[geeks] Diet Pepsi

[Brian]

In the beginning a lot of diet beverages had saccharin, as opposed to the
current sugar substitute nutrasweet.

    Bri

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Byrne" <chris at chrisbyrne.com>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 3:56 PM
Subject: [geeks] Diet Pepsi


> Ok, so as you all know I'm staying with my mom for a while.
>
> Well her husband recently lost 90 lbs through extreme diet and exercise.
> Part of that was to switch everything in the house to the healthy,
> meatless, sugarless, fatless, and usually tasteless variety.
>
> But here's the question. When did Diet Pepsi stop being nasty?
>
> Diet pepsi used to be horrible disgusting nasty stuff. It had that
> standard aspartame flavor which to me seems like a combination of icing
> sugar and sucking on a penny.
>
> But for the past few weeks I've been drinking a lot of diet pepsi, and
> diet mountain dew as well, and they're both pretty good. I mean they
> arent as good as the real thing, but they don't actually taste digusting
> anymore, in fact they're not at all bad. And this is coming from someone
> who will often drink 2-4 liters of Pepsi a day (yes I know it's horible
> for me). That's the potential for removing 2000 calories a day from my
> diet without altering my lifestyle.
>
> So when did pepsico reformulate it's diet drinks? I know it's not just
> me because Ive asked a couple of other people and they've noticed the
> same thing. I tried a diet coke the other day and it still tastes the
> same... Absolutely awful. Are there any other diet drinks that have
> changed like this?
>
> Oh and I've also discovered that fat free sugarless fudgesicles can
> actually be pretty damned good, and that the sugar free version of
> popsicle brand popsicles are actually better than the sugared kind cuz
> they include more of the fruity flavoring (which is kinda sour, which I
> like) and less sweetner.
>
>
> Chris Byrne
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