A POPULAR Diet Coke flavor that launched in the U.S. around two decades ago is reportedly making a comeback next month.
The popular fizzy drinks brand is bringing back its Diet Coke Lime nationwide, and you won’t have to wait long.
Coca-Cola is reportedly bringing back its discontinued Diet Coke Lime next month[/caption]
The drink is said to be coming back in major stores on October 6 in a 20oz bottle size – although there are rumours that a two-liter size may be available soon too.
Diet Coke Lime was initially launched in the early 2000s, and was sold in supermarkets until 2018.
It was replaced with Diet Coke Ginger Lime, which was later discontinued in 2020.
At the time, die-hard fans were devastated about the lime drink being cut, and called for its return.
Although Coke has yet to formally announce the rerelease, food blogger Markie_devo shared the news, claiming: “Put the lime in the Coke you nut!!
“Coke brings back Diet Coke Lime nationwide.”
Coca Cola’s Lime drinks were the fourth flavor to be launched by the company in their cola products after Cherry, Lemon and Vanilla.
The return of Diet Coke Lime is not to be confused with Zero Sugar Lime, which was released overseas earlier this year.
FAN REACTION
Many Coca Cola fans seemed overjoyed at the announcement of Diet Coke Lime’s return.
One person wrote on Instagram: “This was a fave for me years back and I was so sad it was discontinued.”
The Coca-Cola Company quietly discontinued the flavor in 2018[/caption]
A second added: “It’s back?!?!? Soooooo good!”
And a third commented: “OMG!! I thought this day would never come.
“I’ve been craving this! It’s the only diet coke I like.”
NEW COLA RECIPE
Coca-Cola has agreed to change its sweetening ingredient in the US, according to Trump[/caption]
This follows President Donald Trump claiming in July he convinced Coca Cola to make a major change to its recipe.
The President claimed the drinks brand has agreed to start using real cane sugar in beverages sold in the US – rather than corn syrup.
Trump wrote on Truth Social: “I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so.
“I’d like to thank all of those in authority at Coca-Cola.”
Celebrating the recipe tweak, Trump said: “This will be a very good move by them – You’ll see. It’s just better!”
In its quarterly update to investors, the company confirmed it would “launch an offering made with US cane sugar” in autumn.
Why are Coca-Cola cans typically red?
COCA-Cola and the color red have gone together for as long as anyone can remember.
The original Coke logo was red and white and the tins, which appeared in 1955, followed the same design.
But there’s a fascinating reason behind the scarlet branding that defines the fizzy drink – and it’s all about taxes.
It’s not, as many believe, tied to the famous Coca-Cola ads which saw Santa sporting a red coat for the first time.
It goes back much further than that, to the mid 1890s, when the drink was served out of barrels in US drug stores.
At the time alcohol was taxed while soft drinks were not so the Coca-Cola Company began painting its barrels red so that customs officials and tax officials could tell them apart from barrels of booze.
The color then became the company’s signature shade and the company even named its first magazine The Red Barrel, in 1924.
Ironically, the soft drink started life as an alcoholic drink which really did contain cocaine.
It was developed by Colonel John Pemberton, who became addicted to morphine after being wounded in the American Civil War and wanted to find an alternative.
Seeing the success of a the French wine coca, a combination of cocaine and alcohol, he came up with his own version which he sold as a tonic for all ills and even claimed it was “a most wonderful invigorator of sexual organs”.
But when his home town of Atlanta introduced prohibition in 1885 he switched his recipe to a non-alcoholic soda.
The cocaine remained in the drink until the end of the 19th century.
Many believe that Coca-Cola invented the modern image of Santa as an old man in a red and white suit, but historians believe this image was already common before the 1930s advert.
