I Love Aspartame

Diet Pepsi recently announced that it would be removing the aspartame from its formula and replacing it with sucralose. As a connoisseur of both artificial sweeteners among many others, I reject this notion. Aspartame is great. I love aspartame.
Diet Soda Makes You Thin! Says Questionable Study By Soda Companies
Good news: a new study conducted via science has shown that that Diet Coke and other similar artificially flavored and colored bubbly beverages can actually help people lose weight! Bad news: the study was completely and 100% funded by soda manufacturers. In comparable 1967 news: new study by Malboro shows that…
New Diet Coke Slogan Is About Drugs, Say Cool People Who Are Not Narcs
Apparently, Diet Coke's new ad campaign: "You're on!" is drawing fire for being a terribly irresponsible and naughty DRUG REFERENCE FOR DRUGGIES. Sometimes the billboards say, "Diet Coke. You're on." And sometimes they say, "You're on. Diet Coke." But either way, they're clearly talking about your brain being on…
British Woman Was Drinking 50 Diet Cokes a Day and Tripping Balls
It's easy to make fun of the Daily Mail, but those of us who indulge in the practice often forget about paper's razor-sharp journalistic instincts, which are nowhere more evident than in this latest gem of a story about a British woman who, at one point in her acid trip of an adulthood, was consuming 50 cans of Diet…
Mexican Coke Is Ditching Cane Sugar For High-Fructose Corn Syrup (Update: In Mexico)
Well, this is some real bullshit. Mexican Coke is ditching its key ingredient, cane sugar, for high-fructose corn syrup. This is objectively awful.
Taylor Swift's Diet Coke Can Is Skinnier Than a Regular Diet Coke Can
As AdWeek points out, Diet Coke has done a "sleek can" before, and Diet Pepsi has done a "skinny can." But neither of those were tied to one slender person with a bunch of teenage fans.
Un-American Americans Are Cutting Back on Drinking Soda
America's three biggest soda companies, Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, have reported declining sales in the last quarter. And though it may seem that health-conscious Americans are probably opting for the diet versions of their favorite speshal juice, it's actually the diet versions of sodas that are…
Diet Dr Pepper Is the Best Beverage Ever Invented by Man (or Nature)
I will eat an entire cake and/or pie, and I will down half a package of Watermelon Oreos (sorry, Lindy), but I will die before I drink calories*. I don't know if it was coming of age in the 90s with a mom who was both always dieting and in possession of a Costco membership, but I've indulged in my fair share of diet…
Watch the New Diet Coke Hunk Get a Soda-Jizz Facial
While regular sugar-filled Coke is focusing on "happy calories" and joy, Diet Coke reminds you that bubbles are sexy, men are sexy and sex is sexy. Also getting sprayed in the face is sexy. Back in 1994, Diet Coke debuted the "Diet Coke Hunk," a well-built construction worker who took off his shirt and guzzled a DC…
'Honest' Version of Coca Cola's Anti-Obesity Ad Is Actually a Scary Truth Bomb
Here's the new Coca-Cola commercial, in which the brand brags about all it's doing to help people consume fewer calories: "Across our portfolio of over 650 beverages, we now offer over 180 low and no calorie choices," the narrator explains. If you like, you can also watch the new Coca-Cola commercial explaining how…
