Posted 1:04 PM by John A. Seafisk

Diet Vanilla Coke?

I just heard that the Coca-Cola corporation will soon be coming out with a diet version of their recent introduction - Vanilla Coke. I don't know when, since I didn't bother to read the whole article.

I am not a big Coke fan. Part of it my have been spending four years on a Pepsi-dominated collegiate campus. The other part is that the taste is too strong & sweet...the carbonation too destructive to my insides. However, I do enjoy a good Cherry Coke now and then....the extra flavorings have a calming effect on my palate.

I do remember going on a mad hunt for Vanilla Coke when it first came out. I consider myself a soda pop semi-connoisseur, who is always up for trying new sweetened carbonated beverages...the types of unfamilair beverages you can find in places like this. I spent days, frisking every local supermarket, every other mid-range market, even checking friends' fridges for it. Finally, I saw it in a cooler near one of the numerous checkout stands in my local drug store. I gave my $1.39 plus tax (yeah, a bit pricey, but hey, who knows when I'd find it again) and stepped out of the store, taking my first swig.

It was ok. Could use a little more vanilla.

So now the time has come for a diet version. I wonder if the they'll be enough vanilla in the aftertaste? But I'm too scared to find out. I'm all for trying new things....but DIET cola?

I wonder when they'll come out with Diet Jolt.