I made this rant for an assignment for English 3H. Teacher, if you see this, I did not plagiarise from this site. I instead made the rant first, then posted it here because I thought it was worthy enough, as said on the front page. I made this rant on the topic of diet soda, because I absolutely hate it and would just drink potable water over it any day. Anyway, here's my rant down below:
When you wake up in the morning, do you think “I want to drink Diet Coke, specifically because of its succulent flavor and that it tastes better than cough syrup?” No, no one has ever said that in their life. The sole reason people drink diet soda is because of its supposed health benefits, the actual soda itself tastes abhorrent. Even years after release, giant, billion-dollar corporations have still not found a way to make diet soda taste even remotely good. And somehow, these diet sodas get as much if not more sales than real soda. And people drink this slop like it's a replacement for water, just because it has no calories in it, even though it also has stuff like caffeine which you shouldn’t be drinking constantly, just as these people are. The soda is still super acidic, which eats away at your teeth regardless of whether or not there's sugar present, and it's also harder to get, making you have to go to the grocery store to buy it, whereas water is literally piped directly into your house, and is safe and healthier to drink. Since 1982 when Diet Coke was released, the Coca-Cola corporation has still not found any good substitute for sugar. Aspartame is mediocre at best, and the aftertaste is what makes the soda completely inedible. Even with billions of dollars of yearly income, they can’t be bothered to research new, interesting alternatives to aspartame, or whatever chemicals they put in the soda. What makes this aspartame situation worse is that all of the limited time flavors are exclusively zero-sugar only, which means that they are aware that zero sugar sells the best, and that people buy this repugnant concoction more than the actual, real soda, with real high-fructose corn syrup. Remember to vote with your wallets, so diet soda can finally be destroyed, once and for all.