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Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Looks like cherry coke zero.

  Coke zero is the best one until you get alcohol involved, then you’re fucking up if you’re not using full fat coke

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  • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That stuff is so cloyingly sweet you’d have to mix it with water to approach something drinkable. A true alcoholic would have a handle of dewars white.

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    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve used it instead of maple syrup on pancakes while camping. I intended it to just end up as a shit joke at my own expense, fucking around for shits and giggles, but it was legitimately sweet enough to work. Which is honestly pretty disgusting.

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      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Mmmmmm boozy pancakes 🤤

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    • peteypete420@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A true alcoholic would have there favorite drink. But yea, any alcoholic whos preference is liquor is unlikely to be buying a lower strength flavored jawn. Wish I could remember the name of the one liquorice flavored jawn, the fucking exception. Its the regular 40to45 percent, but was flavored. Dirt cheap. Only wrecked ass elder alchos bought it. Ill remember later.

      Worked at the state stores for a couple years.

      Also cheap bourbon > cheap scotch. Fight me.

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      • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        jagermeister 70 proof or 35 percent abv. Commonly thought of as a knock you out liquor but actually pretty modest.

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  • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s why he got the Kerry gold he’s gonna stir it in there

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  • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think the Jack D is for making bullet proof Jack D

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  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Disagree hard. Diet and Zero are sweeter than full fat coke. It comes out more with alcohol.

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  • Flames5123@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Switching from beer to Coke Zero + rum/vodka for my drinks lost me a little weight. So much better for calorie counting.

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  • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But if you can taste the coke, doesn’t that mean you don’t have enough alcohol in there?

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  • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure that’s regular Coke zero, unless they’ve changed the packaging again

    But yeah, something about the artificial sweetener just doesn’t work with alcohol

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• bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Coke zero is decent

  Diet coke is disgusting

  Ditto Pepsi

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  • ggppjj@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think I have a mutation in a taste bud or something, but Sucralose is really a prominent and nasty taste to me in anything it’s in. Really frustrating to taste it in otherwise sugary drinks, like some of the Monster flavors.

    For reference, I also think cilantro tastes like soap. No clue if that’s an indicator or not.

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    • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      does drinking things with sucralose make your mouth have an aftertaste like carbonated and sweet vomit? if yes then i think i have the same thing

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      • ggppjj@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s very distinct. I wouldn’t call it vomit, but it’s a lingering chemical-ey taste.

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    • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think they reformulated Coke Zero and got rid of the sucralose. It uses aspartame and acesulfame potassium.

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    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think I have a mutation in a taste bud or something, but Sucralose is really a prominent and nasty taste to me in anything it’s in.

      The only artificial sweetener I get a nasty aftertaste from is saccharine. But I get a really absurdly foul aftertaste from saccharine, I can’t even compare it to anything because it’s easily the worst thing I have ever tasted in my life and I can’t think of anything even sort of similar. Glad basically nothing uses it any more, but it was more of an issue as a type I diabetic kid decades ago. Sucralose doesn’t give me an aftertaste at all though, neither does aspartame or acesulfame potassium.

      My preferred sweetener though is stevia (I used to go to the local new age shop and buy just dried stevia leaves for my tea and such during the time it was legal to sell in any amount for any purpose as an herbal supplement so long as you didn’t mention it had a flavor which turned it into an unsafe food additive because fuck NutraSweet corp). It took such a ridiculous time to get approved because of NutraSweet, when stevia really should have fallen under GRAS status for the same reason things like tomatoes did - New World plant used in food forever by the natives, but wholly new to Europeans when they came to the Americas.

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  • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    pepsi max genuinely makes me want to vomit. i once only had the option to take a pepsi max at a KFC, took a few sips and felt so disgusted i didn’t even want to eat anymore. threw it out, packed my food, and went to buy a coke on the way home

    are my taste buds broken? or do people really like the flavour of what i can only describe as a 6 year old’s bathroom potion of various chemicals, died black, sweetened, and carbonated

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    • Brekky@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I recently discovered that there is a similar taste reaction to aspartame than there is to cilantro. It doesn’t taste like soap, but it tastes awful to some people. I can’t drink any sugar-free or diet drinks as they all taste horrific to me

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      • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        dang! good to know

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    • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well, you did just describe my experience with diet Pepsi pretty well…

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  • dingus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I hear this but I don’t understand. All diet soft drinks taste absolutely disgusting to me. I’ve had both Coke Zero and Diet Coke and both have that disgusting fake sugar aftertaste.

    I either get non-Diet soft drinks or I go sparkling water. I can’t do that fake sugar shit. It’s nasty.

    But the one exception for me is that I put fake sugar in my coffee. The bitter aftertaste of the coffee helps mask the aftertaste of the fake sugar.

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    • jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ah man to me coke zero has this different flavor it almost tastes like black pepper or something? some kind of zip or zest. while diet coke is def the sweetest. regular coke now (after drinking diet soda for over a decade) or any corn syrup based soda leaves a weird aftertaste that i hate. but when i was younger i hated diet taste! haha

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  • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m the opposite, I prefer diet Coke and diet Pepsi. Chances are that you don’t like aspartame.

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• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Technically most coke is “sugar free” in the strictest sense of table sugar versus corn syrup.

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• 3dmvr@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Coke zero is divine nectar

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  • bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It doesn’t even work for dissolving rusted pistons or valves!

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  • 3dmvr@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    idk it reminds me of chai somehow

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• jewbacca117@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Gotta make up for all the sugar in the JD honey I guess

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