Comments on: Question.

By: kirkjerk

kirkjerk — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:03:09 +0000

Cherry Coke Zero is really great.

By: Norman Rafferty

Norman Rafferty — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:47:44 +0000

Wow, I guess I’m the first person to mention that, many moons ago, PepsiCo launched “Pepsi One”, a diet soda designed to taste more like Coke.

Here’s a link to Tom Green hawking it, circa 1999:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwfdm0Yba3M

I can’t find the commercial where someone accidentally drinks a can of Pepsi One, thinking he’s really drinking real Coke, but I remember one.

Not to be out-done, of course, Coke launched “Coke Zero”, which is supposed to taste more like regular Coke. It uses a different sweetener.

Personally, I don’t like non-diet soda. It’s so sugary, it makes my teeth hurt. I especially don’t like your cane-sugar Canadian soda.

By: Video Beagle

Video Beagle — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:31:34 +0000

n Britain, those of us who see through the marketing refer to the latter as “Coke Bloke”. It’s basically there so that ‘macho’ men can drink it without feeling as if people think they might possibly resemble less ‘macho’ men.

*****
Marketing, no matter what the official spin is.

Never let pesky facts like that they taste different deter a nice parnoid rant…

Now back to the Wavy Lays vs Ruffles…

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:34:02 +0000

I’m drinking a Coke Zero right now. You have inspired me.

Inspired me to drink cancer!

Ahhh, whatever…

By: Andrew W.

Andrew W. — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:19:39 +0000

In my part of Canada, we are deprived of Mexican Coke. Unfortunately the city I live in isn’t big enough to have any really ethnic neighborhoods with shops and such that cater specifically to said ethnicities.

By: PaulW

PaulW — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:14:12 +0000

The addictive chemicals used in Diet Coke were designed back in the 1980s. The addictive chemicals used in Coke Zero were designed in 2239 and fell through a temporal wormhole to 2004, causing a predestination paradox. THAT’S your difference.

By: Odd King

Odd King — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:51:59 +0000

There’s been so many comments already that I’m sure no one cares any more, but I always thought Coke Zero kind of tasted like someone mixed half regular Coke and half Diet Coke. It doesn’t have quite so much of that rancid, “Diet Coke” taste, but at the same time you can tell it’s not really 100% regular Coke.

I thought that was C2.

By: deadlytoque

deadlytoque — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:28:24 +0000

Canadian Coke is made with a mixture of glucose-fructose (corn syrup ) and real sugar, so depending on how the batch was mixed, the goodness of the Coke tends to be on a spectrum.

Also a good place for cane-sugar Coke: grocery stores in Jewish neighbourhoods (especially around Passover). Cane-sugar is KFP, corn syrup is not.

By: Patrick C.

Patrick C. — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:58:19 +0000

@JohnW

“Coke with real sugar is not that hard to find in the US. Just look for glass bottles with Mexican words on it (a slapped on english label will say it contains fructose, but its lying).”

Seconding this. I can find Mexican Coke (as it is called) in pretty much any area grocery or convenience store. You can recognize them by their half-liter glass bottles.

That said, I live in Texas, so proximity to the border might have something to do with its ready availability. Whether or not it’s so easy to find in, say, Montana is a good question.

It’s worth the hunt, though. It’s vastly superior to regular Coke. I also encourage everybody to try Dr. Pepper with cane sugar, if they should ever get the chance.

By: Ambrael

Ambrael — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:41:13 +0000

I never got the point of diet cola. I happen to like high fructose corn syrup in a drink. The sugar derivatives are at least half the point. If you don’t want actual cola, why even bother? I have similar problems with tofu. I just don’t follow the logic (if that is the right word).

By: kevinmoore

kevinmoore — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:12:43 +0000

What is the difference between having sex and making love? Between knowledge and enlightenment? Between redemption for our sins and a truly good dump?

By: Gloria

Gloria — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:56:45 +0000

I’m kind of ashamed to admit it, but regular Coke tastes a little strange to me now that I’ve weaned myself almost entirely onto Coke Zero.

(And I’m one of those people who has ignored half a case of Pepsi in her fridge while buying new cases of Coke.)

Yeah, it’s marketing. “Diet” anything just sounds obnoxious; I feel self-conscious buying it, akin to ordering a salad, especially as a woman. Plus the Zero can looks cooler.

By: karellan

karellan — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:55:56 +0000

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:19:23 +0000

Coke Zero is delicious and Diet Coke tastes like the metal can it’s packaged in.

By: John W

John W — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:32:36 +0000

@Kid Kyoto

Coke with real sugar is not that hard to find in the US. Just look for glass bottles with Mexican words on it (a slapped on english label will say it contains fructose, but its lying).