No diet drinks because no artificial sweeteners. Good god, those are nasty. And I'm sure I'd think that even if they didn't give me headaches.
Coke all the way, and it's for when I feel my throat needs a good scouring. Nothing better.
Dawn: I thought you were adequate. Giles: And the accolades keep pouring in. I'd best take my leave before my head swells any larger. Good night.
'First Date'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Jul 07, 2011 11:56:52 am PDT #15680 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 07, 2011 11:59:09 am PDT #15681 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Diet Dr. Pepper actually tastes better to me than the regular kind at this point. I'll drink Diet Coke in a restaurant, but not buy it at the store. And Pepsi is off limits across the board - all of it tastes like ass to me except Mountain Dew, and that gives me heartburn.
Fred Pete - Jul 07, 2011 12:01:31 pm PDT #15682 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
I prefer sweeter, which means I prefer Pepsi.
billytea - Jul 07, 2011 12:10:04 pm PDT #15683 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Punctuated equilibrium, I presume.
Actually, no. (Punctuated equilibrium is Stephen Jay Gould's thing. I think both Dawkins and Mayr are in broad agreement about the issue.) No, the disagreement I'm thinking of is more the conceptual one of whether natural selection may best be understood as working on genes or individuals.
I pretty much live on Coke Zero these days. It actually took me a month's concerted effort to get used to the taste of artificial sweetener. Now, I find regular Coke to be too sweet.
sumi - Jul 07, 2011 12:16:29 pm PDT #15684 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Amy - Jul 07, 2011 12:18:06 pm PDT #15685 of 30001
Because books.
It's been years since I drank regular Coke or Pepsi, but Pepsi always tasted crisper and lighter to me. And I've been used to artificial sweetener for so long that anything not diet tastes like the old Coke syrup you used to get at the drugstore.
Typo Boy - Jul 07, 2011 12:24:13 pm PDT #15686 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I finally had to give up on soft drinks in the coke/pepsi spectrum. I not only had to give up non-artificial sweetener but caffein . If I can't get either sugar or caffein from coke/pepsi/DRpepper, I don't see the point of drinking it.
sumi - Jul 07, 2011 12:45:43 pm PDT #15687 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Jesse - Jul 07, 2011 12:57:20 pm PDT #15688 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
If I can't get either sugar or caffein from coke/pepsi/DRpepper, I don't see the point of drinking it.
Sort of related to that, I was shocked at how satisfying an ice cream float still was, even when made with diet root beer and frozen yogurt. Totally hit the spot!
§ ita § - Jul 07, 2011 1:00:06 pm PDT #15689 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If I can't get either sugar or caffein from coke/pepsi/DRpepper, I don't see the point of drinking it
Because it tastes good? I mean, I wouldn't drink it if it didn't.