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Full soft drinks or diet soft drinks?

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  • #122
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    Full-sugar.

    If you're going to do something wrong, do it right. :cool:


  • #123
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    SamHall wrote: »
    Coke zero tastes ten times better than regular coke.

    Ewww, no it doesn't.


  • #124
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    hoodwinked wrote: »
    heavy sugar diet size 8-10 bitches! :P :pac:

    Eh, I wouldn't brag about that! :confused:

    Thin =/= healthy.


  • #125
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    topper75 wrote: »
    Soft drinks are gut rot. And the diet ones are worse again with the aspartame. God bless the little imaginations of those who continue to fool themselves about what they are consuming.

    I haven't seen anyone on this thread claim that these drinks are anything other than junk. :confused:

    Many responders probably only have them the odd time.


  • #126
    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    I like fizzy water sometimes over soft drinks on occasion, it's not carbonation that's all that bad for you, Carbonic acid will melt your teeth is rubbish, it's too weak to do anything much. Sugar does the real damage, brushing your teeth directly after a sugary drink will spread it around, either let saliva do the work or drink water.
    Diet drinks won't do the damage that the sugary ones do. Still, Pepsi with fresh lemon juice is among my favorite drinks.


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  • #127
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,002 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    GarIT wrote: »
    If you're really on a diet drink water.
    I prefer diet water.

    Not your ornery onager



  • #128
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    I'll have a garlic chips, cheese burger, chicken burger and a diet coke.
    I'm watching my weight :cool:


  • #129
    dfx-
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,662 Mod ✭✭✭✭dfx-


    cloudatlas wrote: »
    Spar cola is actually quite nice. Tastes like flat coke.

    I have been taking a liking to it recently. I also have a habit of degassing carbonated soft drinks as they are far nicer without the gas, so this may make sense.


  • #130
    Akrasia
    Registered Users Posts: 22,233 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    I haven't seen anyone talk about the virtues of Lidl Freeland diet cola yet.
    It's 79 cents for 2 litres and it tastes just as good as diet coke


  • #131
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,920 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Akrasia wrote: »
    I haven't seen anyone talk about the virtues of Lidl Freeland diet cola yet.
    It's 79 cents for 2 litres and it tastes just as good as diet coke


    But diet coke doesn't taste good?


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  • #132
    Shenshen
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shenshen


    If I do go for it, I go for the sugar.

    I can't stand the taste of artificial sweeteners, it makes the drink taste like baby sick. Yuch.


  • #133
    Shenshen
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shenshen


    Akrasia wrote: »
    I haven't seen anyone talk about the virtues of Lidl Freeland diet cola yet.
    It's 79 cents for 2 litres and it tastes just as good as diet coke

    That's one of the few complaints I have about Lidl - ALL their drinks, diet or regular, contain artificial sweeteners, Aspartame or Saccharine. And as a result, they all taste like sick. :mad::(


  • #134
    Akrasia
    Registered Users Posts: 22,233 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Does anyone here remember the taste of chewing gum before they brought in artificial sweeteners?

    Does anyone here buy chewing gum with sugar in it anymore?

    I'd say that most people would get used to, and even start to like the taste of artificial sweeteners if they gave them a proper chance

    I also think that a lot of the hostility to sugar free drinks is some kind of 'macho' sillyness where 'diet drinks are for girls' is the underlying reason for the preference the 'manly drinks'


  • #135
    Calibos
    Registered Users Posts: 7,796 ✭✭✭Calibos


    Akrasia wrote: »
    Does anyone here remember the taste of chewing gum before they brought in artificial sweeteners?

    Does anyone here buy chewing gum with sugar in it anymore?

    I'd say that most people would get used to, and even start to like the taste of artificial sweeteners if they gave them a proper chance

    I also think that a lot of the hostility to sugar free drinks is some kind of 'macho' sillyness where 'diet drinks are for girls' is the underlying reason for the preference the 'manly drinks'

    Took me a few hours to get used to the slight taste difference between coke and coke zero. The next day I couldn't tolerate the syrupy sickly sweet real coke. By switching a 3L a day coke habit to zero, I cut 1200kcals from my diet in one fell swoop. With the metabolic syndrome caused by the sugar gone, the symptoms which include excessive thirst abated and I found I was now 'only' drinking 1.5L of the Zero, thus cutting my caffeine intake in half as a side effect.

    Coke Zero and electronic Cigarettes have made my vices safe and saved my a fcuktonne of money.


  • #136
    Katgurl
    Registered Users Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭Katgurl


    Akrasia wrote: »
    Does anyone here remember the taste of chewing gum before they brought in artificial sweeteners?

    Does anyone here buy chewing gum with sugar in it anymore?

    I'd say that most people would get used to, and even start to like the taste of artificial sweeteners if they gave them a proper chance

    I also think that a lot of the hostility to sugar free drinks is some kind of 'macho' sillyness where 'diet drinks are for girls' is the underlying reason for the preference the 'manly drinks'

    I'm not sure. I think it's because of the highlighted dangers around aspartame.


  • #137
    Shenshen
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shenshen


    Akrasia wrote: »
    Does anyone here remember the taste of chewing gum before they brought in artificial sweeteners?

    Does anyone here buy chewing gum with sugar in it anymore?

    I'd say that most people would get used to, and even start to like the taste of artificial sweeteners if they gave them a proper chance

    I also think that a lot of the hostility to sugar free drinks is some kind of 'macho' sillyness where 'diet drinks are for girls' is the underlying reason for the preference the 'manly drinks'

    I don't chew gum a lot, never have, but I've got the same problem with the sweeteners in there.
    They taste like sick, sweet and sour and bitter. It's just a vile taste.


  • #138
    chosen1
    Registered Users Posts: 412 ✭✭chosen1


    Went out today and bought a can of Coke Zero after reading this thread. Didn't realise it was different to diet Coke up to now.

    It certainly is more similar to coke than the diet version. The not so nice sweetner after taste is still there, but it's definatly close. Wonder if this thread did anything to up its sales?


  • #139
    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    I don't think O've seen Fentiman's Cola mentioned here. Not cheap but it's really nice and not very fizzy. Pity they seem to only sell in tiny bottles.


  • #140
    Sciprio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭Sciprio


    I rarely drink that stuff as i prefer my tea but it would have to be a lemon drink. I would pick anything and everything before coke.


  • #141
    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    San Pellegrino Limonata is lovely. Takes my mind off the sunburn.


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  • #142
    Archeron
    Registered Users Posts: 6,160 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Regular coke or Pepsi max, purely on the basis of taste. Diet coke is the most disgusting drink in the universe, I'd rather drink a glass of hobo vomit.


  • #143
    martinedwards
    Registered Users Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭martinedwards


    Caliden wrote: »
    I challenge anyone to be able tell the difference between regular coke and coke zero after an hour in the fridge.
    dunno about zero, but I can spot regular drom diet at any temperature.

    and I prefer the taste of diet.


  • #144
    Cienciano
    Registered Users Posts: 14,223 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Diet coke is nicer imho, normal coke is too thick and sweet. But if you're used to normal coke, diet coke tastes like water.

    Water is obviously the best if you're thirsty, but i find it hard to pay €1.50 for a bottle of water in spar. Should be more like €0.20


  • #145
    renegademaster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,670 ✭✭✭renegademaster


    neither, you can keep your carcinogenic liquids and aspartame ta very much


  • #146
    The Cool
    Registered Users Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭The Cool


    Full fat Coke all the way, anytime I drink Diet coke (or any other diet drink, tbh) afterwards I'm like, WTF did I just put into my body. Not that regular coke is full of natural goodness, but it doesn't have that awful aftertaste that Diet has.
    I quite like Coke Zero though, I find it's near enough to the real thing to drink when I'm craving some but don't want to drink liquid calories. However I went through a phase of drinking a lot of it after it came out and noticed it made my pee smell weird. (Oversharing hooray)

    In all fairness though, water FTW. I've weaned myself off the fizzies a lot, used to drink maybe a litre or more a day but now keep them for treats or as a mixer only. I've gotten into the habit of keeping a pint if cold water on my desk and feel much better for it.


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