Comments on: Diet Coke Plus Vitamins Does Not Equal A Healthier Soda, And I Don’t Care

By: Jayme

Jayme — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:17:06 +0000

I just heard that Coke is going to discontinue TAB!!!

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Healthier Pizza—Now With Antioxidants at Dethroner — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:17:22 +0000

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By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:10:21 +0000

Does Sean Connery do a magnificent cover of Little Red Corvette?

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:51:10 +0000

The older I get the more I know how lucky I was to have grown up in the idyllic 1950s. We had two after-school hangouts. In the winter we went to the Sugar Bowl to drop a dime in the jukebox, have a cheeseburger and a paper plate full of real french fries, and a Coke in a glass with a couple of square ice cubes. In the summer it was the Tasty Freeze (like a DQ today) where we’d have the same menu but the tunes came from “Cousin Brucie” on the car radio. Life really was less complicated back then, I guess.

Until recently I always thought it was a relative thing and that maybe my generation just had better inborn coping skills being sandwiched between WWII and Vietnam. But now I’m wondering where things went so astray.

Last week in my part of the country a couple of 12 year old boys were put in jail cells with convicted felons (!) for 3 days for spanking girls on the butt at school. Back in the 50’s the favorite pasttime of 12 year old boys was snapping the back of a girl’s bra. Usually the girl would yell “knock it off!” and that’d be the end of it. I guess if it got to be a real problem, a trip to the dreaded principal’s office would clear up the situation. A phone call home was for the most dire things. In the case of the butt-spanking, it was automatically a police matter with the parents being notified after the boys were booked for sexual molestation.

As a parent and grandparent I’m appalled by this and wonder why parents and educators have so abdicted their responsibilities to teach common sense and basic decency to kids. Is it because life has become so complicated or is it why life has become so complicated?

Wait…I just got a thought, could it be Diet Coke???

By: Tonx

Tonx — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:16:47 +0000

Alex – do I need to send you a care package?

By: Joanna

Joanna — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:53:35 +0000

get off the synthetic sweetener dude, there’s a whole range of excellent natural sodas that DON’T give you cancer. Why exactly would an insomniac need caffeine anyway? Oh, and don’t call my mom a bitch. :-)

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:00:05 +0000

Not enough caffiene in sparkling water, Tonx. But of course, we all know you’ve got that area covered in other departments.

By: Tonx

Tonx — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:18:22 +0000

dude – switch to perrier or san pelligrino or something. thats how I weaned myself from the colas.

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:45:49 +0000

Best. Soda Story. Evah.

By: Rye

Rye — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:03:19 +0000

I just want to know if mixing this with my Makers Mark will allow me to say that I’m drinking healthy. Anyone?

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:40:27 +0000

Coke Zero is the bee’s balls. But you guys are being fucking fruits about the vitamins thing, like adding vitamins to a collection of indigestible molecules somehow makes those molecules worse for you.

By: matt

matt — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 06:18:55 +0000

Water eff tee dubya.

By: bridgitte

bridgitte — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 05:51:06 +0000

The product, not you alex :)

By: bridgitte

bridgitte — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 04:15:43 +0000

Wow. This is insulting on so many levels. I don’t even know where to begin…

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:59:26 +0000

My local grocery store, publix, just started selling fridge packs of tab about a month ago and its probably the best thing ever.

By: Arlo

Arlo — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:35:47 +0000

Yeah, if you didn’t like the Splenda Diet Coke, DC+ is going to be hit or miss. I can’t really tell the difference between Diet Coke and Coke Zero, but there’s more of a taste difference with DC+. Not a big difference, but it’s there.

I had the chance to try some out awhile ago: http://blog.arlomidgett.com/2007/02/15/diet-coke-plus/

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:59:13 +0000

I actually don’t mind Splenda, and regularly drank Diet Rite (still do, sometimes). What makes it ecch for you?