OK, so I tried Coke C2

[pagerbear]

...or whatever they call that new variety with fewer carbs. Sort of trying to cut down on my in take of aspartame. Well, then I read the label, to find it has both sugar and aspartame. (I honestly thought they used a different artificial sweetener.) So I got all the benefits of refined carbohydrates and neurotoxins! I'm gonna die! Woo-hoo!

Discuss at your leisure.

[Avalux]

1. Just say NO

to ALL soda. Seriously. Soda is the devil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :evilgrin:

[Wickerman]

12. that's just mean

I can't live without soda - its a (shortened) lifelong addiction.

[sbj405]

2. I tried it and it tasted like a mix of 1/2 diet and 1/2 regular

Try drinking flavored seltzer water. The ones without nutrasweet. No calories and they satisfy my need for something bubbly.

[mac56]

3. My lovely wife was bothered by that too.

She really beleived it would be a less-sweet version of Coke. Bzzzt! Wrong!

To me, it tasted like a flat store-brand knockoff.

[sniffa]

4. that's some nasty shit

bLeh! it's Like a nastier version of diet coke.

"yeach!! i'LL take the crab juice"

[tridim]

18. Nice Simpsons reference!

I only drink real Dr. Pepper, once a day. My theory is, if you want less sugar, or caffeine, or anything, just eat/drink a bit less that you used to. It's easy, it's cheap, and it's guaranteed to work. Screw the "less carbs/calories through chemistry" crap, just eat less.

[TrogL]

5. There is nothing wrong with Aspartame

get over it

[Liberal Veteran]

20. There is nothing wrong with aspartame unless it triggers migraines...

....like it does for me.

I have tried various aspartame products from sugar-free gum to soda and each time I end up with a migraine.

That doesn't necessarily mean it's poison, but I can't tolerate it.

Chocolate is also one of my triggers and while it's perfectly safe for most, I avoid it like the plague.

[lazarus]

28. Same here

Nutrasweet causes severe migraines. It's even happened "blind" before. I drank some soda my wife bought back when we first got together. Had one sip, a few minutes later the migraine started. Turned out it was diet coke.

[KurtNYC]

21. I have seen friends with major skin problems related to aspartame

Not sure if everything in this document is 100% accurate but food for thought (so to speak):
http://www.laleva.cc/food/aspartame_scd.html

The taste of C2 really doesn't seem worth the risk to me.

[mrboba1]

6. Tried the Pepsi one?

I haven't had either - so I'm just wondering about both.

[mac56]

7. maybe incrementally better than C2

still flat store-brand

[GiovanniC]

9. Doesn't the Pepsi Version Use Splenda?

My mom swears by that stuff.

[mrboba1]

10. I thought it did, but I haven't really looked...

I like Splenda as well - it tastes much better than the other artifical ones...

[AngryAmish]

24. Pepsi One is the diet soda of the gods

Drink two cans driving to work every morning.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. ohh pagerbear

just dont drink soda...its as bad as my cigs...

:P

[calico1]

11. Diet Rite and WaistWatchers

both use Splenda. That is an option if you don't want to use Aspartame. Personally, I don't get this Coke 2 thing. They already have diet Coke which has no carbs. Just another gimmick imo.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

13. I made C-2 in my home years ago...

just mix half and half Coke and DietCoke...keep it really cold and drink yourself stupid. No biggie...I guess I should be demanding royalties...but I don't think I was the first...

theProdigal

[benburch]

14. Tab

I'll stick with Tab. I've been drinking it since 1969.

[trotsky]

15. Is it still made with saccharin?

Because they ended up finding out that the cancer-saccharin link was completely false. Go figure.

[pagerbear]

17. Remember the SNL skit about saccharin?

Gilda Radner, Laraine Newman, Jane Curtin as a girl band singing the joys of saccharin.

[benburch]

22. No, sadly.

They have a mix of Nutrasweet and Saccharin

[fob]

16. Chalk this up to "government is the problem", or more accurately

bush*s government is the problem.

Things I can't/won't do/use because of direct actions by bush* admin
(short list)

No Beef - b*a won't allow all cows to be tested - even at pennies a pound additional cost

No Dr Pepper - Bought by The Carlyle Group - buy it = funding terraists

No Aspartame - Rummy pulls strings to get this chemical onto the market ahead of complete testing (It may prove to be ok, but that would be suspect because of the prior cheating)

[mac56]

23. Dr Pepper is Carlyle Group?

Damn. That means these are too:

7 UP, Schweppes, Canada Dry, Sunkist, Crush, Squirt, Welch's, Hires, A&W, Vernors, Hawaiian Punch, and RC Cola.

www.dpsu.com

The rest I can easily do without. But - *sob* - not my Vernors!

[fob]

25. I hear ya. It's not easy fighting this cabal, they have their testicles

into everything.

[soothsayer]

19. In Japan they sweeten it with Stevia. Why don't we??/

I don't get it. Oh, yeah, corporate corruption.

[Deja Q]

26. We all die. It's a matter of where, when, how, and by whom. Sometimes

'why' is also a factor, but I digress.

I recently started cutting back big-time on aspertame. Withdrawl is starting to kick in. :-(

Avoid all those drinks altogether. Drink milk or water only, it's the only way to avoid sugar-loaded drinks (fruit juice is horrible).

[Hawkeye-X]

27. Tastes. like. crap.

I'm a huge Diet Coke fan. 0 carbs. 0 calories. What more can you ask for?

Hawkeye-X

[Darth_Kitten]

29. Then don't drink it.....

:shrug: