It's my favorite. Available in 12-packs and 16oz PET bottles.
Posted on 06/27/2016 3:51:23 PM PDT by SMGFan
New Diet Pepsi - the biggest thing in soft drinks since New Coke.
One can get real Pepsi with sugar in either expensive glass bottles or 12 packs of cans which cost the same as the other 12 pack products from the company. They also have a harder to find Mountain Dew with sugar. At one point they were making Sierra Mist with sugar and not offering the product with HFCS. I haven’t seen Sierra Mist in the stores for a while; I’m not sure they are still making it. (Looking at Wikipedia, it looks like they dropped it and added a similar product loaded with HFCS.)
If I had known Sierra Mist was going to disappear, I would have stocked up. Stupid marketing move to not publicize the fact.
Diet Pepsi in front of me has Apertame...124mg/355ml.
Guess it’s been a different formula in Canada.
I like Diet Pepsi way more than Diet Coke.
Looking at a Diet Coke...131mg/355ml.
You can get soft drinks with Cyclamates in Germany - or you could when I was there last year.
There’s still Coke in glass bottles but the price is about double.
I’d bet not too many here under age 40 have ever heard of a church key.
There were pull-tab pop-tops in the early '70s - maybe earlier. By the late '70s, the "stay-tab" took over.
IIRC, there is (or was) a craft brewery in the northwest that's using flat-top cans again. Maybe the cans are cheaper without the captive pop-tops. It'd be interesting if it came full-circle.
Thanks for the info on Coke. Never heard of Boylan’s cola, at least not in our part of Texas.
Actually what I wish is that I could once again walk in a filing station somewhere in Texas, see a big red Coca-Cola machine, put in a nickle and out would pop a green glass bottle of real Coca-Cola! I would even put a whole dollar in a machine if I knew for sure the Coke was made in the U.S.
I’ll hold out for Tab when they bring back cyclamates. I was still an early teen but knew the b.s. they used to pull that off the market was junk science. Give a lab rat the equalivalent of ten cases of soda a day..somethings bound to happen. I’d take the old cyclamate over aspartame but truth is, I rarely drink a soda anymore. When I do, I opt for the tiny cans with the real sugar in it.
“Aspartame gave me the worst headaches you could ever imagine. It felt like my head was going to explode.”
Ditto. I was in college when aspartame came out and drank a soda with it and got such a bad headache I’ve refused to drink ANY artificially sweetened anything since then.
We did,however, try various forms of stevia one time because it was billed as “natural” and they all gave me and Mrs. catnipman instant, vicious headaches each and every time as well, so that’s off the list too.
“What I never understood was Sam Kennison walking on stage with a six pack of “Tab”! Man that stuff was awful.”
so was “Fresca” back in the day, truly nasty stuff. My uncle drank it by the case and one time I asked him why, and he told me that no one would ever bum one off of him because everyone hated it.
I remember the Church Key for beer and sodas. Then came the pull tab for beer. Teens loved to have long chains showing how many “beers” they had popped a top on.
Then the soda cans also had the pop top and you could not tell the difference between beer tabs and sodas.
My rememberances...
My uncle would buy beer, pull one out, then strike the end of the steel can with a Church Key several times to “settle” the foam. He then would also add salt to the drink. He and other family members could get falling down puking drunk on THREE 3.2 Oklahoma beers.
1966 Church key used for the Piza-Pop salesman at Chanute AFB.
1968 Church key used in flight crew lunches. When we recovered an aircraft, we would collect the uneaten lunches, church keys and P-38s. I still have a cigar box full of church keys.
1968 first aluminum tops on soda cans and pull tops.
1975 Coors Beer introduces a two hole press tab, till someone cut her finger and sued.
Animal rights people were worried fish were swallowing the flashy pull tabs, and were being killed so the current tab was invented.
I now drink unsweetened tea.
All artificial sweeteners are POISON to the human body. Ban them all...but of course the FDA will never do that...Big Pharma owns the FDA.
Diet soft drinks encourage the body to store fat.
“Aspartame is a neurotoxin”
If your drinking “diet” anything you better look here:
DORWAY
Get the Truth About Aspartame. The Whole Truth.
Why don’t folks just drink everything unsweetened and avoid all of this artificial stuff ?
I don’t get it-—I’ve seen people eating rich desserts and drinking a diet drink.
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Aspartame should be banned for good.
It's my favorite. Available in 12-packs and 16oz PET bottles.
Yup. I wonder if that couldn’t be a TRUMP selling point... getting rid of the sugar subsidies... I HATE HFCS, and avoid it whenever I can.
f you remember THAT, you’re at least as old as me.
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God willing, I’ll be 71 in 2 more days.
I love Diet Rite Cola...no aspartame! Very good, too,
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