Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
why are sugar-free noncaffeinated soft drinks an almost nonexistent product category in germany. what does this say about german culture
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Manawyrm | Sarah
(replying to Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many))
@hikari @nina_kali_nina wha?? no.. you're looking in the wrong places.
"Ohne Zucker" Fanta is a common thing everywhere.
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Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
(replying to Manawyrm | Sarah)
@manawyrm @nina_kali_nina oh maybe the branding is different here and i need to look closer at the labels… i've just instinctively avoided the products that look like the non-sugar-free ones i'm used to
Nina Kalinina
(replying to Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many))
@hikari it may very well be the case! In the UK the default Pepsi is sugar-free, as well as many others. Even Cola has barely distinguishable branding between Zero and regular varieties. And Fanta, which is usually imported, is almost always sugar free
Álvaro
(replying to Nina Kalinina)
@nina_kali_nina @hikari We have Coca Cola Zero Zero here in Spain. But most places (except supermarkets) don't have it usually stocked.
Jernej Simončič �
(replying to Álvaro)
@EmuAGR @nina_kali_nina @hikari Is having Zero Zero special? We have it here, it's the variant without sugar and caffeine…
Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
(replying to Jernej Simončič �)
@jernej__s @EmuAGR @nina_kali_nina i haven't seen that branding before, the swedish equivalent is “zero caffeine-free”
Saagar Jha
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Manawyrm | Sarah
(replying to Manawyrm | Sarah)
@hikari @nina_kali_nina eh, with Coca Cola brand products, the grey bottle caps usually indicate sugar free. Look for those maybe?
Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
(replying to eater)
@eater why would this be something to be jealous of i like having choices
dx �
(replying to Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many))
@hikari nice you're having an equivalent problem to mine except i have beef with carbonation instead of sugar. this is how i ended up buying festis from schweden-markt.de
Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
(replying to dx �)
@dx ohh so that's why you like festis so much. respectable
btw there's lots of “squash” products out there that might be good idk how you feel about those
Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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germans don't mind getting diabetes because their private health insurance will cover it and it's worth it when in exchange you get an unimaginable number of great flavours of fritz-spritz?
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Manawyrm | Sarah
(replying to Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many))
@hikari there's also a _lot_ of public health scare/BS/FUD about sweeteners in the culture here.
as someone who's allergic to many sweeteners I still think that crap is in too many products, but yeah...
Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
(replying to Manawyrm | Sarah)
@manawyrm it should always be a personal choice… i hate how in the uk, the introduction of a sugar tax led to previously sugar-only soft drinks being reformulated to be a mix of sugar and sweeteners. worst of both worlds
Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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or maybe germans don't see a need for sweetened uncaffeinated flavoured drinks when they can drink unsweetened uncaffeinated flavourless drinks (sparkling water)?
Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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man the way fritz-spritz is available seemingly everywhere will end me. how am i supposed to avoid the temptation of rhubarb spritzer or apple spritzer or melon spritzer or
Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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sparkling apple juice is objectively one of the greatest soda types and yet it's so uncommon in places i've lived other than germany. and this applies to so many kinds of fruit juice. but in germany they've fixed that… but at what cost
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mcc
(replying to Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many))
@hikari Afaict you can't even get it in all of Germany! It seems to be only Bavaria.
i love apfelschorle