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Ain't nothing like the real thing
May. 8th, 2005 11:06 pm(will update on our weekend tomorrow - too darn tired and emotionally exhausted to deal with it now)
We discovered last week that our local store has Diet Coke with Splenda in cute little 12 ounce bottles. This excited me greatly, since I've always wanted to be able to keep up with my Coke habit without having to worry about the sugar. Unfortunately, Diet Coke has always tasted like malted battery acid with a chalk chaser to me, so I've been hoping ever since Splenda came on the market that Coke would see the light and start using it.
So, with baited breath, we bought two bottles and tasted them.
Well, I will give them credit. It certainly didn't have the awful Nutrasweet aftertaste. And it didn't taste like a diet cola. If you had given it to me in a blind taste test and asked me if it were diet, I would have been hard pressed to decide if it was.
Unfortunately, it just didn't taste like Coke. It was basically what Diet Coke would taste like if you removed the Nutrasweet and put in a better sweetener; it was malted battery acid without the chalk chaser.
Sadly, I'm not quite the big fan of malted battery acid, so I won't be partaking of more Diet Coke with Splenda. I know from experience that my inability to give up Coke stems from the fact that I really do like the taste of it and any attempts to get myself to like something else that doesn't taste as good is doomed to failure (Diet Rite comes to mind - it's a perfectly good beverage if you like something that tastes like a thin version of Pepsi. I don't like actual Pepsi, so a watered down version of it that doesn't even have the redeeming virtues of caffeine or sugar just doesn't do it for me). I really don't get why Coke doesn't just try making a diet version of Coke that actually tastes like Coke. Dr. Pepper is constantly advertising about how their diet version is so constantly evolving into tasting like the real thing that shortly you will only be able to tell the difference through DNA testing. But then again, I suppose Coke executives proved nearly twenty years ago that they were clearly drinking something far more exotic than what they offer for sale to the general public, so I suppose their thought processes are far too esoteric for us mere mortals who don't consume hallucinogens to understand.
We discovered last week that our local store has Diet Coke with Splenda in cute little 12 ounce bottles. This excited me greatly, since I've always wanted to be able to keep up with my Coke habit without having to worry about the sugar. Unfortunately, Diet Coke has always tasted like malted battery acid with a chalk chaser to me, so I've been hoping ever since Splenda came on the market that Coke would see the light and start using it.
So, with baited breath, we bought two bottles and tasted them.
Well, I will give them credit. It certainly didn't have the awful Nutrasweet aftertaste. And it didn't taste like a diet cola. If you had given it to me in a blind taste test and asked me if it were diet, I would have been hard pressed to decide if it was.
Unfortunately, it just didn't taste like Coke. It was basically what Diet Coke would taste like if you removed the Nutrasweet and put in a better sweetener; it was malted battery acid without the chalk chaser.
Sadly, I'm not quite the big fan of malted battery acid, so I won't be partaking of more Diet Coke with Splenda. I know from experience that my inability to give up Coke stems from the fact that I really do like the taste of it and any attempts to get myself to like something else that doesn't taste as good is doomed to failure (Diet Rite comes to mind - it's a perfectly good beverage if you like something that tastes like a thin version of Pepsi. I don't like actual Pepsi, so a watered down version of it that doesn't even have the redeeming virtues of caffeine or sugar just doesn't do it for me). I really don't get why Coke doesn't just try making a diet version of Coke that actually tastes like Coke. Dr. Pepper is constantly advertising about how their diet version is so constantly evolving into tasting like the real thing that shortly you will only be able to tell the difference through DNA testing. But then again, I suppose Coke executives proved nearly twenty years ago that they were clearly drinking something far more exotic than what they offer for sale to the general public, so I suppose their thought processes are far too esoteric for us mere mortals who don't consume hallucinogens to understand.
