I’ve been having fun trying new flavors of soda, specifically Diet Coke. The Ginger Lime and Feisty Cherry are really good and yet I still prefer the classic Diet Coke. Coke Light is what it’s called in Europe. Anyways, what about you? Do you like to adventure out with new flavors or do you find yourself still reaching for the original/classic flavors?

We only get these in Oz.

Man, you guys are really missing out! Glad you got the energy Coke at least! Those are kinda cool. I did separate thread on that recently.

In all seriousness, I really like the classic flavors the best, so while it's fun to try new stuff, you can't beat the original. So in that vein you guys aren't missing much.

The New Zealand Coke site only lists these flavours but we also get Vanilla Coke and in some stores you might also find other odd flavours not officially imported by Coca Cola NZ, typically from Asia.

I'm not sure why we need 4 variations of 'Diet' Cokes but they do taste different and I guess each has enough of a market to be worthwhile.

Interesting. The Stevia I’ve never heard of before. They all do taste different, but yeah, kinda wild how much variation there is in Diet Coke now without really changing the flavor.

A while back there was quite a consumer backlash in NZ against Aspartame which is the most commonly used artificial sweetener in soft drinks and really isn't very good stuff.
The Stevia version was released around that time in response to the backlash.

SteviaStevia () is a sweetener and sugar substitute derived from the leaves of the plant species Stevia rebaudiana , native to Brazil and Paraguay. The active compounds are steviol glycosides (mainly stevioside and rebaudioside), which have 30 to 150 times the sweetness of sugar, are heat-stable, pH-stable, and not fermentable.en.wikipedia.org

Gotcha. That’s super interesting!