 Ladies and gentlemen, tier list of the decade diet soda, whether you're cutting, you got diabetes, or you just don't want to drink your calories, this is the tier list for you. Pretty sure diet soda was invented for people with diabetes rather than thinking to stay away from the harsh sugars. I might be wrong with that, but I'm pretty sure like the first stuff in, you know, 70s, 80s, 90s. Maybe we could back check this like, five minutes ago. This is not the history channel. No. I think we might have some issues. I did the best I could, but we got bottles and we got cans. Now I did take a very fancy beer tour once and they told me that that makes zero difference on the taste of beer. Now, I don't know what that has to do with soda, but maybe there's a taste difference there. That's another video. The tier list is already set because we know that McDonald's Coke is the best Coke. We should taste test. Now we're taste testing the rest. Sorry for the touch. Now we're there. Super yummy. Hell of good. Daily drink. I feel like you eat it or you drink it every day with a meal or something. I feel like a lot of our yellow guys are just like the default. Like it's good, but you're not getting overly excited about it, but it's always hits the gold standard. Maybe. Right. Taste diet. It's just like a super diet taste. No one really likes that. It's it. And then last one is what the fuck is this? Diet Coke. Classic. You like Coke Zero more though. I don't have a preference. Kyle's very particular. You know what I low key like too is caffeine free the gold can of Coke even though not to avoid the caffeine. I just kind of like it. Yum. Yum. I don't know. And then it has that aftertaste. I think some people would say it's chemical. It just has that diet aftertaste. But I don't mind. To me, the Diet Coke is the Toyota, the Honda. It's the daily driver. It's the daily drink. Yes. I agree. It's the daily drink. I guess it's not going to wow you. No. It got no bells and whistles. Very generic. Very generic. But it's always going to be good. Always going to be good. Never like disappointed really. Never, never. Except when it's warm. Okay. Warm soda you'll fuck you up. Warm soda. Okay. All right. Coke Zero. I think the other thing. I think I might like this better. There is something about cans that feel cold and feel like they keep them colder longer. That would be the only thing in my head. This is plastic. Yeah. We're like a freezing cold soda. It's more important to me than a freezing cold beer. You want a cold beer? Recycle it again, dude. Oh. I do think it's better. Really? A little bit. And does better mean closer to calorie coke? Yes. That means the best? Yeah. And then just less of that like, diet-y aftertaste. Yeah. That's pretty much, yeah, because it's closer to the original. I do think it tastes more like Coke. But for me, I don't love like regular Coke. You prefer diet over regular? I'm addicted to chemicals. So for me, this is... Ignore that. Are you putting it into hella good though, or is it still a daily drinker? Right, because it's not that much different. Yeah. Which is tough. Because if you were going to go daily drinker, I'll agree and put it at the top. I could do that. Because it does taste more. There's something between those two also where... Yeah, yeah. I think you switch it in there. Where it gets colder. Diet Coke or Coke Zero? I forgot which one. One can get colder. Swear. Well, I mean... Probably not enough for me to notice. No, I swear you would. If we put the cans, that's where the bottle, that's what made me think of it. If we put the cans in the fridge and you grab them, it physically feels colder and your mouth feels colder. Isn't that crazy? Yeah, you sound crazy. Where's Neil deGrasse Tyson when you need him? Where'd you hear this from? Because there's no way you were grabbing it. Because you know how sensitive my hands are. How sensitive you are in general. I am. And I could feel it. I could feel it. Okay. Alright, now where are we? Go. Because that's good to throw into these. Because the diet Pepsi... He can't open these. I gotta stop hands. Is this Pepsi Zero? What does it say? Pepsi Zero Sugar. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's what... They literally just be copying? Yeah. Because I remember when Coke Zero came out, it was like, Oh my God. Oh my God. A cultural phenomena. Yeah. Pepsi Halftime Show. They do win the branding. Branding? Pepsi does better? Oh, yeah. Mmm. They had like Michael Jackson in a commercial. But Coke has a polar bear. The polar bears are cute. I don't know. Like, it's... I kind of like Pepsi, dude. I'm trying to like taste the difference between the two. I think that one's better. I think within just diet soda world, they're just like, how much does it vary, really? You know, between like... Oh, we're gonna open some of these and they're gonna... Okay. I might put that into a hella good or top a daily drink. I do think it's slightly better. And I've had diet Pepsi a ton. I've never really had... Whatever you want. Diet... Pepsi Zero. They're all neutral, do you? Yeah. Out of my brain, obviously it does change when you're testing everything in a row. But out of like memory or when I go places, this is my favorite soda of all time, I think. Like a movie, I haven't gone to the movies in months, but when I go to a movie, it's an extra large popcorn and it's a diet cherry Coke. I just wouldn't want... Like, I've never been like... Oh, really? Yeah, I've never been drawn towards soda. I don't drink soda. I think the only time I drink soda is when I'm maybe cutting. It helps cutting a lot. That's why we're obviously doing the cheerless diet sodas or like a huge thing to break up all the water intake and when you're not eating anything sweet, it helps to get something. Yeah, but I got a soda addiction from my dad for sure. Okay. I got a soda. She won't even drink it. Do you like olive oil? Not like that. I ain't going to slurp it. Yeah. Ten out of ten. Super yummy. It's good, dude. It's really good. Like the fake cherry is really good. The bubbles. Bubbles are something we haven't dug into. You don't like it? No, I do like it. It's like a black cherry. Oh. Oh, exotic, erotic. I think it is different than like... It's good, right? Yeah. The other thing with diet soda and me is I like bubbles. So I'll drink bubbly water just the same. Like liquid death. I love that shit. Different sodas have different like bubbles I feel like and a good cherry coke is really bubbly and I like that. Is this the type of bubble? I think it's good. The bubble level, is that right for you? I think the bubbles are high. I don't know. Fives are high. Bubblies is high. But is there a difference between the bubbles there versus... I'm 100% out of my ass anecdotal, but I even feel like bottles and cans, bottles that have less bubbles. In my head, I don't like bottles as much. Something about the fermentation process. That's hella good. I guess too sciency. That's hella good. The cherry is good, dude. It is hella good. What do you think it is? I think it's super yummy because it stands out. The flavor is good. It hits harder than the others. The true flavor, yeah. It's kind of like these and then some. It's them plus. It's the plus plus of the cola world. Yes. Cherry, coke, er. Dr. Pepper. Dr. Pepper, I've found, because my family is from Argentina, is very American. They hate it down there. I think it's not common and they think it tastes like medicine. Okay. They think it tastes like cough medicine. Some people feel that way here. Yeah, probably. Which is upright. I just didn't... I don't know. I guess I'm more... DP hits two. That's hella good. That's the thing with soda. It's like... It tickles a ton. With Dr. Pepper. I feel like it's one of the more controversial... It probably is. It's polarizing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, most people never say, like, oh, I hate Sprite or I hate Coke, but some people do say, like, Dr. Pepper's to syrupy or something. I think it hits. It's good. I think it's just the next-door neighbor, herbal version of the cola. Yeah. There's herbs, right? 23 flavors, I believe. I'll probably put the DP top of daily drink or hella good. What do you think? The other issue, I think, is that personally and the world, Coke is so accessible, it, like, made itself the daily drinker. That's true. It's branded as the daily drinker. Right. So if our default soda was the Dr. Pepper, I'd probably be more excited for Coke. But the default when you go to any restaurant, McDonald's, or at home is the Coke. So we want to break out of that branding type of, like... Yeah, it's like, it's the norm, but I don't know if it's the norm based on taste or just the norm based on accessibility. So Dr. Pepper, I don't know if it's actually better or better. Yeah. Because we don't drink it as often. Yeah. So it feels like a treat. But in reality, it might taste the same as daily drinkers. But maybe that is a part of why it's better. Yeah. You're true, the rare. There are so many different types of pepsis and colas and whatever. But this is, like, rare as a flavor. For me, probably still actually a daily drinker. I enjoy it, but I don't, like, scream for it. Okay. What do you think? Yeah. I think it's maybe above diet Coke. Yeah, I'm done. Yeah, it could be the top of that list too, potentially. A lot of them, like I said, are just all so good. Yeah. What do we go? Darknext? The versatility of root beer is something we need to speak on. Absolutely. The root beer float? The root beer float. Oh, yeah. Underrated. I mean, it was last time you had one. Exactly. Okay. They're so good. We'll go get one right now. There's an A&W here. And they'll do a fresh ice cream and out the tap. Sassaparilla is what we call it back in the day. I don't like that as much. Sassaparilla is the plant. What is, for this? Yep. That just doesn't sound appetizing. But that's a pretty good history lesson. Okay, good job. Sassaparilla. She had a fact check in. Fact check me. It says, it's barilla. Here we go. And now we're switching to the can. I'm not going to open it in another can. That's fair. I'm going to have so many bubbles in me, maybe it'll help the pump. Okay, we'll put that to the test too. Whoo! That's good too. Sassaparilla. Shut up. You're so dead. You're so dead. So I went to a weird school, right? And we had a garden at my school. A large... That's so weird. You don't like it? I do like it. It has a similar effect of Dr. Pepper. You know what Dr. Pepper is? What? Spicy root beer. But I do believe... Yeah, spicy herbs are like bite. I think Dr. Pepper has some bite to it. More bite than root beer. Yeah, root beer is like creamy. That's why it probably goes so good with ice cream, right? That one's really good, dude. It might be hella good. Honestly. Right? I wish we could have found more. Finding that it's so just hard. I went to two big places and I couldn't find them all because I would like to try Barks versus A&W versus... What's the other big one? Mug. Mug. Those three. But I do think A&W is. I don't know if I've had Mug. Yeah. You think hella good? You think hella good? Yeah, I think hella good. You know? It's all right. But again, maybe it's just kind of weird. You know? It's all right. But again, maybe it's just because I don't drink it as often. All right. Diet Pepsi. Do we go back to back or no? Is that cheating? No. I think we should compare because we're like ranking right now. Yeah, because they're all going to probably be the daily drivers, right? So we got to put the daily drivers in order. I guess that's a good thing, huh? I think I like Diet Pepsi because it has more bubbles. Oh. But that might be fake. I think this has more bubbles than this. Yeah. And this? This as in cherry cola. Cherry cola. They're so similar. They're so similar. I actually think... Line taste us, see? I actually think... I'm going to be burping all day. I think Diet Pepsi has more flavor. That's like smoother in a sense. Yeah. It's, I think, less bubble. Yeah. Not as flavorful. Yeah, like this kind of hits you with flavor, which is what I want. You don't drink fucking water or LaCroix. Yeah. Like LaCroix is a meme because it doesn't have enough flavor. Diet Pepsi might be the most flavorful. Out of... I mean the cherry obviously has flavor, out of these two. Okay. Right? I agree compared to Pepsi Zero. Does Diet P, D, D, D, P, P, P win? Win what? All of it. The daily drivers. Oh. Yeah. Does it? I would agree to that. I wouldn't... The DP, the classic DP in the Michael Jackson commercial. I don't know that commercial. You had a commercial. I've been listening to Michael Jackson all day. There's a sick Beyonce commercial. I think there's a good Shakira commercial. They have hitters. All they got is a stupid polar bear. Oh my God. Compare that. Oh no. Is this one a win now? It is a cute family when they're riding on their belly and shit. It's actually a very different flavor. It is. They almost don't taste like cola. Yeah. Like, like, it's weird that they're called the exact same thing. Right? They're both cola flavored. Okay. Well... You go. I think Pepsi is near the top for me because of the bubbles. No. I was surprised that I think I like this one better than that. I think I like Diet Pepsi better than Coke Zero. And remember, you said in the beginning, which I do think is true. I like Diet Coke. I think better than I like Coke Zero. Coke Zero and Pepsi Zero? Yeah. They went with like a smooth taste. Like it's kind of... Muted? Yeah. Like thicker almost. I don't know how to describe it, but it's like denser flavor, but it's less flavor. It doesn't pack a punch. Yeah. Diet Pepsi kind of... That's what DP has. It kind of has that spice. Yeah. Tickles the tongue. Geez. Okay. Tickle the tongue. Diet Pepsi. I don't know, man. Probably. The top daily drinker. It might be. I think this is a fan favorite. And it's such a fan favorite in the gaming community. It's a meme. Oh, my God. The Baja Blast and the Mountain to Diet Mountain Dew. What's the gaming community in Mountain Dew? I think maybe because it's like a degenerate soda. I think also because... It reminds me of degeneracy. Yeah. Like this is like my childhood. Just playing cod, dog. Degeneracy. Yeah. And I would get one of these if I could. With the straw. Wow. I'm on a kill streak. I can't take time to take a sip, but I'm thirsty. I do like this, but even in my head, compared to the others, I think Mountain Dew is a little bit of a muted flavor as well. Despite popular belief. No. Mountain Dew is such a weird thing. I don't know what it is. What is this based off of, you know? It's not a cola. Yeah. It's not even fruity. Now, tasting with the rest of them, it doesn't taste as fruity. It's not. What did you call this? Spirulina. Sass-marilla. Yeah. Like what is this? Spirulina is a... From the mountains. It's the Dews you find in the mountain. It doesn't hit when you're doing the rest of this. No. It's so mid. It's kind of mid. Oh my God. It's our firstite. You think it's that low? What's the other one? Taste diet. It actually doesn't taste diet. It just tastes watered down. That's what I mean by like muted. Like it's not as flavorful as you think. This is the battle of the century. I feel like the Diet Coke Diet Pepsi is an even battle. Right? It's Duke versus Kansas. It's Lakers versus the Celtics. Okay. It's Avilia versus Silent Mike. It's... I'm not getting any of these. Okay. It's Goku versus Avatar. Nope. This is that. Yeah. It's cookies versus donuts. Try to speak your language. Okay. I could do that. But these two I feel is like ground turkey versus a donut. What? I don't feel like nobody's ordered 7-Ups. And everyone wants a Sprite. I don't know if I know the difference. There isn't. Besides the brand. It is the Pepsi and Coke but no one says 7-Ups. This is the tissue of the Kleenex world. Or Kleenex of the tissue world. The Pampers of the poop world. Okay. So that being said... Pampers are huggies though, you know. Oh, huggies are big too. Yeah. The Gerber of the mush food. Okay. Which one do we start with? Because I do think this is the... Yeah, the... What do they say? Not underdog, the opposite? Oh. Top dog? No. What? Favorite. The favorite. The favorite to win. This guy's the favorite to win. Don't drink too much soda. So which one do you start with? I don't know. The bubbles are getting in my head. You ever see Willy Wonka when they start to float? The soda that makes you float? Yeah. They're coming up with a new Willy Wonka. That looks bubbly. I grew up with a Sprite. Refreshing. See, that's like spicy too. It's muted. It's muted. But it hits you on the tongue like... Yeah. I think these two... I have little dancing fairies on my tongue. I think it's like the light sodas compared to... They're doing the dougie on my tongue. I don't know. All right. We got to compare the two. I don't know where to place it. That sound is delicious though. This kind of screams things. Okay, I'm glad that you... I don't know man. I think Sprite is actually just better. That has a little more flavor though. You might like that. There's something... It has more flavor but not more on the flavor that I like. That's fair. I want to say texture but that's the wrong word. Sprite has something. Bite. Bite. The bite is it. The bite is what you want in a soda. And the citrus flavor is better. It is more pure. That's more fake citrus. Yeah. This is a more pure lemon lime. This is like lemon lime extract. And that's like lemon lime zest and juice. That tastes... We talked about it in our protein bar, I think, of the fake fruit taste. Some are good. Artificial. Yeah, like... But they're literally a new flavor, right? Like there's oranges when you bite an orange and then there's orange flavored shit. Right. Orange flavored shit is good. It just doesn't taste like orange. That's citrus flavored stuff. And it doesn't taste good. And this is closer to real citrus. I wonder if they actually use different flavorings. Probably. Probably both are fake and this one's just closer. But this one tastes... The bite, I think, is the citrus. Because citrus bites. Yeah. I think Sprite wins big. But I don't know if it's above a daily. I didn't know that I like Sprite that much more than 7 hours. I didn't either. But I knew that this was the gold standard in the citrus realm. They win the citrus Super Bowl. Yeah, I agree. Is it above a daily? It's pretty good. If you want to go hella good with this, I wouldn't be mad. Yeah. Sprite's pretty good. Yeah. I grew up with it. I really like it. I don't really drink soda, but... I would probably go... Oh, we didn't rate Mountain Dew. We just went ham. We just did three, my bad. Oh, shit. Mountain Dew, you want to go it's I. I probably think it tastes diet. Okay, look at me in the middle. Sprite? Yeah, you do the final say, but I'll give you my input. Sprite, I'm probably going hella good. And honestly, 7-up, I might go below Mountain Dew. Same category for me. But then you mix your mix and then you eat it in there with the final decision. I don't know. I know the colas are daily drinkers, but I think I would choose that over Sprite. Oh, you're going daily drinkers over Sprite? Like, yeah. That's fair. We could go Sprite as a daily drinker. I'm not mad at that. Because yeah, in comparison to the cola drinks, I don't know, I prefer this. But that might be like a flavor personal preference. Right. When you go out and get, like, when you go get food, you're getting like Coke. Yeah. Pepsi and stuff. If they had this, I'd order it here and there. Really? Yeah, they just don't have it. It's always sugared. I mean, you're right. At some point, it's not better or worse because it's like, okay, let's do an ice cream taste test. But we're going vanilla versus chocolate. We can't really do that. Yeah, yeah. You got to taste all the vanilla. So it is hard to do this. Because it does just come down to personal preference, which is fine though. This is what we think is the best. Yeah. So if you want to go Sprite, probably, I guess then the next question is if it's a daily drinker, is it better Dr. Pepper? And I would say yes. Good. Oh yeah, okay. I can agree with that. Is that fair? Yeah. Daily drinker. Because yeah, I mean, Cokes and Pepsi and stuff are where they are for a reason. They're good. Yeah. They're a daily drinker. They're the norm for a reason. I think these are also closer to their originals than Sprite is. Oh, potentially. It's Sprite Zero. So they're definitely closer in 7-Up. So then 7-Up where you at? I'm at, it's probably, it's 8? It's 8. Yeah. It's probably not that good. I would definitely drink it if it's in front of me. All right. This one's next. I'm actually... It's the last one. No, we got Fanta. I'm a big ginger ale fan. There's something called Vernors. That's like a form of ginger ale, but it's not the typical one that I love. It's so gingery. Is that a brand? It's a brand and like the name. Kind of like a squirt. You know what I mean? Or it's like a brand and the soda, I don't know. Or a Mountain Dew kind of. It's supposed to be like... It is more flavor than any soda, I think. That's why I want to try it. Yeah. Because I like that ginger flavor. So ginger flavor is so good. And I actually think that's just a very mild version, but it's very similar to the calorie one. They actually do a good job, but it's just less flavor. Okay, I got the ginger on the first sip, and then since then, they would just kind of taste like this. Yeah, to me, it just actually doesn't have a lot of flavor. Where ginger ale's normally pack a punch. It's like a sprite without the lemon. Yeah, but it is good. I do like it. But if you're looking for something flavorful, that's not where I'm headed. But if you're like dieting, and you're literally just using this as like a diet tool, that probably would taste very flavorful. That's true. And I think it's also in comparison to all of this. Maybe we went backwards. I don't know. Oh, probably. Remember we do a protein bar stew. We thought maybe we just had some of the wrong ones at the wrong time. Or the energy drink. We went back to the first one. We're like, wait, this is not. Yeah, but if you were, yeah, but the point is if you are that good, you're going to be good in the beginning or the end. And if you're a mediocre, you're going to be good when you're placed correctly. Right? So I think diet pepsi and them are always going to hit. And this one just is less flavorful. It is less flavorful. But it's not bad. I would probably still. Daily drinker at the bottom? Yeah. I'd probably still throw a daily drinker because ginger ale is just like in the category of its own. This I just opened it and I could smell the orange. I think he's still going to pack one. You replace zombies? It looks like, yeah. Pack a punch. No. I love zombies. And they're coming out with one supposedly. We should play. Yeah. We should. We should play. I'm ready. Interesting. I'm going to wait for you. That tastes very similar to the original. I haven't had Fanta in so long, I couldn't say. Yeah. I think I did. Because I don't just like, maybe it's a little more word down, but it's closer I think than this. I don't know. Something about this, I feel like it's not as flavorful. I thought I was going to love that Fanta. And I didn't. Well. It tastes kind of like a bitter orange. It looks like the fake oranges they used weren't ripe yet. They used not ripe fake orange. Yeah. Unripe and fake oranges. That's crazy. I don't know. It's not what I thought. It smells better than it tastes. It smells insanely good. It smells like the best orange soda you've ever had. Right? I'm starting to taste more diet. The aftertaste? Mm-hmm. You can definitely taste the diet. I wonder if caffeine, I don't think caffeine has that much flavor, but I wonder if they purposely go caffeine-free and if that affects the flavor. Like, do they add caffeine to Coke? I know that's the dumbest statement ever. Right. Why is there caffeine in soda? Yeah. For flavor? Yeah. It has to be, right? It just contains no juice. Where the hell is the orange coming from? The unripe fake orange. Oh, my God. The matrix juice. That is a little concerning. That's everything we eat. Those protein bars, you don't want to read the ingredients? No, that's true. Go back and check out the protein bar to your list. I am underwhelmed. Because in my head, orange soda slaps. But that didn't do it for me. But you also haven't had a long soda. In a long time. Growing up, a sun kiss was my shit. Yeah, so good. Or squirt? You're at squirt? I know it's grapefruit. Oh, is it? It's technically grapefruit. Is it? Not brand. It's grapefruit. I think it says grapefruit. But it's just small, you know? It's just known as squirt. I feel like it tastes diet to me. Tastes diet. Tastes diet. But it's definitely worse than Mountain Dew in my opinion. But it kind of tastes, I think it's probably like the fake sugar they use. It kind of tastes like Mountain Dew in a weird way. Ladies and gentlemen, comment below with your favorite sodas of the ones we tasted. Because you're going to come out of left field and yeah, that might be better, but if you don't get it, and if you can't find it, it can't be good. Because you don't get it. You know what I mean? That's like a ride to the moon sounds great, but I can't get to a ride to the moon. So who cares? It doesn't mean it's not good. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Because if you can't find it, then you can't enjoy it. Everyone's going to be like, oh, you didn't get this. Yeah, yeah. But it's that hard. And it probably is location dependent, right? You live in... Send it to us. Yeah, send it away. The gym's address, 2010 Third Street. You can send anything you want. We might have a food channel on the way. Who knows? Announcement coming soon. We have some channel name ideas down below. Oh, yeah. We'll do it on Instagram. We'll get us some. So follow us on Instagram, abbey.lu, L-I-E-U. Good job. Salamike. New videos every single day. Tier lists on the way every single Wednesday. Appreciate y'all. 3SB.co, Third Street Barbell Sacramento. We'll catch you in the next one.