Test markets...

[dubq]

I live in Toronto and it seems like we're a test market for most kinds of junk. Mostly chocolate bars that I've noticed.

 

Let's see...

 

· Aero: Regular, Mint, Orange, Thick, Thick w/Caramel.

· Kit-Kat: Regular, Dark, White, French Vanilla, Thick, Thick w/Peanut Butter and lately I've been seeing Stawberry, Banana & Orange varities.

· Coffee Crisp: Regular, Dark, Latte [ie: white chocolate], French Vanilla, Mocca, Orange.

 

 

Hell, even Smarties have about 5 different varieties of their stuff out right now. And it seems like most of them are successful because they never seem to disappear.

 

Now if I only I'd get off my ass to get that filling replaced so I could actually try one of the above.

[CanadianChris]

I live in Ottawa and have seen most of those chocolate bars.

 

I just saw the Banana Kitkat last week and nearly vomited.

[Golgo 13]

Pepsi seems to like Denver. It seems they test a lot of their new soda here, including Crystal Pepsi, Josta (I think) and Storm. Coke's OK Soda was also tested here.

[razazteca]

Not sure but I do remember seeing 4 different flavors of Mountain Dew, Pepsi w/Lime, Coke w/Lemon around town.

[dubq]

I kept seeing commercials for... wait for it: "Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper" ...but could never find any of it in stores. They even had a song for it, heh.

[tommytomlin]

Explain to me this 'thick Aero' business.

[dubq]

Aero is a Canadian/British chocolate bar.

 

As for the thick, or chunky. They're "thicker" in terms of "height" than the regular bars... but when you work it out, the bar is thinner width-wise, so it works out to be the same amount of chocolate, I bet.

 

Regular: http://www.nestle.co.za/images/products/Ae...lk_100g_new.gif

 

Thick: http://www.satooz.com/images/aerochunk.gif

[tekcop]

Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper's everywhere and it's popular as all hell around here.

 

I'm still looking for the fruit flavored Kit-Kat's though.

[tekcop]

Double Postariffic!

[razazteca]

Is Diet Sprite Zero everywhere?

[Paul Stanley]

I like the regular Vanilla Cherry Dr. Pepper, it's mostly in some select stores up north. All we got here is the diet kind.

[kkktookmybabyaway]

I live around Shittsburgh -- we don't get anything until 10 years after it's been released...

[CanadianGuitarist]

I like the regular Vanilla Cherry Dr. Pepper, it's mostly in some select stores up north. All we got here is the diet kind.

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Vanilla Cherry? Together?

 

Crazy.

[kkktookmybabyaway]

You really can't taste the vanilla or cheery, but for some reason I like it better than the regular diet Dr Pepper...

[USC Wuz Robbed!]

Pepsi's HQ/factory is located in Denver, so that's why they test their shit out there. Hell isn't the arena there called the Pepsi Arena/Stadium/whatever?

[Golgo 13]

Not really. We merely have one of many regional bottling plants, and that arena would be the Pepsi Center.

[USC Wuz Robbed!]

Ah something new I learn today. Or at least something corrected...

[Carnival]

McDonalds likes to test in Lincoln. Just recently they built a "3-in-1 McDonalds" Where they have the regular fast food part, a special ice cream/ desert part, and a sit down restaurant area complete with waiters.

 

Also a few years back they tested McDonalds spaghettii and McDonalds Pizza, i never tried them, i didn't live in lincoln at the time.

[King Kamala]

They don't test anything here in Maine, but they do have the New Hampshire and Maine only McLobster Roll!

[dubq]

Spaghetti by McDonalds really scares me. I remember the pizza.. that was some gross shit. It was like they used ketchup for the tomato sauce. *gag*