"So," Cadance put down the beverage menu. "Coke or Pepsi?"
"I earnestly do not care one way or another."
"Wow, Aunt Celly," Cadance grinned. "Who pissed in your cornflakes?"
"I apologize. I simply do not like either. They are like if monopolization had a taste. Plus, those drinks are dreadfully unhealthy."
"Is this the part where you recommend your favourite Oolong?" Cadance jokingly retorted. "Surely you have at least a leaning preference?"
"I suppose I can appreciate the sweeter taste of Pepsi, but after drinking it for any length of time it begins to feel... caustic."
What about you, Luna?"
"I remember the former from our night out last week, but I admit I am unfamiliar with 'Pepsi."'
Cadance facehoofed. "Different coke, Luna."
Celestia looked up in surprise, giving the two a narrowed glare.
"Here, try this," Cadance hastily slid her glass of Coke over to Luna before Celestia could speak.
Luna prodded the glass with a hoof, shrugged, and sipped a little of the beverage within.
"Oh my!" she exclaimed the moment the fizzy liquid touched her tongue, her words distorted by the swishing liquid still in her mouth. "The Coke! It is attacking my tongue!"
"Then drink it, genius!" Cadance barked, ignoring Celestia's triumphant smile.
After a pregnant pause and another calmer sip, Luna frowned introspectively. "An interesting beverage indeed. And The Pepsi... it is a similar drink?"
"It's the exact same," Celestia offered.
"Oh, hush, Auntie. Let Luna decide."
An order later, and Luna was sipping from a blue and red can, while Cadance and Celestia were engaged in a vicarious debate.
"I am telling you," Celestia was saying. "They are the same. Literally. It's simply a placebo effect caused by flashy can-design."
"Then explain why ponies so frequently choose one over the other during blind taste tests!"
"Alright, fine. One is slightly different. But when will a pony ever taste the two side by side in a typical daily situation?"
"Aside from three idiots in a café with nothing better to do?" Cadance grinned. "What do you think, Luna? Coke or Pepsi?"
Pursing her lips in introspective silence, Luna set down the can and stood staring at both fizzing drinks.
"The entire debate is skewed," Luna said, after a moment's consideration.
"What?" Cadance blinked.
"Truthfully! The Pepsi shall overtake The Coke every time in a short-term taste test. The Pepsi is sweeter and more citrusy. It has less fizz, which means initial sips provide more flavour. It is as though the drink is designed to win these arbitrary taste tests, which do a poor job reflecting the overall enjoyment of the product considering nopony simply opens a soda and fails to drink the whole thing. It seems to me like ordering off-brand, non-corporate labelled cola would mean getting a more unique beverage, instead of one catered to performing well on a baseless popularity test."
Silence.
"Seriously Luna," Cadance facehoofed again. "How are you so adept at ruining the fun of every debate we have? I prefer hipster off-brand Root Beer. That's all you had to say. I mean honestly. Did you make sure to cite your sources, too?"
"Your sarcasm is no match for my intellect!" Luna exclaimed victoriously. "You both need to dump out your degenerate caffeinated beverages, anyways. Tea and soda? Bah! There can be only one caffeinated beverage to rule them all!"
Luna's coffee mug soared into the air triumphantly, soaking both Celestia and Cadance with the cooling brown liquid within.
Princesses be crazy
Coke, obviously. As Luna pointed out Pepsi may taste better initially, but fall flat after a while. Coke always remains consistent with every sip. Would the princesses argue over the pros and cons of pancakes vs waffles?
Coke for the win!! Pepsi is much too sweet. And Root Beer, Cadance? You can feel your teeth rotting with every sip!!
So I am forced to agree with Luna and Celestia. Oolong and coffee for the win. And off-brand sodas for fun.
Luna knows the Truth. The coffee must flow.
Pepsi is better between the two if you discount the flavored types. Yeah it does get flatter faster, but still is good without the fizz. Now if we are going with the other flavored types like Cherry Coke or Cherry Pepsi than Coke wins. Coke is much better at the flavoring than Pepsi.
I want them to talk about...
Youtube
Quidditch
Whatever you come up with, dear author.
One thing my friends and I 'argue' about is between waffles, pancakes, and french toast, what order do they go in from best to least best. (pancakes, french toast, waffles, obvs).
NorrisThePony,
Please do a chapter on video games, more specifically Dark Souls, vs Bloodborne.
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Alternatively, here's an MLP animation I found with the song
Dr Pepper and RC all the way.
6997107 Neither of which I've played, sadly. Not really a huge gamer.
Nonetheless I'm thinking of having the occasional chapter about their EQG counterparts where I can cover more... human issues. Mayhaps videogames will be amongst them.
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Pity, they're really good games, and I can't wait to see the EQG equivalent doing things like this.
6999377 You're reading.... Comedy Story. And now here's...uh... Pony Fic. *boop beep boop*
Ok, not gonna lie: this chapter is actually kinda funny.
Any quality tea is better than soda... unless you are ill, in that case you need a good ginger-ale or barring that a 50/50 mix of cola and lemonlime sodas.
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The true difference between Coca-Cola and Pepsi-cola: Pepsi was designed to be served cold. Coke wasn't. That's because Coca-cola was created before refrigeration was mainstream. Pepsi after.
I myself can't really taste a difference, but then I grew up on store brand sodas
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God, this was brilliant.
And, yeah, I choose Pepsi. But now I feel guilty for doing so after Luna dissected it.
I was like 'what the?' then that next bit 'What the actual Tartarus??' I feel like I'm in a ponified episode of the Young Ones.
...IRL, I disdain coke & Pepsi equally, but adore rootbeer, especially the rootbeer made in-house at this one Drive-In restaurant...
Personally, I like non-caffeinated peach tea. Raspberry works too.
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I started to go to the next chapter, then saw your comment and came back.
Peach tea shall rule all.
All hail Peach tea.
6997384 Agreed!
Never change, Luna.
They're all wrong, Dr, Pepper is superior!
Truly a question for the ages.
Faygo cola ftw
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nuff said.
So I'm gonna put Luna and Cadence down as Coke mares. Which means that 2/3 Princesses agree, coke is superior!
Wrong Coke Celestia.
6999802 I caught that too. Luna must of had a good night that night. Dreams were probably a little weird for everypony that night too.
Nice, Luna. Nice.
I'm gonna say this: I hate soda. I've had it maybe 3 times in my entire life and even then it was less than a quarter of a can.
I guess you could say those were his... Famous Last Words
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7099651 I second that! It is gross.
I actually took the time... a few years ago... to taste-test both Coke and Pepsi. All I could tell was that Coke tasted like it contained orange-peel extract, while Pepsi tasted more of lemon peel.
wait.... did she just douse Cadance and Celestia with coffee?
Luna why did you ruin the coffee
7140494 It's not dousing. It's consecrating.
Sioux City Birch Beer. Good shit yo.
Dr.Pepper is the one true drink. Though a Mountain Dew of any flavor may be close second.
Meh, I prefer cake.
I am with Luna on this one. Coffee for the win!!!
I personally can't taste the difference between coke or pepsi
3 in the morning, and now I'm in bed laughing like a complete idiot. Thanks for that
Great chapter.
But... I actually do prefer hipster off-brand Root Beer.
That stuff's delicious, yo.
Coffee is best and also the best pop is all of them swirled together at the fountain n
Cadence got luna to do coke... thats a win for Cadence