Just a new can. They’ve been selling caffeine free Coke Zero for 15 years, and caffeine free Diet Coke for even longer.
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Yeah.. I don't drink Coke often but I like caffeine free diet coke / coke zero. I don't want the sugar and I don't need caffeine.
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It's just soda then?
It's a cola flavored sugar free soda.
- Diet coke w or w/o caffeine = aspartame
- Coke Zero w or w/o caffeine = aspartame + Ace-K
Different artificial sweeteners with slightly different taste profiles.
We used to get caffeine free Diet Coke or Pepsi in the 80s for elementary school pizza parties.
It made the best burps.
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Next up - Coca Cola Still: all the same refreshing taste of Coke, but without any carbonation! Life is busy, just be Still.
Not going to lie, that's a good tagline.
I know, I'm kinda ashamed of myself.
No no, don't be! Unless it's like your kink or smth then uh... Go ahead?
Nothing that complex, I just think Marketing is just sanctioned official bullshit and wish it would go away. Informational advertising I get, but Marketing? Fuck no. That's just the sharp tip of consumerism trying to skewer you.
Ey, I agree with you. Marketing shouldn't exist
i always let the carbonation escape before i drink it, as i don't like it. i like the taste however
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It has a use. Tasty fizzy drink with basically no calories, and caffeine fucks with my cannabis high. I get Canadian store brands tho.
I'm kinda pissed the Coca Cola recipe that was recently reverse engineered was the sugar version instead of zero.
I'm guessing zero is a lot harder, but maybe that guy who did it needs a new objective
LabCoatz for those interested but he never said anything about zero sugar that I can recall so when it comes to difficulty I have no idea since I'm not a chemist.
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alt: illustration of a can labeled "diet double dew". it also says "half the sugar[,] half the caffeine of double dew". "dew the math!"
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I drink caffeine free zero because I like the taste but I need to reduce my caffeine and sugar consumption.
I visited my brother recently and his downstairs fridge was completely full of diet caffeine free soda. I tried a few and they tasted shockingly close to their normal counterparts. I don’t trust it, there has to be a cost I don’t realize I’m paying.
But also, jesus christ at least sometimes drink some water. The whole family just hates water. They even have top notch H2O there, I’m jealous.
Zero sugar sodas are 99% water.
If I have a glass of water, I'll drink it when I'm thirsty. If I have flavored water, I'll consume more because it's enjoyable and I stay better hydrated. I tend to use a LOT of ice, so really I'm drinking that water too.
I mean, there's still the cola taste?
And dissolved gas
Rather not.
I like it. Tastes like Coke, which I like as an occasional treat, doesn't keep me up at night and doesn't make me gain weight.
This is the perfect soda. All the flavor, with no drugs.
I don't know what soda as caffeine to begin with.
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In the 80s, they called this Caffeine Free diet Coke and it was even free of kryptonite.
All that really changed is that "zero" is now more catchy than "diet".
Isn't there a difference been "diet" and "zero"? Like doesn't one use aspartame and the other use a different "fake" sweetener?
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Uses:
- Pregnant women who would like a sugar-free cola beverage but can’t consume large amounts of caffeine.
- People with anxiety, insomnia, or other conditions that are worsened by caffeine who would like a sugar-free cola beverage.
- Anyone who would like a sugar-free cola beverage without caffeine?
Mind your own and let people enjoy their lives (and their sugar-free cola beverages).
Hahaha yeah no I'm drinking that daily, I don't have a sugar problem, I dont have a cafein problem, I have a soda problem
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Meanwhile people would take extra sugar extra caffeine and the OG coke too
Jolt Cola: All the sugar. Twice the caffeine.
It's not useless. It's marketing, pure capitalist marketing. Always has been. CocaCola is not a beverage company, it's a marketing company.
- may i have a pepsi?
- is marketing ok?
All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi, but she wouldn't give it to me... Just a Pepsi.
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Coca-cola famously tried to sell bottled tap water in the UK as Dasani, but they abandoned it after they were very quickly exposed and ridiculed.
thirst principles
I mean it's not far off in some unfortunate circumstances. I remember years ago I've heard of towns in Mexico that lack clean drinking water and people were drinking Coke because of the water it contained. Idk why, but that really stuck with me.
Edit: I think it was this article
I'm pretty sensitive to caffeine but I like soda, so I drink this. Mostly water and decaf coffee, though.
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Homeopathic cola
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