Barely drink soda anymore but i remember ordering pizza and prefering them 2 gimme pepsi rather than coke. I think its pepsi's logo that atttacted me lol then the taste kept me in
Coke is so carbonated and acidic (not saying Pepsi isn't, Coke is just more) that it literally burns my tongue everytime I try to drink. There's no pleasure in it. Pepsi kid.
Not weird at all, i like that for the same reason. The reason for this is that the carbon dioxide has evaporated, and they have added water (ice melting to keep it cold). So the Coke at restaurants are very much thinned down, and as a direct result will have that "weaker" taste you are describing, but that both of us can appreciate.
Err, not entirely true. The taste differs mainly because it's usually from a soda fountain machine, which blends a Coke syrup with carbon dioxide and water to create the beverage. Some restaurants are cheap and use less syrup to cut costs, resulting in a less strong flavor of soda. Or some just have the mix of the CO2+H2O/Syrup wrong resulting in a different flavor.