Coke Zero
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I used to be a massive coke drinker and a few summers ago I decided I was gonna drink diet drinks because I was trying to lose weight. Switched to diet coke as part of healthy eating and lost 17 kilos in 3 months. Fell in love with coke zero when it came out, tastes almost like real coke but without the rotting teeth or calories. Agree with NTA though, the taste varies hugely from batch to batch.
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[quote name='NTA']<br />
Zero is great. I don't mind the flavour at all, but it can vary a bit from batch to batch. Have been drinking it basically since it came out, but only when I'm really knackered at work and need the caffeine hit. Someone told me it has more caffeine than regular Coke, and is aimed directly at Pepsi Max.<br />
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Not surprisingly, when you use it as a mixer instead of regular coke, you get more of the flavour of the spirit you are using. Lack of sugar means it doesn't cloud the taste of the scotch/rum/whatever. [b]Not sure how it goes with vodka....[/b]<br />
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In the same glass... <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':rolleyes:' /><br />
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It's Goooooooood.
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Meh, just drink espressi without sugar, you shower of poofs. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':rolleyes:' /><br />
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Diet Coke's a vice of mine I've pretty much given up on, not without a serious, serious struggle. Dilute acid can't be good for your teeth, no matter what way you slice it.Â
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Now, if I could only cut back on the insane-strength coffee I've been drinking by the bucket as a substitute, I might sleep sometime this century... <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':blink:' /> -
[quote name='Thomond78']<br />
Meh, just drink espressi without sugar, you shower of poofs. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':rolleyes:' /><br />
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Espressi? Do you stick your pinky out when you drink it, poof? <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':blink:' /> -
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[quote name='Thomond78']<br />
Meh, just drink espressi without sugar, you shower of poofs. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':rolleyes:' /><br />
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Espressi? Do you stick your pinky out when you drink it, poof? <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':blink:' /><br />
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You're the one who married into a family of Italians, hopefully they'll put manners on you yet, philistine. <br />
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Doubles usually, as I'm now virtually immune to the hit from one. My caffeine tolerance has actually reached scary levels. -
Actually, they married into me <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':rolleyes:' /><br />
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Its taking a while to bring them around on Bundy Rum I must say :nta -
[quote name='Baron Silas Greenback']<br />
I was never really a massive coke drinker.... maybe a can with my lunch every day.. and maybe a bit over the weekend. But I changed to Coke Zero a couple of months ago.... and I ahve lost 5 kgs... down to 70 now...... Still dont think COke Zero is particularly good for you... but it definately has less suger.<br />
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Anyone else tried it?<br />
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Come off it Baron, there is no such thing as a Kiwi male who weighs in at 70 kgs. Even Dan Carter is 91. -
[quote name='Red Beard']<br />
Are you guys absolutely certain that the three cokes arent all the same thing just packaged differently like the three Duff beers (that all came out of the same pipe but were poured from seperate taps) that Homer found on the Duff Brewery tour?<br />
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Diet Coke is seperate to any of the other drinks as it comes out of the Pipe of Evil Tasting Muck. -
pfft, only poofs drink non-full sugar drinks!! :fishing:<br />
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Which might explain why I am 95kg... :shifty: actually have lost a few kg's myself, but purely from doing exercise and don't drink a great deal of that anyways, go through a few litres of water at work though a day -
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[quote name='cd_wilson']<br />
From my can of Coke Zero on my desk ... its sweetener component is 951 and 950<br />
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I think Diet is just the 950 ?aspartame? one ...<br />
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Real coke has the evil fattening sugar stuff ...<br />
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I was at a first aid course a few months ago and I had a 600ml bottle of coke zero during the morning session and walked in after lunch with a new bottle of coke zero. This lady, who mustve been about 130kg, standing at about 5 foot 3 said to me from across the room "another bottle of that diet stuff? dont you know diet fizzy drink causes brain cancer" So I said, "I guess brain cancer is better than ending up obese with diabetes", to muffled laughter across the room. Didnt really think about how it came across til after I sat down but I guess it explained why she didnt talk to me the rest of the course. -
[quote]Come off it Baron, there is no such thing as a Kiwi male who weighs in at 70 kgs. Even Dan Carter is 91.[/quote]<br />
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[quote name='Baron Silas Greenback']<br />
[quote]Come off it Baron, there is no such thing as a Kiwi male who weighs in at 70 kgs. Even Dan Carter is 91.[/quote]<br />
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I am fairly sure he works out more than I do.<br />
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Most of the Year 8 primnary school kids in Te Aroha weigh 70 kilos or more. They dont work out much either mind you! -
[quote name='NTA']<br />
Someone told me it has more caffeine than regular Coke, and is aimed directly at Pepsi Max.<br />
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Yeah, Coke Zero has more caffeine than normal Coke, but less than Diet Coke.<br />
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I'm also a fan of Coke Zero, and get a fair bit of shit for it from my mates. Not as much as I got when I drank Diet Coke though. I didn't like Diet Coke at first, but give yourself time to get addicted, and soon enough you'll be craving it just like you did normal coke.<br />
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Every now and then when I buy a combo they'll give me real coke by mistake. I consider taking it back, but then I get that nasty water behind the eyes thing happening and it feels so good - just a bit more, then I'll take it back. Then, oh what the hell I never get real coke, may as well make the most of it. Man I want a coke.
