Did you know that Diet Coke
 

Is only 23 years old?

Before that they had TAB which I think was the first diet drink.

did you know that they call it 'coca cola light' in europe?

The YKK on the zipper of your Levis stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

You prolly don't know it, but I was about to spit out a mouthful of Bacardi and Diet Coke as I clicked on this thread.

Bacardi and Diet Coke is a great drink really (although an acquired taste), because you get a nice buzz and it keeps you awake. Nothing better than a wide awake drunk. :drinkup

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The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

switch to coke zero :)

diet drinks are for old people or people with health conditions

fuck all that diet bullshit

live life fast

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

diet soft drinks contain aspertame, it will kill ya.

called light in asian too.

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

So Charlemagne was clean shaven...what of it?

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Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence, died on July 4th, 1826 - the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

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I live off that shit, but now I drink caffeine free diet coke.

Not afraid to admit :)

So those 12 step programs really work. Cool.

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I just saved money on my car insurance....

My life is now complete knowing this amazing piece of information!! :thumbsup

Fanta was invented by the Coke company during World War 2 for the Nazis in Germany because they couldn't get the ingredients to make coke their during the war, but could get ingredients to make an orange drink, hence Fanta. And that's not all Coke did for the Nazis in WW2.

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Did you know that...

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But not in the UK *unless* the people you buy it from went to France and got a ton of it cheaply and brought it back to sell in the UK. Coke Light and Diet Coke do have a slightly different taste which I am sure is largely down to water.

So will sugar..pick your death.

I'l take normal coke thx you ;)

Vodka + Redbull = outch

Stop if with the facts, we've all seen it

1 shot dry vermouth
3 shots apple Bicardi
diet coke with lime
ice
Drink.

Hell I drink DC for the taste...... not for the low calories or whatever. Hate sugary drinks

Never understood why they call soft drinks diet. I thought they tried to avoid negative words like that in product names. Everything else that has a reduced calorie version is called light or free. They dont call salad dressing diet ranch. Its fat free ranch because free sounds better. Diets suck, hence most companies don't use the term. Wonder why soft drink peddlers went with it?

you mean diet acid?

I cannot drink coke, its so acidic and filled with sodium it wrecks my entire digestive system. It bloats you worse than any sugar and has tons of sodium in it. And the diet is just worse as it has aspartame or whatever. I'd have to drink huge glasses of water just to get it out of my system. yuck its so unhealthy, soda. Should only be had like a treat every once in a while.

because marketing to females work, and calling something "diet" will get tons of fat people to drink it since it eases a little guilt. low fat, eh, but diet sounds like you are doing the right thing.

Vincent: And you know what they call a... a... a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?
Jules: They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with cheese?
Vincent: No man, they got the metric system. They wouldn't know what the fuck a Quarter Pounder is.
Jules: Then what do they call it?
Vincent: They call it a Royale with cheese.
Jules: A Royale with cheese. What do they call a Big Mac?
Vincent: Well, a Big Mac's a Big Mac, but they call it le Big-Mac.
Jules: Le Big-Mac. Ha ha ha ha. What do they call a Whopper?
Vincent: I dunno, I didn't go into Burger King.

People forget that when coke first came out, first of all it contained cocaine. Woohoo, now we have redbull. But it was only served in soda shops and was like a treat. Then they figured out how to mass produce it and conviced the world they NEED coke, and even have several different versions to suit your dietary needs. My point? Its BAD for you. Its not something you should drink with every meal, or even everyday.

did you know that coca cola company was sold for $25M in 1919?!?!?!

I didnt :1orglaugh

here's a little game for you -- 5 items only http://www.kidsturncentral.com/games...a/trivia15.htm

I've been doing the diet coke thing for years.

Has 0 calories!

We call it Coca Cola Light too.

When I was in the USA, I noticed people eating a LOT of FAt food, but always drinking diet "drinks" (still big big glasses tho)

Thought that was funny:)

In 1885, when Atlanta and Fulton County passed Prohibition legislation, Pemberton responded by developing Coca-Cola, essentially a carbonated, non-alcoholic version of French Wine Cola. The beverage was named Coca-Cola because originally, the stimulant mixed in the beverage was coca leaves from South America. In addition, the drink was flavored using kola (Cola) nuts, the beverage's source of caffeine. Pemberton called for 5 ounces of coca leaf per gallon of syrup, a significant dose, whereas in 1891 Candler claimed his formula (altered extensively from Pemberton's original) contained only a tenth of this amount. Contrary to popular belief, Coca-Cola never contained cocaine per se, which is a highly refined extract of coca leaves and was always far too expensive to use in a mass-market beverage. However, as cocaine is one of numerous alkaloids present in the coca leaf, it was nevertheless present in the drink. Today, the flavoring is still done with kola nuts and the coca leaf; however, the coca leaves used today are "spent" leaves - the leftovers of the cocaine-extraction process - and therefore the drink contains no trace of the stimulant.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola

not in the UK

Coca-Cola Zero is a product of the Coca-Cola company, released in June 2005. It is a sugar-free variation of Coca-Cola Classic, sweetened with a blend of aspartame and acesulfame potassium. This product is different from Diet Coke because of the sweeteners it uses (Diet Coke only uses aspartame), and because, unlike Diet Coke, this product is based on the original Coca-Cola formula. Diet Coke was an entirely new formula which would eventually become the basis for the controversial New Coke (later renamed Coke II).

Contrary to popular belief, Coca-Cola Zero is not a new formulation. The same blend of aspartame and acesulfame potassium along with the Coca-Cola Classic formula has been available for quite some time in many European countries which were never exposed to New Coke. Commonly called Coca-Cola Light or Coke Light in Europe, the Coca-Cola Zero formula is identical to that used in foreign countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coke_Zero

George Washington wasn't the first US President - it was John Hanson.

Diet coke is nasty stuff. When I worked at a restaurant long ago, Diet coke would always rot the plastic tubing, and if you touched the syrup with your hands you had to go wash it off immediately or else it would burn your skin....

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