May 26, 2004

The New Coca Cola C2

We watched American Idol last night and tonight. What piqued my curiosity was a Coke commercial for Coca-Cola C2, half the calories and half the carbs of regular Coke, but the same great taste. I saw somewhere that Pepsi was doing the same thing -- half the sugar, half the carbs.

I've been doing the Diet Dr. Pepper thing lately when I get soda pop, which hasn't been very often lately, abandoning all together what my sister-in-law claims is industrial solvent, Diet Mountain Dew. I've been making iced tea ... and mochas.

But I'm returning to my diet pop roots, to the original concoction that caused cancer in lab rats, to the diet soda without "diet" in its name ...

TAB.

When asked by those who had heard rumors of TAB's terrible aftertaste, I replied that there was no aftertaste, TAB tastes like you imagine hot aluminum tastes.

And a few years later, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to work in a small plant where we polished 4' x 8' sheets of stainless steel for elevator interiors and doors on experimental polishing machines. One day, Otis wanted a load of aluminum sheets for some elevators. We ran them through the polisher with finer and finer grades of sanding belts, heating up the sheets and the vapors emitted in the polishing process. The hot aluminum tasted just like ... you got it ...

TAB.
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Question: Why would anyone be running a Yahoo! search for "alien worm fucking?"

Posted by Bill at May 26, 2004 11:40 PM
Comments

I love Tab, it is hard as heck to find it around here anymore. I can find the odd six pack or two sometimes but that is about it.

As for Alien Worms, well everybody wants to know about fucking alien worms, hey they have to reproduce somehow don't they?

Posted by: Jeff A at May 27, 2004 02:21 AM

I think you described the taste of TAB perfectly.

blech...phooey...no thanks...

Posted by: KathyHowe at May 27, 2004 11:22 AM

TAB is awful. No clue on your search question, and I'm not sure I'd really want to know. There is no way coke can have half the sugar and still taste the same. It might not be bad, but it won't be the same.

Posted by: TW at May 27, 2004 09:40 PM