Comments on: BRAVO COKE ZERO

By: Sara

Sara — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:35:39 +0000

Too many twinkies! I’m the navigator, I’m the navigator! That is possibly my favorite ’80s kids movie. I love when the feds are watching “The Price is Right” and the brother sneaks up to the roof to set off the fireworks. Man, I wish I was watching it RIGHT NOW!

By: Matt D’Cruz

Matt D’Cruz — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:00:09 +0000

I am drinking a bottle now. It is FOUL.

Coke Zero - NUL POINTS!

By: Matthew K

Matthew K — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:59:30 +0000

Oh, stupid me - last paragraph should read “I think the latter [Coke Zero] tastes much more like Coke than does Diet Coke, which is revolting …”

By: Matthew K

Matthew K — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:57:54 +0000

I too was confused, until I discovered that Diet Coke is an artificially sweetened drink based on the disastrous “New Coke” recipe they tried to introduce in the 80s(?). Coke Zero is an artificially flavoured version of the “normal” Coke recipe. So Diet Coke is different in sweetener AND flavour; Coke Zero’s only difference is replacing sugar with aspartame and something else I can’t remember, ace-K I think is the nickname.

I think the latter tastes much more like Diet Coke, which is revolting. However since I drink Coke about once a fortnight, I just have the normal version.

By: blount

blount — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 20:21:40 +0000

the ‘coke secrets’ plot was the buzz down here for a few days last week. anyhow -

c2 = coke entrant in atkins fad, it either had half the calories of coke or just 2 calories, i forget. it’s been largely supplanted by coke zero which oddly tastes closer to coke than c2 to me anyhow though both tasted closer to coke than diet coke which apparently was never really intended to taste like coke at all, it was merely meant to be a ‘diet soda’ produced by coke. right. diet coke with splenda = a result of wal-mart finagling, i’m sure you can read all about that somewhere. tab still available in normal ol’ tab form but it seems they’re mainly repositioning that brand as (another coke) entrant in energy drink market - you’re much much more likely to see tab in slim shiny pink cylinders beside other taurian nast than in a plastic bottle beside diet black cherry vanilla caffeine free coke with splenda. cf. coke-blak as their hone in on starbucks doubleshot, etc. market. coke-blak = one of the more disturbing things i’ve ever tasted.

the best option obv = mexican coke

By: porkpie

porkpie — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 10:01:54 +0000

I am a bitter taster then. I just can’t eat or drink anything with aspartame in it, it feels like my head is turning inside out if I have it, horrible stuff

By: Chewshabadoo

Chewshabadoo — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:41:55 +0000

I think it’s pretty close to ‘full fat’ Coke actually, I read somewhere that some people (”bitter tasters”) are more likely to taste the nastiness in artificial sweeteners, and while I can taste a hint of it, I can ignore it quite easily, as long as the drink is properly chilled.

By: katstevens

katstevens — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:32:55 +0000

The only time I have ever enjoyed drinking any sort of Coke was when it had large amounts of vodka in it aged 16.

By: Rufus T. Roofdog

Rufus T. Roofdog — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:37:45 +0000

ah but the can as also clear was it not?!

I think it was when it first came out, but towards the end it was just a silver Diet Coke-type job.

By: alext

alext — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 06:24:46 +0000

It must be at least four years since I last had a can of coke — I gave up in sympathy with C, who used to drink the stuff every day but gave up on Dr’s orders. I occasionally (three times a year maybe) have it as a mixer in a pub, but that probably doesn’t count since it is horrible mixed in the spray gun thingy syrup and fizzy water coke.

By: stevem

stevem — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:06:15 +0000

Bring back TAB Clear! Oh the excitement of taking the can home so you could put it in a glass. Otherwise what was the point ?

ah but the can as also clear was it not?!

By: stevem

stevem — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:04:45 +0000

I thought Coke Zero was alright when I tried it. It tasted slightly better than normal Pepsi, basically.

I’ll drink Coke Lemon, Coke Lime and Cherry Coke still. Not Vanilla (loved it at first but then bleurgh) and only original Coke in bars or in a can if there’s none of the others on offer.

By: stevem

stevem — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:01:53 +0000

I discovered pre-mixed and bottled Black Russian recently, much to my delight.

By: Tom Ewing

Tom Ewing — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:22:25 +0000

Coke Black is much nicer than Coke Zero.

By: Starry Sarah

Starry Sarah — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:10:08 +0000

I spotted the dread COKE BLAK in Cybercandy. Yerrrgh.

By: Tom Ewing

Tom Ewing — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:04:26 +0000

I had Coke Zero the other day. REALLY NASTY. The obvious diet-ness of Diet Coke plus a rusty tang.

By: Starry Sarah

Starry Sarah — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:48:15 +0000

Are you some sort of Pete Baran?

By: Rufus T. Roofdog

Rufus T. Roofdog — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:23:31 +0000

Bring back TAB Clear! Oh the excitement of taking the can home so you could put it in a glass. Otherwise what was the point ?

By: Starry Sarah

Starry Sarah — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:03:09 +0000

According to Wikipedia it’s a version of the continental Coke Light, it’s slightly different to Coke Light but not that different apparently. I dunno, I haven’t really spotted much difference between various coke lights/diet cokes from around the world meself! Had Polish the other day!

By: CarsmileSteve

CarsmileSteve — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:59:04 +0000

is it like UK diet coke though, or more like German Coke Light (available across london) which is a lot thicker and more coke-like than diet coke which is almost a different drink rather than just an attempt at coke with no sugar in.

this may be my cue for the “Diet Cokes From Around The World” series i have been planning (man you need to try the macedonian stuff, it’s like TREACLE).

By: Starry Sarah

Starry Sarah — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:51:45 +0000

I suppose in an extreme MATHS NERD way “zero” could be quite extreme - and there’s also “zero tolerance”, but I can’t see it happening as they’re selling it on something not being there, a minimal quantity - which they’ve already GOT with diet Coke, but it’s pretty obvious that Pepsi MAX has a different ID to diet Pepsi (although I have no idea what it may be)!

Incidentally I think coke is ROUGH apart from when I have it at Bodeans or in the throes of an EXTREME HANGOVER in some form of Burgz0r/Chix0R environment.

By: Stevie

Stevie — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:45:22 +0000

Surely “Zero” is Coke’s much-too-late attempt to hustle into the EXTREME BEVERAGE market of Pepsi “Max”?