Although I drink (too much) Diet Coke and even Diet Pepsi, I find the amount of choice out now a little bewildering. I stumbled across an explanation on a blog today that seems worth repeating. If you're wondering how a Diet Coke is different from a Coca-Cola Zero from a C2 from a Coca Cola Light, check it out.
What this post inexplicably fails to mention is Tab, the drink introduced in 1963. Found a page about that. And one more. I guess they still make Tab but you have to really want it to find it. Screw it. Probably the best place to go for info on Diet Coke and its ilk is Wikipedia.
Whether you will go blind or sterile from drinking these products, I'm not prepared to say. I hope not. I've already had three Diet Cokes today and could top out even higher. Going back to that first Tab I ever had, the amount of diet soda I've consumed has to be on the order of, oh, say three swimming pools.
And, for the record, I allow myself about six real Cokes every year and so far none of the diet versions comes anywhere in this universe to tasting like the real thing. They're substitutes, nothing more.
Based on my taste tests anyway, Pepsi's no closer than Coke to making a diet version that really works. Dr. Pepper and 7-Up have had more luck.
Cheers!
