New Diet Coke!

[Vincent]

X-ray wrote:
Dammit, Vince, that's another week I'll have that tune in my head :-P

:lol:

:-D

I know this sounds insane, but after I started drinking diet sodas, I find that I actually prefer them to normal sodas.  Trying to drink a regular mountain dew for example tastes like drinking carbonated lemon-flavored syrup.

Kinda like the difference between whole milk and 2%.  I prefer 2% for drinking and cereal, but whole milk for things like Orange Julius drinks.

Wayne

[Karlos]

Wayne wrote:

Trying to drink a regular mountain dew for example tastes like drinking carbonated lemon-flavored syrup.

There's a good reason for that ;-)

I'm sure in typical Karlos fashion, you'll now break down the chemical composition of Mountain Dew but you miss the point.  Until I started drinking diet drinks, I never really noticed what sodas tasted like, just that they were cold, wet, and bubbly.  Now that I've discovered that I like the taste of diet sodas, regular sodas are all but undrinkable.

To see what I mean, over the course of two weeks drink nothing but Diet Coke.  Don't stop drinking sodas, just drink diet instead.  When you pick up your next non-diet soda, all you will taste is sickeningly sweet sugar and syrup.  

Not actually a good taste really.

Wayne

[bjjones37]

Mountain Dew was always my fave, but I cannot drink it because of the caffeine - drives me up a wall. Can't do coffee either but I don't feel like I am missing any thing. I just stick to my diet Lemon-Lime sodas.  Lately my wife has started baking with some special recipes that use concentrated grape juice as a sweetener. Talk about good eatin'!

[Karlos]

@Wayne

Wayne wrote:
I'm sure in typical Karlos fashion, you'll now break down the chemical composition of Mountain Dew

Thank God for that, I thought you were going to suggest something to do with socks :lol:

but you miss the point.  Until I started drinking diet drinks, I never really noticed what sodas tasted like, just that they were cold, wet, and bubbly.

Actually I do know what you mean there. I generally prefered the diet versions of drinks purely because the normal versions used to make my teeth feel weird in addition to the  overwhelming sugary taste.

Now that I've discovered that I like the taste of diet sodas, regular sodas are all but undrinkable.

To see what I mean, over the course of two weeks drink nothing but Diet Coke.  Don't stop drinking sodas, just drink diet instead.  When you pick up your next non-diet soda, all you will taste is sickeningly sweet sugar and syrup.

As I said, there's a good reason for that, and that reason is because this is exactly what they are.

Not actually a good taste really.

Agreed.

[zudobug]

Vincent wrote:
Coke?

Pepsi?

Wimps :-P

Irn-Bru is the drink :-P

Coca Cola and PepsiCo are both very unethical brands. Both support the Bush regime in the states (PepsiCo is number 17 on BoycottBush.nets Top 25 Republican Party donors list having donated $1.9m from 1999-2003.) And both have been boycotted by various groups for various dodgy things pretty consistently for years.

So if you give a rats ass about such things - avoid Pepsi, 7-Up, Tango, Ribena (PepsiCo) and Coca Cola, Lilt, Sprite, Fanta, Dr Pepper, etc, etc (Coca Cola Co.)

A.G.Barr Plc are proper bo ethically speaking so keep drinking yer Irn Bru :-)

And as for mountain dew... the one and only time I tried that stuff it made me feel sick.

Oh, and avoid Lucozade too.

:-D

-zudo

So if you give a rats ass about such things - avoid Pepsi, 7-Up, Tango, Ribena (PepsiCo) and Coca Cola, Lilt, Sprite, Fanta, Dr Pepper, etc, etc (Coca Cola Co.)

Actually, I don't think there's a single brand in most US grocery stores (Including RC and Double Cola) that isn't a subsidiary of the Coca-Cola or PepsiCo.  That may not be the case on a regional level as I'm sure there are "local-brew sodas", but I'm not aware of any here.

Wayne

[Speelgoedmannetje]

only soda drink I occasionally drink is Red Bull
quite a lot caffeine, and it tastes like chewing gum :lol:

[Turambar]

only soda drink I occasionally drink is Red Bull
quite a lot caffeine, and it tastes like chewing gum

Thats nothing, mix it with vodka and it tastes like sick.

[Doobrey]

Whatever happened to those Soda Stream machines?
I`ll never forget the day I experimented and made fizzy milk... not one my stomach will let me forget either :oops:

come now... chemistry 101.  Acids and bases do not mix.  The sole exception seems to be my Orange Julius recipe which mixes OJ / Milk / Water and Vanilla (and tastes yummy)

Wayne

[Doobrey]

Well, I was only 10 at the time..

[Karlos]

Wayne wrote:
come now... chemistry 101.  Acids and bases do not mix.  The sole exception seems to be my Orange Julius recipe which mixes OJ / Milk / Water and Vanilla (and tastes yummy)

Wayne

That sounds pretty ... different?

I'll try anything once. What's the ratios?

[Vincent]

@zudobug

What about Um Bongo?  My favourite soft drink (which I can only buy in the small cartons in a 15pack instead of the litre jugs... thanks Tesco :-x).

Doobrey wrote:
Whatever happened to those Soda Stream machines?
I`ll never forget the day I experimented and made fizzy milk... not one my stomach will let me forget either :oops:

My mum still had our until a couple of years ago when she refound it in the attic :-)

We gave it to a mate who then instantly proceeded to make his Heinz57 variety.  Everyflavour he could get his hands on in the one drink :-D

They did start selling them again a year or two ago, but I don't think they really took off again.  Which is a shame.

[zudobug]

Vince,

What about Um Bongo?

That's Robinsons - a brand owned by Bass Plc. They make donations to the Conservative Party and support oppressive regimes abroad. They also market PepsiCo's drinks in the UK.

-zudo