Bad Impulse Buy #842
So I was at Supafly visiting the salad bar. Incidentally, I have poor salad bar skills. I pile strawberries on top of corn next to spinach-pasta salad, and then wonder why all of the fruit tastes salty and why my grilled chicken is speckled with little crumbs of bread pudding. I are the smarties!
Anyway, on my way to checkout, I stopped by the cooler to pick out a drink. Rather than go for a nice Nantucket Nectar or even just a Pepsi, I saw a new breed of Diet Coke and decided to give it a shot. Diet Coke Plus! Apparently, it has vitamins AND minerals in it. Both of 'em! So I bought it, took a sip aaaaaaaaaaaand... balls and ass. It tastes like Diet Coke -- which has a flavor THAT I HATE when it's bottled, so why did I think this would be a good idea? -- with this funky, sweetish aftertaste that reminds me of the smell of a dentist's office. Combined with Diet Coke's normal aftertaste, it's quite the hideous force to be reckoned with.
I blame the magnesium. I mean, when you burn it, the stuff gives off that crazy super-ultra-mega white that can burn your retinas. I can only imagine what it's doing to my insides right now. Next time I go to the bathroom, I'm going to pee BLINDING WHITE LIGHT. It's going to look like a Hollywood premiere in there, 'cept with fewer celebrities (unless some really wacky hijinx a la tenkuangel's dreams occur within the next 2-3 hours).
This has to be the third or fourth time I've done this. Coke with Lemon tasted like Pledge. Pepsi Jazz tasted like a mouthful of wet butter. Sprite Remix = nasty liquid Skittles. Coke Blak tasted... like Coke with coffee in it, so well done to Coke for getting the flavors right, but BOOOOOO to Coke for inventing it in the first place. And boo to me for trying it. I don't know why I always forget how terrible new soda flavors can be. I think I'm just wistfully hoping to discover something as tasty as Vanilla Pepsi.
So yeah. Public service announcement: Diet Coke Plus = DO NOT WANT.
Everyone With Half A Brain: Yes. We have enough common sense to know that Diet Coke is terrible for you and that the addition of vitamins and minerals won't do shit for the taste OR its nutritional value.
Anyway, on my way to checkout, I stopped by the cooler to pick out a drink. Rather than go for a nice Nantucket Nectar or even just a Pepsi, I saw a new breed of Diet Coke and decided to give it a shot. Diet Coke Plus! Apparently, it has vitamins AND minerals in it. Both of 'em! So I bought it, took a sip aaaaaaaaaaaand... balls and ass. It tastes like Diet Coke -- which has a flavor THAT I HATE when it's bottled, so why did I think this would be a good idea? -- with this funky, sweetish aftertaste that reminds me of the smell of a dentist's office. Combined with Diet Coke's normal aftertaste, it's quite the hideous force to be reckoned with.
I blame the magnesium. I mean, when you burn it, the stuff gives off that crazy super-ultra-mega white that can burn your retinas. I can only imagine what it's doing to my insides right now. Next time I go to the bathroom, I'm going to pee BLINDING WHITE LIGHT. It's going to look like a Hollywood premiere in there, 'cept with fewer celebrities (unless some really wacky hijinx a la tenkuangel's dreams occur within the next 2-3 hours).
This has to be the third or fourth time I've done this. Coke with Lemon tasted like Pledge. Pepsi Jazz tasted like a mouthful of wet butter. Sprite Remix = nasty liquid Skittles. Coke Blak tasted... like Coke with coffee in it, so well done to Coke for getting the flavors right, but BOOOOOO to Coke for inventing it in the first place. And boo to me for trying it. I don't know why I always forget how terrible new soda flavors can be. I think I'm just wistfully hoping to discover something as tasty as Vanilla Pepsi.
So yeah. Public service announcement: Diet Coke Plus = DO NOT WANT.
Everyone With Half A Brain: Yes. We have enough common sense to know that Diet Coke is terrible for you and that the addition of vitamins and minerals won't do shit for the taste OR its nutritional value.