h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Canadian Diet Coke (Coke Diète) tastes funny

As far as I can see it has the same ingredients list - water (eau gazéifiée), caramel colour (colorant au caramel), phosphoric & citric acid (acide phosphorique et citrique), aspartame containing a source of phenylalanine (aspartame contient de la phénylalanine), sodium benzoate (benzoate de sodium), caffeine (caféine), acesulfame-potassium (acésulfame-potassium) - but it just don't taste the same.

It's not as sweet as UK coke, and it doesn't have the sharp edge that the UK variety has when you take your first mouthful from a freshly opened and really well chilled can. It's all somehow a bit polite and a bit insipid - much like the country it comes from. Boom-boom

Maybe it's all a conspiracy?

In my experience Canadian Diet Coke is much the same as the American variety, but I've found that European sodas/soft drinks/pops don't taste quite the same as their North American counterparts. European Fanta is much better - far more flavourful.

Ahhh Fanta, good old "Nazi Coke".

Developed in WW2 for Germany (as the ingrediendts no longer existed for coke) and the Coke corporation wanted to back both horses!

SO Fanta is "Nazi Coke" in my house!

Since most sodas are around 95-98% water, maybe it's the taste of the h2o.

Almost posted h2g2 there

well the coke you get from burger king and macdonalds taste the same in Saudi arabia as the ones in england. Watered down mush.

Did not try the cans over there as i am not a soda drink fan, and besides which you can get a small slush puppy over there that is bigger than our lare ones, far more sweeter and nicer and does not run out of flavour halfway through for a mere 1 riyal over there. Yummy.

Aren't there dietary law restrictions on burgers and the like in Islamic countries? (Or am I just displaying my ignorance again of Islam over Judaism and Hindu?)

I do know that an Indian Big-Mac is made from lamb so as to not offend the Hindu sensibilities over eating beef.

the only law is that it is halal meat and if animal fat is used in cooking it is halal derived too.

Still taste the same blandness and cardboard texture though.

It's quite some time since I last ate a McD's burger. But I do remember the umpleasant texture of the whole experience, yes.

How come you're drinking Canadian coke, GD? Was it on offer, 2 for 1?

Pay attention, GB.

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As Gosho said, it's the water.

The most awful Coke I've ever tasted was on one of the passenger ferries crossing the English Channel. They had used water from the ship's tanks - and the water was heavily chlorined(?).

I could smell it as soon as I lifted the mug - and it tasted even worse

Never get soft drinks on tap on a ferry always get them served in a bottle or can.