coca-cola zero

deery-lou.
i've been seeing the fancy black labels of ccz all over korea. last weekend while hanging out with chen i asked her about it. she told me it was suppose to be zero everything but still have the taste of coca-cola classic. as everyone knows i love my ccc. so what do i do? i decide to give it a try. hell if i can cut out a lot of the crap and still have the taste of ccc why not. yeah, no. basically after trying it twice i came to the conclusion that its diet coke in a new label.

due to my curious nature i decided to look up ccz on the web to see what makes it so different than diet coke. here's what someone had to say on the matter:

Demystifying Diet Coke(s)

For those of you who have expressed confusion over the many forms of diet and sugar free cokes now available to you, I offer an explanation, because I was confused so I did the research. Thanks to Bevnet and the Coca Cola 800 customer service number for contributing supporting facts.

Diet Coke - Although it came out two years before “New” coke, diet coke that we’ve enjoyed since the 80s is the sugar free form of new coke. In other words, it’s based on the formula for the “New Coke” that wasn’t released yet (it debuted in 1985) when Diet Coke hit the market (1983), and is also now no longer available. (the New coke). Coca Cola has no plans at this time to discontinue the aspartame based Diet Coke, as it is third in the soda market. (After Coke and Pepsi, respectively.)

Diet Coke with Splenda - You can spot it on shelves by the yellow bit in the label and the blue caps - this is a late to market response to those Diet Coke drinkers and Atkins dieters who wanted a Splenda sweetened soda. This is based on the same formula as Diet Coke, but because the sweetener has a different taste, the taste of the drink is closer to the way “new Coke” tasted, or for those too young to remember - a slightly sweeter version of Coke.

C2 - Half diet coke and Half “real” coke - for those who wanted to reduce the amount of sugar but weren’t ready to give up everything just yet. Sweetened with a combination of high fructose corn syrup, aspartame (Equal) and sucralose (Splenda) .

Coca Cola Zero - Sweetened with aspartame and acesulfame potassium., the reason this is different than Diet Coke is Coca Cola Zero is a sugar free version of the Classic Coke formulation. In other words, this is meant to be a sugar free version of the red cans of Coke you know and may or may not love. It has a redder, deeper color close to the color of Classic Coke and tastes far less like a diet soda (by many accounts) than Diet Coke.

Coca Cola Light The European version of Diet Coke - slight variations from country to country based on food regulations, water quality and fidelity to syrup to water ratio account for taste variations, but this is largely Diet Coke with a different name to conform to local food labelling laws.

is it really necessary to have all of these variations of a soft drink. isn't it enough to keep it to the basic three: diet coke, coca-cola classic, and cherry coke. shame on you ccz. you are notihng more than a dc poser. and you taste like crap. it just confirms everything i ever knew. diet drinks suck. i guess this boy will be sticking to the classics.

be well…