[sarge83]

My mother-in-law buys the canned diet cokes and they are just flat out nasty. They taste like they are watered down to near no flavor compared to the fountain diet cokes. I can’t stomach drinking them. I don’t buy coke products and in general will drink water but if I am inclined to drink a diet soda, Diet Dr. Pepper or Diet Mt. Dew are my go to drinks.

[Dr. Sivana]

They taste like they are watered down to near no flavor compared to the fountain diet cokes.

Fountains can adjust the strength of the formulation (syrup to water ratio). I do not know if this is still the case, but to save money, fountain Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi had continued to mix saccharin with the aspartame long after they went all aspartame on the cans and bottle. No labels on the fountain drinks.

Fountain drink quality varies. Those 100 in 1 machines at Wendy's and other outlets use powder instead of syrup. It makes a difference,