Temp: 21 degrees
Overcast all day, but sun poked out in the afternoon long enough to warm up a bit (was probably around 17 or 18 for most of the day), so after work I got into my shorts and managed to find a new geocache.
So anyway, anybody tried this Coca Cola Zero stuff?
About 8 months ago my work instituted a 'healthy work place' initiative resulted in all the chocolate bars and gummy bears and chips in all the workplace vending machines being replaced with granola bars, powerbars and trailmix. This didn't bother me, 'cause I don't generally eat any of the above - I didn't miss the junk snacks and I didn't care about the healthy stuff either. In fact, even the clearig out of all the pop machines to make room for water, gatoraid and diet soda didn't phase me much, but I DO like to have the occasional Coke, and it WAS kind of a bummer that every 2 or 3 weeks, if I got a craving for a Coke, I was shit outta luck. I tried Deit Coke, but that stuff's disgusting... in fact, although I have a pretty low opinion of Pepsi products in general (and have been known to forefo a drink all together if an establishment only serves Pepsi products) I do have to admit that if I only had a choice between diet Coke and Diet Pepsi, I'd take the Pepsi in a heartbeat ... which pisses me off even more, since I'm such an ardent proponent of Coke.
Soooo, finally, after much debate and deliberation, some 'workplace health council' in their infinite wisdom finally permitted CocaCola Zero to be sold in the work cafeterias. People were talking about it like it was this great gift from our most benevolent and generous employer ... wow! We're allowed to buy Coke Zero at work! Who would have thought we'd ever live to see these days??? Well, a few weeks down the road, I was in the cafeteria buying my lunch, and I figured "aw, what the hey, I hate Diet Coke, this is probably just like Diet Coke, but I've got a choice between Zero, Diet, water, gatoraide or orange juice, so I'll give this new stuff a try."
I was totally surprised by the taste... it tasted just like Coke! Wait a sec, was this just some sneaky marketting ploy? Maybe it's got all the sugar of Coke, but they just rebranded it with the name Zero to dupe people... nope, that's not the case, the can definitely says "zero caleries, zero cholesterol" ... I was impressed.
I began to buy Zero more regularily, if I was ever in the cafeteria buying lunch, I'd probably grab a Zero as my drink. It was just like Coke after all, but without any of the guilt. Hmmm... Zero guilt... I like that.
One day, I was in kind of a hurry, I just wanted to grab a sandwich and a Zero and get back to my desk in time for a conference call. In my haste, I accidentally grabbed a Diet Coke. The cans, after all, are the same colour - they look almost identical. But with the first wretched gulp of disgusting aspertame syrop, I was rudely reminded that these two products were NOTHING alike. Ironically, this brown piss water I was gagging on actually brags "Only one calorie!" on the can... and this got me thinking...
If Coke Zero has ZERO calories and tastes exactly like normal sugar-laden Coke, then WHAT THE HELL IS IN THAT ONE CALORIE THAT THEY PUT IN DIET COKE THAT TASTES SO DAMN BAD? AND FURTHERMORE, WHY THE HELL DON'T THEY TAKE IT OUT? Come on! It's one damn calorie, and it's stinking up the entire can! Can't you just find that barfy little sucker and take it out?
Who knows... maybe until 2006 there just wasn't the technology available to locate and remove a single calorie... but now that the technology evidently exists, why are you still subjecting us to Diet Coke, for the love of pete?
If you can't manage that, then do us all a favour and just cancel the Diet Coke product line once and for all so that humanity will never have to endure that tripe again.
Well, that's my rant for today.