Ewwwww is that sugar free coke?
Prices are out of control
Submitted 10 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Rooskie91@discuss.online 10 months ago
9point6@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Looks like cherry coke zero.
Coke zero is the best one until you get alcohol involved, then you’re fucking up if you’re not using full fat coke
roguetrick@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That stuff is so cloyingly sweet you’d have to mix it with water to approach something drinkable. A true alcoholic would have a handle of dewars white.
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s why he got the Kerry gold he’s gonna stir it in there
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I think the Jack D is for making bullet proof Jack D
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Disagree hard. Diet and Zero are sweeter than full fat coke. It comes out more with alcohol.
Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Switching from beer to Coke Zero + rum/vodka for my drinks lost me a little weight. So much better for calorie counting.
Dave@lemmy.nz 10 months ago
But if you can taste the coke, doesn’t that mean you don’t have enough alcohol in there?
laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
I’m pretty sure that’s regular Coke zero, unless they’ve changed the packaging again
But yeah, something about the artificial sweetener just doesn’t work with alcohol
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
Coke zero is decent
Diet coke is disgusting
Ditto Pepsi
ggppjj@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think I have a mutation in a taste bud or something, but Sucralose is really a prominent and nasty taste to me in anything it’s in. Really frustrating to taste it in otherwise sugary drinks, like some of the Monster flavors.
For reference, I also think cilantro tastes like soap. No clue if that’s an indicator or not.
shneancy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
pepsi max genuinely makes me want to vomit. i once only had the option to take a pepsi max at a KFC, took a few sips and felt so disgusted i didn’t even want to eat anymore. threw it out, packed my food, and went to buy a coke on the way home
are my taste buds broken? or do people really like the flavour of what i can only describe as a 6 year old’s bathroom potion of various chemicals, died black, sweetened, and carbonated
dingus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I hear this but I don’t understand. All diet soft drinks taste absolutely disgusting to me. I’ve had both Coke Zero and Diet Coke and both have that disgusting fake sugar aftertaste.
I either get non-Diet soft drinks or I go sparkling water. I can’t do that fake sugar shit. It’s nasty.
But the one exception for me is that I put fake sugar in my coffee. The bitter aftertaste of the coffee helps mask the aftertaste of the fake sugar.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m the opposite, I prefer diet Coke and diet Pepsi. Chances are that you don’t like aspartame.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Technically most coke is “sugar free” in the strictest sense of table sugar versus corn syrup.
3dmvr@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Coke zero is divine nectar
bluewing@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It doesn’t even work for dissolving rusted pistons or valves!
3dmvr@lemm.ee 10 months ago
idk it reminds me of chai somehow
jewbacca117@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Gotta make up for all the sugar in the JD honey I guess
slashasdf@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Can’t even afford to be an alcoholic to forget about your money problems anymore in this economy
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Unironically. Half the appeal of booze has historically been that its cheap.
I kinda wonder how much of the decline of high school/college drinking has to do with sticker shock.
slashasdf@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Yep, it’s very easy and cheap to produce alcohol, the only reason it’s expensive now is due to countries adding high excise taxes and the like to alcoholic drinks
dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 10 months ago
I mean I’m 20, when I have parties with friends (all my age/1-2y younger) we just split the costs. 5€ each max. And we all have a good time (or throw up, because some of my friends aren’t very aware of their limits lol)
3dmvr@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Its so expensive to go out now in any city, have to pregame for anything, not spending 30$ on a shot
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I work at a grocery store and honestly I didn’t even bat an eye, the first thing I thought about was how to bag it.
In case you’re wondering if we care about what you’re buying the only (non regular) customer that I remember is one Irish guy who would crack jokes about his ex wife on a roadtrip. Don’t fully remember but my God he made like 4 zingers in a row and I about cried laughing at like 7:30am
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Look, I enjoy good butter, too, but are you cooking with it? You probably won’t notice a difference if you switch to a generic.
9point6@lemmy.world 10 months ago
BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Everyday, I watch as we stray further from God.
al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
The butter is to lube those cans before he slides them in the ol keaster.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
Regular butter for cooking
Kerrygold salted for spreading
'tis the only way
VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Do people really see kerrygold as a premium option? I haven’t bought butter in a long time, but I always saw kerrygold as overpriced mass market shit.
obinice@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I dunno, that looks like the USA and their butter sucks, man. It’s not even yellow, and they sell it in “sticks”. I was so glad to find Kerrygold there.
That’s decent stuff that I use on the regular.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Given the rest of the grocery list, I think it is unlikely that cooking will be involved.
parody@lemmings.world 10 months ago
Double blind test ‘em - fun and enlightening
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
[deleted]HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 10 months ago
Dress up as ICE and state that this is material needed to trap Irish thugs living illegally in the US.
flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
You could also demand to see the kerrygold’s papers, and then leave with it.
RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sooooo a mask, sunglasses, a hoodie and no identification? 🥷
Heathcliff@lemm.ee 10 months ago
At least the butter might come in handy (or by other limbs).
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That stuff would be about $50 or less total in my area, but I wouldn’t buy any of those but the butter.
BillDaCatt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I must say, the butter is the only one these I would actually buy. Even then, only if I was going to make toast or something. I use store brand butter for baking.
Thorry84@feddit.nl 10 months ago
That Tennessee Honey is one of my favorite whiskey drinks. However due to America being a total shit head, I can no longer buy it as I don’t want any of my money going there.
Anybody got an idea of what a good European drink is to replace it with? I drink it straight or when I want something more mellow I mix with fake DrPepper or fake Red Bull.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Started making my own sloe gin last year, cheapest Aldi gin and then forage for sloes. Fill a large container about half way by volume with the berries and then fill to the top with gin. Seal, turn it to mix a few times and let it sit there for like 3-6 months. Taste and bottle with sugar, quantity depends on how sweet you want it but probably a few hundred g per litre.
Thorry84@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Wow I’m going to Aldi tomorrow and will try this!
Akasazh@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Drambuie is an old British honey and whisky liqueur.
You can even make something like it youself: seriouseats.com/diy-drambuie-make-your-own-honey-…
djehuti@programming.dev 10 months ago
Also you can make a Rusty Nail with some ice and a well Scotch.
Djinn_Indigo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Crown Royal is Canadian. 🤷 Not sure if it’s available where you are though.
Thorry84@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Thanks, I’ll look out for that. Seems like the plain whiskey is available just fine, but the honey stuff is harder to find.
Rinox@feddit.it 10 months ago
Pretty sure Red Bull is Austrian fwiw.
Anyway, there are lots of Irish, Scottish, English whiskeys. Don’t know about honey flavored ones
Thorry84@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Yeah I’m having trouble finding the Honey flavored stuff.
I use fake Red Bull because I think it’s overpriced, not because it’s not American.
zarathustrad@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Have you tried Stag’s Breath Honey and Whisky Liqueur?
I’m sure there are others. Though liquor laws sometimes stiffle innovation so America tends to have more weird experiments of flavor.
Charlxmagne@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I can confirm whiskey, coke, butter and a 12-pack of beers is all I need for the week.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I do have to say, JD Honey is delicious… can easily drink that on the rocks.
ultravioletbunz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Try American Honey, I definitely give it an edge over JD!
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Bleh! Try some makers mark straight up or with ice. It’s still sweet without that corn syrup taste
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Skanky@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Makers is so insanely overrated. If you’re gonna spend that money anyways, any of these is a huge upgrade from makers:
- Mitchers
- 1792
- Four Roses
- Basil Haydens
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Blegh, but then it tastes like makers.
How about four roses small batch instead and we forget the sweet.
Ignot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
KerryGold probably making half the bill, extortion, I tell ye!
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
It’s a lot cheaper if you just make your own moonshine instead. Guy on reddit used to post pictures of his 100L water butt bubbling away, cost something stupidly low to fill it considering the volume, like £25 or something like that. Then he distilled it in batches.
The entire setup was comically simple too, like plug and play from parts you can easily buy and ingredients you find in any supermarket.
snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Isn’t that kinda dangerous? Also potentially illegal depending on where you live.
Rinox@feddit.it 10 months ago
It’s definitely dangerous if you don’t know what you are doing. As in, “you can die” kind of dangerous.
But if you know what you are doing, nah, it’s perfectly safe, and kind of easy to do too.
Probably most definitely illegal in most places too, but if you just shut the f up and don’t blabber about it to everyone you meet or try to sell or give it away, there’s pretty much nothing they can do about it, cause they don’t know about it, and neither does anyone else.
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 10 months ago
You can brew your own lager or whatever for cheap too.
ceenote@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is the butter there to get the taste of the other three out of your mouth?
JLock17@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What a waste of good butter.
andybytes@programming.dev 10 months ago
I am getting $15 dollar 3.5 grams of weed. You are doing it wrongly. Well weed tax but still.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s 2 days? Not a big drinker, are you
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 10 months ago
I take it the coke is to mix with the Jack, which is acceptable.
If you’re getting a bottle of Blanton’s for a mixed drink I’m going to punch you in the throat.
floo@retrolemmy.com 10 months ago
Add another 20 bucks for the two packs of cigarettes for the two days. How could you forget that?
Little8Lost@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But is the butter salted?
Bhaelfur@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes. The unsalted version of that brand has silver packaging
canajac@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
You call beer, junkfood and alcohol groceries?
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Look at Mr. Fatcat over here. Bet they salt their lentils too!
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 10 months ago
We all need to make sacrifices. They should have gotten a handle of whiskey and drink water.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have seen someone grating cold butter and put it into a bowl with whiskey. Leave that in the fridge for a few days. The whiskey is supposed to taste better, and the butter was used for a whiskey buttercream cake.
Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I like those groceries…except the soda is bad for you and expensive /wasting money. Ditch the soda for water which mixes with whiskey just fine. Also Coors is like making love in a canoe.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Weird, I just had to do this with $65 and ended up getting it to $62 as the total. For a family of 4 for 4 days. It was hard and not the best options, but it worked.
follica@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Ingredients for Butterbeer Forte
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t get it, you eat better with a couple dozens of eggs
GiantChickDicks@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
I love the juxtaposition of sugar free Coke with sugar added Jack Daniels. Dodging and weaving against diabetes.
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Running between the rain drops to not get wet, then diving into the lake.
Hupf@feddit.org 10 months ago
youtu.be/A8kGxcBdXYs
3dmvr@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I just like the taste of coke zero, ill eat candy/dessert still, save the calories id get out of drinking coke, gotta have some vices or you’ll be an uptight bitch
MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Coke zero is worse for your health. Artificial sweeteners have pretty bad health effects, especially the one used in coke.
It is heavily suspected of being able to cause, heart issues, and having the counter intuitive effect to actually make your brain want more sugar, because the complete sugar activation mechanism isn’t triggered properly. It is also slightly suspected to cause cancer, although researchers don’t agree at all on this subject.
HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 10 months ago
Move like a butterfly, sting like an insulin jab.
moseschrute@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
It’s the butter that did it for me. That’s fancy butter
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Shits good though. Got it for free one time and I thought to myself, shit I should always buy this stuff. And never once have I bought it since because I saw the price tags