and introduce New Coke is the stuff of legend—and not a good legend. The OG Coke was back on the shelves within months. Coke wasn’t the only Coca-Cola product PepsiCo. went after in the '80s.

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Though it scored well in blind taste tests, New Coke was an epic failure in the 1980s. Why did it get such a bad reputation?