doodledee

That new C2 coke is out. It's got half the carbs, half the calories and twice the hype of regular Coke. I guess it's made with some sort of sugar substitute - Splenda, maybe? - and here's the crazy part: it's sold in 8 or 18 packs. At first I thought it must have been packs of those little bottles or something, but now I see that it's regular old cans. 8 packs of cans? Did I miss something? I thought the idea was that it was so good for you that you could drink twice as much. Why sell it in smaller packages?

Target features the 8 packs on the back page of their ad this week. Three packs for $8 or something. That's 24 cans for $8, which is more than twice what a case of regular pop costs (on sale, sure, but pop always is). Does a low-carb diet decrease your ability to do math or something? Are people really gonna pay $8 for a case of pop? Huh.

I'll be interested to see if the price of C2 eventually goes down as production increases or if 'regular' pop prices will gradually go up as a result of the newly discovered collective stupidity. That assumes C2 lasts long enough to have an impact, which I'm not sure it will.

And Juettner, before you freak out, I'm not complaining about the price of C2, I'm just commenting on it. I will *totally* sell my jet ski to pay for fake diet pop.

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