Dear Coca-Cola, stop trying to make us think of Coke Zero as your flagship product

dark crystal · 02-03-2019 07:59PM

My taste buds must be dead, as Coke & Coke Zero taste the same to me, as does Lucozade and Lucozade Zero. I like them all, but only drink the zero versions nowadays.

I also have a busybody crystal dangling, salad eating, health freak in work, who yammers on about the evils of sugar and how it's all poison, but especially the fake aspartame sugar. Same miserable witch is the first one up to the table whenever there's free cakes going in the office.

I asked her once which study it was she read that found aspartame to be 'dangerous', but funnily enough, she just muttered something about her faith healer friend saying so.

Capt'n Midnight · 02-03-2019 08:26PM

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My prediction is this: In the near-future the original Coca Cola will be sold in a different coloured can (my bet is on white) with the name being amended to something like Coca-Cola Sugar,

You do realise you are predicting the past ?

I can remember "New Coke"

Coca-Cola management was unprepared for the public's nostalgia for the old drink, leading to a backlash. The company gave in to protests and returned to the old formula under the name Coca-Cola Classic, on July 10, 1985.

Except what they returned didn't taste the same. And they lost more than one life long customer.

Today's Coca Cola is one of man fizzy drinks that have caffeine. It's like what happened to Cadbury's a while back. Something that tasted special is now a generic not worth paying a premium for.

ceadaoin. · 02-03-2019 08:38PM

No nanny state about sugar where I live, classic coke is the main one still. Just had a can of it there, lovely stuff.

I haven't had a diet drink in years, they taste disgusting. And yes, I drink water most of the time, for the couple of times a week that I have a fizzy drink I want sugar! All the nice drinks are ruined in Ireland. Even stuff that isn't labelled as "diet" has sweeteners

Potential-Monke · 02-03-2019 09:02PM

When I started to live on my own in my early to mid-20s, you could say I was addicted to Coca-Cola. I was drinking anywhere between 2 and 6 litres of the stuff a day. All cans, I'd clean out a 24 pack of cans in a couple of days. Especially on days off. So inevitably, I piled on the weight (along with a simply horrendous diet). Years later and i'm 5 stone overweight. I tried a lot and eventually found a PT that worked with me rather than tell me what to do. I was fairly sick of the weight at this stage, and the PT cost €1500 for 3 months, which was part of the reason I actually kept at it as it was so expensive.

One thing he asked me to do, knowing that I was addicted to it and giving it up wouldn't work, he asked me to change to Coke Zero instead. He didn't ask me to cut back, but suggested it would be a good idea. So I changed. Initially, I hated the stuff, and used to always laugh at the people who would go into a chipper and order a large chip, battered burger and a can of diet coke, as if the diet coke would make a difference. Well, it does. To some degree in that specific situation, but in general it makes a massive difference.

I started to like the taste, and while still nothing could beat an ice-cold can of regular Coca-Cola, the Diet was enough while I was on this 3 months course. At the end of it, I said I'd treat myself to a can of regular coke. I couldn't drink it. It was too syrupy. To this day, I can no longer drink a can of regular coke, and if I somehow manage to get some, it leaves a horrible coating of sugar in my mouth, and tastes horrible in comparison. But, I've also changed from Zero to Diet, and it's actually nicer once you're used to it. Can't drink the Zero or regular now. And considering how much sugar is in the regular, I think Coca-Cola pushing the Diet/Zero is nothing but a positive step.

Yeah, it's got aspartame in it, and maybe there are unknown effects from that yet to be discovered. But taking in moderation, it's a definite improvement over the regular stuff.

AllForIt · 02-03-2019 09:44PM

OP the whole point of the sugar tax is to force the companies to do something about promoting and selling highly calorific drinks and from what you said that is exactly what they are doing.

Dear Coca-Cola, stop trying to make us think of Coke Zero as your flagship product

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