Sucralose soda pop?

[tmcg]

Has anyone yet come out with a diet cola soft drink made with sucralose rather than aspartame?

At a very nice con in Little Rock, Arkansas, a couple of years ago, I found something called Diet Big Red in the consuite bathtub. Being very much a Northerner (though I was made an honorary Bubba at a Birmingham DeepSouthCon), I had never heard of this beverage. I saw sucralose in the list of ingredients. Oh yay! I thought. Splenda soda! A strange silence fell over the group I was chatting with as I popped the can and took a sip. It was like a college initiation, or a practical joke. This drink tasted like stale beer and Robitussin. There being no spittoons, I quickly returned the liquid to the plumbing portion of the bathroom from whence it came.

I'm hoping some beverage company somewhere will do better than this. Anyone run across anything?

Comments

[aka-tippi.livejournal.com]

Regular Big Red kinda tastes like that too.

I'm one of the weird few who drinks diet sodas not necessarily for the diet property but for some reason liquid things with sugar in them taste odd to me. They go sour on my tongue.

[stevendj.livejournal.com]

That's because you've been drinking Chinese sweet-and-sour soda.