# The new "Coke with Lime" is just Diet Coke.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-coke-with-lime-is-just-diet-coke/309170
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 21, 2005, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-coke-with-lime-is-just-diet-coke/309170 "2005-06-21T05:59:39Z")
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### Author:  [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2005, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-coke-with-lime-is-just-diet-coke/309170/1 "2005-06-21T05:59:39Z")
I finally got around to trying “Coke with Lime” last week. I love Coke and I love lime, and I thought it would be an interesting experience.
It tastes exactly the same as Diet Coke. I suggest you try it yourself and I dare you to disagree.
That is all.
Adam
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### Author:  [@righto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/righto)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2005, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-coke-with-lime-is-just-diet-coke/309170/2 "2005-06-21T06:12:03Z")
Interestingly enough, I bought what I thought was a coke a couple of weeks ago, and nearly drank the whole damn thing before looking at the can and realizing it was actually “Coke with Lime.”
After that, I could then taste the lime.
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### Author:  [@infamousmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infamousmom)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2005, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-coke-with-lime-is-just-diet-coke/309170/3 "2005-06-21T07:01:37Z")
[QUOTE=Agent Foxtrot]
It tastes exactly the same as Diet Coke. /QUOTE]
No, it doesn’t. The lime stuff has acesulfame potassium in it and regular Diet Coke has aspartame. The lime stuff will give you an aftertaste that won’t go away for hours. Yuck.
Squeezing a couple wedges of lime into a regular Diet Coke works well and tastes good, but there aren’t that many restaurants that have lime wedges available.
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### Author:  [@Imasquare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imasquare)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2005, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-coke-with-lime-is-just-diet-coke/309170/4 "2005-06-21T09:05:40Z")
I tried it for the first time yesterday. It was even worse than Diet Coke. It tasted like insectiside smells. Just horrible.
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### Author:  [@Mooella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooella)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2005, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-coke-with-lime-is-just-diet-coke/309170/5 "2005-06-21T09:14:28Z")
I tried this product. It’s not bad if your looking for something different. But in my opinion there is still nothing like a regular Coke with lots of ice. Ahhhhh.
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### Author:  [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2005, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-coke-with-lime-is-just-diet-coke/309170/6 "2005-06-21T09:36:22Z")
The smartest people on earth are the lime farmers. Now there’s lime varieties of every soft drink, tortilla chips with lime, who knows where next. Whatever shrewd marketing genius is behind this, I’d like to buy him a drink.
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### Author:  [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2005, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-coke-with-lime-is-just-diet-coke/309170/7 "2005-06-21T10:30:39Z")
I hate Coke/cola in all it’s versions, but the child said Lime Coke tasted like “Coke with dishwashing liquid”. We buy Lemonish dishwash liquid but as far as I know he has never tasted it.
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### Author:  [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2005, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-coke-with-lime-is-just-diet-coke/309170/8 "2005-06-21T11:24:53Z")
I like Diet Coke with Lime. It’s a bit different, but yeah it’s not really too different.
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### Author:  [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2005, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-coke-with-lime-is-just-diet-coke/309170/9 "2005-06-21T12:58:17Z")
Diet Coke with lime is OK and tastes like someone took a glass of Diet Coke and squeezed a lime in it, if the lime had been grown in a lab from a handful of amino acids and a Van de Graff generator.
Coke w/Lime, on the other hand, is what the gods drink on Mount Olympus. It doesn’t tase of chemicals at all. It tastes like Coke, with a lime.
–Cliffy
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2005, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-coke-with-lime-is-just-diet-coke/309170/10 "2005-06-21T13:10:50Z")
Both Poundstone’s **Big Secrets** and Cunningham’s **For God, Country, and Coca Cola** agree that the classic Coke formula consists of vanilla, cinnamon/cassia, and citrus oils (with touches of other flavors). The recent addition of lemon and now lime suggests that they’re simply ratcheting up the citrus oil component. If true, that’d be different from adding lime juice to a Coke, which might explain the difference in taste.
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### Author:  [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-coke-with-lime-is-just-diet-coke/309170/11 "2005-06-21T13:14:00Z")
I’m a total lime junky. I eat limes. Plain. My friends tell me this is unusual. I can’t imagine why. Limes are divine.
And despite that I really dig Diet Coke with Lime. The lime-esque (lime-oid?) flavor really cuts the diety taste.
It follows in the grand tradition of Diet Coke with Lemon, which doesn’t taste like Diet Coke with lemon in it so much as drinking a Diet Coke over a freshly waxed table, which I, personally, find rather refreshing.
I haven’t had plain Coke with Lime, though. Too much sugar for me.
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### Author:  [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-coke-with-lime-is-just-diet-coke/309170/12 "2005-06-21T13:14:30Z")
We were at a gas station last night, and stapped to a light pole was the sign saying they had Coke with Lime on sale inside. The slogan on the sign said “Guess what it tastes like…”
You’ve never seen a man so in want of a magic marker. 'Cause if I’d had one, today that sign would say “Ass!”
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### Author:  [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2005, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-coke-with-lime-is-just-diet-coke/309170/13 "2005-06-21T17:35:18Z")
Try the diet Pepsi with lime, it’s a little smoother.
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### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-coke-with-lime-is-just-diet-coke/309170/14 "2005-06-21T17:51:34Z")
I like the regular Coke with Lime, haven’t tried the diet kind. I don’t like Diet Coke with Splenda either. But Diet Dr Pepper works, at least when it’s cold. I’m trying to convert to diet drinks, due to my recent diagnosis of diabetes.
The best diet drink I have found (non-carbonated) is diet V-8 Splash. Yummy!
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### Author:  [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2005, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-coke-with-lime-is-just-diet-coke/309170/15 "2005-06-21T18:12:27Z")
I actually like how slight the lime flavor is. I mentioned this in another thread this morning, but for me lime=alcohol, so having lime with anything else always tastes funny, until I tried this stuff. Just a hint of lime, not too much, and there’s still all that great Diet Cokey goodness.
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### Author:  [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-coke-with-lime-is-just-diet-coke/309170/16 "2005-06-21T21:08:34Z")
> [@Podkayne](#):
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> \ And despite that I really dig Diet Coke with Lime. The lime-esque (lime-oid?) flavor really cuts the diety taste.\
Agreed! I hate diet cola. Blech. Diet Coke with Lime tastes nothing like it.
I’m trying to avoid artificial sweeteners for the time being, so I did try a regular Coke with Lime. It’s good, although quite sweet. Water is still my favourite drink.
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### Author:  [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2005, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-coke-with-lime-is-just-diet-coke/309170/17 "2005-06-22T03:05:23Z")
Diet anything = bilge water
Regular Coke = What, no lime wedge?
Coke with Lime = Goodness
Coke + Lime Wedge = Greater Goodness
Coke + Lime Wedge + light Rum = Heaven!
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### Author:  [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2005, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-coke-with-lime-is-just-diet-coke/309170/18 "2005-06-22T05:38:34Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#):
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> Whatever shrewd marketing genius is behind this, I’d like to buy him a drink.
Might I suggest a Cuba Libre?
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### Author:  [@DrLoveGun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrLoveGun)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-coke-with-lime-is-just-diet-coke/309170/19 "2005-06-22T22:30:25Z")
> [@asterion](#):
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> Might I suggest a Cuba Libre?
Why didn’t you tell me it was a rum and Coke, with lime?
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### Author:  [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2005, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-coke-with-lime-is-just-diet-coke/309170/20 "2005-06-22T23:32:34Z")
My version (so good I should come up with a special name for it): Diet Vanilla Coke, Bacardi O, and lime juice. Mmmmmm… 🙂
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