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Diet cherry coke is the most evil drink ever.

Vanilla coke is horrible (very biased due to vanilla allergy though).

Any soft drink with the word "diet" on the can or bottle usually tastes absolutely foul because of the aspartame sweetener used in them. The flavoured variants of coca cola don't taste too bad though

In short, "diet" = yuk

nor can I Mel

I don't like soda; it make my teeth feel like they are dissolving.

I'm surprised no-one's mentioned Irn-Bru yet. :gag:

Irn-Bru is sold in the UK, is orange in colour, and has a taste that I find pleasent but can't describe

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irn_Bru, Irn-Bru is available in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Russia, Canada, much of Europe and in some parts of Australia and Singapore.

As for its taste and appearance, the thing it most closely resembles IMO is a medicine I had to take a lot for an embarrassing medical condition when I was much younger. Sickly sweet with a bitter aftertaste.

Check out the list of ingredients on the Wikipedia page! It makes Sunny Delight look like an Innocent smoothie.

RED BULL!!!!!!!
Energy drinks rarely taste bad

Hmmmm, I wondered why I like it so much  :lol: (I hardly ever drink it at the moment, maybe I should drink more  :grin: )

Maybe I should start drinking Red Bull again too  :grin:

So I did at lunchtime today, and I bought another can of it and put it in the fridge for later :grin:


(this was taken at lunchtime today, there is also an obvious alternative in the background, but I preferred something with a bit of flavour)

Funny that no-one has mentioned Dasani until now!

Dr. Dazzle is also pretty bad. It's a generic-ish Dr. Pepper and I thought I was allergic to it until recently. Now I just tihnk it tastes like medicine, but not as much so as strawberry Cool Whip.

From the Independent on Sunday's 'City Diary' of 20 April...

French try to clip Red Bull's wings

RED BULL might give you wings but it doesn't get you across the Channel. The energy drink has sold 3.6 billion cans in 144 countries – but not France. There, the government has waged a 12-year campaign to keep out all imports as the drink contains taurene, a banned stimulant. Red Bull has got round this by replacing the taurene with arginine. However, the French OFT now claims the company is perpetuating a "fraud" by selling something in the same packaging as in the rest of the EU but with different contents. And you thought regulators were stupid!

Coca-Cola to phase out use of controversial additive after DNA damage claim

Soft-drink giant to do away with sodium benzoate 'where technically possible', in the wake of IoS story that highlighted the potential dangers

By Martin Hickman, Consumer Affairs Correspondent
Independent on Sunday, 25 May 2008

Coca-Cola, the world's biggest soft drinks company, is phasing out a controversial additive that may cause hyperactivity and DNA damage. By August, no cans of Diet Coke should contain the preservative sodium benzoate.

Coca-Cola wants to remove E211 (sodium benzoate) from other products where possible. But the company said there were no satisfactory alternatives yet for its high-acid drinks Fanta and Dr Pepper. The substance also remains in rival drinks such as Irn-Bru, Pepsi Max and Lucozade.

Sodium benzoate occurs naturally in some fruits but is used in far higher concentrations to stop fizzy drinks from going mouldy. In an Independent on Sunday exclusive last May, Professor Peter Piper, a chemistry expert at Sheffield University, warned that it could switch off cellular power in yeast and might do similar damage in humans. He called for the Food Standards Agency to fund research into the subject.

Sodium benzoate was also one of seven E-numbers found to worsen hyperactivity in a study by Southampton University. If combined with vitamin A, sodium benzoate can form a potentially carcinogenic substance, benzene.

Coca-Cola said it had removed sodium benzoate from Diet Coke production in January. The company said: "We are looking to phase out the use of sodium benzoate where technically possible." It said that it had not carried out any research into the preservative.

In response to our story, the Food Standards Agency referred Professor Piper's concerns to the Committee on Mutagenicity. In a newly published opinion, the committee dismissed calls for further research into Professor Piper's findings.

It pointed to studies on rodents that showed no harm from sodium benzoate and said that human cells were stronger than yeast cells.

Professor Piper rebuffed the statement, saying the rodent tests had been done decades before more sophisticated DNA testing was developed, and suggested that the committee lacked expertise in the area. "I regard that statement as a whitewash," he said.

Last month, the FSA demanded a ban on the six food colours in the Southampton University study, but not on sodium benzoate. It added that sodium benzoate was widely used in the soft drinks industry.

"Obviously the soft drinks industry is very powerful and they don't want to upset anyone there," said Professor Piper. Coca-Cola contacted him to discuss his research after the IoS published its story last year.