To think we should be allowed two cokes as part of the Nando’s bottomless drink deal?

This enrages me tbh. Absolute petty micro managing that no one gives a shit about! My ADULT DS cannot stand the taste of sweeteners and always has normal coke. We will not adhere to it. I’ll just make sure that I get red coke when he is ready for his second drink which he will then drink after he has drunk his own first glass.

Making things forbidden fruit can only end one way!

Me too. There have been times when I've wanted coke but have ended up with wine or beer, but one time when driving had fairly awful tap water - still better than diet drinks, thougu.

It's ridiculous. I go to pizza hut or cosmo once every 6 months or so. I like being able to have as many soft drinks as I want without paying extra, it's only occasionally. I usually have 3/4 of the glass filled with ice anyway, I love an icy fizzy drink.

Personally I find diet coke absolutely revolting. What does it even taste like? I'm not too sure but it's nothing pleasant. People get hooked on the stuff too...what do they put in it?

It’s not illegal to have two Coke, but you can’t get them as free refills under the new government laws that banned unlimited refills of full-sugar drinks, a measure to tackle obesity. Instead, you can only have one glass of full-sugar Coke as part of the bottomless offer and then switch to a sugar-free option for free refills, or you can purchase additional full-sugar Cokes at the standard price

I can barely tell the difference

Absolutely ridiculous. I cant stand artificial sweeteners on drink. Asoartame makes me ill with migraine and heart palpitations. I only drink full sugar drinks, and not that often so if im out for a meal I would be furious as a grown adult being policed on my drinking habits.

Obviously it isn't illegal to have two cokes 🙄

Nandos are no longer allowed to include drinks with added sugar in promotional deals, which a bottomless drink deal is considered to be. You can pay for a second full sugar coke, you just can't have it for free. Or you could just refill it and clearly no one would care, as Nandos are obviously doing the absolute minimum to comply by putting up a sign.

The bit I find quite bizarre in the new regulations about this is that it explicitly excludes alcoholic drinks - you can still have deals on them, no matter how much added sugar they have. That has got to have taken a lot of lobbying from the alcohol industry!

I'm with you. Diet coke is vile.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/new-law-england-restaurants-free-32613312.amp

But they did add the tax to the price. Since the sugar tax refillable proper coke has been more expensive. I hope they're not now charging the same when you can't refill.

I don’t know about OPs DH but I couldn’t drink Diet Coke on ANY occasion. I don’t enjoy the taste (it is very different) and I especially don’t enjoy the explosive diarrhoea that I get if I have artificial sweeteners! Unfortunately they are in so many soft drinks now that I just drink more wine and beer!

There isn't a closeness in taste. I can't stand the taste of diet drinks.

It’s not the government making it illegal. It’s Nando’s removing an item from a bottomless drinks promotion. They could add the extra tax into the cost if they wanted. 🤷🏻‍♀️ They just don’t, because there will be a reason it’s better for this big profit making multinational corporation to not do so. No one is going to stop you paying for 2 drinks, like you would at the pub. And no one is going to stop you swapping drinks, so he gets you a Diet Coke and you get him a full sugar one.

But they taste completely different. Diet Coke is disgusting and I can immediately tell and don’t want to drink it.

Could he not drink diet coke on these occasions, given the closesness in taste

I didn't know this. It must be recent. It's outrageous. I hate the taste of artificial sweeteners and would rather drink water. I can no longer drink pepsi, since even the non diet version has had some of the sugar replaced by sweeteners. Same with fanta and san pellegrino, and irn bru. So the only soft drink remaining for me is coke. Some places only have diet drinks and it can be very limiting. About a yr ago I was in a restaurant like that. They had run out of bottled water and I was driving so couldn't have wine. I had tap water, but it was horrible, obviously unfiltered. I'm not overweight and it all feels like insanity.

This. If you want a second coke buy one. If someone was drinking bottomless coke they could easily exceed the calories in the food with what they consume in liquid form.

It’s getting fucking ridiculous. I hate sweeteners, they taste like shit. They ruin any drink they are in. There is nothing left now that’s untainted, just wait til they reveal more and more issues with all these sweeteners they’ve been poisoning kids with all these years. Let people drink what they want ffs. It isn’t going to stop anyone being fat.

YANBU if you have a weight problem it is not going to be the couple hundred calories you get from the drinks, it’s going to be the 1000s of calories you get from the fast food at these places that is the bigger issue.

Why do they continually put higher tax etc on the unhealthy food, instead of just making healthy food cheaper and teaching people how to budget and cook healthy meals.

We've literally just got back from Nando's. I had at least three proper coca cola's. I had best turn myself in 😂 It's a sticker on the machine, nobody is going to stand there and tell you no.

If it's that big of a deal they'll eventually just swap out the coke at the machine for something else diet/zero and sell bottled coke at inflated prices.

Why wouldn't he just ignore the sign and get a second one? Who going to notice or care?

My weightiest friend drinks gallons of Diet Coke.

They need to fuck off and let us make our own life choices.