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I wonder how long the diet soda manufactures have been working on this, and preparing for it. I would not be surprised if they already have some thing ready to

I wonder how long the diet soda manufactures have been working on this, and preparing for it. I would not be surprised if they already have some thing ready to go to replace it with.

uzername 3y ago
In my market in Minnesota, Diet coke with "plant based sweetener" is being sold in small quantities. I'm sure it's a market test, and probably good timing based on this too.
- frizlab 3y ago
  We’ve had that in France a few months (years?) ago too. Never went mainstream. I tested it, I did not like it.
- baal80spam 3y ago
  > plant based sweetener Sounds like stevia?
  - sebazzz 3y ago
    That one also existed before, it was that green labelled Coke.
grecy 3y ago
Eh, we know for a fact the nitrates in bacon cause cancer, but how many people stopped eating it?
- 4ad 3y ago
  Nitrates in bacon are essential for making bacon. Aspartame is not essential for making coke.
  - ben_w 3y ago
    Bacon isn't an essential food, at least not for humans. You don't need to eat it at all. Likewise cola, of course.
  - pxeger1 3y ago
    You can buy nitrite-free bacon - doesn't that mean it's not essential?
    - Ariarule 3y ago
      "No nitrates or nitrites added" bacon still has nitrites as they are generated by the production method: https://www.americastestkitchen.com/cooksillustrated/how_tos/5734-nitrate-free-bacon https://www.americastestkitchen.com/cooksillustrated/how_tos...
- chiefalchemist 3y ago
  Also the number of ppl having bacon at every meal is small. The number of ppl drinking diet soda - and consuming diet anything else - multiple times per day is significantly larger, at least in the First World.
  - 4ad 3y ago
    In the third world, far more people drink diet soda than eat bacon. In the first world, I wouldn't be so sure.
- Timpy 3y ago
  Unfortunately I know people who drink diet coke like it's water. If somebody ate bacon at that volume they wouldn't live long enough for cancer to get them.
- ben_w 3y ago
  First time I was in California, visiting partner and their family, their mom saw the California Cancer Warning of Doom label on a restaurant, and wanted to know why they couldn't simply not allow the substances known to cause cancer. One of those substances is alcohol, and this place sold drinks. Also she was a smoker at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_65_list_of_chemicals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_65_list...

I wonder how long the diet soda manufactures have been working on this, and preparing for it. I would not be surprised if they already have some thing ready to go to replace it with.

uzername 3y ago

In my market in Minnesota, Diet coke with "plant based sweetener" is being sold in small quantities. I'm sure it's a market test, and probably good timing based on this too.

frizlab 3y ago
We’ve had that in France a few months (years?) ago too. Never went mainstream. I tested it, I did not like it.
baal80spam 3y ago
> plant based sweetener Sounds like stevia?
- sebazzz 3y ago
  That one also existed before, it was that green labelled Coke.

grecy 3y ago

Eh, we know for a fact the nitrates in bacon cause cancer, but how many people stopped eating it?

4ad 3y ago
Nitrates in bacon are essential for making bacon. Aspartame is not essential for making coke.
- ben_w 3y ago
  Bacon isn't an essential food, at least not for humans. You don't need to eat it at all. Likewise cola, of course.
- pxeger1 3y ago
  You can buy nitrite-free bacon - doesn't that mean it's not essential?
  - Ariarule 3y ago
    "No nitrates or nitrites added" bacon still has nitrites as they are generated by the production method: https://www.americastestkitchen.com/cooksillustrated/how_tos/5734-nitrate-free-bacon https://www.americastestkitchen.com/cooksillustrated/how_tos...
chiefalchemist 3y ago
Also the number of ppl having bacon at every meal is small. The number of ppl drinking diet soda - and consuming diet anything else - multiple times per day is significantly larger, at least in the First World.
- 4ad 3y ago
  In the third world, far more people drink diet soda than eat bacon. In the first world, I wouldn't be so sure.
Timpy 3y ago
Unfortunately I know people who drink diet coke like it's water. If somebody ate bacon at that volume they wouldn't live long enough for cancer to get them.
ben_w 3y ago
First time I was in California, visiting partner and their family, their mom saw the California Cancer Warning of Doom label on a restaurant, and wanted to know why they couldn't simply not allow the substances known to cause cancer. One of those substances is alcohol, and this place sold drinks. Also she was a smoker at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_65_list_of_chemicals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_65_list...