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Full soft drinks or diet soft drinks?

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  • #62
    topper75
    Registered Users Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    Proper Coke, none of your diet or zero nonsense.

    Here at Coke we select only the finest sun-ripened cola berries (from our lovingly farmed cola berry trees) and squeeze them that same day for bottling and canning so you can continue to enjoy to super fresh taste of Coca-Cola.

    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.


  • #63
    kc90
    Registered Users Posts: 364 ✭✭kc90


    clappyhappy wrote: »
    You should have an option for neither. Never drink any fizzy drinks. Water the best drink with so many benefits.

    Not what the OP is asking though, so there's that...


  • #64
    Hulk Hands
    Registered Users Posts: 6,013 ✭✭✭Hulk Hands


    I can remember numerous occasions (birthdays, christmas etc) where my mother or friends mothers would buy Pepsi Max thinking it was some cool 'max' version of Pepsi and not realising that it was a diet version that tasted like crap.


  • #65
    gidget
    Registered Users Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭gidget


    Full sugar all the way, never had a taste for the diet stuff.


  • #66
    MonkstownHoop
    Registered Users Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭MonkstownHoop


    Diet drinks do not help you lose weight, also while im here diets are **** too just eat healthy foods and exercise a bit, idiots


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  • #67
    Sofiztikated
    Registered Users Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    MonkstownHoop wrote: »
    Diet drinks do not help you lose weight, also while im here diets are **** too just eat healthy foods and exercise a bit, idiots

    Eat a Snickers, Dan. You turn into a right diva when you're hungry.

    Full fat Coke for me, please. None of this skinny malarkey.

    Can't stand the taste of artificial sweeteners. They taste overly sweet, and it hangs around on my tastebuds for hours.


  • #68
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Jenna Elegant Sauna wrote: »
    just articles on dodgy websites that a lot of people appear to believe for some unknown reason.
    Are you accusing the internet of telling lies? For shame.

    I wouldn't drink a soft drink more than two or three times a month, but when I do it' got to be full sugar, don't see the point in fake versions of things trying to be something else, things like decaffeinated coffee, non alcoholic beer, quorn and methadone. Do the real thing or don't bother.


  • #69
    seven_eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭seven_eleven


    Water all day everyday!


  • #70
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    Akrasia wrote: »
    Fact 6. Diet soft drinks contain a tiny fraction of the sugar content of regular soft drinks and taste very similar (in some cases, almost identical)

    No they dont, I have yet to taste a diet version of a soft drink that doesnt make me wonder wtf it is I'm drinking. Supposedly coke zero does but it is always said by people who just drink coke zero. The pepsi i get in a cinema in galway tastes more like coke than diet coke.


  • #71
    Sofiztikated
    Registered Users Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    shruikan2553 wrote: »
    No they dont, I have yet to taste a diet version of a soft drink that doesnt make me wonder wtf it is I'm drinking. Supposedly coke zero does but it is always said by people who just drink coke zero. The pepsi i get in a cinema in galway tastes more like coke than diet coke.

    Now to be fair, I'm a hardened Coca Cola drinker, and I think Coke Zero is an acceptable substitute, when full fat isn't available.


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  • #72
    focusvsastrata
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10 ✭focusvsastrata


    Proper drinks all the way. I find that in general diet drinks just make me more thirsty. Also I can tell the difference between coke zero and normal coke easily.


  • #73
    Christ the Redeemer
    Registered Users Posts: 463 ✭✭Christ the Redeemer


    Neither.


  • #74
    garv123
    Registered Users Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭garv123


    I get diet coke in McDonalds so I dont feel bad about getting 2 large big mac meals.


  • #75
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Celly Smunt wrote: »
    Coke Zero does not taste anything like real coke,anyone who says it does is talking bullshit BULL-FUCKING-SHIT!

    Obviously everyone has different tastes. I love Coke, but I've always hated Diet Coke. It tastes nothing like Coke IMO. Started drinking Coke Zero about a year ago and I honestly can't tell the difference between that and Coke. It's what I always buy if I'm getting a soft drink. I do find it slightly fizzier than regular Coke but it otherwise tastes exactly the same to me.


  • #76
    hardCopy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    hoodwinked wrote: »
    i don't think its mis information but more sugar has been around longer therefore its effects are better known,


    aspartame hasn't been around that long so they are still discovering possible health risks, they will probably continue to find and disprove theories for decades yet.

    It's up there with MSG and mobile phones. Massive scaremongering, tons of research and nobody has ever shown it to be harmful. The controversy is bullsh1t.


  • #77
    Vito Corleone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭Vito Corleone


    I'd probably have about 5 cans of Coke a week, I love the stuff. There has definitely been a reduction in the quality of Coke over the last while but it's still number one for me. Pepsi is good too, however, those other brands such as American Cola are best kept away from.

    Diet Coke and Coke Zero are disgusting and I lose a lot of respect for those who drink them.
    paulbok wrote: »
    Celly Smunt wrote: »
    Coke Zero does not taste anything like real coke,anyone who says it does is talking bullshit BULL-FUCKING-SHIT!
    Your opinion.

    Not really, the poor quality taste of Coke Zero is fairly well documented tbh. It would be the opinion of the majority of Coke drinkers.


  • #78
    Gongoozler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    Someone mentioned a caffeine free version of coke...if such a thing exists, can you please tell me where I can get it?

    Don't like to say this but lol at all the people arguing against (and for) aspartame. I don't go reading ****e articles on the matter, just go straight to the source of the people who have done the trials, everything else is just nonsense. I don't think there can be that many people under the illusion that you'll lose weight simply by drinking diet minerals instead of regular..? That'd be amusing.

    I drink diet because I don't want all the calories. If anything comes up that proves aspartame and Acesulfame K are dangerous in some way that I have to worry about then I'll probably cut them out. I don't generally drink minerals except at the weekends, if out and about, so don't have too much to worry about probably.


  • #79
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Diet drinks are full of awful crap that are supposed to be really harmful to your body.


  • #80
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    hardCopy wrote: »
    It's up there with MSG and mobile phones. Massive scaremongering, tons of research and nobody has ever shown it to be harmful. The controversy is bullsh1t.

    But MSG makes chinese foods taste so damn good!!!


  • #81
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Gongoozler wrote: »
    Someone mentioned a caffeine free version of coke...if such a thing exists, can you please tell me where I can get it?
    I've seen it in loads of places. I'd be shocked if you're local Dublin supermarket didn't stock some. I've seen it in supervalu.


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  • #82
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    ScumLord wrote: »
    I've seen it in loads of places. I'd be shocked if you're local Dublin supermarket didn't stock some. I've seen it in supervalu.

    Isn't Coke zero meant to be caffene free?


  • #83
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Vito Corleone wrote: »
    I'd probably have about 5 cans of Coke a week, I love the stuff. There has definitely been a reduction in the quality of Coke over the last while but it's still number one for me. Pepsi is good too, however, those other brands such as American Cola are best kept away from.

    Diet Coke and Coke Zero are disgusting and I lose a lot of respect for those who drink them.



    Not really, the poor quality taste of Coke Zero is fairly well documented tbh. It would be the opinion of the majority of Coke drinkers.

    Not really, since the sales have increased steadily (double digits % increase each year) over the past 5 years.


  • #84
    Gongoozler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    ScumLord wrote: »
    I've seen it in loads of places. I'd be shocked if you're local Dublin supermarket didn't stock some. I've seen it in supervalu.

    Haven't been keeping an eye out or anything, but nope hadn't noticed it anywhere. Is it regular coke, just a caffeine free version?


  • #85
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Gongoozler wrote: »
    Haven't been keeping an eye out or anything, but nope hadn't noticed it anywhere. Is it regular coke, just a caffeine free version?
    That's what I thought, I thought it had a black and gold label.
    af_thefragile wrote: »
    Isn't Coke zero meant to be caffene free?
    Well there you go then.


  • #86
    Gongoozler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    Nah, I've checked it, it's not.


  • #87
    Vito Corleone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭Vito Corleone


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    Not really, since the sales have increased steadily (double digits % increase each year) over the past 5 years.

    When you consider the fact that sales for normal Coke is over twice that of Coke Zero, it's fair to say that normal Coke is much more popular. There has been surveys and tests done on the taste and they have shown that normal Coke is nicer tasting to the majority of people.


  • #88
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Well the only reason I drink coke is for the caffene. If I want a light kick, I'll grab a coke. If things are bad and I need a nice heavy dose of caffene, then I'll grab a can of Red Bull! Don't really like coffee. Always end up burning my tongue and takes too long to drink...


  • #89
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Vito Corleone wrote: »
    When you consider the fact that sales for normal Coke is over twice that of Coke Zero, it's fair to say that normal Coke is much more popular. There has been surveys and tests done on the taste and they have shown that normal Coke is nicer tasting to the majority of people.

    Sales for Coke are probably twice that of a huge amount of popular drinks, that doesn't mean the other drinks aren't performing well.

    Again, a quick google doesn't back up what you're saying. Any Coke Zero taste tests that I've found have most people saying that they can't tell the difference.

    Saying that you lose respect for people who prefer diet or Zero to regular coke is very silly!


  • #90
    Vito Corleone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭Vito Corleone


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    Sales for Coke are probably twice that of a huge amount of popular drinks, that doesn't mean the other drinks aren't performing well.

    I never said it wasn't performing well, I just said it's fairly well known that normal Coke is more popular due to it's taste (which it is).
    Saying that you lose respect for people who prefer diet or Zero to regular coke is very silly!

    That was meant in jest! :p


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  • #91
    baboo800
    Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭baboo800


    Cherry coke kicks ass


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