[quidnunc]

Quote:

Road construction. It can be a pain, but the end is worth it. You've got a choice: You can complain about lousy roads or you can complain about construction to fix them — it's not fair to complain about both!

Indeed, but that won't stop the kvetchers.

[Cecily]

"It's a mystery to me why people drink regular soda, frankly; if you're supposed to consume no more than 2,500 calories a day, it doesn't make sense to take half of them in the form of high-fructose corn syrup. You might as well just implant those jiggly liter bottles in your belly and take the stuff through the stomach lining."


Amen! If you are a woman, your daily calorie intake should be closer to 1,500 if you aren't that active. If you want to lose some weight, try going cold turkey on anything containing high-fructose corn syrup, and go easy on the cane sugar as well.

[beezdotcom]

This review just confirms to me that taste buds vary more in the interpretation of diet drinks than regular soft drinks.

I like regular Coke. I hate Diet Coke. I think Coke Zero tastes amazingly close to regular Coke. However, I know people who think Diet Coke tastes the same as regular Coke. Some of those people like Coke Zero, and some think it tastes awful. Some can't tell the difference between the three.

Now that there's Coke Zero, I'll probably never drink another Diet Coke. And there are Diet Coke drinkers who will never like Coke Zero. It makes me wonder if yet another formulation would satisfy a THIRD constituency of dieting Coke drinkers who don't like either Coke Zero or Diet Coke.

[Lokibob]

You obviously are not aware of my diet rules:

A diet coke and a Milky Way balances each other out, no calories.

Broken Oreos contain no calories, they leak out of the broken ends. Eat them with no fear.

Always put your scale on the "NEGATILE". That is the tile in the bathroom that the scale reads one pound less than any other tile.

[Last Dakotan]

Do they still sell Coke C2?

[Constitution Day]

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[Petronski]

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

One of these days, restaurants are going to figure out that sometimes people are willing to buy a diet soft drink that is caffeine-free. I drink Diet Coke all the time, but occasionally I'd like to do without the caf. In a restaurant, I have to choose between diet and decaf.

Ah, well. In the grand scheme of things, I've lived several decades with this injustice, and I suppose I'll survive a few more.

[Aquinasfan]

I'm talking about the stuff we buy at Target because it's three bucks for a 12-pack.

Now you're talking. But I just got five 12-packs for five bucks this weekend at Shaws, including a 12-pack of Coke Zero. I like it. Hard to tell the difference between it and Diet Coke, except the initial sip tastes a little bit more like real Coke.