So what exactly is the differance between Diet Coke and Coke Zero?

[gingerjedi]

Nothing, they both taste like tulipe, as does all Coca-Cola. If it hasn't actually got kola nuts in it (there's only one brand that does and it's expensive and hard to find) it has no place on a real contractor's drinks menu.

And the same goes for Sprite.

So what should an aspiring young contractor be drinking?

I drink Becks and £3.99 bottles of red wine, I wouldn’t touch the £2.99 rubbish, and I also drink pimms in the summer.

[DaveB]

OK, I was actually bored enough to go and find out about it. As far as I can tell it goes like this.

Diet Coke = New Coke sweetened with aspartame instead of corn syrup.

Coke Zero = Classic Coke sweetened with aspartame and acesulfame potassium.

Classic Coke = The stuff they sell today in the red cans, original syrup sweetened regular coca cola.

New Coke = The failed relaunch of the brand, with a new formula but still syrup sweetened, that was released in 1985 and died on it's arse. Apparently despite the fact that the focus groups it was tested on said it tasted better no one wanted it and the public demanded the old coke back.

Interestingly enough Diet Coke was released 2 years earlier than New Coke and succeeded despite, or perhaps because of, being based on the new formula.

Coke zero is apparently aimed at the same young male market as pepsi max, Diet coke is aimed at the female market.

Since I am neither a young male nor a female of any description I'll stick to the neat Scotch in future

[Lucifer Box]

So what should an aspiring young contractor be drinking?

I drink Becks and £3.99 bottles of red wine, I wouldn’t touch the £2.99 rubbish, and I also drink pimms in the summer.

Dom Perignon 1995 is drinking very well at the moment

[Xenophon]

Dom Perignon 1995 is drinking very well at the moment

I'm not suggesting Dom Perignon is used in this, but perhaps a champoo of less distinction. Apparently something called Liquid Cocaine is big amongst the C-list celebs right now. I am told it is made as follows:

2 parts vodka
2 parks champagne
Top up with Red Bull

Will do a field test at the weekend to see what it is like.

[Masher]

Nothing, they both taste like tulipe, as does all Coca-Cola. If it hasn't actually got kola nuts in it (there's only one brand that does and it's expensive and hard to find) it has no place on a real contractor's drinks menu.

And the same goes for Sprite.

For a moment I thought that said "koala nuts". Yuk!

[MrsGoof]

2 parks champagne

2 park, now thats a contractors wine cellar

[Board Game Geek]

It makes me chuckle when Pepsi and Coke fight over which soft carbonated drink was created first...neither of them in fact.

Older than Coke and Pepsi

[Jabberwocky]

Since I am neither a young male nor a female of any description I'll stick to the neat Scotch in future

So you're a Scotch transsexual - were you on big brother ?

[Alf W]

They had a far more risque marketing strategy in the 80s as this artwork shows.

[TheMonkey]

Coke Zero gives you acid indigestion. Diet coke doesn't.