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Title: Interesting Judge decision on 5pm Dawson Feud
Post by: adamjk on April 07, 2004, 05:32:38 PM
During the Fast Money round, one of the questions was: Name a good drink for dieters. The second person, said Diet Pepsi. It didn't gain any points. The #1 answer was Diet soda. Now correct me if I am wrong, but isn't Diet Pepsi and Diet Soda more or less the same thing? It didn't matter however, as the family won the money anyway, it just surprised me.
Title: Interesting Judge decision on 5pm Dawson Feud
Post by: clemon79 on April 07, 2004, 05:39:41 PM
[quote name=\'adamjk\' date=\'Apr 7 2004, 02:32 PM\'] During the Fast Money round, one of the questions was: Name a good drink for dieters. The second person, said Diet Pepsi. It didn't gain any points. The #1 answer was Diet soda. Now correct me if I am wrong, but isn't Diet Pepsi and Diet Soda more or less the same thing? It didn't matter however, as the family won the money anyway, it just surprised me. [/quote]
 What did the first person say?

Usually, they would take that, give them the credit for "diet soda", and specify that they were doing so. Maybe they felt that Pepsi was too small of a subset of "soda".
Title: Interesting Judge decision on 5pm Dawson Feud
Post by: adamjk on April 07, 2004, 05:41:01 PM
The first person said tab. Have no idea what that is though.
Title: Interesting Judge decision on 5pm Dawson Feud
Post by: JayC on April 07, 2004, 05:44:43 PM
Tab is an old soda from the 70s

Anyway, shouldn't they have asked that person to give a more judgeable answer?  But, I guess they should have counted all diet brand names as diet soda...
Title: Interesting Judge decision on 5pm Dawson Feud
Post by: chris319 on April 07, 2004, 06:01:36 PM
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Anyway, shouldn't they have asked that person to give a more judgeable answer?
How do you do that in 20 seconds?

Did they match Tab and diet soda? Tab and Diet Pepsi both match "diet soda" so the second player should have been buzzed.
Title: Interesting Judge decision on 5pm Dawson Feud
Post by: adamjk on April 07, 2004, 06:22:10 PM
I imagine if they were to have done that, they would have done it after he had finished. And no, they did not match the two.
Title: Interesting Judge decision on 5pm Dawson Feud
Post by: inturnaround on April 07, 2004, 09:18:02 PM
TaB is a product from Coca-Cola.  It was the precursor to Diet Coke. The main difference between the two is that Diet Coke uses NutraSweet (aspartame) and TaB uses saccharin. (Except for Diet Coke from the fountain, that does use saccharin for production reasons)

TaB is still sold, though in far less places than it did in the 70s and early 80s. Each Coke bottler decides independently if they will make TaB.
Title: Interesting Judge decision on 5pm Dawson Feud
Post by: mctoyboy on April 07, 2004, 09:41:20 PM
Remember those hourglass promo Tab glasses that sucked to clean? =)
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Title: Interesting Judge decision on 5pm Dawson Feud
Post by: Don Howard on April 07, 2004, 11:14:01 PM
Was Tab #1? Or was it Fresca?
Title: Interesting Judge decision on 5pm Dawson Feud
Post by: aaron sica on April 07, 2004, 11:44:50 PM
[quote name=\'adamjk\' date=\'Apr 7 2004, 04:41 PM\'] The first person said tab. Have no idea what that is though. [/quote]
 No offense to you at all, but you're making me feel *real* old at this moment...;)
Title: Interesting Judge decision on 5pm Dawson Feud
Post by: Dbacksfan12 on April 08, 2004, 01:22:34 AM
[quote name=\'adamjk\' date=\'Apr 7 2004, 04:32 PM\'] During the Fast Money round, one of the questions was: Name a good drink for dieters. The second person, said Diet Pepsi. It didn't gain any points. The #1 answer was Diet soda. Now correct me if I am wrong, but isn't Diet Pepsi and Diet Soda more or less the same thing? It didn't matter however, as the family won the money anyway, it just surprised me. [/quote]
I guess the argument that could be made is that "Diet Pepsi" [Wasn't it still Pepsi Free then anyhow?] is a diet cola, while a "diet soda" could be anything from 7up to Cheerwine.

That's how I see it, anyhow.

OT: For those who hadn't heard of Tab, here you are: http://home.epix.net/~tjwagner/tab.html (http://\"http://home.epix.net/~tjwagner/tab.html\")
Title: Interesting Judge decision on 5pm Dawson Feud
Post by: zachhoran on April 08, 2004, 07:50:11 AM
[quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'Apr 8 2004, 12:22 AM\']
I guess the argument that could be made is that "Diet Pepsi" [Wasn't it still Pepsi Free then anyhow?] [/quote]
 Pepsi Free and its sister Diet Pepsi Free (Pepsi sans caffeine, now known as Caffeine-Free Pepsi) didn't debut until 1982, the Feud episode in question was from 1977. Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Light were on store shelves in 1977.
Title: Interesting Judge decision on 5pm Dawson Feud
Post by: Card Shark on April 08, 2004, 10:24:28 AM
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Apr 8 2004, 06:50 AM\'] [quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'Apr 8 2004, 12:22 AM\']
I guess the argument that could be made is that "Diet Pepsi" [Wasn't it still Pepsi Free then anyhow?] [/quote]
Pepsi Free and its sister Diet Pepsi Free (Pepsi sans caffeine, now known as Caffeine-Free Pepsi) didn't debut until 1982, the Feud episode in question was from 1977. Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Light were on store shelves in 1977. [/quote]
 Yes, and for those curious, Pepsi Light is our current version of Pepsi with lemon. I remember it being a turquoisi-light blue can.
Title: Interesting Judge decision on 5pm Dawson Feud
Post by: BrandonFG on April 08, 2004, 12:24:27 PM
[quote name=\'Card Shark\' date=\'Apr 8 2004, 09:24 AM\'] [quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Apr 8 2004, 06:50 AM\'] [quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'Apr 8 2004, 12:22 AM\']
I guess the argument that could be made is that "Diet Pepsi" [Wasn't it still Pepsi Free then anyhow?] [/quote]
Pepsi Free and its sister Diet Pepsi Free (Pepsi sans caffeine, now known as Caffeine-Free Pepsi) didn't debut until 1982, the Feud episode in question was from 1977. Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Light were on store shelves in 1977. [/quote]
Yes, and for those curious, Pepsi Light is our current version of Pepsi with lemon. I remember it being a turquoisi-light blue can. [/quote]
 .........and, umm, I remember the dismal failure known as Crystal Pepsi, c. 1992.

ObGameShow: Shasta was a popular game show consolation soda.
Title: Interesting Judge decision on 5pm Dawson Feud
Post by: Steve Gavazzi on April 08, 2004, 12:31:43 PM
Okay, ya got me.  Being a big fan of TVLand, I thought I'd be able to get through this whole thread without doing something like this...but what the heck is Cheerwine?

And I liked Crystal Pepsi...
Title: Interesting Judge decision on 5pm Dawson Feud
Post by: Dbacksfan12 on April 08, 2004, 12:57:31 PM
[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' date=\'Apr 8 2004, 11:31 AM\'] Okay, ya got me.  Being a big fan of TVLand, I thought I'd be able to get through this whole thread without doing something like this...but what the heck is Cheerwine?

And I liked Crystal Pepsi... [/quote]
 Apologies for dragging this so far off topic....

Cheerwine is a soda, produced in the eastern and southern United States.  It has a unique, burgundy-cherry flavor that is very good.

http://www.cheerwine.com (http://\"http://www.cheerwine.com\")
Title: Interesting Judge decision on 5pm Dawson Feud
Post by: aaron sica on April 08, 2004, 01:10:17 PM
[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Apr 8 2004, 11:24 AM\'] .........and, umm, I remember the dismal failure known as Crystal Pepsi, c. 1992.
 [/quote]
 To this day whenever I hear "Right Now" by Van Halen, it reminds me of Crystal Pepsi (it was played in commercials for CP).

ObGameShow (stretching the limits of it!) - Van Halen's Eddie Van Halen is the husband of Valerie Bertinelli, who played $20,000 Pyramid.
Title: Interesting Judge decision on 5pm Dawson Feud
Post by: Fedya on April 08, 2004, 01:23:22 PM
[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Apr 8 2004, 11:24 AM\'] .........and, umm, I remember the dismal failure known as Crystal Pepsi, c. 1992. [/quote]
 I preferred the Saturday Night Live parody, for Crystal GRAVY.  :-)
Title: Interesting Judge decision on 5pm Dawson Feud
Post by: JerrysFeudinAgain on April 13, 2004, 10:16:13 PM
This whole thread is becoming very flat!

*ducking*

I guess Jack Barry would've said something like that on Joker's Wild!

BTW Pepsi Blue RULED!
Title: Interesting Judge decision on 5pm Dawson Feud
Post by: Steve Gavazzi on April 14, 2004, 12:46:04 AM
[quote name=\'JerrysFeudinAgain\' date=\'Apr 13 2004, 10:16 PM\'] BTW Pepsi Blue RULED! [/quote]
 Yes!  I knew I couldn't be the only person on the planet who liked that stuff! :-)