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    From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to All on Wed May 13 11:07:40 2026
    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mike Powell on Wed May 13 2026 06:52:38

    ...I'd look at my local grocery stores, and they'd have lots of Coke, Cherry coke, Vanilla Coke, caffeine free coke, and an empty space where all of the Diet Coke used to be.

    How's that for irony. What once was avoided by most because of taste, becomes the item of choice because of price.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Mortar on Wed May 13 14:29:37 2026
    Re: Pop Goes the Prices
    By: Mortar to All on Wed May 13 2026 11:07 am

    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mike Powell on Wed May 13 2026 06:52:38

    ...I'd look at my local grocery stores, and they'd have lots of Coke, Cherry coke, Vanilla Coke, caffeine free coke, and an empty space
    where all of the Diet Coke used to be.

    How's that for irony. What once was avoided by most because of
    taste, becomes the item of choice because of price.


    i'd rather have diet soda. regular soda has a pound of sugar in it.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Mortar on Thu May 14 08:03:30 2026
    Mortar wrote to All <=-

    How's that for irony. What once was avoided by most because of taste, becomes the item of choice because of price.

    I thought about that when I ordered a diet coke at a restaurant. It
    came with a lemon wedge. Partly, I'm sure, to make refills easier, but
    I'm old enough to remember saccharrin sweetened drinks and how off they
    tasted. The lemon was to mask the off-ness.

    I'll just stick to a Fresca.



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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu May 14 12:06:42 2026
    Re: Re: Pop Goes the Prices
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mortar on Thu May 14 2026 08:03 am

    I thought about that when I ordered a diet coke at a restaurant. It came with a lemon wedge. Partly, I'm sure, to make refills easier, but I'm old enough to remember saccharrin sweetened drinks and how off they tasted. The lemon was to mask the off-ness.

    I'll just stick to a Fresca.

    They still make fresca?

    Denn

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri May 15 02:12:11 2026
    Re: Re: Pop Goes the Prices
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mortar on Thu May 14 2026 08:03 am

    I thought about that when I ordered a diet coke at a restaurant.
    It came with a lemon wedge. Partly, I'm sure, to make refills
    easier, but I'm old enough to remember saccharrin sweetened drinks
    and how off they tasted. The lemon was to mask the off-ness.



    isnt that lemon wedge just something restaurants do?

    there are many drinks that still use saccharin.


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