Get ready for a mindfuck!
Coca-Cola Zero is a zero-calorie version of Coca-Cola. Diet Coke isn't!
Diet Coke was introduced in 1982. It raped Tab in sales and was the first new brand to use the name Coke since 1886. Coke was terrified of making a diet drink with the name of their successful product on it. Hence, the zero-calorie Tab was introduced in 1963. Meanwhile, Diet Pepsi was introduced in 1964. Pepsi just didn't give a fuck.
Anyway, instead of sugar, it contained saccharine and aspartame. The amounts of each varied during the first few years. In 2005, Diet Coke with Splenda (sucralose) was introduced. And it's okay I guess. Meh. Diet Pepsi is better at being a diet drink anyway.
...Not that 'diet' should be used to describe a soda anyway....
So, where's the mindfuck?
Diet Coke isn't a sugar-free version of the Coca-Cola formula. Instead, it's its own formula.
Here it comes...
NEW COKE WAS BASED ON DIET COKE.
WHAT!
That's right. New Coke was a high fructose corn syrup version of the Diet Coke formula. (HFCS is another horrible thing I'll get into another day.) Since real Coke is so much better than Diet Coke, it's no wonder it failed. Coca-Cola Classic was (re)introduced shortly after New Coke was introduced, only now it had HFCS in it.
In 2004, Coca-Cola released Coca-Cola Zero, which is in fact a sugar-free version of regular Coca-Cola. I thought they just switched up the ratio of aspartame to saccarhine in Diet Coke and called it "Coca-Cola Zero" so they could market a zero-calorie drink to men. But I guess I'm wrong. It's not often that happens.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_Coke
Coca-Cola Zero is a zero-calorie version of Coca-Cola. Diet Coke isn't!
Diet Coke was introduced in 1982. It raped Tab in sales and was the first new brand to use the name Coke since 1886. Coke was terrified of making a diet drink with the name of their successful product on it. Hence, the zero-calorie Tab was introduced in 1963. Meanwhile, Diet Pepsi was introduced in 1964. Pepsi just didn't give a fuck.
Anyway, instead of sugar, it contained saccharine and aspartame. The amounts of each varied during the first few years. In 2005, Diet Coke with Splenda (sucralose) was introduced. And it's okay I guess. Meh. Diet Pepsi is better at being a diet drink anyway.
...Not that 'diet' should be used to describe a soda anyway....
So, where's the mindfuck?
Diet Coke isn't a sugar-free version of the Coca-Cola formula. Instead, it's its own formula.
Here it comes...
NEW COKE WAS BASED ON DIET COKE.
WHAT!
That's right. New Coke was a high fructose corn syrup version of the Diet Coke formula. (HFCS is another horrible thing I'll get into another day.) Since real Coke is so much better than Diet Coke, it's no wonder it failed. Coca-Cola Classic was (re)introduced shortly after New Coke was introduced, only now it had HFCS in it.
In 2004, Coca-Cola released Coca-Cola Zero, which is in fact a sugar-free version of regular Coca-Cola. I thought they just switched up the ratio of aspartame to saccarhine in Diet Coke and called it "Coca-Cola Zero" so they could market a zero-calorie drink to men. But I guess I'm wrong. It's not often that happens.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_Coke
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