If I remember the Saccharin ban, you’d have to drink hundreds of gallons of diet pop per day to get the same amount of Saccharin as the lab rats did. Oh wait, I guess some people almost do drink that much…
Well, that was one of the problems with saccharin – you tasted it too much and you couldn’t stop tasting it. The aftertaste is strange and somewhat bitter, but some people got used to it and preferred it. As far as I know, some people still prefer Tab, which is sweetened with saccharine, over Diet Coke.
It’s interesting that saccharin became an derogatory adjective meaning fake or artificially sweet (a saccharine smile).
The usage of “saccharine” that I’m familiar with is not that it’s a FALSE sweetness, but that it’s simply TOO sweet, although that could certainly lead to “too sweet to be real”.
My big gripe about aspartame is that it’s too much of a “fruity” sweetness. I find saccharine to be less cloying.
margueritem about 15 years ago
Because she’s Mona, and she can.
Sisyphos about 15 years ago
Pizza! Lovely, hot, cheesey, pepperoni-covered pizza! Mmmmm! Oh, Donna, it’s soooo good!
AliKzam about 15 years ago
Nothing’s better after a wii workout than a few slices of cheesey pizza!
ejcapulet about 15 years ago
Mmmmmm… pizza….
farren about 15 years ago
But with that 30 minute thing, it’s probably Domino’s, which doesn’t even come close to being pizza.
green_engineer about 15 years ago
What doesn’t kill you Donna can only make you stronger!
3hourtour Premium Member about 15 years ago
…Mona the pusher…
The missing M. Smokey about 15 years ago
Mona will share with the man in her life - me!
TheDOCTOR about 15 years ago
DONNA:Put down the Wii, and take a P…izza slice.
bmonk about 15 years ago
If I remember the Saccharin ban, you’d have to drink hundreds of gallons of diet pop per day to get the same amount of Saccharin as the lab rats did. Oh wait, I guess some people almost do drink that much…
lisa4romMpls about 15 years ago
I’ve been gone a few days - what happened to the Hawaii trip?
lewisbower about 15 years ago
Don’t kick the saccharin ban. My mother told me, Those men wouldn’t be in Washington if they didn’t know what they were doing.”
ladywolf17 about 15 years ago
MMMM!!!! pizza and I still have some left over from last night.
fritzoid Premium Member about 15 years ago
Sugar Free Dr. Pepper was MUCH tastier when they used saccharine…
eschmenk about 15 years ago
Well, that was one of the problems with saccharin – you tasted it too much and you couldn’t stop tasting it. The aftertaste is strange and somewhat bitter, but some people got used to it and preferred it. As far as I know, some people still prefer Tab, which is sweetened with saccharine, over Diet Coke.
It’s interesting that saccharin became an derogatory adjective meaning fake or artificially sweet (a saccharine smile).
fritzoid Premium Member about 15 years ago
The usage of “saccharine” that I’m familiar with is not that it’s a FALSE sweetness, but that it’s simply TOO sweet, although that could certainly lead to “too sweet to be real”.
My big gripe about aspartame is that it’s too much of a “fruity” sweetness. I find saccharine to be less cloying.