I can't stand coffee in any form, and I am from a family of bitter black coffee drinkers without any sweeteners. When my mom had her first cataract surgery, they had to reschedule because she was so jittery from not having her multiple cups of coffee prior...go figure, and the last thing she did was to have a cuppa just before bed...
I was an inveterate Coke drinker for years as my morning cuppa...When I was told to lose weight, I tried Diet Coke, and I loathed the metallic taste so bad I swore off carbonated caffeine and became a grump. When Coke Zero came out, it was a blessing from the caffeine gods. It is a drink far superior to the pretend wanna be, Diet Coke...hands down! Leastways, that's how I see it here in the center of the universe, Central Massachusetts...
As an aside, we had frigging snowshowers yesterday, so I lit the woodstove and hunkered down with a couple of good reads...
Oh...I nearly forgot, last week's Wall St Journal had a very timely article on the Coke Zero vs Diet Coke debates...
Diet Coke vs. Coke Zero: Inside the Soda Civil War - WSJ