It was no longer the uber sweet HFCS crap I do not like.

And now I can no longer find Pepsi Throwback in stores. I even went to the Pepsi home page to see if it was still available, but there was no mention of when the eight week limited offer started or was to end. Searching on the Pepsi homepage product locator showed where I could buy Throwback and it was not every store that sold soda. Unfortunately none of those store have any Pepsi Throwback. I'm not going to buy "normal" Pepsi. So my hope is that either Coke or Pepsi will make a real sugar version of their soda available normally.

Sigh, I am almost out of the few bottles of Pepsi Throwback left in my fridge. If anyone knows where I can still buy some Pepsi Throwback let me know.