I never knew how addicted I use to be to Coca Cola until I drank a can of diet caffein free coke a few weeks ago. It tasted like fizzy, slightly nasty water and I ended up with mouth ulcers. Nice. Not.
I used to drink this stuff all the time. I started on the hard stuff, sugar, caffeine the works, when I was a baby. Apparently, I used to suck it down out of the old style bottles, emptying the whole thing in about ten seconds. I suppose it took me about twenty five years to get off the sugared version and onto diet coke.
I used to drink two or three cans of diet coke every day at work. It was a kind of ritual - there were four coke machines and I could go outside if the sun was shining, etc.
One Christmas I had a splitting headache for two days. It was the first Christmas that we were married and we went away. We forgot to take anything other than decaffeinated coffee and I didn't associate the two things. We went out and had I had a coke, and my headache vanished in about two minutes. At that point I decided to give up caffeine. It didn't work but it did get me onto diet, decaff coke for about six months. I thought that it tasted the same. I was wrong.
After a while I started to associate mouth ulcers with coke drinking. I experimented for a while and discovered a definate three cornered relationship, coke or salted peanuts = ulcers (for me anyway). So I gave them both up. It was hard. I practically had to be chained to my desk.
As soon as the headaches faded, I started drinking expressos before work (thats another story) but I kicked the coke habit completely, except that now and again I succumb if its really hot. If I drink a second can, my reward is usually a mouthfull of ulcers. I don't know what causes it, perhaps someone knows.
So my verdict, expensive empty water with a match-head dissolved in it, coloured brown.
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