One of the reasons Coke changed the color of its holiday coke can from white back to the original red was that some people said it made the soda taste different.
So I’m guessing that not only were Coke drinkers feeling betrayed by their favorite Soda company they were severely traumatized too because I have never heard of anything so weird- well, not since I was about six years old and kids thought that certain kinds of shoes could make you run faster.
I don’t know what kind of special secret ingredient Coke is putting in their soda nowadays but I will give them points for being amusing.
Irregular Bones 
*singing* penguins roasting on an open fire ……..
blimey – I remember (amazed that I do) when I was a teenager dropping aspirin into coca cola and drinking it, of course, was supposed to have an, erm, intriguing effect
And let us not forget when Coca-Cola changed its recipe back in 1985. It was such a dismal failure that they reintroduced “Coke Classic” a few years later, and, surprise, surprise, their sales soared. Some, perhaps correctly, have speculated it was all very calculated for exactly this reason.