generally I think social media polls are pretty pointless for gathering useful data, but if I could get a big enough sample size to answer one silly poll for me because I'm really curious, I'd ask: do you like diet coke or coke zero better?
I don't know where I'd fall on that and this whole train of thought started because I found some light coke for sale today at the store and I'm having one now. They're both really mediocre soft drinks, not a lot I could say that's positive about either, but maybe coke light aka diet coke wins out because the aftertaste of the artificial sweetener isn't as nasty. This flavor has always been a little elusive to me because for the longest time it just wasn't sold here in Brazil. I may be misremembering but the first time I've had diet coke was on a family trip to the US. After a while though it appeared on shelves, but only some shelves, it really wasn't widespread, I'm assuming because stores didn't want to take the risk of buying product they couldn't shift for some reason, regular coke always sells, guaraná always sells, coke zero sells, diet coke seems superfluous. I'm just speculating though. After another while it felt to me like they discontinued it entirely, I couldn't find it for sale anymore, though more recently they've started introducing more limited time flavors like the marshmello coke thing (awful) and another permanent flavor, the coffee flavored one (awful too), so maybe if diet coke was discontinued for a time it's back now.
In conclusion I miss when they sold mountain dew in stores here, that was only for the shortest time, that drink failed miserably here, people weren't thrilled about the fluorescent green and the flavor didn't wow. Light coke is fine I guess.
