Does this annoy anyone but me???

[ThinMan]

Hi, I'm a type 1 and I've had it since I was sixteen ( I'm now 49). As a kid, I always loved fruit flavored sodas, but if you go to a coin-op vending machine or any fast food joint, the choices are: Cola, Root Beer, Lemon/Lime, maybe orange or grape and...diet cola. I don't HATE diet colas, but they're hardly my first choice. Why is it that vendors are so dense that we aren't given equal opportunities to choose our soft drinks?

[buzzborne]

I'm afraid it doesnt annoy me... but in the UK... we get either ''normal'' or diet coke... sprite, tango, things like tht.. btu I have found that I have always preferred the diet brand to the normal.. I find the normal stuff too sweet lol.

[Batty]

same thing here. i dont mind diet pop..so i either just get those...or one of the juice ones if i think my blood sugar is undercontrol enough.

[notme]

I agree ThinMan. I don't mind diet cola, but I would love a choice of diet Sprite or orange or some other diet choices besides cola. I don't drink much soda anymore, but I have also noticed that if you go to get an iced tea or something else, the only choice you have is diet cola. Everything else has sugar. All the Snapple choices are regular, not diet.

Nancy

[Eri's mom]

Even though I don't have diabetes(my daughter does), I do tend to get a bit aggravated w/ the lack of choices she has...always only diet coke or pepsi.
I wish I could get her to drink more water...actually, she is now into that new berry 7up, or she drinks that flavored water from walmart...low in carbs and sugars.
I can't even drink normal soda anymore(since she was dx'd)...actually, the only thing I drink is water now...been ONLY water for almost a year now(in January).

[Belinda]

Sonic has diet sprite for their fruit slushees. Chick fil a has diet lemonade as does Arby's....anyways I am not complaining I remember the days when there was only TAB to drink and that was hard to find..speaking of...I saw Diet Vanilla Dr. Pepper at Walmart tonight....

[gettingby]

LOL Belinda. I remember Tab. Didn't really care for it.:(
Cin

[Batty]

whats Tab?

[nantomsuethom]

My first choice is water. It is very annoying though. My favorite soda is diet rootbeer. It's the only kind that I drink. I asked the vendor to put in in the machine at work and he said he couldn't get it. I don't understand, I have been able to find it in every store that I go into.

Now I keep a 12 pack in my work refrig. It's cheaper that way too.

[Brent44a]

Batty, I think of Tab as a pre-cursor to Diet Coke. The idea was right, only one calorie, but the timing and taste were off. I think it was around in the early 70's, late 60's. Not sure when, or if, they stopped making it.

[JasonSmithMT]

Originally posted by Batty
whats Tab?
Showing your age Batty.

Check out: Tab (Coca-Cola Site) (http://www2.coca-cola.com/brands/brands_tab.html)

And now maybe you can understand the lines from the movie Back to the Future a little bit better.

Lou: You gonna order something, kid?
Marty McFly: Ah, yeah... Give me a Tab.
Lou: Tab? I can't give you a tab unless you order something.
Marty McFly: Alright, give me a Pepsi Free.
Lou: You want a Pepsi, PAL, you're gonna pay for it

:p

Jason

[jared]

One drink I wish they had diet is Gatorade.... you would think with all the carb counting people do that they would have come out with it by now... so far im unable to find it. i tried to get on their web site and i can never get on it. so if someone could provide me with a Gatoraid number maybe i can call them and ask.

[christie]

there is a diet creme soda made by a&w which i think is good,it is hard to find at times. something i love and can't find anywhere is diet red creme soda. when i first got dxd tab was the only diet talk about yucky,thank god for diet coke.

[PepsiLvr]

I'm a pepsi person of course but I do like the A&W diet sodas. Both the creme and root beer tast great (can't really tell they are diet) never had the red creme though... sounds good.

[bel4_20]

One drink I wish they had diet is Gatorade.... you would think with all the carb counting people do that they would have come out with it by now... so far im unable to find it.


Hi jared I e-mailed them a couple of years ago with the same question and they did respond to me that they can't make a carb free or diet Gatoade because of what it is really intended for (high energy sports ect) they did recomend a new water they had out although it was not diet either it was low in carb. Hope that helped!

bel4_20

[soremom]

Does anyone remember Fresca? I still see it every once in a while, I liked it. Maybe have to buy some this weekend when I grocery shop. Also will have to try the vanilla Dr. Pepper, that sounds good. I like Dt Mt Dew here. Had it last year when I had a sore throat and it wasn't half bad flat and warm and haven't quit drinking it since. Though I am mainly a milk person, always have been and always will be. Milk, does a body good.

Sorry couldn't resist.

Kim

[Batty]

I drink Fresca sometimes. actually..i think i still have a few cans in the fridge from when mom bought me a thing of diet rootbeer cans and fresca cans.

Diet Gatoade..haha...there will -never- be such a thing. the fact is..Gatoade, is -nothing- but sugar, water and colour dye.

[christie]

diet mountain dew always made my sugar go up,i have'nt had fresca in years,i forgot about that one.years ago i had drank alot of canfield diet,they had diet creme soda,and diet chocolate fudge,i can't remember if i liked the chocolate flavor,i think i did.i'm not sure if they still sell canfields pop,i have'nt seen it for along time.

[Sinner]

If I had my way, ALL restaurants would have White Grape Diet Rite on the fountains. I was diagnosed type 2 3 weeks ago and have been drinking diet sodas since. BTW, I work for Pepsi and I hate all of the diet drinks that they put out. Well, maybe diet Vanilla Pepsi is OK. LOL.

[jen18]

I usually don't even ask what they have thats diet because I know they will only have diet coke or pepsi which I do not like either, I just get get water, which does get boring, so I guess to answer your question it really annoys me that people with diabetes don't have a choice in what they drink! (at restaurants)

Jen, 17