A few summers ago I gave up drinking diet soda. At the time I wasn't consuming much of any kind of soda, so it wasn't that difficult, but in college I believe I drank more Diet Coke than any other liquids combined.
After a few weeks' detox, I took sips of a variety of diet sodas and they all tasted terrible - bitter and poison-y. It's amazing how our taste buds adjust. I've avoided diet soda since. As for regular soda, I'll take a sip of Tim's on occasion, but I generally don't crave it. Except for root beer. I stay away from it so as not to guzzle it.
Fast forward to this past Tuesday, lunch time. I won't go into details of the hectic lunch ordeal and why I had a diet soda in my possession in the first place, but I did indeed pop open a can of Diet Dr. Pepper. And it was good. Not bitter. No chemical flavor. It was perfect. Crisp and lovely, really. Mmmm. Wow, that's a lot to say about a can of soda, no? Worried that this was somehow a mistake, I double checked the ingredients, and the usual suspects were all listed. Dammit! It can't be. Tim offered that Diet Dr. Pepper is supposed to taste better as far as diet sodas go. I looked it up. It is their claim, and yes, in my experience it is true.
The next day I went grocery shopping and I bought a 12-pack of Diet Dr. Pepper. I drank one when I got home. I brought one to work today. I drank it at lunch. It was good. Too good. It's a new kind of love. What happened to me? I suppose one can of diet soda a day probably won't hurt. I hope. Should I have one with dinner?
I'm sure we'll break up one day, but in the meantime, I'm totally in it for the fizz.
3 comments:
I love Diet Dr Pepper!! It is so good and it doesnt taste like diet at all!!
I think there is a twelve step program should you need it in the future.
This is interesting. Diet Dr. Pepper was one of only 2 diet sodas that I could stand the taste of several years back when I tried diet sodas. However, the usual suspects in the ingredients still gave me a headache.
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