Topping Today’s List of Things That Probably Shouldn’t Make Me As Happy As They Do

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1. Aoede says:
   July 11, 2009 at 6:38 pm

   *sings* Cancer, cancer, it puts the CAN in cancer…
2. Harry Connolly says:
   July 11, 2009 at 6:39 pm

   Gah! I am so thirsty even Coke Zero looks good.
3. Skip says:
   July 11, 2009 at 6:49 pm

   Meh, Coke Zero is ok. Nowhere near as good as the four great tastes of Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper, but at least it’s not the abomination known as Diet Pepsi.
4. Marko says:
   July 11, 2009 at 6:56 pm

   You know, I think you’re a fabulous guy and all, but I’ll never understand your preference for Coke Zero when you could be drinking delicious Pepsi One instead.

   The only logical explanation I have is that your local Stop-N-Rob doesn’t carry the superior diet cola.
5. Christopher Turkel says:
   July 11, 2009 at 6:58 pm

   I used to drink Coke Zero. Then I became allergic to aspartame. Now I drink Pepsi One and I must say, it’s awesome.
6. Maarken says:
   July 11, 2009 at 7:13 pm

   That’s a cute trick Turkel, given that Zero/One are both sucralose. Diet is asspartame.
7. Angelle says:
   July 11, 2009 at 7:17 pm

   I think a 40 of coke zero would be the ultimate expression of the essence of Ohio, in beverage form, as well as one of the seals of the apocalypse. Lo, it was foretold.

   Thanks, John, for using your blog to alert me to when I should start stockpiling canned goods and potable water. And Pepsi Max.
8. adelheid says:
   July 11, 2009 at 7:26 pm

   @6 Maarken Coke Zero has aspartame, I read labels because I’m aspartame sensitive.
9. Marko says:
   July 11, 2009 at 7:27 pm

   Maarken @#6,

   that’s a negative. Coke Zero is sweetened with aspartame, and Pepsi One is sweetened with Splenda (sucralose).
10. kcarlile says:
    July 11, 2009 at 7:49 pm

    Here we are, from Coke’s site:
    It is aspartame, but a lower does than Diet Coke, and also sweeted with Acesulfame Potassium (Ace-K).

    See here these pages for info:
    http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/ourcompany/pdf/low_calorie_sweetener_fact_sheet.pdf
    http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/ourcompany/hal_nutritional_labeling.html
11. J Madden says:
    July 11, 2009 at 7:50 pm

    Preach. It.
12. awake on a train says:
    July 11, 2009 at 8:17 pm

    When I told my girlfriend about this she peed a little.
13. Grand Fromage says:
    July 11, 2009 at 9:19 pm

    And a heavenly chorus sang.
14. Steve Buchheit says:
    July 11, 2009 at 9:30 pm

    Hold out for the Coke Zero Magnum. It can’t be that far away. Oh, and then there will be the tall necks.
15. ian says:
    July 11, 2009 at 11:03 pm

    getting that much diet coke for 99 cents rocks
16. Tully says:
    July 11, 2009 at 11:34 pm

    There is a Splenda-sweetened (sucralose) Diet Coke. For those of us who hate aspartame. And it doesn’t taste like cough syrup when mixed with dark rum, which Coke Zero does. Not that Scalzi cares about that.

    But they don’t make it in tallboys.
17. cyan says:
    July 12, 2009 at 12:26 am

    And now ‘a 40′ will never be the same again.
18. Nentuaby says:
    July 12, 2009 at 1:21 am

    Hmmm. Call me an eco-nerd, but I’m wondering now whether (given you recycle both) an aluminum tallboy or a plastic (PET, I think?) bottle is lower footprint…
19. martyn says:
    July 12, 2009 at 5:42 am

    The sadness of this is awe-inspiring. But I’m a Diet Coke addict, so what do I know?
20. Old Man's Coke Habit says:
    July 12, 2009 at 9:06 am

    I prefer Coca-cola Circa 28′. It was cocaine-free by 1929. Ah, the glory days of my youth . . .
21. Christopher Turkel says:
    July 12, 2009 at 9:47 am

    No, coke zero has aspartame in it. I’m looking at my daughter’s can of coke zero right now.
22. Christopher Turkel says:
    July 12, 2009 at 9:48 am

    I have drank diet coke with splenda. It’s good but very, very hard to find around here.
23. Tom Callaway says:
    July 12, 2009 at 10:00 am

    When I was in Germany last month, I bought a Coke (regular old sugar sweetened Coke, none of that aspartame for me, thanks) in a hard plastic bottle a little bigger than a 40. 1 Euro. :)
24. WendyB_09 says:
    July 12, 2009 at 10:53 am

    What, they have sugar-sweetened Coke in other countries? Geez, we’re stuck with that high fructose corn syrup crap. Except at Passover, when you can get Coke with sugar here in the US. I have got to remember to stock up next year.

    As someone who early on discovered the hard way about aspartame allergies (migraine trigger), I can’t even touch most diet products. Several of the other artificial sweetener products also have consequences if I use them. Even Splenda, which is supposed to be a sugar-based product, tends to make me cranky. Worse, aspartame is so commonly used, I have to read product labels very carefully before I buy things like no-fat yogurt and even chewing gum and breath mints!
25. allium says:
    July 12, 2009 at 12:30 pm

    24 – if you have any Hispanic-oriented supermarkets in your area they probably carry Mexican Coke and/or Pepsi. Glass bottle, cane sugar, it’s 1985 all over again! And if you do find such a store, may I recommend trying out the Jarritos and Sangria Señorial brands as well? If (non-alcoholic) wine flavored soda is wrong, I don’t want to be right.

    But then again I like liver and onions, Vegemite and Brussels sprouts, so my judgment is pretty suspect already.
26. allium says:
    July 12, 2009 at 12:32 pm

    Also, can I get a shoutout for Canfield’s Diet Chocolate Fudge Soda?
27. John Scalzi says:
    July 12, 2009 at 12:35 pm

    Ew. No.
28. Don Fitch says:
    July 12, 2009 at 12:56 pm

    #20
    I probably missed out on that (*sigh*) — somewhere around here I have a Gift Certificate for Coca-Cola addressed to the parents of “Baby Fitch” (they had problems agreeing on a name for me) and dated 1928. They were thrifty people, and presumably would’ve used it if they’d accepted the advertising idea that Coca-Cola (containing a bit of cocaine) was good medicine for babies. (Mind you, I now have a mild preference for Classic Coke, especially for the form of it that doesn’t use corn syrup.)
29. Cassie says:
    July 12, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    With that much caffiene, you’ll still be upright and dancing even if you die.
30. Johnny Carruthers says:
    July 12, 2009 at 3:51 pm

    It doesn’t take much to make you happy, does it?
31. David S. says:
    July 12, 2009 at 7:12 pm

    Die happy? If you keep drinking that toxic waste you’ll certainly die early, but I dunno how happy about it you’ll be.
32. Joe M. says:
    July 13, 2009 at 12:23 pm

    Those of you hoping for sugar sweetened soda, there is Pepsi Throwback which has made its way to our shelves at least (though i’m on board with the Coke Zero crew – though bottled, not canned, as I don’t like the can taste and/or mix) and has real sugar in it. I think Coke was doing something similar but not sure if it ever made it out of the concept/testing stage.
33. Ed says:
    July 13, 2009 at 7:34 pm

    I’ve been buying Mountain Dew tallboys for the last couple of weeks and just bought the last one at the store I go to every morning. That makes me sad.
34. justfred says:
    July 14, 2009 at 4:18 am

    “Coke Zero 40 ounce” – now those would make a heck of a game of Edward 40-hands.

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