I grew up in yankee, er, pepsi territory. even interviewed for a job at pepsico once. i promise you, the fact that i am devoted to coke has nothing to do with what flaming a**holes a couple of the people i met with that day were--i also ran into a college friend that day who was working for pepsi (he hated it so much he quit, changed careers, and today I think he is the weather guy on Fox's national morning show, Dave Price). Thank God my career path led me to Atlanta where by law coke is in all fountains, all faucets, and is available in the new "I.V" packaging, so you can get more of the secret formula directly into your system. Did a presentation to my DS's 2nd grade class last year on my collection of commemorative coke bottles.
I tried to notice where the pro-pepsi posters were from--mostly, but not all, yankees. One poor misguided soul in virginia. That diet rite lover in FLA--i wonder if that poster is lifelong FLA, or a transplanted yankee. Hey, i used to live up north, its not y'all's fault (y'all do know the plural of "y'all", don't you? "all y'all"), its how you were raised. You're just trying preserve your heritage. And we all know how yankees love to trash folks in the south (you know, the part of the country y'all pay hundreds of dollars a day to visit on vacation and escape those six months of winter every year) preserving southern heritage, but some responding posters will defend pepsi and northern heritage...and i respect that, bundling up, watching baseball in parkas in april and shoveling snow is indeed y'all's heritage...
and you do know that in the mid 20th century, in many yankee towns it was a form of insult to call a canadian a "pepsi" (this part really is true, in contrast to the heavy sarcasm at work here)...
So lug your 12 packs on board in your carry on. by the way, my DS was the starting pitcher in his team's opening day baseball game yesterday, March 18th. 5 weeks of preseason got him ready and he won. So, all you nice northerners, how many inches of snow did you shovel this week while we were playing baseball? I'll have to check back for the answer a little later, when I take a break from mowing the grass to drink a refreshing diet coke with lime.
Okay, in all seriousness, count this as a vote for coke, a vote for good weather, a friendly razzing and thumbing of my nose at the chilly wasteland of my youth and early adulthood...but yes, I am definitely rooting for my home state UCONN against North Carolina State and was rooting for them against Georgia Tech in last year's title game in spite of the fact that I live 8 minutes from Tech...and 9 from the World of Coke.
So wherever you're from, have a
DCL cruise and a smile....and for those I may have insulted...I will defend my dripping sarcasm with my actual memories of early season games at shea stadium in 37 degree weather, having to buy coffee two at a time just to hold them in my hands to keep my hands from freezing, and having to shovel off the tennis courts in april before high school tennis matches...but this post was really just in fun...
LONG LIVE DIET COKE!!!!! 
I definetly think they should stick with coke. Coke is more crisp and refreshing, pepsi is too sweet. 
