Price of coke in Asda

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Last week I bought 18 tins for £4.15.

Today I popped in and has to check prices again as they were £8 for 10 tins or £10 for 24 tins. I couldn't believe it. Sugar tax or whatever it was certainly stopped me from buying it.

I'm thinking the labels were wrong? I did read them to check quantity and price.

Good grief. Don’t you look at the price-per-unit amount and buy based on that? So a single can is nearly a pound, 6 cans are cheaper but 12 are usually (not always!) cheaper still. Same way I buy my Fairy liquitabs - you check to see what the best value is.

Yes but why would anybody have fizzy drinks in their houses, at all?

I have fizzy drinks in because I enjoy them, probably the same reason most other people do.

Ah it's troll o'clock. Or idiot o'clock. Or both.

Yes but why would anybody have fizzy drinks in their houses, at all?

Yes, Why would anyone consume anything other than water and bare minimum of gruel to survive? I hate to see people doing anything just for enjoyment. Ewww

Probably both @Celebelly

I'm only awake because my mum is ill and I've had to make an emergency dash to hers. I'm drinking coke to keep myself awake 👌🏼

Yes but why would anybody have fizzy drinks in their houses, at all? If you were planning on settling down for the evening, what would you choose to drink?

I wish folk wouldn't say "full fat coke". There is no such thing.
Next MN thread "What daft things people say wind you up?" I've got to list that.

Wow, apart from sugar-sweeteners-tooth decay-too many calories reasons, I couldn't handle all the caffeine from as much soda as folk drink here. I care barely manage the caffeine from a mug of tea every other day.

Buy a Sodastream!!!!

I do drink 30 cans in a week.
I have done for many years
I also have at least a litre of water a day plus squash when I'm playing sports

I play football once a week plus training once a week for an hour
I play badminton four times a week
I play netball when I have time
I've never had to go to hospital before (I'm 34)
I don't drink alcohol and haven't since I was 21, never touched a cigarette or drugs
My teeth are healthy and have a six monthly check up. No fillings or removals.

Changing the price won't stop me buying at all. If someone told you wine was going up by £1 a bottle you could guarantee you wouldn't stop. The tax is futile, its a revenue generator disguised as something to help obseity

Saying that, a guy I work with is the first person I've met who puts six teaspoons of sugar into a tiny coffee machine cup of coffee.

Think that may be a drug thing though coupled with his constant sniffing

I love a full.sugar coke when I'm hung over. A couple of cans and it sorts me out usually accompanied by a Mcdonalds.
Bliss

**Yes but why would anybody have fizzy drinks in their houses, at all?

The mind boggles eh? Jeez.

Buy a Sodastream!!!!

Is that you Mum?

🤣. My Mum bangs on about getting one when she comes to stay (a few months every couple of years), because it’s just as good and cheaper. Apparently. She will not shut up about it. It is beside the point that I hate the taste of the crap it produces, we can both afford soft drinks, we only drink them occasionally as mixers, she drinks more wine than whiskey & ginger and my kitchen is tiny (I don’t need a rarely used soda stream taking up space!).

I’m overweight. I rarely drink fizzy drinks (only ever occasionally as a mixer). Once again I feel the govt really has no clue & has just done ‘something’ to be seen to be doing something. I feel the money could have been far better spent in ways that would actually help people.

I feel it’s negligence to encourage manufacturers to put artificial sweeteners in their drinks. That stuff is massively bad for you.

I’m glad coke have kept the original sweetener free.

Yes but why would anybody have fizzy drinks in their houses, at all?

Why would anyone have jam in their house?
Why would anyone buy DIY magazines?
Why would anyone watch Ben Affleck films?

Wait, I've had a thought!

Because they enjoy these things!

I love a full.sugar coke when I'm hung over. A couple of cans and it sorts me out usually accompanied by a Mcdonalds.

You're my hangover twin. The only time I think about Coke is when I have a hangover, and when I am indeed hanging I would gladly walk through the fiery flames of hell to get an ice cold Coke. And a Big Mac.

Best tweet ive seen about the sugar tax.

John Prescott
‏Verified account @johnprescott
Apr 6

I fully support the #sugartax. £10,000 charged for every stupid tweet and statement Alan Sugar makes. It'll clear the national debt within a year

Do soda streams actually work though?

Iced Coke is also ahmayzing when you're pregnant.

Hmmm a lot of the diet clubs recommend using the sweetners.

Wonder how much responsibility they are willing to take when the shit does hit the fan.

Someone up thread mentioned San Pellegrino messing with their drinks. Oh fuck it! I bought loads last year as they were on offer in Waitrose and they were the nicest fizzy drinks I've ever had! (They had five different flavours, so I got one pack of each, they lasted me ages.) In reality, taxing sugary drinks is going to do fuck all about my sugar intake. I'll just buy the more expensive cordials that contain sugar. Weirdly I think Volvic might have got away with it, their flavoured water contains sugar, but it's quite a low amount. (And they still taste perfectly lovely without a shit tonne of sugar!)

Lumpolard And when all the health problems start to emerge from long-term consumption of chemical sweeteners, what will you say then?

You do realise sugar is also a "chemical" sweetener?

Sugar tax. For the first time for years i popped into mcdonalds and learnt coke now has a sugar tax

There are quite a few publications on Pubmed that show shifts in the gut microbiome and in some key metabolic enzymes (mostly in rats and mice at the moment) when sugar is substituted with artificial sweeteners and that is a real concern for me.
I'm personally not worried about the increase in cost, as a family we don't drink enough of the stuff to make a difference to the shopping bill but I'm doubtful that replacing sugar with artificial sweeteners is the best way to deal with the obesity crisis.

This thread is classic Mumsnet. Bonkers.