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Some time ago I could tell something was really off about the taste of my diet soda even though it was way before it's expiry date. I was able to find out some storage irregularities with the shop I was buying from and call CC on them. Turns out they were also doing a lot of stupid things like taking meat freezers out of socket overnight to reduce energy consumption.
What's CC? Health inspection?
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No. Aspartame is one of the most studied and tested substances on the planet and they still haven't linked a single problem to it. At least not one that doesn't relate to sweeteners in general. Nothing else has gone under so much scrutiny (Maybe MSG). Seems like a too good to be true situation where people can't accept its actually this good.
It would be too good to be true if it didn't taste horrible.
I don't get the concept of diet soda. If you consume something unhealthy - shouldn't it at least taste good? Or is it some sort of self-punishment?
> If you unzip aspartame into the two amino acids and remove that methyl to become methanol, you have a tasteless mixture of pretty harmless compounds. I'm somewhat surprised nobody has commented on this yet, so let me point it out: methanol is not harmless! It causes blindness or death. (I don't say diet soda is harmful, only that methanol is.)
(No, I'm not complaining. I can't cash out HN karma points in Norwegian banks so to me it is just a bit puzzling because I wonder what triggered those, somewhat amusing and mildly scary.)
Recently I went to my office for the first time since the pandemic started. The Diet Coke in the office fridge tasted HORRIBLE.
An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not.
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Carlsberg Sverige and Ringnes AS (also Carlsberg), I'm guessing it's made locally. Haven't notice anything with the Swedish Pepsi max and I'm drinking _a lot_ of it. Didn't get the flu yet so my taste buds should be good! Coke zero got a lot better after the new recipe if you ask me but still a Pepsi guy :)
I drank a lot of Pepsi Max since 2006 to sometime just before the pandemic when I started feeling the difference. Recently I have only tried the ones from Norway since the border has been closed for so long && local shops have reduced prices to Swedish levels for now, but the Pepsi Max I get here all tastes stale now across all shops and all bottle sizes I have tested.
(Sweden)
Off topic, but the headline made me realize that something “tasting off” is sort of an unpaired expression. We don’t say that normal drinks “taste on.” An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unpaired_word
Have heard people from Great Britain say things like "x is on" before with roughly the opposite meaning as how we use "y is off".
Off topic, but the headline made me realize that something “tasting off” is sort of an unpaired expression. We don’t say that normal drinks “taste on.” An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unpaired_word
It may be unpaired in American English but maybe not in non-American dialects of English? Have heard people from Great Britain say things like "x is on" before with roughly the opposite meaning as how we use "y is off".
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It may be unpaired in American English but maybe not in non-American dialects of English? Have heard people from Great Britain say things like "x is on" before with roughly the opposite meaning as how we use "y is off".
I don’t have much direct experience with British English but do people really say the soda tastes on to mean the soda tastes fine ?