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At last, someone else that understands the difference between Diet Coke and Coke Light.

I've been a Diet Coke junkie for years now. In fact, I think I was maybe about 10 or 11 when I made the decision that I was no longer going to drink ordinary Coke. I don't really remember why. I have a vague feeling it might have been because I overheard an older girl denounce ordinary coke as fattening and too full of sugar.

Anyway, from that day on Diet Coke became my drink. Not Diet Pepsi (too fizzy and tastes too sweet), or Diet own brand cola (goes the gamut of ick from too fizzy and sweet to too flat and bitter), or even the caffeine free Diet Coke (because frankly, what's the point? at that point it's coloured fizzy water). Although I tried every other brand and type, I kept coming back to Diet Coke.

I first encountered Coke Light on my first trip to Paris to see D, and in my naieveté I thought it was the same thing. Not so. I drank it, because there was nothing else, but it just tasted wrong. After all, it was only a holiday and I could get back to the Real Thing (tm) when I got back home.

Then something funny happened. I started to notice Coke Light cans appearing in sandwich shops. Usually with froggy writing on them, but sometimes with other languages. Gradually, I figured that these places were pulling a fast one. For some obscure reason, it appears to be cheaper to import Coke Light from the continent than it is to buy Diet Coke from the local cash 'n carry, and of course, they charge the same price for a can of Coke Light as they do for Diet Coke, and so make a bigger profit.

A nefarious plan, to be sure.

Me? I grumble and mumble and mutter and drink Pepsi Max as a gesture of defiance (if it's available), because that's the closest acceptable beverage to Diet Coke.

It's just not the same tho'.

Sounds wretched! Glad they don’t sell that crap in the states.

Davezilla
26 July 2001

Worse still is Sprite Light. I swear it is nothing but fizzy water thickenned with dissolved in sugar.

D
30 July 2001

I am so glad that someone else has noticed. When I ask for a can of Diet Coke in shops to be handed a can of Coke Light they look at me like I'm perculiar when I had it back. It is just not the same. Long live Diet Coke

Paula
5 July 2002

I am so glad that someone else has noticed. When I ask for a can of Diet Coke in shops to be handed a can of Coke Light they look at me like I'm perculiar when I hand it back. It is just not the same. Long live Diet Coke

Paula
5 July 2002

Does anyone know what the difference between Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max

D
30 August 2002

you understand me! i'm all the way over here in ireland (where?exactly...) and i am a TOTAL addict to this drink. what is it that makes it so addictive. i refuse to believe that it's just the caffeine. by 12 noon, i have to have got myself a can - not a bottle. the cans are much better, fresher. and contrary to popular opinion, i do actually have a life, i just like this drink a lot...!!!

Niamh
19 September 2002

I'm relieved that someone has noticed that diet Coke & Coke Light don't taste the same. I think they're supposed to be the same thing, just under different names, but I swear they're not. However, I feel the opposite way to you. I love ordinary Coke & think that Diet Coke is horrible. However, at some point I had a can of this Coke Light & though 'wow, this is diet but it tastes alright!' It's a shame they don't sell it in shops- I can only get a can at certain cafes.

What really sucks though is that you can't get caffeine free Coke in this country. I had a can in Spain & could barely tell the difference between that & the regular one. Of course, you can get Diet caffeine free but that's horrid. Why can't the manufacturers realise that although a lot of ppl want to lose weight, others aren't bothered about that & just want to cut down on caffeine?

Lucinda Ireson
11 November 2002

Hi does anyone know the difference between Diet coke and ordinary coke apart from the flavour,sugar content and packaging?Something like is one more fizzy than the other etc.Thanks very much

zane
5 March 2003

I read that diet Coke was actually developed as the diet version of NEW Coke back in 1985. So, diet Coke is not really like Coca-Cola Classic at all.

Cokie Cokerton
12 March 2003

hey

this is a great initiative !! I just love it. Great marketing, great designers, great concept of fashion cans AND 5 fashion accessories... I'll be there on May 31 to buy all 5 of these Coke light fashion accessories !!! I just need them

A fan of coke light fashion !!!

fan
24 April 2003

Yeah I want caffeine free normal coke, diet is crap, but I want to give up caffeine.

I had it caffeine free in italy and found no difference, I swear its mostly there to make it addictive.

Alex
3 June 2003