i swear to god, they must have slipped a little cocaine back into the recipe when they made Coke Zero. It’s like happy in a bottle. Sweet, cinnamony, and LOTS of caffeine: it can fix any crappy unmotivated afternoon, or jumpstart a morning that is unresponsive to applications of hot milky tea.
You must like the new ace-k artificial sweetener. Or you’ve been brainwashed by the advertising aimed at men (who are supposed to be afraid of the word “diet”).
From Science News Online, “Measuring Soft Drinks’ Jolt,” an article about the caffeine content in soft drinks:
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070825/food.asp
Interestingly, Coke Zero isn’t that high up on the list…