Ewwwww is that sugar free coke?
Prices are out of control
Submitted 3 weeks ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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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
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.
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s why he got the Kerry gold he’s gonna stir it in there
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think the Jack D is for making bullet proof Jack D
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Disagree hard. Diet and Zero are sweeter than full fat coke. It comes out more with alcohol.
Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Switching from beer to Coke Zero + rum/vodka for my drinks lost me a little weight. So much better for calorie counting.
Dave@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
But if you can taste the coke, doesn’t that mean you don’t have enough alcohol in there?
laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 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
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
Coke zero is decent
Diet coke is disgusting
Ditto Pepsi
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.
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
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.
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.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Technically most coke is “sugar free” in the strictest sense of table sugar versus corn syrup.
3dmvr@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Coke zero is divine nectar
bluewing@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
It doesn’t even work for dissolving rusted pistons or valves!
3dmvr@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
idk it reminds me of chai somehow
jewbacca117@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Gotta make up for all the sugar in the JD honey I guess
slashasdf@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Can’t even afford to be an alcoholic to forget about your money problems anymore in this economy
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Unironically. Half the appeal of booze has historically been that its cheap.
I kinda wonder how much of the decline of high school/college drinking has to do with sticker shock.
slashasdf@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Yep, it’s very easy and cheap to produce alcohol, the only reason it’s expensive now is due to countries adding high excise taxes and the like to alcoholic drinks
dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
I mean I’m 20, when I have parties with friends (all my age/1-2y younger) we just split the costs. 5€ each max. And we all have a good time (or throw up, because some of my friends aren’t very aware of their limits lol)
3dmvr@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Its so expensive to go out now in any city, have to pregame for anything, not spending 30$ on a shot
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I work at a grocery store and honestly I didn’t even bat an eye, the first thing I thought about was how to bag it.
In case you’re wondering if we care about what you’re buying the only (non regular) customer that I remember is one Irish guy who would crack jokes about his ex wife on a roadtrip. Don’t fully remember but my God he made like 4 zingers in a row and I about cried laughing at like 7:30am
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Look, I enjoy good butter, too, but are you cooking with it? You probably won’t notice a difference if you switch to a generic.
9point6@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Everyday, I watch as we stray further from God.
al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
The butter is to lube those cans before he slides them in the ol keaster.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
Regular butter for cooking
Kerrygold salted for spreading
'tis the only way
VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Do people really see kerrygold as a premium option? I haven’t bought butter in a long time, but I always saw kerrygold as overpriced mass market shit.
obinice@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I dunno, that looks like the USA and their butter sucks, man. It’s not even yellow, and they sell it in “sticks”. I was so glad to find Kerrygold there.
That’s decent stuff that I use on the regular.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Given the rest of the grocery list, I think it is unlikely that cooking will be involved.
parody@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
Double blind test ‘em - fun and enlightening
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Step 1: Wear a ski mask Step 2: Shoplift? Step 3: ??? Step 4: Profit?
(Step 3 is getting caught and becoming a prison slave 🙃; So yes “Profit” just not for you)
HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 2 weeks ago
Dress up as ICE and state that this is material needed to trap Irish thugs living illegally in the US.
flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
You could also demand to see the kerrygold’s papers, and then leave with it.
RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sooooo a mask, sunglasses, a hoodie and no identification? 🥷
Heathcliff@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
At least the butter might come in handy (or by other limbs).
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That stuff would be about $50 or less total in my area, but I wouldn’t buy any of those but the butter.
BillDaCatt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I must say, the butter is the only one these I would actually buy. Even then, only if I was going to make toast or something. I use store brand butter for baking.
Thorry84@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
That Tennessee Honey is one of my favorite whiskey drinks. However due to America being a total shit head, I can no longer buy it as I don’t want any of my money going there.
Anybody got an idea of what a good European drink is to replace it with? I drink it straight or when I want something more mellow I mix with fake DrPepper or fake Red Bull.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Started making my own sloe gin last year, cheapest Aldi gin and then forage for sloes. Fill a large container about half way by volume with the berries and then fill to the top with gin. Seal, turn it to mix a few times and let it sit there for like 3-6 months. Taste and bottle with sugar, quantity depends on how sweet you want it but probably a few hundred g per litre.
Thorry84@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Wow I’m going to Aldi tomorrow and will try this!
Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Drambuie is an old British honey and whisky liqueur.
You can even make something like it youself: seriouseats.com/diy-drambuie-make-your-own-honey-…
djehuti@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Also you can make a Rusty Nail with some ice and a well Scotch.
Djinn_Indigo@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Crown Royal is Canadian. 🤷 Not sure if it’s available where you are though.
Thorry84@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Thanks, I’ll look out for that. Seems like the plain whiskey is available just fine, but the honey stuff is harder to find.
Rinox@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
Pretty sure Red Bull is Austrian fwiw.
Anyway, there are lots of Irish, Scottish, English whiskeys. Don’t know about honey flavored ones
Thorry84@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Yeah I’m having trouble finding the Honey flavored stuff.
I use fake Red Bull because I think it’s overpriced, not because it’s not American.
zarathustrad@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Have you tried Stag’s Breath Honey and Whisky Liqueur?
I’m sure there are others. Though liquor laws sometimes stiffle innovation so America tends to have more weird experiments of flavor.
Charlxmagne@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I can confirm whiskey, coke, butter and a 12-pack of beers is all I need for the week.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I do have to say, JD Honey is delicious… can easily drink that on the rocks.
ultravioletbunz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Try American Honey, I definitely give it an edge over JD!
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bleh! Try some makers mark straight up or with ice. It’s still sweet without that corn syrup taste
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Skanky@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Makers is so insanely overrated. If you’re gonna spend that money anyways, any of these is a huge upgrade from makers:
- Mitchers
- 1792
- Four Roses
- Basil Haydens
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Blegh, but then it tastes like makers.
How about four roses small batch instead and we forget the sweet.
Ignot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
KerryGold probably making half the bill, extortion, I tell ye!
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
It’s a lot cheaper if you just make your own moonshine instead. Guy on reddit used to post pictures of his 100L water butt bubbling away, cost something stupidly low to fill it considering the volume, like £25 or something like that. Then he distilled it in batches.
The entire setup was comically simple too, like plug and play from parts you can easily buy and ingredients you find in any supermarket.
snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Isn’t that kinda dangerous? Also potentially illegal depending on where you live.
Rinox@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
It’s definitely dangerous if you don’t know what you are doing. As in, “you can die” kind of dangerous.
But if you know what you are doing, nah, it’s perfectly safe, and kind of easy to do too.
Probably most definitely illegal in most places too, but if you just shut the f up and don’t blabber about it to everyone you meet or try to sell or give it away, there’s pretty much nothing they can do about it, cause they don’t know about it, and neither does anyone else.
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
You can brew your own lager or whatever for cheap too.
ceenote@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is the butter there to get the taste of the other three out of your mouth?
JLock17@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What a waste of good butter.
andybytes@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I am getting $15 dollar 3.5 grams of weed. You are doing it wrongly. Well weed tax but still.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s 2 days? Not a big drinker, are you
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I take it the coke is to mix with the Jack, which is acceptable.
If you’re getting a bottle of Blanton’s for a mixed drink I’m going to punch you in the throat.
floo@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
Add another 20 bucks for the two packs of cigarettes for the two days. How could you forget that?
canajac@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
You call beer, junkfood and alcohol groceries?
turtlesareneat@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
That would be the um, joke
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Look at Mr. Fatcat over here. Bet they salt their lentils too!
Little8Lost@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But is the butter salted?
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We all need to make sacrifices. They should have gotten a handle of whiskey and drink water.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I have seen someone grating cold butter and put it into a bowl with whiskey. Leave that in the fridge for a few days. The whiskey is supposed to taste better, and the butter was used for a whiskey buttercream cake.
Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I like those groceries…except the soda is bad for you and expensive /wasting money. Ditch the soda for water which mixes with whiskey just fine. Also Coors is like making love in a canoe.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Weird, I just had to do this with $65 and ended up getting it to $62 as the total. For a family of 4 for 4 days. It was hard and not the best options, but it worked.
follica@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Ingredients for Butterbeer Forte
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t get it, you eat better with a couple dozens of eggs
GiantChickDicks@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I love the juxtaposition of sugar free Coke with sugar added Jack Daniels. Dodging and weaving against diabetes.
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Running between the rain drops to not get wet, then diving into the lake.
Hupf@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
youtu.be/A8kGxcBdXYs
3dmvr@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I just like the taste of coke zero, ill eat candy/dessert still, save the calories id get out of drinking coke, gotta have some vices or you’ll be an uptight bitch
MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Coke zero is worse for your health. Artificial sweeteners have pretty bad health effects, especially the one used in coke.
It is heavily suspected of being able to cause, heart issues, and having the counter intuitive effect to actually make your brain want more sugar, because the complete sugar activation mechanism isn’t triggered properly. It is also slightly suspected to cause cancer, although researchers don’t agree at all on this subject.
HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 2 weeks ago
Move like a butterfly, sting like an insulin jab.
moseschrute@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
It’s the butter that did it for me. That’s fancy butter
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Shits good though. Got it for free one time and I thought to myself, shit I should always buy this stuff. And never once have I bought it since because I saw the price tags