SnakePeel said:

i wanted to TRY o.k. soda, but it got yanked before i had a chance!

SnakePeel said:

Isn´t Coca Cola Blak the one that contains a little bit of coffee? It was supposed to be sold in slightly different versions in the USA, Italy, Germany and France but I have yet to see it over here.

Anx said:

Coke Light is simply the European ( in this case, German ) name of Diet Coke.

And Coke Zero seems to use different sweeteners.

But what´s the deal with TAB, a forerunner of Diet Coke....why is that still on sale ? I mean, now that Diet Coke has been around for more than a couple of decades, why does the Coca Cola company still produce TAB ? I heard that TAB still uses saccharine as a sweetener.

Where did you go on vacation ? As far as I know, the name Diet Coke is only used in the USA and Canada.

KoolEaze said:

cause some people from back in the 80's swear by TAB. For real.
Usually frizzy haired TJ MAX wearing women.

For some TAB evokes an image, a life style.

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I read in finacial news that Soft drinks such as Coke have fallen off so much in recent years due to healthier options such as natural juice drinks and bottled waters.


To combat this, companies have began designing drinks with novel qualities to appeal to buyers. Believe this or not. in the next five years there is talk of launching a can on which u can control the level of 'fizz' before u open it! dont ask me how that works! Also, a variety of colour changing drinks etc..

Wouldnt put any of that shit in my mouth. i wouldnt even drink a coke.


im sure it would increase sales though. i can see coke cans exploding over people at their desks now!

Anx, your initial post just cracked me up! "Well, I'm leaving!" I got this wonderful mental image. Someone needs to do that sometime to amuse me.

The drink that is called Diet Coke here in Iceland is NOT the same as Coke Light. If I'm not mistaken, our Diet Coke is the same Diet Coke as when the drink was introduced over here sometime in the 80s. The Diet Coke in the States might have the same taste as Coke Light over here, however. and now we have Coke Zero and TAB is going from the market in Iceland. So there's three different sugar-free Cokes around here. Confused?

i will help u understand Anx

basically

it's all the same shit, packaged in different cans to appeal to different consumers...

purplehippieonthe1 said:

we got coke zero last year I think

ItsOnlyMe said:

I can't stand diet coke

Diet Pepsi for me

Ask Matt....he knows.

Wondering why he hasn´t posted yet...he is THE Coke expert !

KoolEaze said:

"Coke Light" is just a different name for the drink sold in the U.S. as "Diet Coke." Wikipedia claims -- without citing any source, though -- that "diet" has "undesirable connotations" in some countries, hence the alternate name. Any perceived difference in taste between Diet Coke and Coke Light is probably due to the use of different sweeteners (e.g., aspartame, sucralose, cyclamates, acesulfame potassium, or saccharin).

As for one versus zero calories, that's probably caused by different methods of calculating calories, different serving sizes, and/or rounding to the nearest whole number. And in any event, one calorie is insignificant, at least for purposes of food.

Anx said:

I've got a can of OK Soda in Matt's Collection of Random Stuff. (I think it's next to the empty pharmacy bottle that once held 500 Quaaludes.) As I recall, the taste was, well, OK. But I found the 1-800-I-FEEL-OK interactive hotline to be a source of endless entertainment.
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I like the Cherry Coke. They got.

KoolEaze said:

Good question. Wikipedia claims it's partly due to Tab having a cult following and enough people buying it to make continued production worthwhile.

At one time my best guess was that Tab was kept on the market for consumers who can't consume aspartame (e.g., people who suffer from phenylketonuria), since just about every other diet soda in the U.S. switched from saccharin to aspartame in the 1980s. However, the same Wikipedia article says that since 1984, Tab has actually used a blend of saccharin and aspartame... so much for that theory.

Coca-Cola seems to keep some products alive after their popularity dwindles, leaving it up to individual bottlers to decide which drinks they want to make. A perfect example is the 1985 nationwide disaster "New Coke," later renamed "Coke II." The Chicago bottling company kept producing Coke II until 2002, and apparently it's still available in the Federated States of Micronesia, American Samoa, and Quebec.

Anx said:

no caffeine either??


then what are the ingrediants

CinisterCee said:

Coca-Cola Zero does has caffeine.

It tastes more like the Coca-Cola Classic formula than regular Diet Coke which has it's own distinct taste.

I, myself, prefer Coke Zero over Diet Coke and Diet Coke over Coke Classic. I hate having the little sores in my mouth after drinking hard ass regular soda. Only time I drink regular soda is if it's free or no other options are around. lol

matt said:

seriously, people -- aspartame is like drinking poison -- it will mess with your head. google it up if you don't believe me. if you've been drinking a lot of it, stop and watch how much clearer your mind becomes. then go back and try it for a couple days and note the difference. i did, and i'll never go back to it. scary thing that aspartame's hard to stay away from now that it's used as a sweetener in most everything.

plug coke light into socket

turn switch

read book

BlackAdder7 said:

Mach said:

did you see the midori lamps? you take the bottle out of the tin and switch on at the base of it, instant weird alien moodlighting!

matt said:

Hey Matt, while you´re at it , please answer this question for me , since you are the Coca Cola guru...do you actually remember the original taste of original Coca Cola ( Classic ) before the whole 1985 New Coke fiasco, and does the "new" Classic Coke really taste like the "oldschool" classic Coke from the 80´s and 70´s ? Or are my tastebuds just playing tricks on me ?

Thanks in advance.

PS: I´m old enough to remember, but it´s all a bit blurry now.

i'm more confused now about coke light than i was when i started this thread.

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KoolEaze said:

Unfortunately, I was only 7 years old when New Coke came out, so I don't actually remember the taste of pre-1985 Coke. But as for your second question... it depends. Perhaps a timeline is the best way of explaining things:

• Pre-1980: Coke is sweetened with 100% cane sugar
  
• 1980: Coke switches to a mix of 50% cane sugar and 50% corn syrup
  
• 1981-1984: Coke switches again to 100% corn syrup. It's not clear exactly when this happened, and different bottlers may have made the change at different times, but my understanding is that the process was complete by the end of 1984.
  
• April 1985: New Coke, sweetened with 100% corn syrup, is introduced
  
• July 1985: The most recent version of the "old" formula is brought back as "Coke Classic," sweetened with 100% corn syrup
  

(The above applies only to Coke sold in the U.S. The sweetener situation in other countries is different, and New Coke was never released outside of the U.S., Canada, and what is now the Federated States of Micronesia.)

Put another way, the "old Coke" that people remember was (at least) three different formulas, and today's Coke Classic is the final version of "old Coke," which was sold for only a few years at most.

Incidentally, a Coca-Cola executive recently stated that because the price of corn has skyrocketed, they may consider another sweetener switch. (That's ironic -- the change to corn syrup was a cost-cutting measure.) There's speculation that Coke could switch to Splenda ( ) or go back to cane sugar ( ).

our coke is still cane sugar over here, and more carbonated, weird huh!

FunkMistress said:

OK folks.....PSA time.....

the zero in Coke Zero represents the number of carbs in the drink...it is also a regular, not diet, Coke with less sugar (which we all know is DEATH INCARNATE for any weight loss program).....

you may now return to your regularly scheduled threads.....