Does UK Coke taste different to you?

You said it woman!  

God, I could really go for a nice fizzy coke now!

Bad for me or not...i can't live without my diet coke.  I just, can't.  

Same here! I can't live without it either although I have started to on ocassion to drink caffeine free. Now how about Diet Pepsi over here? Back home I would always drink it as an alternative if it was exclusive and had to order it but in the UK it in no way resembles "Diet Pepsi" in the states. I can't even drink it in the UK...luckily Diet Coke seems to prevail in most places over here.

Julie

Vnice,

My sister has type II diabetes.  She could never control it when she lived in the US.  Since she has been in the UK, she has dropped 50 pounds, and her blood sugar is fine.  She attributes her success to the food in the UK--no high fructose corn syrup in her diet.

It's amazing  what they put in food.  I want to avoid Type II and being overweight I am at a risk for it.  So I avoid all processed foods (despite odd occasional lapse) and now high fructose corn syrup is being added to my list of no no's that has included hydrogenated fats for a long time.  Nothing will ever taste a good as being healthy can feel -nothing at all.  Plus I find that when you get used to things like natural peanut butter the other stuff tastes bad.  It's like when you cut back sugars and things even carrots taste really sweet.  

While there are no guarantees in life I think we have more than enough evidence that the US diet is crap.  As are the Czech and others, but still.  I guess I am lucky in that I was not raised on processed food and am a pretty decent cook so don't miss it.  

I too always weigh  more when living here.  I think it's a combo of sedentary lifestyle, hormones in the food, type of foods and being worked to death.  

I am glad to see that others have noticed the difference too.  It is just not the same to me it just doesn't have as strong a taste as the coke in the states. I like a coke that taste strong and often these taste almost flat. I don't drink as many here because I just don't enjoy them. So maybe it is a good thing because I now drink the diet coke and not many of them. Sometimes I really crave an American coke though.

This was my take on the sodas in the UK and the US:




Just to give you an idea of what I would normally like to drink - when I'm at home (USA), I drink Pepsi products....mostly Mountain Dew, but I also like Pepsi.  I can't drink Coke in the US unless it's watered down with ice.  If it's Coke in a can or a bottle with no ice, I can't drink it straight.  It's too sweet or something for me.  So if I go to a restaurant or fast food place with Coke, it's ok because I just ask for plenty of ice.




When I'm in the UK, I like their version of Coke.  To my taste buds, it resembles Pepsi in the USA, and my British husband who has tried Pepsi in the USA seems to agree with this as well.  However, I think that maybe I'm probably one of the only Americans who finds this to be the case.  I prefer Coke to Pepsi in the UK, but I can drink Pepsi if I go into Subway or KFC.  Pepsi is definitely my second choice in the UK. 


When Mountain Dew was produced here in the UK for a short time a few years ago (don't know if anyone remembers this or not), it was disgusting.  I don't think any US Mountain Dew drinker would have liked it.  They had removed the ingredients that were against EU regs and then the finished product tasted like medicinal Mountain Dew - like 3 parts MD and one part cough syrup or something.  It was pretty vile and it died an agonising death.  I wasn't surprised it didn't make it because it just wasn't enough like the real thing.  They had to cut the caffeine content down because the EU considered it too high, but it was a couple of other things that were against EU regulations, such as sodium benzoate.  I don't know why it resulted in MD tasting like medicine, but it was very sad.  :\\\'(



Christine

I love Pepsi Max here! I love it far too much for my own good, really...

I love Pepsi Max here! I love it far too much for my own good, really...

Same here, having to do without Mountain Dew. I often wondered if Pepsi Max might be the same as Pepsi One, they're similar in taste.

I used to spend countless hours in the studio practicing and drinking 4 litres of pepsi max!  I loved the stuff!

Hi All,

Funny enough when I started my new job, one of the Canadians  I work with asked me if I noticed a difference in the soda; I have actually but I'm really not too bothered by it.  How true this is I don't know but she said the reason why it tastes different over here is because coke/pepsi here is not kosher where as in in the states it is.

Just thought I'd share this tidbit with you.

Maureen

I thought all kosher products had to be labeled as such. I suspect this may be a bit of an urban myth but I could find out (I have connections in the rabbi workd!). Far as I'm aware, true kosher is for meats and dairy. Wouldn't Coke be neutral or pareve (sp?). Though I am aware that some 'kosher' foods are just blessed by rabbis and have nothing to do wtih the actual production process that real kosher law regulates.

I never bothered to look to be honest... I don't really find the difference to be annoying but that's what she mentioned anyway I remembered seeing this post and thought I'd pass it on ...

I like them all, UK and USA.

What I am really having a love affair with is Diet Vanilla Coke--mmmmmmm

Some large Supermarkets in the UK sell Kosher Coke, Fanta, Sprite etc. Its usually in the Organ Specialty Foods section. So there is a difference between ordinary Soft Drinks and Kosher ones.