I got incredibly excited tonight at the comissary on my way home from work. I was walking through the soda section and grabbed some diet pepsi for Philip (yes marriage has made him a diet man). I walked by the mountain dew and my heart skipped a beat.
Here's the background: I used to drink diet mt. dew like my in-laws drink coffee: like water, all day :) I loved loved loved it. My last year at Northwestern I remember it going on sale a lot. I learned why a few months later: they changed the formulation to a new "tuned up taste" version. I absolutely cannot drink two sips of the new kind. It tastes that different to me. I was heartbroken (yes I'm a drama queen but I explained to Philip that it would be like never being able to get starbucks EVER AGAIN).
When this trauma first played out I remember talking to my best friend from high school, Tabitha, about my loss. She laughed and said, "oh I remember doing a taste test in a mall comparing the two." She reported that she chose the tuned up taste and I sounded off in my dramatic Joy fashion "YOU DID THIS. People like you who don't really care decided this and I'm the most loyal drinker?!?!?!" (no I wasn't mad at her - she just laughed at me).
Well tonight I was walking by the bottles (I haven't looked at them for year knowing in my heart that I will never have my sweet treat ever again. Thinking about it and remembering what used to be is too painful, so I go straight for the diet pepsi. ) and I noticed that not all of them said "tuned up taste." I got really exciting thinking that they were maybe reintroducing the original kind. When I say excited I mean REEEALLY excited.
When I got home I took a drink right away. My heart fell. It's still the same, icky, undrinkable, yellow yuckness. I am however motivated to write more letters to the pepsi comapny about my strong feelings on this subject again (yes, again. . . they've already heard from their once loyal drinker - what can I say, I'm an assertive consumer and a passionate individual)
Speaking of loyal drinker. . . I'm going to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting tonight for one of my classes. I should have an interesting report for you on that I'm sure. . . Philip declared that he's going to stay home and have beer in honor of my attending the meeting. How nice.
2 comments:
sorry about the change...
I've always disliked the diet
Something about the word DIE in diet that freaks me out
:)
Oh how i miss you and this post just makes my feelings all the more stronger! Keith always laughs at me because when we don't like something or really like something I always say, "I'm going to write that company a letter" often I don't but sometimes I do... still it's a good thing to be an assertive consumer. You go them girl! Good luck on your quest! :)
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