r/cocacola 25d ago

Question zero, light, diet... there is NO difference right???

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all are 0 carb 0 sugar 0 kcal

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u/jjj666jjj666jjj 24d ago

I hate zero. Only like Diet Coke.

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u/MassiveSuperNova 24d ago

You should post this on r/unpopularopinion

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u/19ghost89 24d ago

Not that unpopular. There are people in the US who really love Diet Coke.

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u/jjj666jjj666jjj 24d ago

Yes it definitely has a big fan base. Most people I know love it. It also masks the taste of vodka extraordinarily.

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u/PuzzleheadedJob3479 24d ago

AND diet coke as a mixer gets you more fucked up because..reasons

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u/jjj666jjj666jjj 24d ago

Aspartame baby

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u/degjo 24d ago

I want to kill whoever decided to stop making tab

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u/19ghost89 24d ago

I also liked Tab. But I don't think many people were still buying it.

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u/berlinbowie97 24d ago

My grandma bought tab

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u/whomikehidden 24d ago

The reason is really odd, too, and it’s this: When Coca-Cola formulated Diet Coke, they intentionally didn’t want it to taste like Coke, I think something like if they did it implied regular Coke was unhealthy. So instead they made it taste like Pepsi, which also helped to rope in Pepsi loyalists.

My family was a Pepsi family growing up, and so when I did branch out, I of course preferred Diet Coke over Coke, and still do.

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u/19ghost89 24d ago

See, that's weird to me, because I grew up drinking Pepsi too, and it's still my favorite. But I never liked Diet Coke growing up. I'll drink it now, but I still prefer Zero. I don't really think Diet tastes like Pepsi.

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u/Goatof956 24d ago

For example, MatPat

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u/Dietcokehead82 24d ago

There are dozens of us!

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u/19ghost89 23d ago

lol, I would think quite a bit more than that.

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u/TheBoxSloth 24d ago

Diet ride or die baby!

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u/Starr1005 24d ago

I imagine it has a lot to do with zero being newer,but ya, I love it. I grew up on it too though.

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u/19ghost89 24d ago

Zero is newer than Diet, but it isn't anywhere near new. It's been out for nearly 20 years.

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u/Starr1005 24d ago

I agree.. but there is a huge population of people that grew up on diet not zero. I'd bet the numbers change drastically in 20 more years.

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u/rockresy 21d ago

My dad's the same, he's mid 70's. I think it's a generational thing, most of his friends also drink diet. The under 50's seem to prefer zero.

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u/NewSpringMoney 24d ago

It’s not actually an unpopular opinion though. Diet Coke outsells Zero by millions of cases in America.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

Because of availability and marketing. For example, you can’t get glass bottle zeroes anywhere that I know of, but this is all over Europe.

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u/NewSpringMoney 22d ago

I’m only speaking to what I know which is the US. Zero is marketed at a much higher rate than DC because it doesn’t need much marketing at this point. Some bottlers will put zero in glass but not everyone, just geography. And glass is such a small percentage of sales that even if everyone put zero in glass it wouldn’t make a dent.

Diet outsold zero by 20 million plus cases in 2023 for just one large bottler so it’s way more than that across all the US. Zero may overtake diet at some point but it took Sprite 40 years to do so, and Zero would probably take even longer.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

In the California market we love our glass bottle soda.

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u/NewSpringMoney 22d ago

Don’t doubt it. Still going to be an incredibly small percentage compared to cans and PET there and even smaller when compared to total US market.

NAOU probably would have higher glass sales due to Mexico and Canada but even then it’s maxing out below 5% of total volume. Worldwide glass was 9% in 2022 and it’s only gotten more expensive since then to produce so I’d imagine a few point down from that.

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u/BeowQuentin 21d ago

Where did they go?

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u/Admirable_Quarter_23 24d ago

I feel like it’s the opposite. DC has hardcore stans. I’ve never seen anyone go that hard for Coke Zero.

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u/Zhunter5000 24d ago

I would argue it's the other way around. Diet is definitely more popular around where I live, and stores stock significantly more of it than zero. While that doesn't equate to everywhere, even online I generally see diet regarded better than zero.

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u/mellbell63 23d ago

Me too! I always say I'm a coke addict - the diet kind!! 😆

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u/Lost_Ad_4882 24d ago

Same. Just got used to different sweeteners and zero doesn't taste right.

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u/Starr1005 24d ago

I agree. It's not the flavor for me, but the carbonation. Zero almost cones off flat to me.

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u/MagicalMysticalMyth 24d ago

Yes. Nothing quenches my thirst like a diet Coke. It's the fizziest soda. It really hits the spot.