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[–] 41 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (17 children)

It has a use. Tasty fizzy drink with basically no calories, and caffeine fucks with my cannabis high. I get Canadian store brands tho.

I'm kinda pissed the Coca Cola recipe that was recently reverse engineered was the sugar version instead of zero.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    I'm guessing zero is a lot harder, but maybe that guy who did it needs a new objective

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    LabCoatz for those interested but he never said anything about zero sugar that I can recall so when it comes to difficulty I have no idea since I'm not a chemist.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    what turned out to be the secret ingredient in the end?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    For the mystery "natural flavours," mass spectrometry was used. He got the essential oils and their quantities down: lemon oil, lime oil, tea tree oil, cinnamon oil, nutmeg oil, orange oil, coriander oil, and a natural pine–like flavour called fenchol.

    Was still missing coca. Then he realised they were basically tea leaves and the mystery flavour was actually tannins, which are non-volatile, so using mass spectrometry tannins won't show up. He found wine tannins are commercially sold in a water–soluble powder form, and this was the key pretty much.

    This mix then had to be heated to blend/mature the essential oils, and then left to sit for 24 hours before being used in the final recipe to exact match the flavour profile.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    Smoking a joint while drinking coffee this very moment 😅

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Lucky! The combination gives me anxiety attacks these days. I can have one or the other but not both idk why.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    That's a bummer. Though I an curious, flower or concentrates?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    For the past 2 years I've been using concentrates via 510 carts in Canada, unscented/no flavour additives. Before that I used a dry vape with cheaper pre-ground flower, but short battery life and maintenance got annoying plus dosage control is worse. Smoked before legalisation.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I love the no fuss delivery of concentrates, but found they randomly would cause me to have anxiety or paranoia. Went back to joints and haven't had an issue since.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

    I envy you it reminds me of my childhood. I'm currently enjoying a cider taking a break in from the heat doing yardwork.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    Must've been an interesting childhood...

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    Sorry I should have quantified that younger than 30 to me was my childhood lol. I didn't clean up until I had kids.

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