The Coca Cola Review

Times Square, NYC - May 2005

Photo by me.

As many of you know, I love Coke. Not the powdery, illegal kind, but Coca Cola Classic. Classic would be my favorite kind, although they have developed many permuations and variations over the years ... so I though that a review of sorts might be in order. I was too young to remember 'New Coke', but here are some of my opinions on their more recent innovations ...

• Diet Coke: Ick. Bland, watery, not sweet at all. If I'm going to have a diet cola, I'll have a Diet Pepsi, please ...at least there is some flavour.
• Coca Cola Zero: Even worse/less flavour than Diet Coke, if you can believe it. I just tried this recently - their 'Zero Calories, Zero Sugar' beverage ... with zero taste. Why bother?
• Diet Coke w/ Lemon: Tried this a couple of years ago, on a whim... again, ew. About how I would imagine 'Mr. Clean' might taste. I'm pretty sure they've stopped making it, and a good thing too.
• Diet Coke w/ Lime: I was expecting this to turn out about as well as Lemon, but was pleasantly surprised - I actually really like this one! The lime tastes fairly authentic, and adds a nice tang to the blandness of the diet. (Although, it did cross my mind a few sips in that it would taste even better with rum mixed in ...lol)
• Regular Coke w/ Lime: Having tried the diet version first, I thought I'd give the regular a whirl as well, to see if it was even better. Turned out not to be the case, surprisingly - the regular sweetness overwhelmed the tangy lime-ness, but I couldn't really taste much of either one. Not bad, but fairly 'blah' overall. May also be good with rum.
• Vanilla Coke: Yummy yum yum! Probably my favourite after 'real' coke. Tastes like dessert. Please don't discontinue this one (although I think they have already ..boo.) I'm stocking up in this one.