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

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It’s now illegal. Surely people can make their own mind up.
as an occasional treat of course - DH doesn’t drink diet drinks as prefers to just have normal sugar to artificial sweeteners. He’s healthy weight and, exercise regularly and eats well most of the time

im a bit overweight and prefer Diet Coke.

we went to Nando’s today (DS’s (8) choice) as birthday weekend) - and both got soft drinks which come as bottomless - with extra hot chicken.

It seems unfair that I could have refilled 10 times with Diet Coke if I wanted, but DH couldn’t refill a second coke as no longer legal.

I don't understand why anyone drinks the diet stuff ..if you want a coke have a proper one or just have water not the diet stuff

Can’t drink the sugary drinks, make my teeth and gums itch

Yes, rocks squash in the glass bottles is sugar and not sweeteners

Are you sure? It's not in the beans, cereals, yogurts or crisps in my house. I've not deliberately avoided them these are standard versions of everything

There are reduced sugar baked beans, which could well have artificial sweeteners in. Likewise the likes of Muller Lights and those protein yogurts that are suddenly everywhere in huge numbers. I'm sure I've seen them in medicines too. Not sure about crisps but I only really buy ready salted ones.

Oh right yes but it's not "time consuming"to not buy the shitty diet version of stuff. I don't think they're in any crisps. They are in some medicines.

The only time I've been caught out (and I was furious actually) was when there were sweeteners in a loose leaf herbal tea I bought from an expensive fancy looking tea shop in Brighton. That really annoyed me.

Yes! It tastes a bit like vodka doesn't it? I'd never made that connection before, but you're right. Yeugh. And then there's the awfully tacky aftertaste where it feels like it's sticking to your whole mouth so you have to keep tasting it even after you've swallowed it. Just grim all round. I can't believe they've become so ubiquitous when they taste so crap.

It is nothing to do with the sugar tax. And nothing to do with Nandos.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89d54gv44qo

My daughter's school! She's a very selective eater, but will eat quite a few different veg if there's a little bit of salt, but added salt has been banned.

How can teeth itch?

Vodka? More like mouthwash.

Drinking alcohol is not for hydration :)

Cheap beans have sweeteners - found out to my cost when I had beans in toast at a cafe on holiday (DH asked to check the ingredients after I had to shoot to the loo). Prawn cocktail crisps have them (fortunately I don’t like them). The own brand coco pops that my daughter bought without realising had them. I had trouble finding a yogurt without sweeteners in Sainsbury’s a few months ago so now just buy natural yogurt and add fruit which is a faff for work.

Yeah, there will be those of us who enjoy the odd Coke.
And those (and their kids) who would guzzle down loads.
I can see why it’s being done, but it does seem unfair…

Type 2. It’s important to differentiate.

This came in before that

I was in a coffee shop drinking real coke, 139 cals. At next table a girl drinking diet coke and eating large slice of cake. On way out I looked on shelf and noted said cake had just under 400 cals.

Genuinely what is your point here? If I'd been there I'd have been at a third table drinking a black coffee - 3 calories. Do I get a prize?

There's no need for sarcasm. My point is obvious. Coke gets so much bashing, when many things are much more likely to contribute to obesity.