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

[Lucifer Box]

I can't abide any of these articially flaoured, coloured and preserved drinks. They are a way to sell cheap ingredients for a high price and are promoted using expensive marketing campaigns. Heavily marketed tulip. They also provide subsidised/free fridges in garages and shops with an agreement not to allow competing products to be stored. Hence the reason why the drinks in petrol stations tend to tulipe. They also rot your teeth, and make you hyperactive, and/or fat.

If people were not brought up on this stuff, and hence were not habituated to it, they would realise how vile and artificial it tastes.

[Fungus]

I used to drink regular coke but now only drink real fruit drinks like innocent or m&s fruit drinks. Ive lost 8 pounds since I stopped.

That's M&S for you, expensive.

[Fungus]

I can't abide any of these articially flaoured, coloured and preserved drinks. They are a way to sell cheap ingredients for a high price and are promoted using expensive marketing campaigns. Heavily marketed tulip. They also provide subsidised/free fridges in garages and shops with an agreement not to allow competing products to be stored. Hence the reason why the drinks in petrol stations tend to tulipe. They also rot your teeth, and make you hyperactive, and/or fat.

If people were not brought up on this stuff, and hence were not habituated to it, they would realise how vile and artificial it tastes.

[Diestl]

I used to drink regular coke but now only drink real fruit drinks like innocent or m&s fruit drinks. Ive lost 8 pounds since I stopped.

[TheMonkey]

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

[Alf W]

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

[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 ?

[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

[MrsGoof]

2 parks champagne

2 park, now thats a contractors wine cellar

[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!

[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.

[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

[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

[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.

[Paddy]

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.

Coca-Cola does not seem to taste the same world wise. I had one in the states many years ago and it actually stated contains Kola nuts. Some countries the Coca-Cola tastes more thick and syrupy like the older version in the 50s and 60s. Pepsi are quite up front and admit that they change the recipe quite regularly to match market tastes.

Sugar and fizzy drinks will cause stomach problems in hot climates (bugs like Co2). Sugar free drinks with Asptain will react with patients on beta blockers and must be avoided.

When I’m on holiday I tend to go for the locally made soft drinks. Sugar cane juice is nice and surprisingly it is not sweet.