Diet Cherry Coke

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Quite possibly the greatest drink I've ever had the pleasure of pouring over my taste-buds...

Unlike "Coke Zero" which is so disgusting I actually felt sick after drinking it. I have to know that others have felt similarly after befouling their mouths with this, the most vile of all soft drinks.

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Turambar wrote:
I've been waiting on diet cherry coke for a long time my pleasure at its arrival is only lessened by its poor availability in local shops.

Yeah, It's been a bit hard to find here in London... as soon as a shop gets a delivery of Diet Cherry Coke, it sells out within a couple of days.

Not tried coke zero myself but a friend claims it tastes just like diet coke, im not sure i believe him since he doesn't tend to drink diet coke.

Imagine you get some fizzy water, flavour it with vanilla and mint, then add some vinegar... Viola! Coke Zero... All the shops are stocked to the celling with this stuff... no one seems to like it.

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aye, indeed, but sadly Beer and work are often (though not always :-D ) mutually exclusive... just Diet Cherry Coke is required.

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Karlos wrote:
Having seen first hand the effects of a coca-cola concentrate spillage at the docks of my home town as a child, I have not felt inclined to drink coca cola in any way shape or form.

Yes, yes... I too would have been scared by such a traumatic event... To experience the loss of the precious liquid may well have pushed me to the... er... dark side... pepsi :cry:

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Cymric wrote:
@KArlos:

Reminds me of a friend of mine, who likes to point out that orange juice concentrate is handled as a hazardous and toxic chemical, and is shipped in specifically designed ships and containers. The stuff has a pH of about 0.5.

Nothing compared to Pineapple juice concentrate (Unpasturised)!!!

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Cymric wrote:

Bloodline, what is the pH of pineapple juice concentrate, then? Pineapple on its own doesn't taste all that sour to me.

It gets to be about as acidic as as orange juice, but it also conatins bromelain (various proteases) which makes it pretty lethal stuff...

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Benzene... Mmmmm, Aromatic! :-D

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cyclobutadiene... tasty... hey, where'd it go?? :-o ;-)

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Karlos wrote:

Hyperspeed wrote:

And back to soft drinks - what is an emulsifier, what is acesulfame, how does a 'widget' work in beer cans and just who sells/regulates the E numbers?

Answers on a postcard!

Well, an emulsifier is simply any substance that allows you to mix two normally immiscable liquids, eg hydrophillic and hydrophobic. You'll find them in all sorts of things from ice cream to moisturising cream...

Acesulfame-K is a sweetner. The "Widget" is a small presurised liquid nitrogen canister, with a strees point at the top which breaks when the pressure outside gets too low (ie you open the can). The nitrogen then sprays through a tiny hole in the top releasing millions of tiny bubbles into the beer.

E numbers are regulated by the Codex Alimentarius Commission. http://www.codexalimentarius.net/web/index_en.jsp

You really do ask very basic questions... :-(

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Hyperspeed wrote:
So if you collected enough widgets you could theoretically make a very unpleasant potion that freezes everything on contact?

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You really do ask very basic questions...

Doesn't someone's signature say "The only stupid question is a question not asked?"

The quote is wrong... "The only stupid question is one asked by an idiot." :-D

I never said your questions were stupid. And, statements don't need question marks ;-)

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Check out those double bonds on each of the Oxygens... that's one stable little molecule, photosynthesis is a complex process that requires a lot of enery... best leave it to the plants.

BTW, you do realise that the big orange thing under the space shuttle is basicly a big tank full of pure liquid oxygen (and hydrogen...).

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Ian-uk wrote:
i'm hooked on the stuff since my girlfriend bought me a bottle by mistake.

Yup... I think they must have put some good stuff in there...