Werribee store is 24hrs. Does this help you out? 
Compare that with Pepsi Max and Max’s the best flavour.
Sprite has nothing on the juggernaut, mountain dew.
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Buffets have been banned and are unlikely to be allowed any time soon.
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I used to like the ‘real’ coke, but now that I’ve gotten to like Coke No Sugar, I don’t really like the taste of ‘real’ Coke that much anymore.
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Is Coke Life and Pepsi Next still around? I used to drink those back when they were first launched. I haven’t seen them on the supermarket shelves for years.
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Pepsi Max when I feel like a cola or as a mixer with Scotch.
Otherwise I prefer to mostly have flavoured Sparkling Water now. Mount Franklin Lemon or Lime.
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I quit drinking soft drink about seven years ago. Probably mentioned it before here. Used to have around 4-5 a week but gave it up for health reasons.
Don’t really miss it at all now and never tempted really apart from maybe once in a blue moon where I think a ice cold coke on a hot day could be nice.
I’ve probably had soft drinks about 5 times since I gave it up at events where it couldn’t really be avoided or with an alcoholic drink.
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The weight dropped off me when I gave up the Coke. Unfortunately I passed the addiction on to a relative and she ballooned and can’t quit the stuff. I weighed about 100kg in my late teens but I’m bordering on becoming underweight for my height now because my appetite has diminished due to the stress of the past year.
I keep some small cans of the Mt Franklin no sugar, lightly sparkling lime in the fridge for when I feel like something fizzy or I drink soda water with a dash of lemonade on its own or as a mixer if I’m at a bar or restaurant (which hasn’t been often in the past year).
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I quit soft drinks in 2013 and haven’t really had a craving to go back. I do like my kombucha, and there are several sugar free versions that I’ll drink on a regular basis. Can appreciate it’s not to everybody’s taste though!
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I enjoy sparkling water (getting gifted a sodastream has saved a lot of money and plastic!), but I’m not a fan of conventional soft drink, even diet varieties as I find it far too sweet having not drank it in many years. I do like to try out low cal / low sugar fruit sodas though, especially citrus varieties - Capi and Strangelove are particularly good (albeit expensive), and the sugar-free line that Sanpellegrino has started making is also pretty decent (their normal sodas are refreshing, but tend to be too sweet as well). Otherwise I drink cold brew coffee, especially in the summer.
Long gone. I wonder if they survived in any other regions… you hear a lot less about stevia than you used to and it hasn’t even been on the market all that long.
Being an Asian, I actually like bubble tea and its spin-off foam tea. However, even though there are 5-6 bubble tea shops in Glen Waverley, I only had a bubble tea once in the past 10 months.
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I really liked Pepsi Next. Moved to Coke Zero/No Sugar when it got discontinued.
Coke Life rebranded as Coke with Stevia, however I haven’t seen that for a long time.
Pepsi Next was nice, haven’t seen that for years now.
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Pepsi Blue was good
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I wonder if Hungry Jack’s will also transition some of its packaging and advertising to this new style, bar the rejigged logo.
I was a little bit doubtful about the 70s-esque style translating well to other countries, but it does appear that it has already made its way outside of the US, like the UK.
HJ’s current packaging is very similar to that of Burger King’s outgoing branding as it uses the same font and other elements, so maybe in some way it might?
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Yeah, I could easily see Hungry Jacks eventually adopting their own version of Burger King’s updated logo and packaging.
Advertising wise, I’m not sure. While I don’t like it personally, the “Burgers are Better” slogan has been around long enough (more than 25 years, I’m sure) for it to be considered iconic.
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In terms of Advertising, I more so meant in terms of HJ’s using BK’s new custom-made ‘Flame’ typeface, rather than slogan:
Speaking of those, I read earlier today that they had dropped their iconic “The Burgers are better at Hungry Jack’s” slogan briefly in 2011 in favour of “Makes it Better” which was very short lived, until the previous was reinstated in 2013.
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The new BK branding is spot on. Love it.
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I love it too. Always hated the previous one. The swoosh made absolutely no sense.
Bring back Samuel Johnson’s voiceovers and music that you only hear on AM radio 
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