Diet Pepsi

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The new Diet Pepsi with Splenda as a sweetener is enough to make me barf.:mad:

I guess I'll have to become a Coke fan.

Anyone else dislike the new Pepsi?

Paul
Salome, AZ
 
I don't always drink soda...

But when I do I prefer Coke :yes:
 
Coke Zero rocks. I can't, for the life of me, figure out why they still make "Diet Coke" when Coke Zero is SO much better.

And, Diet Pepsi has always sucked.
 
As an Atlanta native, I only drink Coke products. That pretty much goes for all of us down here.
 
SoonerAviator said:
Diet anything is pointless. Pepsi>Dr. Pepper>Coke
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lol If you add up the number of diet sodas I've consumed, and substituted sugared soda for them, I would probably weigh 350 pounds.

If they made diet beer that tasted as good as diet soda, I would drink that, too. Sadly, diet beer sucks.
 
Coffee in the morning and water during the day. No sodas, no tea, just water. All day long.

My theory is that if you drink enough of God's fluid during the day then you can drink a little devil's juice at night and break even! :goofy:
 
Artificial sweatners,make you crave sugar.so why go the diet route. Decaf ice tea and ice coffee work for me,
 
Jay Honeck said:
Coke Zero rocks. I can't, for the life of me, figure out why they still make "Diet Coke" when Coke Zero is SO much better.

And, Diet Pepsi has always sucked.
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When I was at Georgia Tech (which is literally right across the street from Coke's Corporate HQ) the father of one of my dorm neighbors was a VP or something at Coke. They had a program where they made up variety 6 packs (Coke, Diet Coke, Caffeine free Coke, Caffeine free Diet Coke, Sprite, Caffeine free Sprite) and gave one to every student in the dorms. The Cokes and Sprites went fast, but when it got to the diet drinks, nobody wanted them. Being poor and thirsty, I ended up with a gazillion of the leftovers (my dorm had 250+ people, most of whom knew I was cheap and thirsty). The first one was awful. The second one was too. The third one, pretty bad. After about 50 of 'em, I began liking them and have been addicted to Diet Coke ever since.

One of my alternate e-mail addresses is "Ineedadietcoke@...", which funny enough, I had before I met SWMBO.

And to answer your question, once you develop a taste for DC (or that crap TAB for that matter) you're there. Ain't gonna change. No doubt CZ tastes more like a regular Coke, but the 30-55 year old generation of Diet Coke drinkers will keep that brand alive for a long time (although CZ is getting all of the new diet drinkers.)

Want any more information? The secret formula? Hint: It is hidden in plain sight...
 
ettsn said:
As an Atlanta native, I only drink Coke products. That pretty much goes for all of us down here.
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Yep, and there are still a few restaurants here that serve Pepsi. I don't get it. I'll just get water if all they have is Pepsi. But I also think the freestyle coke tastes like crap and I drink water at those places too. I have not had the new Pepsi yet, but I'm guessing I wouldn't like it either.
 
I don't see how people can tell the difference between all these cola drinks. I can tell the difference between a diet drink and one with sugar because the ones with sugar taste way too sticky-sweet. But as far as telling one brand from another...
 
Everskyward said:
I don't see how people can tell the difference between all these cola drinks. I can tell the difference between a diet drink and one with sugar because the ones with sugar taste way too sticky-sweet. But as far as telling one brand from another...
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I usually just look at the label...:D

But in all reality I can taste a substantial difference, probably just drank too many of them. I'm sure there are a lot of people who have a hard time distinguishing a cirrus from a Cessna too (like every news station)
 
I'll have one on occasion - though Karen and I try to be good, sometimes they hit the spot.

Often we'll do a fountain drink - 90% diet Come or Pepsi topped off with 10% root beer or Dr. Pepper or similar. Fun to play chemist!

But remember that cola drinks are among those things to avoid if prone to kidney stones.
 
Somedudeintn said:
Yep, and there are still a few restaurants here that serve Pepsi. I don't get it.
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Restaurant chains negotiate national contracts with the soda brands. The deals include pricing, volume, marketing help, volume based rebates, and a host of other things. Pepsi generally offers sweeter deals, because it is seen as something of an also-ran brand. So the restaurant chain has to evaluate the difference between selling a billion Cokes a year at a profit of $0.75 ea or something less than a billion Pepsis at a profit of $0.80 ea. The question is how much the chain anticipates soda sales to drop if they go with Pepsi.

The contracts are generally 5+ year arrangements and the competition between brands at contract negotiation time is brutal.

I think the Freestyle machines suck too. Mainly because they bottleneck the process. Instead of having a 6 valve setup where a couple of people may be able to simultaneously fill their cups, you get one dispenser where it takes 5x longer to complete the process because of all of the decisions involved and the fact that some people are not good at using technology.
 
Somedudeintn said:
I usually just look at the label...:D

But in all reality I can taste a substantial difference, probably just drank too many of them. I'm sure there are a lot of people who have a hard time distinguishing a cirrus from a Cessna too (like every news station)
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I can tell the difference between a Cirrus and a Cessna most of the time but I know people who can reel off the names of airliners taxiing by or military airplanes, and I don't have a clue.
 
I have this issue with intentionally consuming organochlorine compounds. All of them except for sucralose were developed as insecticides, almost all of which have since been banned.

Its chemical structure puts sucralose in the company of such chemical cousins as DDT, DDE, chlordane, aldrin, dieldren, heptachlor, PCBs, and dioxin... not the kind of things that whet my appetite.

Neither do I care that sucralose has the seal of approval of the U.S. government. So did the rest of the organochlorines once upon a time. I avoid it like the plague.

Rich
 
If I drink so much as one soft drink a day, I'll carry five extra pounds around on me.

I avoid them like the plague.
 
Everskyward said:
I don't see how people can tell the difference between all these cola drinks. I can tell the difference between a diet drink and one with sugar because the ones with sugar taste way too sticky-sweet. But as far as telling one brand from another...
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I can clearly tell the difference. Diet Pepsi (my choice) has much less acid than diet Coke.
 
"If you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, do you know what's gonna happen to you?...You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company."
 
I am a Mountain Dew fan. Always have been and probably always will be.

I am down to 1 a day with breakfast (not a coffee drinker), then I switch to Water flavored with MIO.

Lost a couple of pounds since I cut back.

Flav
 
Jay Honeck said:
Coke Zero rocks. I can't, for the life of me, figure out why they still make "Diet Coke" when Coke Zero is SO much better.

And, Diet Pepsi has always sucked.
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This is me. And I second what "ettsn" had to say. Both parents are Atlanta natives. Coke or nothing, although I have gone Diet; Zero is better.

Long live sweet tea!

P.S.--I'd rather go thirsty than drink a Pepsi.
 
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Jay Honeck said:
Coke Zero rocks. I can't, for the life of me, figure out why they still make "Diet Coke" when Coke Zero is SO much better.



And, Diet Pepsi has always sucked.
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Agreed. Zero is the way to go. But we are cutting back in general and I've gone back to coffee for the most part.

kyleb said:
I think the Freestyle machines suck too. Mainly because they bottleneck the process. Instead of having a 6 valve setup where a couple of people may be able to simultaneously fill their cups, you get one dispenser where it takes 5x longer to complete the process because of all of the decisions involved and the fact that some people are not good at using technology.
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Agreed. Not to mention that they're a disgusting mess all the time. I appreciate being able to get the off brand stuff (the fizzy no-cal Dasani fruit things are a nice change of pace) but the machines themselves are gross.

Every place that started with only one now has multiples tucked into every corner because there were lines every day at lunchtime waiting to fill fountain drinks, and these things were backing everyone up for quite some time. Part of the problem is that the touch screen is a stupid design and slow. They've changed the code to get you to the drink selection in two presses but the last guy or gal's
selection is still there when everyone is queued up waiting on the stupid thing, which is a third press. And people have to think about it which adds more time.

Old style fountain had a single "press". Pop the cup under there and walk away. And no stupid deep tub catching piles of spilled ice and drinks under the only fountain so you wouldn't even think of putting the cup down, or the bottom will be a sticky mess.

I've noticed the traditional fountains are fighting back with two or even three drinks available per spigot.

By the time you install three or four Freestyle machines you might as well just have planned to have the "wall of spigots" anyway.
 
Jay Honeck said:
Coke Zero rocks. I can't, for the life of me, figure out why they still make "Diet Coke" when Coke Zero is SO much better.

And, Diet Pepsi has always sucked.
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Zero tastes just like regular Coke, so I drink Diet Coke! If I am out and order a Diet Coke and the server says we have Diet Pepsi, I order water! :yes: Of course those of us in Atlanta know that Pepsi is evil.:D
 
I took a couple of 2 liters back to the store and got my money back.
 
Theres a reason all soft drinks are called a coke in the south. Pepsi is just an off brand.

On that note, I could go for a good glass bottled coke and a handful of peanuts in it.
 
Jay Honeck said:
If they made diet beer that tasted as good as diet soda, I would drink that, too. Sadly, diet beer sucks.
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Have you tried Guiness Kaliber?

Non-alcoholic, only 70 calories and ain't half bad. Better than all of the alcohol lite beers. Nothing like a cold beer on a hot day in the hay field, but alcohol and machinery don't mix. This stuff is surprisingly like a cold beer.
 
I tried Coke Zero one time at a Chili's because they were out of the regular Diet Coke. It was so sweet I couldn't stand it. Yuck! Never again!

Haven't tried the new Diet Pepsi though, at least I don't think so.
 
Chip Sylverne said:
Have you tried Guiness Kaliber?

Non-alcoholic, only 70 calories and ain't half bad. Better than all of the alcohol lite beers. Nothing like a cold beer on a hot day in the hay field, but alcohol and machinery don't mix. This stuff is surprisingly like a cold beer.
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Mary drank Kaliber during her pregnancies, 25 and 23 years ago, respectively. It was the only N/A beer she could stand.

It was...okay.
 
timwinters said:
Coffee in the morning and water during the day. No sodas, no tea, just water. All day long.

My theory is that if you drink enough of God's fluid during the day then you can drink a little devil's juice at night and break even! :goofy:
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Right on all counts! We finally agree on something! :goofy:

Caffeine is not your friend when you have high BP. :rolleyes2:
 
If it's not Dr Pepper, why bother? Especially the DP with real sugar!

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mkosmo said:
If it's not Dr Pepper, why bother? Especially the DP with real sugar!

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Real sugar DP was my favorite. Same with Big Red.

I can't drink soft drinks anymore though.
 
pbramlett said:
"If you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, do you know what's gonna happen to you?...You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company."
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https://youtu.be/RZ9B7owHxMQ

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