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Coca-Cola to stop making iconic Tab diet soda
WVLA (Baton Rouge) via WFLA (Tampa Bay) ^ | Oct 16, 2020 11:16 AM EDT | Michael Scheidt

Posted on 10/16/2020 8:40:24 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Say it ain’t so!

Dec. 31 marks the end of not only 2020, but a part of soda history.

TaB diet soda is no more when the calendar turns to 2021.

This ends a 57-year-run as Coke’s “first-ever ‘diet’ soft drink.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at wfla.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: cocacola; dietcola; dietsoda; tab
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To: dfwgator
"Back to the Future" - 35 years ago...JEEZ...
21 posted on 10/16/2020 8:49:01 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: 1Old Pro
If it was anything like scotch, I’d drink it.

Now I’m jonesin’ for Maker’s...
22 posted on 10/16/2020 8:51:32 AM PDT by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot acceptI)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Thanks for explaining it.


23 posted on 10/16/2020 8:53:42 AM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: Olog-hai

I remember Tab —and Fresca — were pretty big deals when they first came out. I believe I drank both exactly once. I thought they were both gone already but I did see some cases of them a few years back at some store around here. I wonder if Fresca is next?


24 posted on 10/16/2020 8:59:18 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: Olog-hai

Today I learned that Tab still exists - at least for the moment.


25 posted on 10/16/2020 9:00:02 AM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Posting from deep within enemy territory - San Jose, CA)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

mmMMMM I loved Mr. Pibb


26 posted on 10/16/2020 9:00:16 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: LIConFem

“Used to drink that noxious brew back i the early 80s. It’s frikkin’ horrible”.

If it was horrible, why did you continue drinking it? Lol

I agree, it was nasty and I only tried it once.


27 posted on 10/16/2020 9:00:53 AM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: dfwgator

My first thought also


28 posted on 10/16/2020 9:01:15 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: ConservativeMind

You apparently never tried Sinalco..


29 posted on 10/16/2020 9:02:10 AM PDT by RitchieAprile (available monkeys looking for the change..)
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To: LIConFem

Makers Mark is a bourbon, not a scotch.


30 posted on 10/16/2020 9:05:46 AM PDT by sageburn
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To: Karliner
First Odwalla juices, now this. Variety is not the spice of socialism

I think this was purely capitalist supply and demand decision. Under socialism, Tab would be too big to fail.

31 posted on 10/16/2020 9:08:36 AM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: sageburn

It’s all whiskey to me.


32 posted on 10/16/2020 9:08:51 AM PDT by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot acceptI)
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To: Olog-hai

Damn. I much prefer Tab to Diet Coke. I’m sure that has at least some nostalgic connotation has I would share Tab with my diabetic grandmother in my youth.


33 posted on 10/16/2020 9:09:02 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Vote Giant Meteor in 2020)
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To: Olog-hai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXAU_ZtFfUk

I remember this Tab with Willie Mays commercial in my childhood.

I even drank Tab once in a while. They should have stuck with the saccharin, aspartame just makes it another Diet Coke product.


34 posted on 10/16/2020 9:09:55 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: discostu

Yeah, I thought they quit making it 30 years ago when they came out with Diet Coke. That’s what it is, isn’t it?


35 posted on 10/16/2020 9:10:15 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: Buckeye McFrog
My great-aunt used to drink Wink, a grapefruit soda.

Wink was one of two great sodas from the old Canada Dry. It is similar to Squirt or Mexican Fresca (full sugar). The other great Canada Dry soda one was Jamaica Cola.
36 posted on 10/16/2020 9:12:05 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Suck on a handful of nickels and it taste the same as Tab


37 posted on 10/16/2020 9:13:05 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: Olog-hai

a guy that my uncle went on safaris with would have a whole pallet of Tab delivered for a month long hunt


38 posted on 10/16/2020 9:16:26 AM PDT by digger48
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To: kaktuskid
It was better than Moxie. 😀
39 posted on 10/16/2020 9:17:30 AM PDT by Mears (.)
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To: Karliner
Really? I missed that they'd killed Odwalla in August. SMH.

Somehow Coke continues to push its "zero sugar" abomination which it reformulated.

They did nothing to support the Tab brand and yet it lasted 57 years. It's times like this I wish they would sell off a product and it could be kept alive as a boutique brand. Other than their Fairlife milk, which I prefer to Lactaid, I have no use for Coca-Cola. Certainly not any of their marquee brands.

40 posted on 10/16/2020 9:20:27 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Vote Giant Meteor in 2020)
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