Diet or regular pop?

**Calhoun07** · 07-29-2001, 08:47 PM

Which do you prefer, and why? Does diet pops actually contain as much bad stuff as I've heard?

**Bud 'n Lou** · 07-29-2001, 08:57 PM

Actually, I prefer soda, but aside from that... :-D
Diet sodas taste gross. It's the artificial sweeteners. *gag*

**batboy2001** · 07-29-2001, 08:59 PM

Regular soda is the best. Diet taste so bad because the use spartain instead of sugar.

**Calhoun07** · 07-29-2001, 09:10 PM

I heard spartain is supposed to do real bad things to you.

I actually got tired of the taste of regular pop about a year and a half ago, and just could never finish a can, so I switched to diet. the taste never bothered me. But now I am kinda drinking both and wondered about which one is supposed to be better for you? Well, I guess no soda pops would be best, but you know what I mean!

**Clayface** · 07-29-2001, 09:22 PM

I prefer regular pop.

**batboy2001** · 07-29-2001, 09:49 PM

Spartain gives some people horrible nightmares, and my grandfather always said it kills brain cells.

**DR. BELCH** · 07-29-2001, 11:57 PM

I find diet root beer too flat-tasting and lifeless. It's practically a blasphemy.
Lately I've tried to drink more fruit juices, and I have a large can of lovely powdered pina colada smoothie mix from Melaleuca. Great with water, milk, lemonade, and apple juice.
I've heard that Alzheimer's disease is caused by excessive aluminum deposits in the brain, which get into the body through bits of the metal leached from the interior of soda cans.
They only call it "pop" up North because it supposedly makes that sound when opened. It doesn't go "pop", it goes "whoosh". Here in the South, to be proper, you say, "I want a Co-Coler."

**Calhoun07** · 07-30-2001, 12:10 AM

Is that Alzheimer's disease statement based on fact? If so, where can the facts be verified? How long have aluminum cans been in common usage? I am old enough to remember pop in tin cans, but glass bottles were all the rage when I was growing up. In fact, I decry the day the bottling companies stopped putting their pop in glass bottles. It seriously tastes sooooo much better out of a glass bottle. Of course, you can still find IBC rootbeer in glass bottles, and I dare you to find a canned pop that tastes better. It can't be done, because canned pop tastes more bland. Now I want a Dr Pepper out of a glass bottle. Some times, "progress" isn't all that great. They should go back to glass bottles, easier to recycle and to reuse.

**DR. BELCH** · 07-30-2001, 12:55 AM

The first part, about the aluminum desposits, may be true. I've read in psych texts about deposits of minerals and proteins in the brains of dementia sufferers, called senile plaques. The part about it being caused by soda cans, however, smacks of urban legend--right up there with diseased hypodermic needles in gas pumps, hairy-armed hitchhikers, kidney thieves, and another popular soda u.l., the Pop Rocks story.
For the record, most of my soda comes from plastic bottles. Also recycleable, plus I can fill them with water and take them out when I go jogging.
For my money, Barq's makes the best root beer...but even generic Sam's Choice hits a thirsty throat like a blessing.

**Colin** · 07-30-2001, 01:02 AM

Originally posted by calhoun07
Which do you prefer, and why? Does diet pops actually contain as much bad stuff as I've heard?

Um... if I had a grandfather I called "Pop" I think i'd like him any way he was... whether he was on a diet or not...

Oh... you mean SODA (what us normal people call it

). Personally, I prefer regular... and I will even go as for to say I prefer Pepsi over Coke, but I do also enjoy the occaisional RC Cola...

**Trent Lane** · 07-30-2001, 01:44 AM

Being at high risk for diabettes, I stick with Diet Coke and Dr. Pepper. DDP tastes the same, so it doesn't bother me...

BTW, I can't say "pop", it sounds too much like my cousins in Ohio. In the south, everybody refers to soda as "Coke". Guess it's a regional thing...

**Calhoun07** · 07-30-2001, 07:31 AM

Why call Dr Pepper "coke?"

I prefer Dr Pepper, and I have drank both diet and regular. The diet does taste pretty good, but I am swinging back to regular.

**Frozen** · 07-30-2001, 09:10 AM

Stick to fruit juice, my friends, your teeth will live longer... Having said that., I LOVE coca-coke. I HATE diet coca-cola. Why would I want to drink something that tastes of washing up water..?

**Clayface** · 07-30-2001, 11:37 AM

Originally posted by Colin
Oh... you mean SODA (what us normal people call it ).

Oh puh-lease! The original name was "soda pop". Some regions kept the"soda", some kept the "pop". Neither one is any more correct than the other.

**killercroc** · 07-30-2001, 11:45 AM

Originally posted by flhero311
BTW, I can't say "pop", it sounds too much like my cousins in Ohio. In the south, everybody refers to soda as "Coke". Guess it's a regional thing...

We say that in Oklahoma also. You know you're from the south if you've ever had this conversation:

"Hey, want a coke?"
"sure."
"What kind?"
"Dr. Pepper."

Anyway as for the Aspartame or whatever. I had a friend in High School whose dad was a pilot. American Airlines wouldn't let him drink diet Coke because of the Aspartame. Corporate fascism or genuine concern? You decide!

**don Jaime** · 07-30-2001, 11:53 AM

Coke's in real danger of losing its trademark, as Croc says. To be authentic redneck, you have to call it "R-o-C Co-Cola", working in Royal Crown with Coca-Cola.

Aluminum cans are coated to keep the contents from coming into contact with them - sodas have low pH and will eat through aluminum. It's the same principle behind why you don't wrap tomato sauced stuff in "tinfoil." You'll get a puddle of oxidized aluminum. Still, I suppose you could be getting extra aluminum in your diet via cans.

Pepsi is better than Coke. All soda is better from bottles. The best ginger ale is Blenheim's of South Carolina, followed by Vernor's out of Michigan. Puts that Canada Dry stuff to shame.

The ultimate in soda pop - Dublin (TX) Dr. Pepper made with bracing Imperial Cane Sugar instead of syrupy corn sweeteners. A splurge, but worth it once in a while. You want bottles.

**killercroc** · 07-30-2001, 01:14 PM

Originally posted by don Jaime
Coke's in real danger of losing its trademark, as Croc says. To be authentic redneck, you have to call it "R-o-C Co-Cola", working in Royal Crown with Coca-Cola.

Aluminum cans are coated to keep the contents from coming into contact with them - sodas have low pH and will eat through aluminum. It's the same principle behind why you don't wrap tomato sauced stuff in "tinfoil." You'll get a puddle of oxidized aluminum. Still, I suppose you could be getting extra aluminum in your diet via cans.

Pepsi is better than Coke. All soda is better from bottles. The best ginger ale is Blenheim's of South Carolina, followed by Vernor's out of Michigan. Puts that Canada Dry stuff to shame.

The ultimate in soda pop - Dublin (TX) Dr. Pepper made with bracing Imperial Cane Sugar instead of syrupy corn sweeteners. A splurge, but worth it once in a while. You want bottles.

When I read this thread, I was expecting to see that you had "scooped" me on the coke thing.

Speaking of the pH thing, have you seen where they put a nail in Coke and it disintegrates? I don't think that one's an urban legend.

I agree about cokes...er, sodas being better from the bottle. It also seems like they taste different if you pour them into a glass.

I'll never drink Pepsi. When I was 13 I went to Six Flags and they had the Pepsi Challenge set up. I had always wanted to try it, but the lady said I was too young. I even begged and she said no. So I told her, "Ok, but I'm never drinking Pepsi again." Well I have drank it when nothing else was available, but I've never bought it. Anyway, with my lifetime of drinking Coke, Pepsi just tastes week and flat to me. Un

I've had the cane Dr. P's before and they are good. They also taste a lot better than the syrup kind when you drink them hot.

**don Jaime** · 07-30-2001, 01:19 PM

You're not like my mom and put peanuts in the Dr. Pepper, are you?

**killercroc** · 07-30-2001, 01:36 PM

Originally posted by don Jaime
You're not like my mom and put peanuts in the Dr. Pepper, are you?

Peanuts in Dr. Pepper, how gross! They're supposed to go in Coca Cola.

**DR. BELCH** · 07-30-2001, 01:52 PM

killercroc :
Speaking of the pH thing, have you seen where they put a nail in Coke and it disintegrates? I don't think that one's an urban legend.

Overnight? Only if you mix sulfuric acid into it:
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/acid.htm
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/tooth.htm
Carbonic acid (also seen in acid rain) is fairly weak and takes years to oxidize (break down) iron and copper.
Another one I really like:
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/sperm.htm
The image of a girl pouring a can of Coke up there is--for lack of a better word--delicious.