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tod
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response 74 of 149:
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Jan 12 23:42 UTC 2006 |
I've never met Fresca but I bet you two make a cute couple.
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richard
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response 75 of 149:
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Jan 13 02:20 UTC 2006 |
fyi, the original diet sodas, the first ones that came out as diet
brands, were Tab and Fresca. The pepsi company looked at tab's sales
and came out with Diet Pepsi soon thereafter.
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richard
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response 76 of 149:
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Jan 13 02:22 UTC 2006 |
I miss the old returnable 12 ounce glass bottles. I used to love
getting cokes in glass bottles when I was little and looking on the
bottom of the bottle where it always had the town where the bottle was
made. Since you returned all your bottles, a lot of those returnable
bottles traveled around as much through the years as the average well
worn twenty dollar bill.
Plastic bottles just aren't the same. You can still get glass bottles
in other countries, like Mexico, but not in the U.S.
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charcat
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response 77 of 149:
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Jan 13 02:30 UTC 2006 |
coke can still be found in a 8 oz returnable bottle in michigan, but you
have to look for it (they tast better also). I believe they are made for
the people who have vintage old coke vending machines.
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tod
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response 78 of 149:
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Jan 13 05:01 UTC 2006 |
Does Dr.Pepper come in a bottle?
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other
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response 79 of 149:
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Jan 13 06:06 UTC 2006 |
Depends on how Mrs. Pepper is feeling.
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happyboy
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response 80 of 149:
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Jan 13 09:47 UTC 2006 |
ALERT!!!
/poopytrombones
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slynne
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response 81 of 149:
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Jan 13 14:13 UTC 2006 |
I wonder if the Coke that is sold in those 8oz glass bottles is made
with sugar or corn syrup?
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tod
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response 82 of 149:
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Jan 13 16:09 UTC 2006 |
Same amount of sugar in 8 oz of oj as in 8 oz of Coke...less sugar in 8oz of
Coke than in apple or grape juice...
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edina
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response 83 of 149:
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Jan 13 16:18 UTC 2006 |
That's somewhat disturbing.
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slynne
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response 84 of 149:
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Jan 13 17:12 UTC 2006 |
It is a different kind of sugar though from what I understand. Still,
water is generally a better choice.
Sometimes I take the sparkly water and mix it with juice and that makes
for a very refreshing drink in the summer time.
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mcnally
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response 85 of 149:
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Jan 13 18:15 UTC 2006 |
Real-sugar Coke afficionados can also haunt Mexican restaurants
and markets, which often sell Coke imported from Mexico, where
it's still made with sugar, rather than corn sweeteners.
The politics and economics of sugar in this country are actually
kind of interesting, in a depressingly corrupt kind of a way.
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happyboy
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response 86 of 149:
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Jan 13 18:23 UTC 2006 |
in a depressingly slavecamp missing fingers
company store corporate plantation in florida sort
of way?
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mcnally
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response 87 of 149:
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Jan 13 19:05 UTC 2006 |
I was thinking of the other end -- payoffs and graft and federal sugar
subsidies and special corn-sweetener "incentives" and other joys of our
"free market" system.
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tod
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response 88 of 149:
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Jan 13 20:10 UTC 2006 |
If you want sugar, go buy some packaged meat at the store. The whole country
is on insulin pablum.
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richard
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response 89 of 149:
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Jan 14 01:58 UTC 2006 |
you can get coke in glass bottles around here in any decent latino or
south american owned bodega, of which there are many in nyc. They
ship many products from south of the border for benefit of their
customers from that region.
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gull
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response 90 of 149:
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Jan 14 02:39 UTC 2006 |
Re resp:75: Oddly, Fresca is one of the few diet pops I actually like.
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tsty
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response 91 of 149:
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Jan 14 06:17 UTC 2006 |
i used to drink nehi grape - not too often though. laundrymat had the
machine .. then i moved and could't take the laundrymat with me ...
found a new one but no nehi ...... /damn
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richard
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response 92 of 149:
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Jan 14 21:13 UTC 2006 |
Diet sodas today are a lot different than they were back in the day
when there were only three diet colas, tab, diet pepsi and diet rite.
IMO were all pretty terrible back in the pre-nutrasweet days. Tab or
Diet Pepsi back in the old days before they figured out how to sweeten
them better, and when they only had saccharin to use, were pretty bad
to drink, as they had a definite aftertaste. You really had to get
used to drinking them. Then Diet Coke came along in the early
eighties, and had Nutrasweet in it, and it changed everything and soon
the others followed suit. Diet sodas became much sweeter and then
later all the diet sodas were re-formulated due to various advances,
such that many people not on diets or having high sugar levels, drank
diet soda anyway, because they preferred it. Now they are phasing out
nutrasweet in favor of splenda, and thats even more of an improvement.
They still haven't made a diet soda that tastes exactly like a regular
soda, but they are becoming much closer.
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charcat
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response 93 of 149:
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Jan 15 00:58 UTC 2006 |
I remember a diet pop called Hofman's before tab or fresca etc. It came
in various flavors orange, grape, strawberry, cola, (think fago flavors)
it was quite awfull.
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mcnally
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response 94 of 149:
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Jan 15 01:57 UTC 2006 |
The best (or least nasty) tasting diet pop I can recall was Diet Orange
Crush but I haven't seen any in ten years or more.
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tod
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response 95 of 149:
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Jan 15 05:42 UTC 2006 |
I like Diet Mt.Dew as a breakfast drink. It goes great with turkey
sandwiches.
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richard
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response 96 of 149:
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Jan 15 22:12 UTC 2006 |
re #93 I was talking nationally sold brand, what you are referring to
is some local product.
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happyboy
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response 97 of 149:
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Jan 17 09:44 UTC 2006 |
re95 or an amoco ham hoagie!
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ogre666
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response 98 of 149:
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Jan 17 12:20 UTC 2006 |
the worse tasting pop (soda) i ever had was
broccoli caserole by Jone's soda. blech.
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