Diet sodas

[amethyst73]

So in lab meeting the last few weeks, whoever's provided snacks has generally brought diet sodas of one form or another as drinks. My analysis thus far:

Diet Hansen's black cherry (sweetener: sucralose) - Completely undrinkable. Nasty artificial-sweetener taste, coupled with a strong cherry-cough-syrup sense.

Coca-cola zero (sweetener: aspartame) - Passable. I can still taste the artificial-sweetener, but the 'true Coke' flavor is relatively strong. Vaguely interested in doing a Diet Coke vs Coke Zero taste test.. except then I'd have to buy a can of each.

Hm, maybe that's it in terms of diet drinks I've subjected myself to recently. Reminder to self: Provide maybe some Juice Squeezes as well as diet sodas when I do lab snack; there were some of those the first week and they were taken up almost instantly.

In other news, getting much closer to done with my protein list! I have one horribly problematic one that will take some serious staring (beyond the 2 hrs I've spent on the dratted thing already), but at the moment I seem to be in an easy section of the list: pretty obvious signal sequences, and very obvious transmembrane domains. I *like* those proteins.

Comments

[meepodeekin.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'm a huge Diet Coke addict. The artificial flavor is like nectar to me. If I get a regular soda the thick texture is really upsetting to me.

[jab2.livejournal.com]

i think the cherry coke zero is better than the regular zero, but that only works if you like cherry coke. (since you are willing to try diet black cherry, this does seem possible, tho!)

[amethyst73.livejournal.com]

nezumiko's like that too. You and marginaleye really need to come out here and visit so you can meet her!

[amethyst73.livejournal.com]

Well, I like Dr. Pepper, though not on a hugely regular basis. It's been awhile since I drank cherry coke (the restaurants that I frequented for lunch the last four years were all Pepsi-brand carriers), but I'd certainly be willing to give it a try.

[meepodeekin.livejournal.com]

I would absolutely love to. There is a chance I will be in SF in the spring. Marginaleye is another question entirely, tho.

[amethyst73.livejournal.com]

Ooo! Do keep us posted! :D

[emilymorgan.livejournal.com]

On the one hand, yay lab snack! On the other hand, boo diet soda1 That's my incredibly nuanced response. :-P

[amethyst73.livejournal.com]

1) I am in the BEST-FED lab EVER. We get a platter of fresh fruit on Monday mornings, usually enough food to feed an army on Wednesdays at lab meeting, and bagels on Friday mornings. I have to be fairly careful at lab meeting to eat mostly fruit - there's always high-quality chips, and today there were high-quality cookies as well.

2) Very belated happy birthday. I hope it was fun and cool!

[emilymorgan.livejournal.com]

1) That's so great. Your lab definitely beats mine by a mile, though between my department and my choir I do okay. (Every week: cookies and tea at choir rehearsal on Mondays and Thursdays; neuro lunch/snack on Thursday afternoons; student/postdoc dinner on Thursdays evenings; lunch at teaching meeting on Fridays; bagels, fruit and juice at choir on Sundays. Some weeks: lunch at cognitive lunch on Wednesdays, lunch and evening reception food if we have a colloquium on Fridays.) The big problem is that each free food event is also a meeting I have to attend!

3) Thank you! It was: I let myself take my actual birthday entirely off, which was amazing. And then I saw friends in the city and had a dinner thing with people here.

[nezumiko.livejournal.com]

You might come here? That's AWESOME! *gets excited in advance* Any idea when in the spring? I'm starting to plan a trip to Japan for April/May.

[meepodeekin.livejournal.com]

:( It looks like the event I might be coming out for (emphasis on might) is the last weekend in April.

[catagon3.livejournal.com]

Yeah, cherry zero is my favorite these days, too.