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mac56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 03:11 PM
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Atkins-friendly Coke?
Edited on Mon May-17-04 03:12 PM by mac56
Lower-carb Coke on the way

Coca-Cola Co. said Monday it will launch a soft-drink with half the carbohydrates of traditional colas this summer, as the world's largest soft-drink firm looks to capitalize on the low-carb diet craze.

A Coca-Cola spokesman would not give specific dates for the roll-out of "Coca-Cola C2", but said it would appear in stores across the US before the planned late-summer launch of "Pepsi Edge" low-calorie cola.

http://money.cnn.com/2004/04/19/news/fortune500/coke/
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 03:12 PM
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1. Buy Diet Rite Cola
Edited on Mon May-17-04 03:13 PM by supernova
DR has no carbs, and uses Splenda sweetner.

edit: Plus DR is much less than Coke.
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AspenRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 04:55 PM
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14. Diet Rite rocks
Have you tried the Diet Rite white grape? Yummy! There's a raspberry flavor too I think.
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 03:13 PM
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2. If you want to drink tons of soda, you are not going to be fit
Edited on Mon May-17-04 03:13 PM by jpgray
People should accept this and move on, in one direction or the other. Thse crazy halfway products are just ways to make money off those who think eating right goes no furhter than buying products marked "low carb" or "low fat".
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 03:14 PM
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3. I have no words to put to this, just emoticons:
:eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

Well, some words... How much will this ripoff cost? Isn't diet coke good enough? Why drink it? It stains the teeth and the acidicness of the drink doesn't help either...

I rarely drink the stuff so I could technically care less. Oops, I'm a mouth of legs, I care about everything. :D
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m-jean03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 03:14 PM
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4. As far as I know cocaine has always been carb free.
OH I SEE WHAT YOU MEAN. :P
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boxster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 03:15 PM
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5. Yes, it's called Diet Coke.
No carbs. Zero. Zilch.

Besides, Atkins is evil.

/flamesuit activated
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Catholic Sensation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 03:16 PM
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7. they're doing this to fool the idiots on atkins
they feel if you're stupid enough to believe eating more fat at the expense of carbs will make you healthy they can put out two of the same item and the morons on atkins will buy it
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boxster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 03:31 PM
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9. Damn, were we...
separated at birth?

If my wife saw that comment, she'd swear that I wrote it.

:toast:
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4morewars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 03:16 PM
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6. Boycott the crap now !!!!
http://www.killercoke.org/

http://www.colombiasolidarity.org.uk/cocacolacampaign.html
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kdmorris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 03:21 PM
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8. You know..
Oddly enough, water has ALWAYS been carb free and so much better for you. This just sounds as gimmicky as the rest of the "low carb" stuff. Like "low carb" salad dressing where the "original" version only has 1 carb to begin with. But it costs 3 times as much.

:eyes:
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BurnInHellFoxNews Donating Member (44 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 03:32 PM
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10. Deprivation diets DON'T WORK.
My mother is a nutritionist and can rail for hours about how destructive the Atkins diet is.

If you want to be fit,
-eat a balanced, sensible diet of foods that are good for you.
-exercise regularly
-take a multivitamin
-get enough sleep.

It isn't rocket science. Atkins is a cash-in on the American culture of the quick fix. GRR.

Where's Susan Powter when we need her?
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 03:35 PM
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11. IF this has half the carbs because it has half the corn syrup
...and they don't try to make up for it with artificial sweeteners, then perhaps this might be a good thing, from a taste standpoint. I rarely drink soda -- it's almost always too sweet. (I do suspect it'll have "sugar alcohols" or Splenda or whatever else Atkins stuff is supposed to have in it.)

I remember years ago, Snapple had a light line -- it simply had less corn syrup. No artificial sweeteners. It was less sweet, less syrupy (and maybe more juice as well). I really liked the stuff. Now, they've got "diet Snapple" with chemicals.
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 03:52 PM
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12. Low carbonation? (ducking, running away) n/t
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candy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 03:53 PM
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13. DRINK WATER!!!!!!!
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