I drank a diet vanilla Pepsi 7 hours ago...

Can someone tell me how to make the taste go away? Seriously, it’s as if the vanilla-ness has pemeated my throat and sinus cavities; every time I swallow, I taste vanilla, and every time I inhale, I smell vanilla. Since I foolishly decided to give this new taste sensation a whirl (I repeat: 7 hours ago) I’ve had a bag of Famous Amos cookies, 3 mini chocolate donuts, and a regular Pepsi, yet my mouth is still coated with pungent vanilla flavor. What the heck kind of freaky alien mucous-membrane hugger chemicals do they put in that stuff?

First thing I’m gonna do when I get home from work is brush my teeth and gargle. If that doesn’t get rid of it, I’m drinking Drano.

Word of Warning: Don’t try the Vanilla scented Drano.

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Originally posted by marlitharn
First thing I’m gonna do when I get home from work is brush my teeth and gargle. If that doesn’t get rid of it, I’m drinking Drano.

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Don’t even try it. The taste of Drano lingers in your mucous membranes for weeks! Fortunately, said membranes are no longer in your body.:smiley:

Seriously, though? WTF? I drink Diet Pepsi Vanilla frequently, and have not experienced this phenomenon. It’s not just me, either. Hubby drinks it a lot, too. Either something about you is particularly sensitive to something they put in the Pepsi, or there was something wrong with the batch you got part of. But if I was having that problem, I would probably try one of thos breath freshening strips.

Fortunately, just about every Doper I know of is bright enough to figure out what my coding means, no matter how screwed up it is!:slight_smile:

I just made a new discovery.

Vanilla does not go well with cheddar and sour cream Ruffles™.

:dubious: Maybe you don’t notice it because you drink so much of it! Why, I bet people talk behind your back all day long about your Diet Pepsi Vanilla[sup]tm[/sup] breath. :wink:

Still… a 7-hour aftertaste? Funky.

Indulge in something with an even more pungent taste, and make sure you keep in your mouth a good long time to drive out that bad vanilla smell.

Brush your teeth and then eat a block of Danish bleu. Smear it up your nose and around your mouth too.

And - wow - that’s a lot of junk food you’re consuming!

Onions.

Or, rinse your mouth with Listerine.

Marmite - or Vegemite

(There are about a g’zillion threads on the dope that attest to the intensity of the experience - and if you don’t like it, well you’re already in after-taste hell so you’ve lost nothing)

Damn, I loves me some Diet Vanilla Pepsi. It’s the only diet cola I’ve found that tastes somewhat like regular cola.

Bizarre that I can differentiate between diet and regular, but I’m totally lost trying to determine different brands of cola.

Second the mouthwash, or perhaps salt water or bicarb as a gargle, as well.

My first impression of Pepsi Vanilla was that I was being forced to drink 12 oz. of liquid cold medicine. It definitely has a strange unpleasant-ness about it.

I suppose dousing your mouth with gasoline and lighting it on fire is out of the question?

Hm, I never got that impression, perhaps because I’ve never had vanilla medicine. Cherry-flavored cough syrup, however…

Durians. Eat some durians. I assure you, the vanilla taste is gone. Now, the next thing is how to get rid of that ever-lasting durian taste in your mouth.

Umm… Then what was the reasoning behind having a diet anything if you followed it up with cookies and donuts?

OMG! NOT DURIANS…
Put the foot-fungus tasting fruit back on the table, and step away.
Drink more Vanilla pepsi, and thank the gods you didn’t eat the
Durian.

Durian- FEH!

Garlic

Having recently tried Marmite myself, I was going to say the same thing.

Because the vending machine didn’t have the full-flavor vanilla stuff, and one of my co-workers had been raving about it so I decided to be adventurous and give it a try. I guess that’ll teach me to try to add variety to my diet. Fortunately, the excellent Thanksgiving dinner my mother made today seems to have cleansed the foul vanilla from my body.

Yeah, I live on junk food. When I die the mortician will find blood in my artificial flavoring and preservative stream.

I have seen Marmite, and it aroused in me only the desire to push it away from myself with a sharp stick, but what’s a durian?