Favorite Diet Soda

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Poll question: Favorite Diet Soda

What say you?

[ghostsofgiants]

1. I voted Goat Pee, but I do enjoy the occasional Fresca.

[PassingFair]

70. Fresca IS goat pee!

:)

[Rhythm]

2. Cherry Coke Zero

By far my favorite

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6. Yum....I forgot about that one....

:9

[YellowRubberDuckie]

80. I find it flat.

Have you ever noticed that there's not a lot of carbonation when you pour it out?
Duckie

[LSdemocrat]

3. Other - Coke Zero

[SacredCow]

4. Another vote for Coke Zero n/t

[bertha katzenengel]

20. Yeah - where's Zero?

:shrug:

[jobycom]

5. Water, with lemon. nt

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7. That is a good one too....

:9

[harmonicon]

29. that's the one I'm drinking right now

[philosophie_en_rose]

8. Diet Coke with Splenda

:9

[flvegan]

9. Diet Pepsi Max

Nice little boost.

[Arkansas Granny]

10. I voted goat pee. I don't care much for regular sodas and I find diet sodas particularly nasty.

[Dangerously Amused]

11. Does Diet Rockstar count?

Owise, Diet Coke. I don't have them very often anymore, but I like the way an ice-cold can of the stuff bites the back of my throat on insanely hot days.

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14. Oh YEAH!!!

Diet Rockstar TOTALLY counts...

Now that both the tan and the blue cans have NO carbs.

[fudge stripe cookays]

26. Do you like giving Savage Wiener more money?

His son owns that shit.

:puke:

[Dangerously Amused]

53. You know what I like? I like staying awake behind the wheel when I have a late drive home.

Trying to avoid being a menace on the road, and all. And Rockstar is the only energy drink I've found that:

1. Keeps me awake and driving safely but
2. doesn't give me the shakes and make my heart race and
3. is widely available at all hours and
4. is a flavor I can stand to drink.

So is it okay with you if I have one now and then?

Jesus.

[fudge stripe cookays]

56. Suit yourself.

I'd commit hari kiri before drinking anything with that prick's name on the checks.

[Dangerously Amused]

61. .

[KamaAina]

12. Clean, crisp, refreshing Goat Pee.

And it doesn't have any of that nasty aspartame that Donald Rumsfeld got fast-tracked to approval when he was at Searle. So go ahead. Have A Goat Pee. You'll be glad you did!

[panhead1961]

13. Canada Dry Diet Ginger Ale

[YellowRubberDuckie]

81. They have diet Ginger Ale?

Damn. They apparently just don't have it in Oklahoma. I love Ginger Ale.
Duckie

[Broken_Hero]

15. Diet Dr. Pepper...

And to those folks who voted for Diet Mt. Dew...man, you got a stronger stomach than I do....:D

[DS1]

16. It's not ~which~ diet soda that matters so much as ~how~ it's consumed

Maybe I'm more OCD than thought (not at all) but when I'm drinking diet soda, I have to have 2 cans with 3 ice cubes in my giant liter glass from K-Mart (Wal*Mart sells them too)

I don't wish to try explain it.

[Dangerously Amused]

23. Freak.

:D

[Dangerously Amused]

54. And I only say that because my "beverage issues" are odder than yours by a long shot.

Series.

[DS1]

64. Series

fresh off the press




and you can't leave someone hanging like that. Fess up

[Dangerously Amused]

76. Hah! Awesome avi!

:thumbsup:

Okay, okay. My beverage weirdness.

When I was a kid I would occasionally have dinner at my friend Susan's house. Susan was one in a large brood of boisterous/obnoxious kids, like ten of them, and all relatively close in age. At their dinner table I learned very quickly to keep one eye on my glass of milk AT ALL TIMES. Because the unfortunate young soul who left the table for any reason, or whose attention was diverted by another child operative would often reach the bottom of his or her glass of milk to find that something utterly disgusting, like a half-chewed piece of meat or sprig of cheesy broccoli had been covertly placed in the milk. That, or one of the kids would take the opportunity to quaff a swig of the victim's milk, swish it around in his or her mouth, spit it back into the glass and then return the glass to its place. All of the other kids found these practical jokes hilarious, but I was mortified and found it absolutely revolting.

To this day I am ridiculously possessive of my drinks. I will not leave my drink unattended, not even for a moment, not even with family, friends or a SO. I will not share my drink, with anyone, for any reason. I am not at all that way about food - I will share anything anyone wants to taste on my plate, you can even have a lick from my ice cream cone ... but you can NOT have a sip of my drink. Ever ever ever.

That, and I will often have several drinks going at once: Coffee, hot tea, cold tea, water, soda, fruit juice, vegetable juice, beer, any combination of those. And then I have to keep an eye on ALL of them, lol.

[Shell Beau]

17. Diet Barq's rootbeer is the best diet drink.

[BarenakedLady]

18. Coke Zero

but I like the flavored colas too; cherry, lime, etc. I'm not brand specific most of the time.

Though I mostly just drink flavored seltzer.

[southpaw]

19. Of the poll choices, Diet Dr. Pepper!

Coke Zero is probably tied for first, and Fresca has got to be the best sugar-free grapefruit soda on the market!

[bertha katzenengel]

21. A 3-way tie: Zero, Fresca, and IBC Diet Root Beer. n/t

[Seeking Serenity]

22. Other: Tab

[dembotoz]

38. yes tab

my main soda for a long time

[Seeking Serenity]

44. Mine, too. Since high school.

[GCP]

24. Fresca

[last_texas_dem]

32. Fresca's the only diet soda I can stand

If not for it, I would have had to vote for the "goat pee" option in the poll!

[fudge stripe cookays]

25. The shit is poison.

Neurotoxins!

Ask yourself how much the prospect of daily or weekly injections of interferon shots appeal to you, because this shit causes MS and a host of other auto immune diseases and other crap.

I should know, because I have it, and I consumed so much Equal in the 80s and 90s it would make your head spin.

[Lex]

27. Has the connection been actually proven?

For instance, I consumed *a lot* of Equal in the 80s and 90s too, but no MS.

My SO has MS and hasn't ever consumed much Equal at all.

:shrug:

[fudge stripe cookays]

35. Depends on your system, I guess.

But why would you want to continue putting that crap in your body if there is the slightest possibility that it is doing serious damage?

Just because you don't have it now doesn't mean things won't change. I hope they won't for you, but if Rumsfeld's finger was in the approval process, I don't trust the shit at all now that I know what I know about it.

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40. Aspartame gives me headaches.

I used to drink diet sodas with aspartame a lot and got headaches frequently. I read an article about it and quit drinking anything with aspartame, and my headaches went away, never to return.

[Mojambo]

28. Diet Pepsi, but I only ever drink it when I'm at a restaurant.

I used to go through about a 12 pack every two days at home.

[harmonicon]

30. I voted diet dr. pepper

I actually think almost all soda is disgusting, and almost never drink it, but I do sometimes have them when I need a quick bit of energy. I drink diet dr. pepper sometimes on road trips, because I want some caffeine, but no sugar.

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47. I wish I was back at the "tolerance" level!

I probably drink 4 or 5 Diet Dr. Peppers a day.

Not for the caffeine. Just cuz it's there.

[femmocrat]

31. Other... that fruit-flavored carbonated water.

(from the supermarket)

[pinniped]

33. Fresca....but I don't drink much soda anyways.

Cactus Cooler is the best non-diet soda.

[bmbmd]

34. Diet Coke

wirh limw, with lime. Get it at Sonic.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

82. Isn't Sonic the best?

[Doug.Goodall]

36. Diet Jones

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Diet Jones Soda (made with pure cane sugar)

[hellbound-liberal]

37. Diet Sunkist is the best that I have tried though I plan to try some of the Diet Root Beers

that others have mentioned. Fresca is good too!

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41. Get Hansen's Diet Root Beer.

It is amazingly good.

[hellbound-liberal]

57. Where do you get it?

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58. I think Trader Joe's carries the whole line. I've been buying it at Vons (Safeway).

The Vons chain of grocery stores in California is owned by Safeway Corp. now. Hansen's web site says, "Hansen’s Natural Sodas can be found in the premium soda section of many grocery stores and the natural foods section of other grocery stores, as well as specialty stores, club stores and natural food stores throughout the U.S." but they don't specify which chains specifically carry their brand.

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39. Hansen's Diet Creamy Root Beer is the best.

No sugar. No calories. No carbs. No aspartame. No sodium. No caffeine. No preservatives.

Yet it's GREAT stuff.

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50. I think I might buy some!

I need a no-caffeine bev for the late-night...

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59. Here's a list of their sodas

http://hansens.com/products/products.php?subcat=1&color=soda

The Cherry Vanlla Creme is good too. All of the ones shown on that page are sweetened with cane syrup, not high fructose corn syrup. I think most if not all come in diet versions, which are sweetened with Splenda.

[noamnety]

42. other. plain selzer.

Water doesn't need to be sweetened.

[DarkTirade]

43. Jones has a few good varieties.

Splenda instead of sugar. I know it's probably worse for me in the long run than sugar would be, but I'm tryin' to cut as much sugar out of my diet as possible. And that's the only artificial sweetener that doesn't taste like crap to me.

[Release The Hounds]

45. Diet Rite. No Aspartame

[blonndee]

75. I love the taste of Diet Rite (all flavors) but it doesn't have caffeine,

which I usually want in a drink. But the taste is the best of all the diet drinks, I agree.

[Shine]

46. Sorry, I don't drink that chemical sugary shit.

I'd rather drink water.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

48. Haven't drank a diet soda that didn't taste like chemicals.

They're nasty. :puke:

[rebel with a cause]

49. Sprite Free..

No sugar, no caffine, low sodium, and doesn't have an overly sweet taste. Was given it in the hospital and that started me on it, because I am suppose to have little/no sugar, caffine, and sodium. Other than water and milk, this is about all I drink except for an occasional cheat for a diet Dr. Pepper bought cold at the store.

[Kali]

51. eh if I am going to have a soda I want sugar

I remember my mom drinking fresca when it had saccharine and it wasn't too bad but all the rest? bleh give me the goat pee

[GoddessOfGuinness]

52. The goat pee one

:puke:

[CreekDog]

55. all i know is i drink too much of it and i'm trying to quit

:banghead:

it doesn't even taste that good. :eyes:

(but the diet root beer is probably the best)

[book lady]

60. Diet Squirt

[NightHawk63]

62. Diet Canada Dry Ginger Ale

Had it once when I was in Philly years ago. Haven't seen it since. :(

[noonwitch]

63. Diet Coke-but Diet Mountain Dew is good for long drives

More caffeine

[MAGICBULLET]

65. Hansen's sodas

available at Trader Joe's

it's sugar-free, aspartame-free and has zero carbs, no artificial colors or flavors, no sodium, no caffeine, and no preservatives. Sweetened with Splenda, which is sucralose

Diet Peach
Diet Black Cherry
Diet Kiwi Strawberry
Diet Tangerine Lime
Diet Ginger Ale
Diet Root Beer
Diet Pomegranate
Diet Grapefruit

[Graybeard]

66. Original Fresca Grapefruit

There are so many lemon&lime sodas that all taste the same I find Fresca grapefruit a nice change.

[Inchworm]

67. Seltzer is soda right?

Orange or Rasberry Lime

:9

[Critters2]

72. Yeah. That's the right choice.

Or club soda/sparkling water with a twist.

[AzDar]

68. Diet Mountain Dew : The Elixir Of Life.......

:thumbsup:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

69. Remember "Goat Pee Clear" back in the '90s?

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71. Queue Van Halen's "Right Now"

[jakefrep]

73. Goat pee

When I drink pop, I'd rather roll the dice with HFCS than drink the cancer in a can that is diet pop.

[blonndee]

74. Wild Cherry Diet Pepsi and Cherry Vanilla Diet Dr. Pepper.

Besides Diet Rite (which has no caffeine, so I hardly drink it), those are really the only two I like. I guess the cherry kind of cancels out the nasty whangy taste of diet drinks.

[bac511]

77. Diet Rite!

NO caffeine, sodium or calories.

[redqueen]

78. Coke Zero

[YellowRubberDuckie]

79. Diet Mountain Dew is Shit.

Pepsi has yet to figure out how to make a Diet Drink.
Diet A&W is my favorite. Diet Coke with Lime runs a close second.
Diet Sunkist is EXCELLENT too.
Duckie

[Mad_Dem_X]

83. Diet Coke with lemon