Coke or gin and tonic - what's worse?

Lysander said:
With low cal tonic water you have a choice of varieties, with Coke Zero you don't. If you want Coke Zero, you have... well, Coke Zero.

A good low cal tonic water would be something like Fever Tree which just contains carbonated spring water, fructose, citric acid and natural flavourings.
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I'm not scared of aspartme or acesulfame-k, so would rather have a 0-calorie 250ml drink over a 37cal tonic water, enough calories in the alcohol.
 
bigmike20vt said:
not arguing with you as it makes sense, but that cant be it as even Bass shandy has a small amount in it but that is not restricted. I suspect - but just a guess - is that even alcohol free beer is still considered a gateway to booze (but then so is bass shandy , however if that was released today i believe that would be restricted too , just like if alcohol was only just invented or tobacco just discovered there is no chance at all it would be legal.

what i find inexcusable is that alcohol free beer - and soft drinks such as coke - doubly so those out of a tap - cost as much as they do, after all its not like they are taxed like alcohol is.
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Could be yeah, Heineken 00 which I drink now and again is very cheap though, compared to normal beers.
 
Semple said:
The alcohol free are obvious - they're aimed at people who drive, or those that don't drink, but at least offers them something other than coke or lemonade. I've had some nice alcohol free beers before.

What perplexes me though is when you scan in your alcohol free beer and the till pops up with an age restricted item... :confused::confused: not been able to find an answer on that. I can only assume it's so they don't want kids to "look" like they're drinking beer down the park.
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The age restriction on alcohol free stuff is because it’s a sub category of alcohol in the grocery groups.

My ex was given an after school detention for bringing in a can of shandy. His father kicked off by saying you need to drink a swimming pool’s worth of shandy to get drunk!
 
so some google-fu states that if it is 0.5% or under it can theroetically be sold to kids, hence Top Deck Shandy (not seen for ages, dunno if still around) and Barr and Bass shandy are ok.

in theory the other alcohol free drinks should be too, but then i think it comes back to marketing and gateway drugs......... 0% beers are still marketed as beer where as bass shandy etc was marketed as pop
 
bigmike20vt said:
so some google-fu states that if it is 0.5% or under it can theroetically be sold to kids, hence Top Deck Shandy (not seen for ages, dunno if still around) and Barr and Bass shandy are ok.

in theory the other alcohol free drinks should be too, but then i think it comes back to marketing and gateway drugs......... 0% beers are still marketed as beer where as bass shandy etc was marketed as pop
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Top Deck was actually around 2% which is stronger than I thought it would was!
 
robfosters said:
Pepsi Max is a far better choice than Coke Zero.

Im quite partial to a southern comfort and pepsi max
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Agreed. Pepsi Max also tastes very similar to full fat Pepsi which is good. What's bizarre though is that Diet Pepsi has a weird artificial taste to it, so no idea how they've messed that up!

With the rise of Pepsi Max/Coke Zero, i'm also unsure of the point of the "Diet" ranges.
 
Martynt74 said:
With the rise of Pepsi Max/Coke Zero, i'm also unsure of the point of the "Diet" ranges.
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Marketing. Max/Zero were the way of getting men to drink the low kcal versions as Diet had always been aimed at women i.e. the "Diet Coke break" ads.
 
Wasn't diet coke the zero sugar version of 'new coke' before they changed the recipe back?
Coke Zero is them trying to replicate normal coca cola but with no sugar.
 
Martynt74 said:
With the rise of Pepsi Max/Coke Zero, i'm also unsure of the point of the "Diet" ranges.
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I bought a bottle of Sprite the other day, for the first time in at least 20 years. The "full fat" version is a hybrid aspartame/sugar thing (i.e. diet for all intents and purposes), so you are right - not much point other than marketing.
 
Max & Zero taste like stale versions of their superior originals just with the fizz intact, I can understand wanting to drink it for it being "healthier" (if you can ignore the other non sugar crap it contains) but to say it tastes like the original full sugar versions is a lie, unless you have incredibly poor taste
 
Minusorange said:
Max & Zero taste like stale versions of their superior originals just with the fizz intact, I can understand wanting to drink it for it being "healthier" (if you can ignore the other non sugar crap it contains) but to say it tastes like the original full sugar versions is a lie, unless you have incredibly poor taste
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call me a heathan but............. i dont like full fat coke or pepsi.

but i do like max/zero and even diet is better than original.

only thing full fat cola is good for (and it is a big one) is for slow cooking gammon joints.
 
Minusorange said:
Max & Zero taste like stale versions of their superior originals just with the fizz intact, I can understand wanting to drink it for it being "healthier" (if you can ignore the other non sugar crap it contains) but to say it tastes like the original full sugar versions is a lie, unless you have incredibly poor taste
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With Coke i would agree, the Zero version tastes very little like proper coke. Although both are unpleasant.

However, with Pepsi i would say the Max is actually very close in taste to the proper version.
 
Minusorange said:
Max & Zero taste like stale versions of their superior originals just with the fizz intact, I can understand wanting to drink it for it being "healthier" (if you can ignore the other non sugar crap it contains) but to say it tastes like the original full sugar versions is a lie, unless you have incredibly poor taste
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Never said they tasted like the sugar versions, I prefer them to the sugar version. Normal coke/pepsi leaves me with gross furry-feeling teeth.
 
Bacon is good for me.

I'd rather have a pepsi max than coke zero and a gin and lemonade than touch tonic :(
 
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