# You put de lime in de Coca-Cola...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-put-de-lime-in-de-coca-cola/93332
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [November 14, 2001, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-put-de-lime-in-de-coca-cola/93332 "2001-11-14T16:19:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2001, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-put-de-lime-in-de-coca-cola/93332/1 "2001-11-14T16:19:07Z")
… NOT LEMON!
Okay, I love Diet Coke. Let me amend that- I love Diet Coke… with LIME.
Diet Coke, by itself, has a faintly petrochemical aftertaste. Add a bit of lime, though, and it transforms into the nectar of the gods. I even keep a squeezer bottle of lime juice up here in the office, so that I can enjoy my Diet Coke with Lime whenever I want.
Diet Coke must’ve heard about this. And so, in typical evil corporation manner, they took a great idea…
… AND SCREWED IT UP.
They put lemon in it, not lime. And apparently, the only lemon they could find was the same stuff used in furniture polish.
Aw crap. How the hell do I get this taste out of my mouth? Wonder if I can find a dead rat or something? Anything’s got to be better than this.
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### Author:  [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2001, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-put-de-lime-in-de-coca-cola/93332/2 "2001-11-14T16:28:53Z")
First, any fool not raised in a cardboard box in the woods knows that you drink Diet Coke with lemon, not lime. Lime is a poor substitute, only to be accepted if _fresh_ lemon is unavailable. 😉
Second, you are absolutely right – the new DC with lemon is godawful. It tastes much more chemical-y, not less – so much of chemicals in fact that it resembles what I imagine Lemon Pledge would taste like. I _hated_ it.
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### Author:  [@LiquidLobotomy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiquidLobotomy)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2001, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-put-de-lime-in-de-coca-cola/93332/3 "2001-11-14T16:36:41Z")
I was raised in a cardboard box and I know you drink DC with lemon. But I have to agree, the new lemon Diet Coke tastes like piss, and I should know (being raised in a box and all.) I don’t know if the problem is too much lemon, or if it is the chemical substitute for lemon or what, but the stuff is nasty.
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### Author:  [@Suo\_Na](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suo_Na)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2001, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-put-de-lime-in-de-coca-cola/93332/4 "2001-11-14T18:08:45Z")
You put any kind of citrus in Coke and you might as well be drinking (shudder) _Pepsi_.
Coke has a vanilla base, Pepsi has a citrus base. That’s why I hate Pepsi so.
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### Author:  [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2001, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-put-de-lime-in-de-coca-cola/93332/5 "2001-11-14T18:35:53Z")
\*Scene: deep in the labrythine corridors of the Evil Uber Multinational Corporation, two chemists in lab coats scurry in pursuit of their appointed tasks, each carrying a beaker.
Absorbed in their own plots for product domination, they aren’t paying attention to where they are going, and they collide! \*
**Chemist #1:** Hey! You got Pledge in my Diet Coke!
**Chemist #2:** No, you got Diet Coke in my Pledge!
**Both:** Wait a minute! This tastes _great_!
(Actually, I love the stuff. Might have to try lime, now, too.)
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### Author:  [@The\_Great\_Gazoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Gazoo)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2001, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-put-de-lime-in-de-coca-cola/93332/6 "2001-11-14T19:13:01Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Suo Na \*
> \*\*You put any kind of citrus in Coke and you might as well be drinking (shudder) _Pepsi_.
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> Coke has a vanilla base, Pepsi has a citrus base. That’s why I hate Pepsi so. \*\*
That probably explains why I like Diet Coke with Lemon better than just Diet Coke - I like Diet Pepsi much better than Diet Coke.
There isn’t really a lime Diet Coke, is there? You just added lime???
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### Author:  [@Necros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necros)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2001, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-put-de-lime-in-de-coca-cola/93332/7 "2001-11-14T20:45:23Z")
**Podkayne** said:
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> Actually, I love the stuff.
And I used to think you were pretty cool. Oh, sweet illusion! 😃
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### Author:  [@fandango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fandango)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2001, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-put-de-lime-in-de-coca-cola/93332/8 "2001-11-14T21:04:49Z")
Well, now they have Pepsi Twist as well, so you can get your lemon with Pepsi too. Personally, I think the DC w/Lemon tastes like the leftover milk from a bowl of Trix cereal.
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### Author:  [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2001, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-put-de-lime-in-de-coca-cola/93332/9 "2001-11-16T10:06:14Z")
Pepsi twist is only drinkable after you add a couple tablespoons of sugar.
As for the DietCoke w/lemon "There is not enough rum in the world to make this shit drinkable.: Geri, from work.
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### Author:  [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2001, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-put-de-lime-in-de-coca-cola/93332/10 "2001-11-16T10:17:45Z")
Ever since I came to Scotland, I’ve seen the light. There is only one true drink - [Irn Bru.](http://www.bevnet.com/reviews/irn-bru/)
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2001, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-put-de-lime-in-de-coca-cola/93332/11 "2001-11-16T12:40:32Z")
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> You put any kind of citrus in Coke and you might as well be drinking (shudder) Pepsi.
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> Coke has a vanilla base, Pepsi has a citrus base. That’s why I hate Pepsi so.
According to Poundstone’s book **Big Secrets** , both Pepsi and Coke (and all other “cola” drinks) are _fantasia_ blends constructed of the triumvirate of cinnamon, vanilla, and citrus oils. So Coke’s got citrus and Pepsi’s got vanilla. The prevailing theory, he claims, is that Pepsi goes harder on lemon, and Coke dumps in more Orange. (These are oils, not juices, recall. And there are other weird oils in there, like neroli and lavender, it’s speculated.)
Pepsi, in fact, marketed a diet version with overt lemon. It’s surprising to see Coke following Pepsi’s lead. But maybe they couldn’t get people as excited about Diet Coke with Orange.
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2001, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-put-de-lime-in-de-coca-cola/93332/12 "2001-11-16T12:49:02Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Gary Kumquat \*
> \*\*Ever since I came to Scotland, I’ve seen the light. There is only one true drink - [Irn Bru.](http://www.bevnet.com/reviews/irn-bru/) \*\*
**Irn-Bru**? Excuse me while I hurl. You might as well drink unset Jell-O. OTOH, they have great ads (and a strange [website](http://www.irn-bru.co.uk/irnbru.asp)).
I prefer Lilt myself – whodathunk that pineapple-grapefruit soda would be so good?
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### Author:  [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2001, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-put-de-lime-in-de-coca-cola/93332/13 "2001-11-16T13:03:48Z")
It’s a furniture wax!
It’s a refreshing carbonated beverage!
Relax! It’s both a furniture wax **and** a refreshing carbonated beverage!
Anybody else remember Pepsi’s attempt to market a lemon-tinged diet cola in the '70s or so? “Pepsi Light” I think they called it. It bombed, as far as I remember.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2001, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-put-de-lime-in-de-coca-cola/93332/14 "2001-11-16T13:56:33Z")
**flodnak** :
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> Anybody else remember Pepsi’s attempt to market a lemon-tinged diet cola in the '70s or so? “Pepsi Light” I think they called it. It bombed, as far as I remember.
Me:
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> Pepsi, in fact, marketed a diet version with overt lemon. It’s surprising to see Coke following Pepsi’s lead. But maybe they couldn’t get people as excited about Diet Coke with Orange.
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2001, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-put-de-lime-in-de-coca-cola/93332/15 "2001-11-16T13:59:36Z")
_ **…Crystal Pepsi…** _
:eek:
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### Author:  [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2001, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-put-de-lime-in-de-coca-cola/93332/16 "2001-11-16T14:00:42Z")
Lilt- quite honestly the dryest liquid on the face of the earth.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2001, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-put-de-lime-in-de-coca-cola/93332/17 "2001-11-16T14:06:41Z")
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> …Crystal Pepsi…
I agree wholeheartedly!I drank a big gulp of this stuff, expecting it to be just colorless Pepsi, and got a nasty surprise.
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> It’s a furniture wax!
> It’s a refreshing carbonated beverage!
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> Relax! It’s both a furniture wax and a refreshing carbonated beverage!
Great! I love it!
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### Author:  [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2001, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-put-de-lime-in-de-coca-cola/93332/18 "2001-11-16T14:10:43Z")
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> _Originally posted by jr8 \*
> **Irn-Bru**? Excuse me while I hurl. You might as well drink unset Jell-O._\*
You take that back, ya fecking infidel. Irn-bru is liquid nectar from the gods themselves.
You want an example of it’s divine powers? Simple, I present the worlds finest hangover cure. Crack open two cans of irn bru as you retire after an evenings refreshments. The next day, as you awaken to feelings of nausea and a suspicion that you tried to trepan yourself the night before, down the now flat irn-bru. Within minutes all will be right in your world.
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### Author:  [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2001, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-put-de-lime-in-de-coca-cola/93332/19 "2001-11-16T14:49:41Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Gary Kumquat \*
> **I present the worlds finest hangover cure…**
I don’t know about your cure, but I recommend [Big Red](http://www.texasmonthly.com/ranch/readme/bigred.php) as a handover cure.
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### Author:  [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2001, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-put-de-lime-in-de-coca-cola/93332/20 "2001-11-16T16:43:34Z")
Try adding “Rose’s Sweetened Lime Juice” to your Diet Coke. Much better than natural lime juice.
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