Diet Coke, Mentos, and SCIENCE!

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  • godgod
    edited June 2006
    in my oppinion, any soda is good if its mixed with all the other sodas you can get your hands on. also, if someone looks in it and sees its dark they assume its coke or root beer and drink some, only to find its full of grape, orange, ginger ale, and mello yello.
  • edited June 2006
    geoko wrote:
    Crystal Pepsi!!!!
    Is that like horrible tasting crystal meth?

    I personally prefer root beer and it's derivatives (such as birch beer and ginger beer) aswell as cream soda.
  • edited June 2006
    I remember seeing Bill Nye do the mentos demo with Sprite on Leno a number of years ago. If I remember correctly, the vast fizzing has something to do with the gum arabic disolving some sort of chemical bond that prevents carbonated drinks from "venting" all that CO2 quickly.


    And yes, I used to drink diet coke all the time. I've since moved on to diet Dr. Pepper, because it tastes slightly better with whiskey.

    Rules for drinking normal Coke: Use ice. That's all. Coke is awful without ice, incredibly wonderful with it. Always drink Coke with ice.

    Also: Josta? Wow, you're totally referencing failed drinks old skool style.
  • edited June 2006
    A great drink:

    Muddy Water.
    Mix cola (not diet, only normal coke is appropriate) with orange juice, roughly half and half. Add ice. Its a lovely pub drink for the non alchys.
  • edited June 2006
    I have a friend that drinks that all the time. I refuse to, because it's possibly the most disgusting looking liquid I've ever seen.
  • edited June 2006
    Thats the whole point of it really. But it tastes lovely, but only if you get the proportions right, otherwise its quite acidic.
  • edited June 2006
    The whole point of it is that it looks nasty? Damn, and here I was thinking the whole point would be to taste good.
  • edited June 2006
    Yeah, I tend to aim for that with my drinks.

    Mainly I drink Vanilla Coke. It doesn't really mix well with anything I've tried thus far. Although a little apple juice wasn't too bad.

    This country sucks so hard though. I can't get Dr Pepper or Cherry Coke. Although you can kind of fake Cherry Coke with normal Coke and a dash of Ribena.
  • edited June 2006
    That too, I guess.

    But some drinks are for pure nasty looks. Like a bloody tampon. (Tequila and Tomato juice with a napkin in it. You drink it by sucking it off the napkin)
  • edited June 2006
    Eww! Napkins!
  • edited June 2006
    ...Out of the fact that it is called bloody tampon, and it mixes tequila and tomato juice, probably the two most foul liquids on earth, all you care about is the napkin.

    I salute you!
  • edited June 2006
    Night Lord wrote:
    I see it in reverse, I complain about the aftertaste of coke, something which diet coke is lacking.

    :eek:

    Well, I usually drink Pepsi over Coca Cola, but I know the one time I did get stuck with a Diet Pepsi, it was surely the diet version that had an aftertaste.

    Then again, I usually drink caffiene free Pepsi anyway. They have diet caffiene free Pepsi, too. It's like, "Damn! What else can they take out of it? Must be water in that can." Of course none of this is relevant, hence the small text.

    Oh, and bloody tampon?! That's just ****ing sick right there.
  • edited June 2006
    My typical drink is either milk or water. If I'm daring I may have chocolate milk. Only on special occasions I might have a pop (Or soda or whatever you other people call it.) No alcohol, no juice, no nothing like that at all.
    Sustenance FTW.
  • edited June 2006
    Juice is sustaining too, you know!
  • jcjc
    edited June 2006
    Apathy wrote:
    This country sucks so hard though. I can't get Dr Pepper

    How have you not fled or destroyed this country yet? It is totally asking for it.
  • edited June 2006
    As a child I loved Jolt Cola. That's really the only cola worth drinking. After that went away, I switched to beer.
  • jcjc
    edited June 2006
    It didn't go away. Your beer drinking is based on a LIE.
  • edited June 2006
    !!!!!!!!! wrote:
    How have you not fled or destroyed this country yet? It is totally asking for it.

    Cheap, high quality meat.

    And excellent beer. Well, they have truly diabolical beer too. But you can get some really great stuff here.
  • edited June 2006
    But America has Schlitz, and Dr. Pepper, so...I think we can all agree that trumps anything you have in kangaroo land.
  • edited June 2006
    Yeah, except your country is full of Americans.
  • jcjc
    edited June 2006
    Who are full of Dr. Pepper!
  • edited June 2006
    Which is full of prune juice...

    ...Is what I would have said if I hadn't looked it up just now out of curiosity and found that to not be the case.
  • edited June 2006
    Dr. Pepper makes the world taste better.
  • edited June 2006
    Dr. Pepper give meaning to life.

    And by that I of course mean that life would not have meaning if Dr. Pepper didn't want it to.
  • edited June 2006
    Dr. Pepper is better than Mr. Pibb, because it went to college.
  • edited June 2006
    Not necessarily, it could've gotten one of those mail order PhDs and not be a fully licensed and bonded Dr, in which case you're putting your life in danger!
  • edited June 2006
    It's never been said that he/she has a PhD, and I believe that, because I've never seen Dr. Pepper do an operation on someone, or even play the game Operation.
  • edited June 2006
    I think you both have PhD and MD mixed up. MDs are doctors who study medicine. PhDs are doctors who studied SCIENCE! Or just regular science, if they're boring.
  • edited June 2006
    But it doesn't specify. He could be one, he could be the other, he could be both. (Or none, and nothing but a charlatan!)
  • jcjc
    edited June 2006
    Dr. Pepper was awarded an honorary doctorate in the field of tasting really fucking excellent. Much like Colonel Sanders, the Dr. took pride in this and used the title in all public correspondence and also packaging.