There is more than just raspberry to “coca cola spiced” though, it does actually have a spice-like flavour too. This is a bummer because I rather liked it when mixed with some rum.
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Well, you should be able to lay in a lifetime supply, cheap!
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If we’re going to be pedantic, let’s keep in mind pumpkin spice isn’t generally made from pumpkins.
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Question: anyone else mostly stopped drinking carbonated beverages with sugar? I never liked “Diet” anything but the Zero variations nail it for me.
I drink tons of carbonated no-calorie beverages. I was fine with Diet Coke until Coke Zero came out… now I drink that instead.
I love the Cherry version. But Coke doesn’t take their flavour modifications very seriously IMO. I bought a bottle of Dreamworld and it was awful, and Spiced sounds like a waste of everyone’s time. I’m done with stunt flavours.
A friend of mine who also drinks lots of Coke Zero texted me last week that he picked up a bottle of Coke Zero Oreo for me. I blocked and reported him.
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There isn’t much that doesn’t go well with rum!
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Was anyone else expecting some sort of Dune marketing tie-in from the title?
There’s got to be some food coloring that’s still considered safe outside the EU and aggressive enough to get to the sclera that could have been substituted for the rather supply constrained geriatric spice melange.
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I was looking for something in storage in work and there were a bunch of Diet Coke bottles there. Still fizzy. But utterly foul. In the dark too. Maybe 4 years there? Probably just pre covid actually.
Rank.
I was quite surprised.
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I was looking for something in storage in work and there were a bunch of Diet Coke bottles there. Still fizzy. But utterly foul. In the dark too. Maybe 4 years there? Probably just pre covid actually.
The carbonation can last a very long time. But the fake sugar loses its sweetness when it reverts to its components in the beverage. I think you get six months or so to finish it off. Don’t drink diet soda that isn’t sweet, not just because it tastes bad but it is bad for you.
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Is the full fat stuff less terrible when it’s old? Just sugar is often used as a preservative.
Is the full fat stuff less terrible when it’s old?
definitely, regular sugar sodas are good for a looooooooooooong time
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Question: anyone else mostly stopped drinking carbonated beverages with sugar?
Got hip to both berry and either lime or lemon-lime (unsweetened) Perrier decades ago. Don’t think they even make the berry anymore, which is a shame. It was superb. I think the lime (or L-L) tastes a little too much of lime/lemon peel.
Around the same time, I gleefully discovered (also unsweetened) Faygo Sparkling Water:
(in order of my preference)
There’s also an unflavored version. I haven’t compared it to their club soda, but I think the SW has less salt.
I was briefly able to get similarly flavored unsweetened Canada Dry Sparkling Water. It was really good. Mom decided she didn’t want to buy it for me anymore b/c cost the same as her CD diet ginger ale. She had the bizarre idea that it should be cheaper b/c no sweetener, and it actually made her angry that it wasn’t. 
I hipped my BF & a friend to the Faygo stuff, and they both esp loved the grapefruit. A bandmate of my BF’s has a GF who buys the grapefruit by the case from her grocery.
Bubly is very good and has lotsa cool flavors, including a very nice mango. It’s also less expensive than La Croix. There’s no coconut Bubly, which makes me sad.
It’s my favorite.
A lifetime supply of Faygo Cherry SW and coconut La Croix would be more than welcome 
I have never been a fan of cola.
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“F██ you, it’s Spiced!”
@beschizza, in our own little version of the US-UK agreement, I’d like to give you permission to use the F-bomb.
edit: it’s in the dictionary?! keeping that in mind for my next scrabble match…
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Would you have reacted the same if it was marketed as raspberry coke? Genuine question. Is it bad on its own, or just in ten mismatch between expectation and reality?
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I fully expected something along the lines of Indian masala cola.
Also, remember these? They introduced them and then discontinued them almost immediately. I actually liked to drink those, not as mixers, but neat as more grown-up, complex versions of coke. All of them had a spiced flavour profile, too.
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It tasted like cough syrup. Hated it.
Bring back Lime Coke Zero.
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Tried it - liked it a fair bit. By the next time I went shopping it was already pulled from store shelves in my area over a month ago. C’est la Vie.
A friend of mine tried mixing Torani Cranberry syrup with regular Coca Cola years ago and we found that quite enjoyable. This spiced coke, while not quite the same, is the closest equivalent I’ve tried in an official Coke product.
And then there was the time when I was like 8 years old that I swiped a small portion of just about every spice in my mom’s spice cupboard and started adding that concoction to glasses of soda. Surprisingly good with colas and other dark sodas. Not a good addition to lemon lime. My parents were not amused.
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They should be rolling out Pumpkin Spice Coca-Cola at this time of the year.
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Well, if it had been marketed that way, I wouldn’t have even tried it. Red raspberry is a flavor I just don’t like at all, which probably explains my reaction.
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"When a Diet Coke sits around too long it is the absence of sweetness that causes the unpleasant taste, not some hideous poison.
Phenylalanylaspartic acid breaks down further, either in the can or in your stomach. Proteins and peptides (5) are broken down by water or a group of enzymes called peptidases to give back the individual amino acids that were put together to make the peptide or protein. Phenylalanylaspartic acid does just this. In a sense, phenylalanylaspartic acid can be considered a “food,” just like dietary protein; it breaks down to form aspartic acid, and phenylalanine– two of the 20 amino acids that make up proteins.
All dietary proteins contain aspartic acid and phenylalanine, so whether you consume aspartame, phenylalanylaspartic acid, or a chicken leg, your body will digest them and you will be getting some phenylalanine and aspartic acid. This is why neither the sweet nor the sour diet soda is harmful; your body just sees them as food."
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As a fan of the “make your own” Raspberry Coke from those machines, this Spiced stuff definitely had some other flavoring in it to give it that “spice” quality, but whatever it was it wasn’t good.
I’m glad it’s going away because while I’ve never seen actual Spiced Coke at a fast food place, the raspberry flavoring has been removed as an option from the handful of machines I’ve been to in the last few months.
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