# Coke with Lime tastes like Lysol smells
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-with-lime-tastes-like-lysol-smells/312234
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 12, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-with-lime-tastes-like-lysol-smells/312234 "2005-07-12T20:41:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-with-lime-tastes-like-lysol-smells/312234/1 "2005-07-12T20:41:36Z")
That is all.
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### Author:  [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-with-lime-tastes-like-lysol-smells/312234/2 "2005-07-12T20:46:04Z")
Agreed.
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### Author:  [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-with-lime-tastes-like-lysol-smells/312234/3 "2005-07-12T20:46:27Z")
Is that Pine-Fresh Lyson, Lemon Lysol, Mountain Air Lyson, Lysol with Orange Oil,…?
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### Author:  [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-with-lime-tastes-like-lysol-smells/312234/4 "2005-07-12T20:47:29Z")
I haven’t tried it yet, but I’ve been pretty dubious ever since the “Diet Lemon Pledge Coke” fiasco a few years back. Thanks for taking the bullet for the rest of us.
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### Author:  [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-with-lime-tastes-like-lysol-smells/312234/5 "2005-07-12T20:48:45Z")
More for me! 🙂
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### Author:  [@phoebo32](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phoebo32)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-with-lime-tastes-like-lysol-smells/312234/6 "2005-07-12T20:49:05Z")
I don’t know about that, but diet coke with raspberry conjures up all these insane memories of childhood cough syrup. Not good!
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### Author:  [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-with-lime-tastes-like-lysol-smells/312234/7 "2005-07-12T21:04:18Z")
I went to Target this weekend, and while I was there, I bought a fridge pack of Coke. When I got home, I saw the horror … it was Coke with Lime. And I wept.
I’ve been afraid to open it. _It can’t possibly taste good,_ I thought to myself. And lo, a thread was created to tell me how right I am.
What does one do with twelve cans of Lime Coke? I’m thinking I’ll try to clean my shower drain.
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### Author:  [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-with-lime-tastes-like-lysol-smells/312234/8 "2005-07-12T21:06:24Z")
> [@Draelin](#):
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> I went to Target this weekend, and while I was there, I bought a fridge pack of Coke. When I got home, I saw the horror … it was Coke with Lime. And I wept.
>
> I’ve been afraid to open it. _It can’t possibly taste good,_ I thought to myself. And lo, a thread was created to tell me how right I am.
>
> What does one do with twelve cans of Lime Coke? I’m thinking I’ll try to clean my shower drain.
Gah! I do this all the time with Diet Coke. The caps of BOTH OF THEM are bright green right now (I’m guessing it’s some kind of promotion contest or something) and I always pick up what I think is regular diet and end up with Lime. Bleeeeeeeeeeeeeechchchchchch! Hate it!
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### Author:  [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-with-lime-tastes-like-lysol-smells/312234/9 "2005-07-12T21:06:58Z")
Diet Coke with lemon, likewise, tastes like Pledge smells.
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What’s weird is that I very much enjoy real Coca Cola with a squirt of lime or lemon juice. Don’t know why it’s not as good when it’s done at the bottling plant.
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### Author:  [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2005, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-with-lime-tastes-like-lysol-smells/312234/10 "2005-07-13T01:58:26Z")
> [@jayjay](#):
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> What does one do with twelve cans of Lime Coke? I’m thinking I’ll try to clean my shower drain.
[Play Fizzball!](http://telarus.castlechaos.com/games/fizzball.html)
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### Author:  [@pasunejen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pasunejen)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2005, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-with-lime-tastes-like-lysol-smells/312234/11 "2005-07-13T02:18:38Z")
It tastes like Lysol, and I _like_ it. I think there’s something wrong with me.