Looking into the forgotten crevices of popular culture.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Off Duty XV
Remember Tab? I suppose The Coca Cola Company still makes it, but they certainly don't promote it the way they do Diet Coke or Coke Zero. Why did it fall by the wayside?
Something to ponder today, as I am off duty from blogging.
I purchased some Tab about a year ago. Its not very good.
The primary sweetener is saccharine, which got a bad rap for causing cancer in rats, I believe. Given that Diet Coke tastes a bit like carbonated chemistry-set, I suspect that the cancer angle had more to do with people abandoning the drink than taste. I should add, if you don't have a taste for "Sweet'n'Low", then the saccharine in Tab tastes a little weird.
As an aside, if you really want to think about Tab a great deal, there's a curious episode of the "Sarah Silverman Program" that salutes the beverage.
Incidentally, steer well clear of Tab Energy, the main flavouring agent of which seems to be ginseng. I remember describing the taste to friends as “expeller-pressed celery stalks.” Somehow I made it through the whole can.
Thirty-something suffering from nostalgia but, thankfully, not from bouts of irony. Here, I will revisit artifacts of popular culture not sufficiently explored elsewhere, though I may perhaps stray from that mission at times.
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2 comments:
I purchased some Tab about a year ago. Its not very good.
The primary sweetener is saccharine, which got a bad rap for causing cancer in rats, I believe. Given that Diet Coke tastes a bit like carbonated chemistry-set, I suspect that the cancer angle had more to do with people abandoning the drink than taste. I should add, if you don't have a taste for "Sweet'n'Low", then the saccharine in Tab tastes a little weird.
As an aside, if you really want to think about Tab a great deal, there's a curious episode of the "Sarah Silverman Program" that salutes the beverage.
Incidentally, steer well clear of Tab Energy, the main flavouring agent of which seems to be ginseng. I remember describing the taste to friends as “expeller-pressed celery stalks.” Somehow I made it through the whole can.
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