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Don't feel stupid - you're in the majority.
Here in the UK they've reformulated almost all soda to include Aspartame or Acuflame K.
The vast majority don't give a fuck, as they taste the same as before.
It's only people like me who, through a hilarious quirk of genetics, actually taste some sweetners as bitter and unpleasant, that are effected.
For a small (but significant when you scale it up) percentage of the population, these drinks have been entirely ruined and rendered basically undrinkable.
Even my 'national drink' Irn-Bru has been wrecked.
It's kinda funny as most people I meet don't taste it at all and probably think I'm being weird about it or that I'm making some sort of moral stance against sweetners. But it's genuinely not that. It's just that all the soda I liked has been replaced with weird tasting garbage.
i see. I'm sorry. good luck with your search for good sodas. i mostly just drink water and occasionally a glass of diluted juice. i really like juice due to it not being carbonated, but i still run into the issue of it being too strong and overwhelming, hence the dilution.
No worries - it's not the end of the world and I only drink soda as a treat anyway. Coca-Cola is still the same, and there's carbonated apple drinks that are ok. I usually just stick to fruit juice with soda myself.