Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for June 08, 2023

The truth will out.

Anymore, there are those who righteously contend that cow’s milk is no better for one, and the planet, than sugary cola. Things DON’T go better with those folks…

This strip is decades old, but some truths hold up — colas still taste like malted battery acid to me.

I never forgot this one. All my life, or at least from early adolescence, I could tell immediately if someone slipped a Pepsi (Blech) in on me instead of a Coke. Eventually I had to give up my Mexico Coke, which I drank daily (sometimes a lot). A few weeks after quitting cold turkey I tasted it and immediately recalled the malted battery acid comparison. A relief! Not tempted to resume feeding that addiction.

Michael Jackson and Bill Cosby both age poorly as spokespeople for soft drinks for children.

Incidentally, would you ever be able to pick either Coke or Pepsi from a single vending machine?

I will stick with water, thank you very much.

RC – Royal Crown Cola, of course!

Dr. Pepper for me.

Scary that I had something in common with Jackson… not drunk ANY fizzy malted battery acid (or fruity alternatives) for 44 year or so.

Whoof, lotta “water” under dat bridge.

What’s with the cap and sunglasses on Binkley?

“Malted Battery Acid.” I’ve been using that phrase to describe cola since this cartoon came out.

I imagine if you can get drugs and paraphernalia from a vending machine in San Francisco or New York City for free, than you can get Coke or Pepsi from the same machine, there, too.

I would love to hear these two discuss the ramifications of Dylan and Bud Light./s

Vernors.

I’m more of a root beer kinda guy, personally…

I grew up drinking Coke, but somewhere in my 60’s I switched to root beer.

In the last panel Binkley appears to be goose-stepping in the style of Vaughn Bodē

I need to remember not to read Breathed while actually drinking cola. How do you get these stains out of the carpet?

Me and my RC

It’s jarring to read these old celeb names considering where they are now, but yes, both do taste like malted battery acid.

“Woke Coke” lost me last year. Pepsi isn’t that bad.

Jackson and Cosby for endorsers. Might as well get Jared from Subway on board. Hmmm.

I, myself, am a Pepper.

“Malted Battery Acid” sounds like a good name for a rock band. :-p

Jolt cola: All the sugar, twice the caffeine

Dos Equis. That’s a cola drink, yeah?

I guess this is long before “oat or almond?” became a thing.

Or the Milk Wars, where the dairy producers declare jihad on all non-dairy "milk"s.

Anybody want to try Moxie? Not me, I got hooked on ginger beer in Australia.

I love Pepsi. Coke is too sweet.

I must concur on their evaluation of the taste of cola of any stripe!

(Dr Pepper is vastly superior.)

Also, where did they find a vending machine that sells both Coke and Pepsi? The only machines I’ve noticed are brand-specific.

Lo these many years ago when I was quite small, I was at my grandma’s house when she asked did I want a “cocola.”

When I said yes, she got a bottled one from her fridge and, before opening it for me, she held the bottle up to the light. Mystified, I asked what she was looking for.

“Cockroaches,” she replied.

That permanently put me off “cocolas”!

Never having tried battery acid, I decline to comment…

Well, Max Headroom was a bit of a fuzz-head…

“rock and roller cola wars, I can’t take it anymore” – Billy Joel, “We Didn’t Start the Fire”

Meh. Both Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola are exorbitantly expensive nowadays for a bottle of colored sugar water.

Can’t abide milk.

I settle for the cheapest cola brand I can find….

I saw a blind taste test. Shasta won, RC was 2nd.

… RC Cola …

Whole milk, of course! You may as well drink water as drink skim milk. :-)