Beneath the Surface

Last night I picked up a two-liter of what I thought was Caffeine-Free Coke. (I'm not totally off the caffeine these days, but I do try to keep it to a minimum.) Turns out it was Caffeine-Free Diet Coke. The really weird part is that I didn't notice until elder daughter looked at the bottle. I had finished most of a glass by then--granted, over ice so a bit diluted, and was eating chips and salsa, so my sense of taste may have been off. As I found out today, on its own, not so great. But still, way better than diet pop used to be. What the heck happened?

Doesn't mean I'll be buying it from now on--it still doesn't taste good. And I don't want to give the kids Nutrasweet. But someone at Coca-Cola is apparently on the road to solving the diet-pop-tastes-nasty issue. And diet pop that only somewhat sucks? That's against nature.