fluffydragon's Journal

weird
Mar 28 2009 12:51

About, oh, a month ago, I decided to give up diet soda altogether.  If I drink anything, ti's going to be cofee, tea, water, fruit juice or alcohol - but not much of the last anyway.  I have this box still of flavored water/0 calories additives, and I've been slowly phasing them out.  Since giving up diet sodas, I noticed that I felt funny after drinking water with the flavorings, and I use a pack per 24 oz bottle of water, not 12-16 oz., so those will go away too.

Last weekend at D&D dragons, one of the players broke out his diet coke or diet pepsi, I forget which, and shared around.  I was getting bored of my plain water, so I had a glass of diet soda.  It tasted.. ..well, bad.. unpleasant.  I figured it was my imagination, and later got a refill. Still, off.  And this was a fresh bottle, newly purchased from the store, not dispensed at a place where it might have been watered down or had flat syrup..

So, apparently I'm off the diet soda kick altogether.  I have no desire for it anymore, and now it doesn't even taste good to me at all.  Yes, I used to really like diet soda, I really did.  I now have the occasional half-glass of regular ginger ale, but I won't start the habit of drinking large amounts of normal soda either, mostly because I can't afford the daily calories.  Even with not drinking full sugar soda, I get upwards of 230 grams of carbs a day.

It makes me kinda wonder what people drank before they became obsessed with sweet tasting drinks.  What would we drink if not something sugar laden? Well, we used to dink a lot more beer, which wasn't really all that sweet, and tea, unsweetened because only the rich could afford refined sugar.  or coffee.  So, water, tea, beer and spirits.  I'm not, by any means, saying it was better, it's just interesting to me.  Now everything we drink is sweet.  When was the last itme you drank something that didn't have sugar or sweetener in it?  What would we drink if not something sweetened or sweet tasting?