From Time Magazine:
Late last year, Obama's nascent Administration worked out of transition offices in a downtown government building, which was serviced by only Pepsi-brand vending machines, according to three people who worked in the building. Two Administration officials have told me that a group of Obama aides, frustrated by having to run the security gauntlet to go to the corner store, stocked a refrigerator with Diet Coke in open rebellion against the available options. The pattern has continued at the White House. In his West Wing office, as in his previous office at Harvard University, Summers has a refrigerator stocked with cans of the decidedly non-Pepsi beverage.
Though Pepsi is available in the West Wing mess, it is rarely, if ever, seen out in the open. On Thursday, the recycling bin outside White House spokesman Robert Gibbs' office contained six cans of Diet Coke and one can of Sprite Zero, which is also a Coca-Cola product. In another part of the building, I asked a White House official, who had a can of Diet Coke sitting on his desk, if the Obama Administration had a clear bias for Coke over Pepsi. "I think that's true," the official responded, with a smile. "Don't most Americans?"
2 comments:
Let's remove, for a moment, the issue of taste, wherein Coca-Cola is the clear winner.
I can't seem to explain to my "ain't-from-around-here" coworkers why it just isn't done to drink Pepsi in Atlanta. Do you see a Pepsico Arts Center around here anywhere? A Mountain Dew Park? Did the president of Pepsico step in to ensure that MLKJr's funeral went nicely for our national guests?
Pepsi seems to be on the move here, though. They have a massive billboard on the connector and I've been seeing a lot of signs in MARTA stops, etc.
" yankees in Georgia, how'd they ever get in?"
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