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Coca Cola C2.

I stopped drinking regular soda a few years ago (if I'm going to eat bad stuff, I'd rather it be chips), but who can resist the chic new cans of Coke's "C2" -- the cola for the carb-conscious? Slicing all of the assorted crappy nutritional marks in half, it's a soda with half the calories, half the carbs and half the sugar of normal Coke. If that's not enough for ya, get a load of those neat cans! It's like we're livin in the 30s! The 3030s! It's BTTF 18!

Best as I can tell, it's a remarkable facsimile of original Coke -- honestly can't taste much of a difference at all. I doubt it'll happen, but I wouldn't be entirely shocked if C2 ultimately becomes the template for normal Coke. What's the point in having extra sugar and shit if you can mimic the taste nearly perfectly with less gunk? Yeah, it does seem a bit silly to have Coke, Diet Coke and Not-Quite-Diet-But-Better-Than-Normal Coke, but hey, we're living in an Atkins world. Pretty soon it's gonna be all about low-carb gasoline and low-carb carb bars. It's become the 2000s' offering to the big bad book of four-letter words. I'm still keeping my loyalties on the Diet Coke w/ Lime variety, but for those of you who can't shake your love for real cola, this might be a nice soda safehouse.

Posted by Matt on 06/29/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 134 comments

I HATE all the "low-carb" crap coming out and I can’t wait for this damn diet trend to die!!!

On the other hand, those cans look REALLY cool! If I wasn’t boycotting all "carb-reduced" foods, I’d pick one up!

Chestnuts roasted by Tetsu Deinonychus @ 06/29/2004 11:16 PM

You can’t boycott Coca Cola. THEY OWN YOUR SOUL!

Chestnuts roasted by Fraggot @ 06/29/2004 11:47 PM

I’m praying this C2 stuff doesn’t last for very long; Coca-Cola already has too many varities for a soda that, IMO, sucks.

Chestnuts roasted by God Animagnus @ 06/30/2004 12:02 PM

Regarding the fastfood/low carb connection:

IMO, it hit the peak in ridiculousness with MickeyD’s "Adult Happy Meals"

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron @ 06/30/2004 12:16 PM

Yeah, not only did they cut down on the carbs but they cut down on the number of cans you get. The only thing they didnt cut down on was the price.

Chestnuts roasted by Cheesegod @ 06/30/2004 12:37 PM

Low Carb diets are for idiots, your body needs more carbs than this diet is allowing, it’s extremely unhealthy, and I wonder if the Atkins whores know that when Dr. Atkins died, he weighed more than 200 pounds. Yup… real health nut there. If people wanna lose weight, just fucking exercise and cutting the bread from your diet aint gonna make you live any longer, I mean, last time I checked bread and grains were kinda the most important food of the day. Anyway, C2… I tried this out one day having no clue what it was. I thought it was a new flava of drink or something and when I tried it, I was apauled because it tasted almost identical to the original coke. I learned later that day what it was, and I guess I applaud them for making a not-quite-so-diet-coke-but-tastes-like-regular-coke but since I actually exercise and basically watch what I eat I’ll just stick to regular coke.

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. S @ 06/30/2004 12:40 PM

"Regarding the fastfood/low carb connection:

IMO, it hit the peak in ridiculousness with MickeyD’s "Adult Happy Meals" "

Yeah, thats pretty f’ed up. A real "Adult" Happy meal would be…

For the guys, a bigger than big mac "big mac" large fries or whatever, and the prize… porn. Lots of it.

For the ladies, perhaps a lighter burger, fries or salad or whatever ladies like, and the prize, one of those women mags that feature an article "10 ways to satisfy your man" when having sex and ocassionaly making him a meal should be the only 2.

Chestnuts roasted by James @ 06/30/2004 12:43 PM

I like the adult happy meals. The grilled chicken salad with lite Vinagrette is only a couple hundred calories (provided you don’t eat all the blue cheese) You can have diet soda or bottled water. And I get the regular kids toy for my son instead of the pedometer.

Chestnuts roasted by FuzzyHulk @ 06/30/2004 1:12 AM

To hell with Cola the whole world over. Even Forest Gump knows Dr. Pepper is the way to go. And no, there are no prunes in the recipe, contrary to popular belief.
But yeah, I really kinda hate the low-carb craze–but mostly for two stupid reasons: I hate the abbreviation "carb" as I hate most abreviations (notice I used Dr. instead of "doctor", how hypocritical am I?) but also because of all the stupid diet books I sell at Barnes and Noble. Now, if all the money spent buying diet books, or those Dan Brown books (Da Vinci Code, etc) were spent on more rewarding pieces of literature, like Calvin and Hobbes or Tim Burton’s Oyster Boy book–the world would be a better place. And Mary-Kate wouldn’t be a skeleton.

Chestnuts roasted by inkmage @ 06/30/2004 1:13 AM

Grilled chicken Cobb salad, that is.

Chestnuts roasted by FuzzyHulk @ 06/30/2004 1:14 AM

btw Matt if you want one of those Burger King paper crowns, all of the BKs seem to have gotten in a whole slew of Spidey crowns as part of their Spider-man 2 promotion.

Chestnuts roasted by Luap @ 06/30/2004 1:45 AM

You’ll actually notice the difference if you drink it warm. Usually when I get a 2 liter of coke, it usually comes warm and I can crack open the bottle and drink it warm and it’s still good. But Blockbuster was giving away samples of the C2 and it came warm and it just didn’t taste the same. However when I tried it cold, it was pretty similar, save for a little less sweet. Which my fat ass could use anyway. :)
Anyhow, how long to they make 2 liters? I can only get it in cans and 20 oz. The design is very attractive too. Even if they get rid of C2, they should keep the labels on regular coke.

Chestnuts roasted by Will @ 06/30/2004 3:10 AM

I can tell the difference between regular Coke and C2. C2 has a slightly flat taste to me. :/

What I find strange is the strange amount of cans in the cases around here.. 8 and 18 can cases?

Chestnuts roasted by Lynx @ 06/30/2004 3:38 AM

Dammit!
Time Magazine posts an article on the 50 coolest sites on the web and NO X-E! Bastards!

http://www.time.com/time/techtime/200406/list.html

Chestnuts roasted by Joe @ 06/30/2004 7:16 AM

Why do so many people bal at having options.. if you don’t like it.. don’t buy it.. if you do, it’s available. works for me.

That said, I choose water.

Chestnuts roasted by Scotto @ 06/30/2004 8:31 AM

The only Coke product worth any money IMHO is Diet Coke with Lime… Boy is that stuff ever good, and NO CALORIES!!!

I still don’t get why they would spend so much money to make a product like this C2. You want to drink a Coke, do so, and then go walk for an hour to burn it off.

For the anti-Atkinites… I’ve been doing Atkins for over a year, but really it’s all about cutting sugar and refined bread/pasta products. And chips. I’ve lost 45lbs, I exercise every day, and even though I cut my carbs I still eat more veggies and fruit than most people I know. No, I don’t eat steak and bacon every day. When I cook for company it’s all low-carb and my friends are amazed at what I serve them. Yeah, sometimes I long for a big plate of pasta or a baked potato or a big lump of sweet dough from Cinnabon, but a nice salmon steak with asparagus makes up for it.

People, fries do not count as veggies.

That being said… ice cold Diet Pepsi will always have the upper hand to any other cola! Remember Pepsi One??? Same thing as the new new Coke. Didn’t last.

I give it a year before it’s pulled off the shelves.

Matt, better stock up, we want to know how this stuff tastes after being stored 5 or 10 years!

Chestnuts roasted by Yzziefrog @ 06/30/2004 9:00 AM

It makes me laugh when I see the low carb hamburgers, the ones with no bun. Thats not a hamburger, whats the point? I also think that its stupid that suddenly it’s healthy to eat nothing but bacon. As for myself, im a diet coke man. I just think its yummier.

Chestnuts roasted by zombone @ 06/30/2004 9:03 AM

"What’s the point in having extra sugar and shit if you can mimic the taste nearly perfectly with less gunk?"

Because SOME people like ME are allergic to artificial sweetners! I would be PISSED if they got rid of regular Coke…In the long run, real sugar in moderation(caloric though it may be) is probably better for you than chemicals (she says as she stuffs a Hostess Blueberry Fruit pie down her gullet).

Chestnuts roasted by B-Dawg @ 06/30/2004 9:13 AM

plus, i am atkins freindly…..
anyone?

Chestnuts roasted by zombone @ 06/30/2004 9:14 AM

I tried this stuff a week or so ago and it still has that funky aftertaste of diet coke. I really can’t stand that. I will stick to coke on the rare occasion that I drink a soda.
I seriously don’t understand how you people can’t taste that. Same with diet dr pepper. I can’t stand that after taste.

I know some of you people are behind it, but I am %100 against the Atkins diet.
HE DIED!!!!! Case closed.

Chestnuts roasted by Stilewalker @ 06/30/2004 9:21 AM

Only time will tell… Dr. Atkins was the lead lemming. Who’s following? Who will drink the Kool-Aid with him?

Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 06/30/2004 9:47 AM

So when will Michael Ian Black be talking about Atkins on VH1?

Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 06/30/2004 9:48 AM

Stilewalker: Dr. Atkins died of head trauma from slipping on an icy staircase and hitting his head on the concrete sidewalk.

This was probably caused by a worldwide conspiracy against his ideas. I bet Hostess-Frito-Lay ganged up with the Coke guys, Ben and Jerry’s and 7-11 to waste the poor guy.

They enlisted ex-special ops people (from http://www.evilformerelitesoldiers.com, the same place supplying all the evil lieutenants in the James Bond movies) to surrepticiously pour water on the steps of the Atkins clinic, thus engineering his early demise.

If only he had hired the TMNT as bodyguards, he may still be alive.

But they miscaculated, now that he’s dead he’s a martyr to the cause and the the combined might of canadian bacon producers and broccoli growers are forcing the villains to put out all sorts of low-carb stuff, like Doritos Edge and C2. They’re taking over the world, MWAHH MWAHH MWAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!

(time for my meds… tralalalalala)

All jocking aside, he really did die from slipping on ice and banging his head. S*** happens, as they say.

Chestnuts roasted by Yzziefrog @ 06/30/2004 10:22 AM

"Even Forest Gump knows Dr. Pepper is the way to go. And no, there are no prunes in the recipe, contrary to popular belief.
But yeah, I really kinda hate the low-carb craze–but mostly for two stupid reasons: I hate the abbreviation "carb" as I hate most abreviations (notice I used Dr. instead of "doctor", how hypocritical am I?) "

I agree, it is the abbreviation that I dislike, too.

Also, I don’t think you are a Hypocrite, since "Dr Pepper" is the name of the drink. There’s actually no period.

I should know; I live just a few miles from the Dr Pepper museum in Waco, where the drink was invented! :)

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron @ 06/30/2004 10:29 AM

Gave up soda for Lent last year and found it to be the hardest thing yet… man, was I irritable for those 40 days. When you don’t drink coffee, the only good source of caffeine is Coke… and daddy needs his caffeine in the morning, baby.

Anyway, I tried C2 the other day and found it to be… prrrrrretty good. Still got a slight aftertaste, vaguely reminiscent of Diet Coke, and it doesn’t taste exactly the same as the Classic… if that’s what people are hoping for, look elsewhere. But it’s not bad, and for half the calories, you can’t really beat that. When I want to be healthier, I’ll still probably stick with Diet Vanilla Coke, but for a change of pace occasionally, I can see myself drinking C2 again. Good stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by The Lucky One @ 06/30/2004 10:34 AM

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