Comments on: (Another Reason) Coca-Cola Sucks

By: Nepenthe

Nepenthe — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 02:36:30 +0000

Diet soda is so fraught.

I only like diet soda; the regular stuff is way too sweet for my taste and I can tell the difference. But I am a very fat person and I’m never on a diet. Incredulous waiters continue to bring me regular soda, perhaps not believing that I could be ordering “that” food with a diet soda.

Plus there are the jokes about fat people ordering huge meals with a diet soda to watch their figure. Always good fun. *rolls eyes*

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:33:28 +0000

@Kay: It’s not the lack of calories that screams pro-ana, although I’m always suspicious of the way zero-calorie non-food is marketed to women because it’s clearly not intended for their health or sustenance.

It’s the unrealistic, style-ized stick-figure image of a woman with a giant head and twiggy body. It looks like classic pro-ana “thinspiration” to me. Coke Light is being promoted with an image of a very, very, very, unrealistically, unhealthily thin woman (a drawing, true, but they could have drawn a slender normal-looking woman…and didn’t).

Nowhere did I say or insinuate that the “entire diet industry is pro-ana.”

By: Kay

Kay — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:39:19 +0000

What about noting the lack of calories screams “pro-ana” to you? Are you insinuating that the entire diet industry is “pro-ana”? Also curious about where your definition of “pro-ana” originates from?

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:50:37 +0000

@VaS: when does it switch from anecdote to actual data?

When it supports my beliefs!

I don’t like the taste of diet soda either. But the corn syrup-y/sugary-ness of the real thing grievously fucks with my blood sugar levels, so I mostly just drink seltzer.

By: VaS

VaS — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:09:37 +0000

More anecdata (when does it switch from anecdote to actual data?) for you: my husband drinks diet soda. I won’t drink any diet soda. I don’t like the taste.

By: Es

Es — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:39:41 +0000

Nearly everyone I know (although thinking about it, it’s mainly women – most of the men I know drink beer as a default) will go for diet drinks by choice.
I don’t; I like sugar, and dislike artificial chemical sweeteners, but ordering a ‘fat coke’ at a bar normally takes a couple of goes as they assume I mean a diet one.

By: Meg

Meg — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:44:59 +0000

Becky, based on my anecdata, I’d think a healthy percentage are actually men. My brother, for example, is a Diet Coke fiend. Most people I know (men and women) who drink soda regularly (let’s say once a day) are diet soda drinkers, be it Pepsi, Coke or Sprite.

But, let’s be honest, I’m talking about an extremely biased sample here (mostly New Yorkers, all between 25 and 45, etc.).

By: Mackey

Mackey — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 06:49:28 +0000

@gogobooty – it’s the harpy hive mind at work and play

By: gogobooty

gogobooty — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 03:07:54 +0000

Oh fudge, doncha hate when you immediately think & type something someone else already thought & typed?

By: gogobooty

gogobooty — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 03:06:54 +0000

Bratz® Coke®!