Just for the taste of it - Diet Coke

Advantages: Only 1 calorie, I like the taste
Disadvantages: Not great for you

...I was always a fan of coca cola and loved to have it when at the pub or for a special treat. I have recently though moved on to loving diet coke instead. Part of this probably stems from the fact that I always seem to be on a diet these days and at least I have no worries that I am adding to my food calories with my drinks too. I have also actually grown to really like the taste. Diet coke came from Coca Cola who are the biggest manufacturer of soft drinks worldwide. I am sure if you went to any country in the world people would know what coca cola is. Coca Cola as a brand has been around a long time but Diet coke is a more recent addition to the portfolio of drinks. It is one that has actually stuck around though unlike their attempts at New Coke. The premise of Diet Coke has always been that it is a diet drink as it only has...

wendz86 22.10.2009 · Read review
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Diet Coke. Cokes Skinny Sister.

Advantages: Perfect Coke Taste with 0 Calories.
Disadvantages: Contains aspartame.

...Diet coke seems to have a marmite effect - you really do either love it or hate it. I never really drank Diet coke until my sister started seeing her boyfriend about 2 years ago, he's diabetic so diet coke soon started becoming a permanent fixture in our fridge. One night he was making his normal rountine of waving a can in our faces asking if we wanted one, all I thought is 'this guy isn't going to give up until one of us takes it!' so I politely took one off him and as they say, the rest is history! HISTORY: John Pemberton invented Cola (French Wine Coca) when he was a Chemist in Georgia which was claimed to be a neurasthenia, then in 1885 he made an nonalcoholic alternative to the French Wine Coca that our much loved brand 'Coca-Cola' was finally born from. It first started being bottled in 1894 and Diet Coke was finally...

Cinny91 23.10.2009 · Read review
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Coke vs. Coke Light

Advantages: none
Disadvantages: taste

...Diet Coke?? No, never, as simple as that. The cans and bottles delivered to Czech republic read "Coca-Cola Light" instead of Diet Coke, I suppose that might had been a good marketing touch since we don't like to be reminded of diet all the time, plus stuff labelled "diet" here means it's made particularly for diabetics. If Coke is advertized as a trendy youth non-alco drink, then Coke Light is claimed to be just as trendy but for people who do care about their health, that's where the ads make a ridicule of themselves. Apart from this difference the design is the same, just like the taste, as I have come to find in the UK - out of pure adventurousness of mine, I had thought they maybe exported some funny kind of Coke. I do like ordinary Coca-Cola sometimes, even if I try to cut on it since its not the healthiest thing (everybody...

jeaniecz 21.05.2008 · Read review
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Diet Coke Break

Advantages: taste, thirst quenching
Disadvantages: rotts your teeth

...Diet Coke.... Even before I was watching what I eat and drink to loose weight I would always opt for a diet coke over regular coke (or as I usually call it "fat coke"). The taste difference between standard coke and diet coke is rather a lot because regular coke tastes so very sweet. Regular coke will often make my teeth feel coated in a layer of sheen and give me a furry tongue, so for these reasons I have always been a diet coke girl. The calorie content in a can of diet coke is a mere 1 calorie per can which is nothing compared to the couple of hundred that a standard coke can contains. The price is the same however whether you are drinking regular or diet and for a single can nowadays you are looking at paying around the 70 pence mark. I drink a fair amount of canned drinks and will always stock up when the supermarkets...

newby2 17.04.2009 · Read review
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Time for diet coke......

Advantages: Taste, Cost
Disadvantages: Still not all that good for you

...Time for Diet coke...... Review The company The coca cola group was first invented way back on the 8th of May 1886 by a gentleman called Dr John Styth Pemberton, Baack then Coca cola was selling an average of 9 drinks a day netting them an impressive $50 that year. Look at today's sales, Coca cola sell more than one billion drinks in a 24 hour period in over 200 countries. IT was not until 1900 that the UK had its first taste of Coco cola, when it was sold through soda fountains in places such as Selfridges. In 1999 Coca Cola purchased Schweppes which seen the range increase to include drinks such as Dr Pepper, Fanta, and many others. Between 1999 and 2004 Coca Cola seen their sales increase dramatically which resulted in them being able to announce that in Great Britain there sales where at an all time high of 54% of the soft...

marcellep2 19.05.2008 · Read review
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The third in my Grandslam of Coca-Cola...the real Coke Zero

Advantages: No sugar or fat and low in Calories
Disadvantages: Taste, turns to bubbles in your mouth, taste and I might have forgot to mention the taste?

...The third of my Coke Grandslam reviews was picked at random from the bag I took to work with a bottle of Coca-Cola Zero and Diet Coke, Diet Coke it was. So for those who are rather overweight, chubby, ?cuddley? (like myself obviously) this should be the Coke aimed for you. I know we should be eating salads and drinking water rather than drinking Coke, but if you want something a little more flavoured than water then maybe this was Coca Cola's brilliant idea. As with all the Coca-Cola\Coke range of drinks it comes in a transparent bottle which has the Coca-Cola ?deformed? rocket bottle with the logo's on it. This one has a white cap and a silver label, making it unique in the range for not having a matching cap-label combination. The transparent bottle does little to hide the trademark caramel colour of the group of drinks. The silver...

iamasadlittleboy 30.07.2009 · Read review
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It's a diet Coke thing!

Advantages: It's okay to drink, quenches your thirst,
Disadvantages: tad expensive, have to drink it quickly, drink when cold, not warm

... INTRODUCTION The first proper relationship I had was with diet coke; I used to spend my hot summer days straight after school running; I was exhausted after running down and needed a perfect drink to quench my thirst. Diet Coke. It would also be a perfect companion when reading my book; I'd hold the book and drink from the can at the same time. Thankfully the relationship never got too unhealthy; the most I'd consume would be a several cans a day. It has been a godsend, seeing me through the university year where I'd need instant caffeine and I wouldn't have any coffee in the kitchen. The fact it has almost 1 calorie per can was a bonus as I was already eating enough in my revision mode! Diet coke is one of the most well-known drinks in the entire world; after the regular coke. It is a sugar free soft drink produced by...

Annallon 03.07.2009 · Read review
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Going Craxy for Diet Coke

Advantages: Low Calorie and Refreshing
Disadvantages: Possible addiction and craziness!

...I have always been a fan of fizzy drinks and used to drink regular coke in abundance throughout my school years, I switched to diet when I was about 16 in the hope of shifting a few pounds but just couldn't get used to the change in taste...now 6 years on and I could not imagine ever drinking regular coke again. The sugar content makes the drink way too sweet and leaves a thick sugar coating feeling on your teeth...bleh! Diet coke is a "sparkling low calories soft drink" according to the label. It comes in various size bottles and cans from the standard 330ml cans to mini fridge size, and 500ml, 1L, 1.5L and 12L bottles. Cans are silver with the Cola-Cola logos and appropriate writings in red, as are the labels on the bottles. These include the list of ingredients, any promotions and nutritional information. Nutritional...

chugglebunny 23.09.2008 · Read review
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Time for Diet Coke break

Advantages: great taste next to no calories
Disadvantages: prices of soft drinks keep soaring

...I have always been a fan of diet soft drinks. As a child my mother would never give me or my sister any pop that had sugar in it. You would never find a bottle of sugar loaded pop in the fridge at my house. The only time I ever remember drinking pop that had sugar in it would have been at my Nanna's house and then my mother wouldnt have been too pleased. Anyway I grew up on diet pop and still to this day it is the only pop I drink. With the exception that now on a few occassions it will be mixed with a vodka instead. Well its a good combination in moderation. It never bothered me drinking diet coke or other diet soft drinks while all my friends at school would be drinking what they called normal pop. I knew that what they were drinking would rot their teeth but you still got bullied for it as to them it was wrong. A little history...

angels21 21.05.2008 · Read review
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'Diet' Coke?

Advantages: Can clean dirty pennies
Disadvantages: Taste; CANNOT help weight loss

...If ever there was a triumph of marketing over substance (save for perhaps Russell Brand, please someone just kick him in the nuts) it has to be Diet Coke. Diet? Diet? It takes me back a few years, sitting in a coffee shop in Edinburgh early one morning, passing time before the inevitability of the walk round to the office. A glance out the window saw a chap hove into view to the bus stop opposite. 'Hove' into view probably isn't the right word, more 'Blocked out the sun'. He was carrying a Burger King bag and he proceeded to pull out and eat 3 big burgers. I'm under no illusions about this being his breakfast. No, this was his mid-morning on-the-way-to-work snack. Washed down.... With a Diet Coke in a bucket big enough to (once again) hold Willy against his will. Let's just get this straight, they may have stripped Coke...

blackpuddinonnabike 20.05.2008 · Read review
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