I stopped drinking Coke for some years and now it tastes terrible, like gross sickly medicine. I don't think Coke changed its flavour all that much, I think that I appraised it more objectively and found it severely lacking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

This happened to me too. I don't drink sodas but in the very rare occasion there is nothing else I try to pick the zero types, like the other user said, they feel less sweet and less medicine tasting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They did switch from sugar to HFCS at one point. The "zero sugar" line is better.

[–] phdepressed 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you stop drinking all the soda (fake or real sugar) your brain rewires to baseline eventually. And at baseline sodas are disgustingly sickeningly sweet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Except for Sprite at a McDonalds, because the water purification and soft drink system costs as much as the rest of the store combined.