Always refreshing, always Coca-Cola.

[Paelos]

Considering I live in Atlanta, I probably should have had this Coke Zero thing by now, but perhaps they released it during my sabbatical. Was this like a recent thing?

[Kairos]

Considering I live in Atlanta, I probably should have had this Coke Zero thing by now, but perhaps they released it during my sabbatical. Was this like a recent thing?

It was released last month.

It's surprisingly good, I think. It's the best diet soda on the market.

[Trippy]

How about you all just drink a fucking regular coke and quit being pussies about the calories?  At least sugar won't be banned by the FDA five years from now after they discover it makes babies grow tentacles.

Coca-Cola Classic doesn't have sugar. It has high-fructose corn syrup. I'd love some good ol' sugar Coca-Cola.

If you can find some Passover Coca-Cola (probably have to wait till next year, though) it's made with beet sugar and/or cane sugar (check the label, it varies from bottler to bottler).

EDIT -- according to the Wiki, Coke Zero has a blend of aspartame and some other ingredient.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coke_Zero

That sounds interesting. I hate the aftertaste of aspartame and saccharine and avoid diet drinks like the Plague but I'll have to give that stuff a try.

[HaemishM]

How about you all just drink a fucking regular coke and quit being pussies about the calories?  At least sugar won't be banned by the FDA five years from now after they discover it makes babies grow tentacles.

The combo of high fructose corn syrup, caffeine and carbonation is hell on both my digestive tract and my urinary tract, including the all-important prostate that I'm sure will one day grow cancerous and kill me. You'll have to forgive my pussification, since I choose comfort over an upset stomach and fire-spewing bladder.

Bitch.

[ClydeJr]

Coca-Cola Classic doesn't have sugar. It has high-fructose corn syrup. I'd love some good ol' sugar Coca-Cola.

Get some Dr. Pepper from the Dublin Dr. Pepper bottling plant. They still use cane sugar in the drink.

[Merusk]

How about you all just drink a fucking regular coke and quit being pussies about the calories?  At least sugar won't be banned by the FDA five years from now after they discover it makes babies grow tentacles.

Coca-Cola Classic doesn't have sugar. It has high-fructose corn syrup. I'd love some good ol' sugar Coca-Cola.

I thought I was the only one who missed 'true' classic coke.  Maybe it's just because everyone else around here likes Pepsi.   Schild, you think Coke is too sweet.. man I can't imagine what Pepsi would do to you.

[Pococurante]

Pepsi comes across as sickly-sweet salty.  Can't stand it.  Sucked when I worked for their old Foods Systems company.

[HaemishM]

Pepsi is the choice of a new generation. Which is why the future is fucked.

[Paelos]

Pepsi is the choice of a new generation. Which is why the future is fucked.

Brilliant!

[Merusk]

That's fantastic, Haemish.  I need a bumper sticker that says just that.

I've never checked this, but I've heard several times that the sugar content & mix of Pepsi is the same as semen. Puts that 'sweet/salty' taste poco notices, in a whole new light.

[Pococurante]

Excuse me but I must retch now.

[CmdrSlack]

That's fantastic, Haemish.  I need a bumper sticker that says just that.

I've never checked this, but I've heard several times that the sugar content & mix of Pepsi is the same as semen. Puts that 'sweet/salty' taste poco notices, in a whole new light.

Kinda makes you wonder what the mix of Mountain Dew resembles...

[Merusk]

That's fantastic, Haemish.  I need a bumper sticker that says just that.

I've never checked this, but I've heard several times that the sugar content & mix of Pepsi is the same as semen. Puts that 'sweet/salty' taste poco notices, in a whole new light.

Kinda makes you wonder what the mix of Mountain Dew resembles...

Antifreeze... or so the same rumors would have you believe.  That one's definatly not believable, though, since food colorings are somewhat different from industrial dyes.

[Strazos]

That's fantastic, Haemish.  I need a bumper sticker that says just that.

I've never checked this, but I've heard several times that the sugar content & mix of Pepsi is the same as semen. Puts that 'sweet/salty' taste poco notices, in a whole new light.

Kinda makes you wonder what the mix of Mountain Dew resembles...

Um, AMBROSIA?

[Yegolev]

A thread comes along that I might know something about, and I am too busy keeping The Machine running to post.  Looks like you have it covered, though.  The commercial reminds me of two things: the Final Fantasy IX commerical and how the US commericals suck ass.

C2 is/was pretty much half Diet Coke and half regular, near as I could tell.  Other than using the Atlanta Falcons color scheme, it was mostly useless.  Coke Zero tastes almost exactly like regular.  Doesn't matter too much to me, I stick to Dasani.

If you want some cane-sugar Coke, just go to Mexico.

[Teleku]

Two things.  First:

How the fuck is it any of you people can stand diet soda?  In any form (I haven't tried Coke Zero yet, so I guess I'll hold judgment).  Diet coke is the worst fucking liquid I have ever tasted.  I was riding with a friend out in the hills one time when his truck completely died.  We had to walk back 5 miles over hilly terrain in 105 degree weather.  When we finally made it back to the shack on the ranch that had a phone, I was dieing of thirst.  Fairly certain dehydration was setting in.  There was no water or anything at the shack, but half a case of Diet Coke left.  I tried to drink it, but even then, I COULD NOT.  I managed to get two mouth fulls down before the flavor had me retching.  I ended up waiting another hour with my mouth feeling like it was full of ashes, before my step dad could drive out and pick us up, before I drank something real.  For fucks sake, it’s horrible.

Second:
Coke sucks.  There’s a reason it’s used as the base to mix with everything.  It tastes like shit on its own.  Drink Pepsi.



More seriously on the Coke/Pepsi issue, I actually don't mind Coke (I'm a fan of Cola in general), but I have always thought Pepsi was far superior to coke.  Coke tastes way too syrupy.  Feels like it coats your teeth with gunk.  Pepsi always seemed to have a much more crisp and clean flavor to me.

[Llava]

Colas suck.

Lemon Lime, bitches!

[Strazos]

Story

I'm telling you...Coke Light is different...it's the Shiznite.

[Shockeye]

Always refreshing, always Fresca.

[Strazos]

Wanta Fanta, Dontcha Wanta?

[Teleku]

Fanta = Nazi Coca Cola

[CmdrSlack]

Story

I'm telling you...Coke Light is different...it's the Shiznite.

According to the same wiki I linked above, and according to the Coke sites I've found that discuss Coke Lite, it is literally Diet Coke with a different name.  Don't feel bad, I tried Budweiser in Ireland and was convinced it was of better quality than domestic Bud. 

[Paelos]

I think at some point we addressed semen and cola. This thread is over.

[Strazos]

Well, Wiki is wrong, because I tried a Diet back here the day I got back....and it IS different.

...The difference Could be due to the fact that the Coke Light I had was usually from a glass bottle, but the Diet was from a plastic bottle.

[CmdrSlack]

Well, Wiki is wrong, because I tried a Diet back here the day I got back....and it IS different.

...The difference Could be due to the fact that the Coke Light I had was usually from a glass bottle, but the Diet was from a plastic bottle.

My experience with the Coke Light was that it was just about the exact same as Diet Coke.

But I did sort of account for the plastic v. glass aspect as well.  It's why I go to the Mexican grocery store down the street to buy Coke in glass bottles.  Not only is it the oh so kickass cane sugar version, but it's in a glass bottle.  Glass > plastic > cans.

[HaemishM]

Coke in green glass bottles is really the only proper way to drink the stuff. Preferably just cold enough that ice crystals are forming on the bottle. Beer is the same way. I refuse to drink beer in a can, because that shit is just nasty.

Seriously, though, Diet Coke is the devil's urine. Coke Zero tastes nothing like it.

[Rasix]

I think 5% of the fluid running through my body is Diet Coke.   I used to be an avid "NO DIET, NEVER" Coke drinker, but after years of sharing sodas with my wife, drinking her Diet Coke in the fridge, and generally starting to dislike the overly syrupy taste of Coke Classic, I transformed. 

I don't really like sodas as a rule now (prefer iced tea, lemonade, etc), but it's one of the very few that I'll drink nowadays.  That and Diet Dr. Pepper.  I do get blood curdling stares from fat chicks whenever I order a Diet Coke being rail thin and all.

[stray]

I like soda from time to time only because of the "fizz and the burn". As far as I'm concerned, that's even more important than what a soda tastes like. The only reason why I prefer Coke and 7 Up to Pepsi and Mountain Dew is because the latter two are sugared down and flat.

[Signe]

I drink Fiji water.  It's the best.  I might move to Fiji because of the water.  They don't make bubbly Fiji water but if they did I would be all over it. 

You lot will argue anything but you can't argue Fiji water.

[WayAbvPar]

Fiji is surrounded by water- there is an inexhaustible supply!

I am addicted to this-

[Yegolev]

Coca-Cola manufactures Fresca and Fanta.  Dr. Pepper is Schweppes in North America, but Coca-Cola in most other places.

[Trippy]

I'm drinking some Coke Zero as I write this. Still has the artificial sweetner taste to it but there's no strong artificial sweetner aftertaste. It's better than Diet Coke from what I recall but I still wouldn't drink it normally.

[Hanzii]

Coke Light is exactly the same as Diet Coke... Europeans just aren't stupid enough to fall for a cola with the word diet in its name.
(or light just holds the place on sugar free consumer products that diet does in the States... low on fat is also called light, just to confuse things)

And there's no reason to drink bottled water ever. Unless you live in Mexico or some other shithole without clean drinking water - it's just tap water with a nice label and a 10.000% markup.

[Yegolev]

And there's no reason to drink bottled water ever. Unless you live in Mexico or some other shithole without clean drinking water - it's just tap water with a nice label and a 10.000% markup.

More that 10% for Dasani.  But I get it for free.  At home, though?  Tap water.  It should be noted that Dasani does not claim to be distilled or anything, but it is certainly manufactured.

[CmdrSlack]

My fiancee drinks "filtered" water here at home.  It's run thru a Brita.  Just to prove a point, I haven't changed the filter in a looong time and it still tastes the same to her.  I am now convinced that thing is a placebo.

She also prefers diet coke to coke zero.  But then again, she used to be a white sox fan.

Oh, and this emoticon  scares the crap outta me.  At least add the Cthulu kitty one if you're gonna have that.