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Coke Zero is, if you haven't had it, a calorie-free soda that is meant to taste more like regular Coke and fill a gap in the marketplace left by Diet Coke, which some perceive as a girly product.
Speaking of girly vs non-girly, Coke Zero was released with black cans and labels in Australia, but white in the US. Which is it in the UK?
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7-11-2006 @12:13PM MK said... The cans are black in the UK as well.
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7-11-2006 @12:17PM rainey said... This isn't the pirated recipe that Pepsi didn't even *want*, is it? Can't wait to see how that one fares! ; >
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7-11-2006 @4:03PM chrisdoh said... They are also just starting to market them in Germany. Bottles are also black here.
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7-12-2006 @4:48AM Chris said... I had a bottle yesterday, and I liked it a lot. I don't drink Diet Coke - far too girly, but I felt suitable masculine supping from the black bottle.
Since I don't like most diet fizzy pop, this will be a regular part of my shopping from now on.
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7-12-2006 @8:49AM Justin said... I had a bottle at the weekend. I'm a bloke, but I still prefer Diet Coke to this. It tastes like a mix between Coke and Diet Coke, but because Coke is sweeter than DC, they have obviously had to put more artificial sweetener in. This left me with a chemilcal aftertaste. I'll stick with Diet for now...
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7-22-2006 @4:43PM Suzi said... Yeah, they market it to men by making their advertising as sexist as possible, sure as hell doesn't make me want to buy their cancer in a can.
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