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

Diet Rite is Splenda'ed

[(Anonymous)]

From cola to white grape to red raspberry to who knows what they've got this month. Diet Rite went sucralose (and Ace-K in a blend, apparently) a while ago, probably after diet RC Cola proved to be successful for the company. None are major players in the soft drink market, but they fill a niche nobody else has seen fit to battle for yet.

www.dietritecola.com

Re: Diet Rite is Splenda'ed

[terrymcgarry.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you so much! I'm going to give it a try.