The following sentence appears in that recipe for coke in ham linked to above:
“Don’t even consider using Diet Coke–it’s full of sugar”
Say what?
-FrL-
Ew, nasty error that.
My assumption is that they meant “aspartame” (aka NutraSweet) instead of “sugar”, which would then be a correct statement.
Cooking with aspartame is bad because heat breaks down the chemical and causes it (at the very least) to lose its sweetness.
D