Food Theory: I QUIT Diet Coke!

Food Theorists, if you've been around for a while - or watched our other channels - you know I LOVE Diet Coke. Or well, I thought I did. Despite our long history, I wanted to find the PERFECT soda. I am going ALL IN on this - store bought vs fountain, big name vs generic, Coke vs Pepsi! Who will win this MArch MAdness soda bracket? WAtch to find out!

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[idaniluz]

MatPat: quits Diet Coke
the Coca Cola company: "I feel a great disturbance in the force"

[chaseandthescsse]

Matpat: *quits drinking Diet Coke *
“That’s another one for apocalypse bingo!”

[Astaroth]

MatPat after drinking a sip of Harris Teeter: "my whole life was a lie"

[John_]

08:35 The moment they said No.2 tasted like cough syrup, I knew it was the glass bottle coke.
Coke was originally created as a form of medicine back in the days, and thus, it wouldn't taste very good - unless you happen to be one of the ones that like that sort of thing.
They said earlier that the glass bottle coke creator hadn't changed their recipe since they started 100 years ago, that means it would still taste more like some kind of medicine than actual soda.

[joellorange]

As a grocery store employee I can confirm we actually often get items labeled for other stores and though they're all sibling companies we can't actually sell the product at all

[MouseKindred]

Things I’ve learned from Matt Patt:
-Diet Coke
-Red Jacket
-FNAF
-Dad jokes that I actually like
-Good Minecraft Lore Theories
-Figure out how to do math for about 16 minutes

[azarovitz]

Can you imagine your at the store and you see some guy walking to Checkout with 16 different soda packages and you just think to yourself “this guy has a problem”

[Welp-tkxg]

“Are you soda, pop or coke”
Me-“..soft drinks”

[keiracabacungan]

MatPat: “I hate it, I hate it with a passion”
*takes a sip 2 seconds later*

[nefritee]

can we appreciate that Steph and Matt are so intuned with each other
that they had 6 ties in rock paper and scissor
so funny and cute

[sushi]

The Rock Paper Scissors game they had was the best way to show that those two were meant for each other.

[SeraphEChasted_]

And here I am in 2024 where Matpat hasn't even mentioned Harris Teeter's cola since

[BlastedOblivion]

The fact that he can differentiate between can and bottle when they aren't in those containers is impressive. I always assumed the different flavor was from my mouth touch metal versus plastic.

[abbiepgc]

I love how the title is “I quit Diet Coke” and then the video is basically just him spending a whole day drinking Diet Coke.

[bubbles]

The one time I ever met MatPat in person, I was working at Disneyland and he bought a Diet Coke from my cart and I was like “...the legends are true!!”

[Nick-Nasty]

I was so expecting this to be more about getting away from the artificial sweeteners, not just maybe finding a better tasting diet soda lol

[kitwinters]

The rock-paper-scissors competition is just further proof that Matt and Steph share one brain

[arandompersonontheinternet]

Years later we are gonna see the “Only ogs will remember MatPat’s obsession with Diet Coke” Comments

[Progamer]

Harris Teeter instantly gives Food Theory a sponsor, makes a TON of money, and Coke finally realizes the missed opportunity of not doing it sooner

[davidduvall]

Late to the party here, but at the start of this video my 1st thought was "I wonder if they'll take co-packing into account" and there, at the end, they did. It would be interesting if they compared processing/packaging. I live in Maine, where B&M Baked Beans ruled until the brand was bought out. Now the product is a pale shadow of what it was (runnier, slightly undercooked, sweeter). Anyone in the know knows to look for the few remaining cans made in Maine and to avoid those from NJ.