I know a fellow who works for kookie cola. Word is that Coke Zero is checmially identical to Diet Coke, and the name and packaging is simply marketing to make it appealing to a more masculine audience.
It’s worked so far.
I haven’t spoken to this fellow in a while, but...
My suspicion is that the C-C marketing people have looked at the success of the other companies products that are similarly marketed to a more masculine audience with the “10 calorie” small amount of sugar added. They wish to duplicate this, thinking that it will be a more successful formula for them. Whatever.
By the way - don’t stock up on diet sodas - the Aspartame eventually decays into Formaldehyde (it does this in your body, too), and after several weeks in storage, even in a cool location, it will taste very nasty.
Anyway, I think this is just a stupid move on their part. If they mess it up, I can always get a Dr. Pepper instead.
The real thing I’m curious about is why none of the companies have realized the marketing possibilities of doing 11 calories instead of 10 for their sodas.
Imagine: Mountain Dew 11 - This one goes to 11!!!!!
(hehe)
He lied to you. The difference in taste is significant.
Coke Zero does not (to me) leave an after taste. Diet Coke does. Coke Zero tastes more like regular Coke.
You could, you know, actually do a blind taste test and you would immediately know it’s a lie.
Like others have said, Coke Zero tastes more like regular Coke and has very little aftertaste. Diet Coke is the most hideous diet pop on the market - I call it aftertaste in a can.
They really should just drop Diet Coke. It’s truly awful.
Coke Zero may be identical chemically but tastes nothing like Diet Coke. I don’t drink many sodas but when I do it was Diet Coke. Then Coke Zero came out. It is so much better than Diet Coke.