Nestea to be discontinued in Canada.

[Demonmic03]

A loss for the culture if I Must say so.

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[bluechemtrails]

This already happened six years ago in Europe. No real loss, there are many interesting varieties of Fuze Tea, e.g. raspberry-mint or mango-camomile  (I don't drink this over-sugared stuff anyway).

[ultrablvd]

when i used to work at a popular UK coffee shop chain they got bought out by the coca cola company just before i left and they changed all the own branded teas to fuze teas. they tasted gross and i stopped drinking peach iced tea...

 

everything coke touches turns to dust #pepsisupremacy

[Embach]

14 minutes ago, bluechemtrails said:

This already happened six years ago in Europe. No real loss, there are many interesting varieties of Fuze Tea, e.g. raspberry-mint or mango-camomile  (I don't drink this over-sugared stuff anyway).

true but i noticed that this or last year nestea came back

[bluechemtrails]

I'm not sure, but I think Fuze tea contains real fruit juice while Nestea has just aromes, so it tastes less artificial.

[beowoof]

Okay so this actually really upset me lol. But I did some googling and it's a weird situation. Apparently Coca Cola owns the recipe for Nestea while Nestle owns the brand, they used to work together to make it but now the two companies are separating. Coca Cola could use the original Nestea formula with the different Fuze branding, but it isn't clear if that is what is happening because some comments swear they taste identical and others say that they taste completely different. I haven't tried Fuze so I don't know. But Nestle has licensed the Nestea branding to Keurig Dr. Pepper, who are going to continue to produce Nestea but they can't use the original formula. The new formula could taste different, but they are probably going to try to make it taste as close as possible to the original. You aren't allowed to trademark a taste, so as long as they do their own research and development and create their own, new formula it could potentially end up being pretty much identical to the Coca Cola version. I have my fingers crossed!