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Costco is Selling Mexican Coke!
Sandro,
In principle I agree we shouldn't drink soda; I would expand that to diet soda. The phosphoric acid leaches calcium from your bones. And a study recently found diet soda drinkers tend to eat more. They hypothesized it was the participant unconsciously making up the calories they saved with the soda.
It is all in moderation. 99% of the time I drink water, which is the best.
But... I occasionally get a craving for Coke, and Diet Coke just won't do. It tastes disgusting. Aspartame tastes bitter, not very sweet, and has a long aftertaste t to me. Sucralose tastes sweet in a strange way with a subtle chemical aftertaste, and gives me stomach pains. Saccharin tastes most similar, but somewhat different, to sugar, but almost no one makes drinks with it anymore.
Drink a can of Coke a week if you like it, brush your teeth after, and don't overeat the rest of the time. Coke isn't evil if you don't abuse it.
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"Remember the "New" Coke formula?"
That's funny, I haven't heard they specifically did it to cover up the switch to HFCS. I wouldn't put it past them, but I also think that would have been a big risk to take with your brand if you were just doing it for subterfuge.
The official line is, in market research people preferred the sweeter taste of Pepsi to the tarter taste of Coke. So New Coke was intended to taste sweeter and more similar to Pepsi. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke