diet soda: classic or dud

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Back when I ate massive amounts of junk food, I was really attuned to sugaryness, and could drink diet soda and taste a nasty metallic aftertaste from the sweetener. Now i don't drink sugary soda hardly ever, and i notice nothing. It tastes perfectly delicious when they get the other flavors right (some of them seem to change the flavor formulas.) Plus I gave up coffee except in emergencies, cause the caffiene was too strong. So I substituted diet soda for the caffiene and drink a couple cans a day.

Pluses: It's a tasty way to get hydrated, caffienated and think you're consuming something filling (at least at the moment you drink it.) Zero calories give it kind of a pacifier effect since you can drink it forever without really getting full. Minuses: it might make you farty or give you unpleasant brain tumors and it might not be manly. Still it is classic.

― Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZT!! BZZZZZT!! (Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZ), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic! Consuming anything with no nutritional value gives me hope for humanity.

― mouse, Monday, 26 July 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Totally classic. I grew up on the stuff -- raised by a diabetic. Sugary colas always taste way too sugary and syrupy for me.

See also: Tab: Classic or Dud?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I was raised on diet but sometime in high school (don't really remember when or why) I switched to the real stuff. Now diet tastes like blecchy water. I still drink skim milk though.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

diet soda is classic compared to regular. i've tried to like normal coke for so long but it tastes so grosssss.

― caitlin hell (caitxa), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Used to be addicted--now I think that the stuff is evil because I've become sensitive to the nutrasweet crap.

Not to be a bore, but just thought I'd point out that caffeine dehydrates you.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Total dud. That aftertaste is properly minging. If you want to be healthy why not just drink orange juice?

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The calories and sugar?

― Maneating Leopards of India (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I grew up in a household with a yo-yo dieter mom (who's now a diabetic and, it follows, an Atkins freak) and a health-nut dad, and we never really had any sugary snacks, cereals, or soft drinks around. Most of the people I know who have a taste for super-sweet things are from Cookie Crisp/Mountain Dew kinds of families; I like the occasional super-sweet thing but only ever as an isolated craving and not as a general rule, and I'm sure my upbringing has something to do with that. Moral of the story: I like Diet Coke just fine. It ain't healthful, but I drink a lot of water too so I'm not that worried about kidney stones etc (knock on wood).

― Maneating Leopards of India (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Totally classic. I grew up on the stuff -- raised by a diabetic. Sugary colas always taste way too sugary and syrupy for me.

Roxymuzak stole my explanation. ;)

Seriously, I too was raised by a longtime diabetic (diabetic for 30 years!) and sugary sodas were banned from the house. I was allowed to have orange and grape juice, though, until I hit my late teens, when I started to feel like those two juices were just too sweet for me, when I abandoned them both. (I'm back to drinking juices now, now that there are "light" versions of both.) But anyway, if there weren't any diet sodas around, I'd end up having to forgo sodas altogether, because there would be no way I would drink regular ones.

(Also add me to the "water fans" column, thanks. Water = sweet bliss, esp in the midst of a typical hot TX summer.)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 04:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Eww, you all just reminded me of that sticky cheesy teeth feeling from regular Coke. It makes my teeth hurt. there's another plus for diet Coke.

Just to nit-pick, caffiene is a diuretic, but I heard "they" recently changed opinions and decided it still lets you soak up more water than you lose.

― Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZT!! BZZZZZT!! (Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZ), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I can get used to the taste (though that aftertaste is really rotten), but I can't get used to what it does to my stomach.

Pretty much makes me vomit without fail, and I don't know why.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Now that I'm used to Diet Coke, regular Coke tastes bizarrely of cinnamon. Has anyone else noticed this?

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i sometimes get cravings for a fountain diet coke with lots of ice (diet rite, actually, but it's nearly impossible to get), but i try to ignore them because the shit is just so, so nasty. i'll occasionally have a regular coke if i'm really hungover to settle my stomach, but that's it. i try to stay away from sodas altogether.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

What about C2 peoples?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

is that the low-carb/lower sugar coke?

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

DIET SODA IS NASTY.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, I don't get this thing about regular soda tasting too sweet after drinking diet. Diet soda is sickly sweet, much much sweeter than regular.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

c2 is good!

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I like diet and regular sodas. I just like having something cold and fizzy in my mouth.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic, both diet coke and regular gross are unnatural enough that I don't care and diet coke fools me into feeling like i've had dessert.

― Maria (Maria), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

latebloomer otm. i decided that the harsh acidity is what im after in a soft drink. diet coke fits the bill perfectly.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Tab, people!!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 29 July 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Switched to Diet Coke/ Diet Irn Bru a while back. Don't much like normal Cola/ Irn Bru now.

― C-Man (C-Man), Thursday, 29 July 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

as long as it doesn't have any lime or phony vanilla shit in it I'm okay. The latter gave me hives and the first made me vaguely aroused.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 29 July 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Now that I'm used to Diet Coke, regular Coke tastes bizarrely of cinnamon. Has anyone else noticed this?

There's cinnamon in the formula, IIRC.

I'm told that Sixties-era Diet Moxie tasted like something from the seventh circle of Hell.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Thursday, 29 July 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

diet moxie?!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 29 July 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Diet Moxie = nectar! Diet Moxie! Diet Moxie! Diet Moxie! It's the god of diet sodas!

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 29 July 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Considering that regular Moxie is the anti-christ of normal sodas.

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 29 July 2004 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I like diet A&W root beer. I don't really drink Coke or Pepsi. I occasionally like a good synthetic orange or grape thing, like a Nehi. But generally, I stick to water--Cokes or "sodas" as some call 'em (that's a term that always sounds funny to southerners like me, we pretty much use "Coke" for all soft drinks) are so unecessary, and RC Cola gives you diabetes...

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 29 July 2004 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

is it American? xpost

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 29 July 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, it's a New England thing. It's mildly sweetened (and very mildly by most accounts), brewed by the Monarch company of Worcester, MA, and it's got a very devoted cult following. Every time I buy it I'm told by the salesclerk that I'm the only non-senior-citizen that likes it. It's brilliant, and the package design is second to none.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 29 July 2004 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeremy and Tep, sitting in a tree.... ;)

I love Diet Coke with Lime, BTW. It's my absolute favorite diet drink. In fact, I love adding lime to a lot of diet sodas. Diet 7-Up + a touch of lime juice + plenty of ice = perfect summertime refreshment as far as I'm concerned.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 29 July 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I have got to get my hands on some of this swill if for no other reason besides Diet Moxie sounds awesome.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 29 July 2004 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

'give you unpleasant brain tumors'

does this have an validity

― Gilles Meloche (Gilles Meloche), Thursday, 29 July 2004 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Of course not. The brain tumors I've been blessed with as a result of imbibing diet beverages could only be described as entirely pleasant.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 29 July 2004 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)

The neuroradiology consultants I work for are continually wandering into the office going, 'whoa dude check it out, there's a really unpleasant tumour on this T2-weighted MRI. Far-out white matter lesions'.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 29 July 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

utterly utterly dud, as is anything with Aspartame in it.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 29 July 2004 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

anybody who wants a soda can of moxie need only drop an email with their address, and I'll poot it along next week.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 29 July 2004 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Worcester, Ma kicks ass. We also have Polar Cola. Orange Dry kicks some ass. But Im a big fan of Diet Dr. Pepper. But I've recently quit caffeine so I have no choice.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 29 July 2004 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Orange Dry diet still has quite a bit of flavor.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 29 July 2004 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn right is Many Coloured halo OTm about diet 7-up with lime juice!

I just had some Cherry Crush, regular, for the first time in years. It never was available around where I grew up except in this little family owned grocery and that went out of business long ago. Man is that stuff strong like Vick's. Total syrupy deliciousness. Where do you get a good cherry soda in diet?

― Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZT!! BZZZZZT!! (Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZ), Thursday, 29 July 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

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