{"id":7869,"date":"2005-08-03T08:06:55","date_gmt":"2005-08-03T15:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/08\/03\/the-real-fake-thing.html"},"modified":"2005-08-03T08:06:55","modified_gmt":"2005-08-03T15:06:55","slug":"the_real_fake_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/03\/the_real_fake_t.html","title":{"rendered":"The Real Fake Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

A very interesting breakdown of the various diet Cokes<\/a> that Coca-Cola has out there: Diet Coke, Diet Coke with Splenda, C2, Coke Zero, Coke Light.<\/p>\n

The most interesting bits: Diet Coke is “New Coke” with aspartame (or Splenda) instead of sugar. Coke Zero is “Classic Coke” with artificial sweeteners. Which is why the latter tastes infinitely better, IMO (and has become my diet cola of choice).<\/p>\n

(via Kottke<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A very interesting breakdown of the various diet Cokes that Coca-Cola has out there: Diet Coke, Diet Coke with Splenda, C2, Coke Zero, Coke Light. The most interesting bits: Diet…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8213,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/25\/pepsi_one_point.html","url_meta":{"origin":7869,"position":0},"title":"Pepsi One-point-one","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 25-Apr-05 8:23am","format":false,"excerpt":"New, improved taste! 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