by A. C. O'Brien

Created on: July 07, 2007   Last Updated: August 17, 2009

No, I do not. Does that put me in the minority?

Alright the new Cherry Coke is not for me, yet it seems many writers do like Cherry Coke. That defiantly puts me in the minority.

No I do not like it. I find it overly sweet and cloying, nothing like the old fashioned soda fountain Cherry Coke that was the standard at drugstores across the USA years ago. I also do not like the new Lime Cola that the CokaCola company came up with. To my taste buds they are both nasty, stale and fake tasting. If I am going to drink the occasional Cola make mine old fashioned, plain, tried and true, just sweet enough, bubbly and refreshingly chilled CokaCola.

That said, I have been known to drop a slice of fresh lemon or fresh lime into my Coke and that I definitely do enjoy. The fresh citrus taste offers a pleasant flavor counter point to the Cola's sweet taste. The commercial version is nothing like the home addition of real fresh citrus fruit, freshness can not be canned or bottled, the Cola companies should know better then to try. The CokaCola company had a good thinggoing with plain un-fooled around with Coke. They should have believed their own slogan because it's still true, "There's nothing like the real thing."

Perhaps I am just an old fashioned kind of gal, but I like what I call real food. Not the over processed cardboard tasting fake stuff that passes for meals in the frozen food section of our food markets. I do not like my foods processed until I no longer recognize them. My preference is for real butter, real home made waffles, rich tasting home made gravy, fresh squeezed lemonade and fresh brewed iced tea with fresh picked garden mint added. With condiments I stick to the five ingredient rule, if a product has more then five ingredients I do not want to eat it. So I am probably a throwback, right? Perhaps I am dating myself, but I still prefer the Colas that came in the small but shapely old green glass bottles that came with the flip tops. It probably sounds nostalgic I know, but think the old bottles tasted better than the more recent aluminum cans (I swear, I can taste the metal from the can.) nor the plastic bottles.

Perhaps I just can not wrap my taste buds around the bastardization and commercialization of a good old, well loved product. The CokaCola company should leave a good thing alone. In my opinion, the original product was working well, why they needed to go fix it, I'll never understand.

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