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Coca cola have recently introduced Diet Coke with Cherry as one of many new flavoured coke varieties (others include with lime, with lemon, with vanilla and with citrus zest). The cherry variety had immediate appeal. I like most things cherry (perhaps the best bit of my Babycham youth was ... Read review
Advantages: It's cherrylicious Disadvantages: Cherry coke's a bit kinky
...cheap alternatives), always of the diet variety. I can’t stand the thought of drinking so many teaspoons of sugar in one drink (it’s about 17 spoons I believe, per can). My teeth already have enough fillings to set off an airport metal detector so I’m trying not to get any more.
Cherry coke is not a new drink though, just remember the Kinks were singing about it back in 1970 with Lola (although I know the cherry bit was added later) ... ...Coca cola have recently introduced Diet Coke with Cherry as one of many new flavoured coke varieties (others include with lime, with lemon, with vanilla and with citrus zest). The cherry variety had immediate appeal. I like most things cherry (perhaps the best bit of my Babycham youth was the maraschino cherry soaked in alcohol, mmmm squish it in the mouth). Diet Coke has been around since 1982 but the Diet Coke with Cherry was introduced in the ... more
I love cherries. There’s something so summery about nibbling or sucking juicy ripe cherries and then having a stone spitting competition. They also remind me of my holiday as a teen in St Tropez, you could spot cherries all over the beaches. Cherries are delicious.
For most of my life I have hated fizzy coke with a passion. Every time I tried it, I got the feeling of being blown up inside like a hot air balloon. I didn’t get it why coke was so popular. I always opted for a nice cold lager instead.
That was until I was pregnant with my youngest. I got that morning nausea at first and if you’ve been pregnant you know you’ll try anything to make it go away. Ginger biscuits and fizzy coke are supposed to work; I tried the coke option and found that it did. Ever since, I’ve had quite a liking for Coke (but not Pepsi or cheap alternatives), always of the diet variety. I can’t stand the thought of drinking so many teaspoons of sugar in one drink (it’s about 17 spoons I believe, per can). My teeth already have enough fillings to set off an airport metal detector so I’m trying not to get any more.
Cherry coke is not a new drink though, just remember the Kinks were singing about it back in 1970 with Lola (although I know the cherry bit was added later) ♫ Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry-cola ♫ (http://youtube.com/watch?v=hMCdY78k_Q4) Pop it on in the background, it goes with this review.
Coca cola have recently introduced Diet Coke with Cherry as one of many new flavoured coke varieties (others include with lime, with lemon, with vanilla and with citrus zest). The cherry variety had immediate appeal. I like most things cherry (perhaps the best bit of my Babycham youth was the maraschino cherry soaked in alcohol, mmmm squish it in the mouth). Diet Coke has been around since 1982 but the Diet Coke with Cherry was introduced in the UK in 2006. It has no nutritional value and just 1 calorie per 100ml of drink. It has zero fat, protein and sugar and is basically made up of water, vegetable extracts and chemicals including the controversial sweetener aspartame which is thought may have carcinogenic properties.
Cherry Coke is in my opinion one of those drinks that is refreshing for a hot day and certainly not something I would want to consume on a daily basis. It tastes much nicer from a glass than from a can or plastic bottle and it has a really delicious cherry fragrance which you can’t help sniffing when you first pour it out. The aroma is also a little similar to that of dandelion and burdock, which my taste buds quite like too.
Cherry Coke is quite cherrylicious for a hot day. It is sticky and sweet but the cherry flavour does come bursting through with a volume. If you like cherries, especially maraschino cherries, and you like fizzy drinks, you may well want to give this a go.
Diet cherry coke is the sort of drink for: ☼ Enjoying bikini clad in the garden on a hot day, perfect with a bowl of ripe cherries to nibble alongside. ☼ Barbeques and garden parties; ☼ Picnics; ☼ The Sheffield Pyjama Jump (to reduce the student nightie out morning after effect); ☼ Drinking whilst writing a review at the pc.
It is less suitable for: ☼ Kiddy lunch boxes (fizzy drinks every day habits not good for kids); ☼ Cold, rainy days; ☼ Kiddy birthday parties (it contains caffeine so will make them extra giddy); ☼ Drinking in the bath (try Baileys instead if you’re old enough); ☼ The car, you are bound to spill it on the move.
You can buy Diet Coke with Cherry from most supermarkets in a variety of sizes. Individual 330ml cans, 6 packs x 330ml, single plastic bottles 500ml and large plastic bottles 2litres. Sometimes they are BOGOF as are the 6 pack cans at Sainsbury’s at the moment. When on offer, 12 cans will cost you around £2.45, so just 20p for a cherry nice drink.
Diet Coke with Cherry is a drink you really must drink cold. You can add ice but I don’t, as this makes the Coke taste watery and also gives me brain freeze. Ice and cherries can be a good combination though. A word of warning, don’t pop your can in the freezer and forget about it as happened in our house just this week. It explodes and makes a sticky mess in your freezer drawers, (what a way to pop your cherry). You can cool your cherry coke this way but remember to set a timer for 30 minutes to prevent that explosive sticky mess.
For a more fattening drink, you can add a scoop of vanilla (or cherry) ice cream to your glass to make a cherry pop float. Kids love it.
Diet Coke with Cherry is the nicest of all the cokes made by Coca Cola. It is not necessarily good for you but a few treats every now and again are good for the soul and if you choose the diet variety over the full sugar one, you will at least not be getting fat on it. Cherry pop has never tasted so good, so I’m just off in the garden to enjoy mine, bikini clad. It is hot in here after all this talk of cherry popping.
Advantages: No Sugar, 1 Calorie Disadvantages: Odd taste, nasty when warm.
...sugar versions, as drinking the diet ones had made me ill during my pregnancies and habit made me stick to the more unhealthy versions, but i'm always up for trying new varieties which included the vanilla, lemon and lime verssions as well as the classic cherry coke. I'd never really liked cherry but my husband raved so much about the diet version that I gave in and gave it a try.
Diet Cherry Coke was actually released in 1985 but recently in 2005 ... ...the traditional silvery colours of Diet Coke the labelling has splashes of purple/red to symbolise the all important cherry aspect of the drink. It's availabilty seems limited and i've only been able to find it in the single serve bottle variety, Coca Colas website however does assure you that it is available in 2 litre bottles, cans and fridge packs(smaller boxes of cans perfect for keeping in the fridge) Unfortunately in today's society it's frowned ...
piggypine 04.06.2007 (09.06.2007)
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Advantages: All the great taste of Diet Coke with Cherry's...with no calories! Disadvantages: Makes you burp like a trooper!
...was pretty much addicted to Diet Coke. I would often plump for a Cherry Coke, but often felt the guilt that it was a fat boy and not a diet...then low and behold the beautiful people in Cokeland released a diet version - all my Christmas' had come at once! I was a sucker for the brand, I loved the image, the logo, everything. I used to collect anything that had 'Coke' on: Clocks, T-shirts, Sweatshirts (I'll leave it there before I embarrass myself ... ...a swig of the lovely Diet Cherry Coke. Poured over ice, this soft drink is very refreshing, or chilled straight out of a can, is just as good. Some people find that it has a bitter aspartamin type after taste, but I don't agree. The flavour of cherry is unmistakeably echoed by the glorious, cokey flavour. The smell, I find is rather non-descript, it isn't unpleasant by any means, but it doesn't remind me of cherries or anything else for that matter ...
MarcoG 04.06.2007
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Advantages: New flavour of Diet Coke, a diet cherry flavoured drink for the first time Disadvantages: Still not as good as the original Diet Coke
...there's a new flavour of Diet Coke available in a shop near you. Unlike last year's Diet Coke with Lime launch, this time the utterly revolting Diet Coke with Vanilla is being withdrawn from sale, and Diet Coke with Cherry is all set to replace it in your affections. Personally, I think this is a great idea, as the vanilla flavour Diet Coke really is repulsive, and it's been nigh on impossible to find cherry flavoured fizzy drinks that don't contain ... ...against the good old stand-by Diet Coke with Nothing Extra Added To It (TM).
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Cracking open a 500ml bottle of this and taking a quick sniff (good job the folks at work already think I'm strange...), I do think that this drink smells. No question about it. Exactly what it smells of, however, if more difficult to identify. There's a definite overtone of artificial-ness in the air, and this is probably the sweetest smelling version ...
xalala 22.02.2006
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Advantages: no sugar. Disadvantages: tastes terrible.
...version of cherry coke. The diet version which I am about to review on the other hand is for want of a better word disgusting. Although many diet soft drinks can taste reasonably good it seems when you take the sugar from this one the taste goes with it.
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For more than a century coca cola has been available in stores across Britain in some format or another, starting of course with the original coke and slowly ... ...version I plumped for the diet version this turned out to be one very big mistake. It was a 2 litre bottle I had purchased and my first drink out of it was before it had had the time to become as cold as I would normally like my soft drinks to be and I thought perhaps this was the reason it tasted so bad.
When not fully chilled it has a very strange taste certainly not a taste of cherry nor of coke, I find it very hard to describe the taste but ...
thebigc1690 09.06.2007
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Advantages: Tastes of cherries, it's not bad for you at all! Disadvantages: Tastes a bit synthetic, it's just not the same as a can full of cherries
...welcome to my review of Diet Coke Cherry. Yes, this is my first entry into Ciao’s new “Product of the Week” competition - for more info on that, check out the member area; it’s at the bottom.
The beverage formerly known as “Diet Cherry Coke” is a cold, fizzy drink which I enjoy every now and again when the fancy takes me (you see, I waited until an product came up which I would actually enjoy reviewing).
Although it was originally launched in 1986, ... ...Diet Coke started introducing other such flavours as Lemon, Lime and Vanilla. It is exactly as the name suggests - your usual Diet Coke, flavoured with cherry! The regular, sugar-filled Cherry Coca-Cola is recognisable by its distinctive dark red packaging, but be careful! It can be easily confused with Dr. Pepper, since they also taste quite similar! However, the Diet version comes in a silver can, the same as usual Diet Coke but with a little picture ...
l-m-n-o-p 06.06.2007
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