Being a non-soda drinker - they always seem to tast like an aluminium can and coat your tongue with goop .... I do occassionally have a coke in Spain and the taste is about 1000 times different. Lets hear it for the glass bottles and "old coke" !

I don´t drink Coke that often either, but if I do - old or new - there must be a lemon slice in it and that makes a big difference.

WOW I'm relieved to know I'm not the only one who sees the difference! I MUCH prefer the Coke in Spain to the stuff here. I just thought it was my 'I love Spain' attitude coming out again, but turns out my very sophisticated taste buds did catch a difference!!

I ALWAYS get a lemon in it now too, especially when I'm drinking the Diet Coke. (Coca Cola Lite is much better than Diet Coke is here, I'm assuming for the same reason...)

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In the states I am a diet coke drinker and can't stand the regular stuff because it tastes as sweet as syrup and actually makes me thirstier. I was suprised that I became addicted to the reg. Coke in Spain. I think I liked it so much because I enjoy drinks in a bottle and think they taste better in general, the quantity is smaller so you don't make yourself sick off it, and the slice of lemon really gives it a great taste. When I got back home, I went to the grocery store bought some lemons and paid and arm and a leg for the little glass bottles of reg. coke. I wish the soda companies would offer bottled products again at a normal price. They do it for Latin America and Europe so I don't see why they can't here anymore. Any ideas?

Well, in the UK the ingredients for Coke (but not diet coke) include an acid, which I think was phosphoric acid.

On Spanish cokes there is no mention of this...