Diet Coke, Please?

So, Jackie and I went to the mall the other day and stopped to get some pizza. We each got a slice of cheese pizza and I ordered a Diet Coke and Jackie got a 7-Up. I saw the guy start to fill the glass with regular coke and then he asks again, “was that a diet or a regular?” I saw him, and i said, “its a diet, please.” We sat down, and ate our pizza.After bolusing 2 units and thinking about how i should bolus for the all the cheese/protein and fat, i took a sip of my soda and immediately tasted Regular Coke.

I asked Jackie to see if she thought it was a diet. She tasted regular.

So when we finished our pizza, I went back up to the counterand and I said to them, “I ordered a diet coke and this is a regular coke. I’m a diabetic, and I can’t chance the drink being a regular coke.”

The lady understood and i got a weird look from the guy, but they gave me a new cup full of good ole diet coke.

Amada, 6/10/07 at 11:22 PM
Hi Mollie! I went to the movies with my parents the other day and ordered a diet coke with popcorn. When I tasted it I knew it wasn’t diet, so we checked and they said they were sure it came from the diet thing and my mom said she had watched them do it, so I just took it and sipped throughout the movie. I took 3 units of insulin during the movie because I still thought the pop was regular and I only drank half of it. After the movie my sugar was 400 so my mom called and talked to the manager at the theater and she said that they had switched the regular and the diet in the machine!

Jen, 6/15/07 at 2:27 AM
I’ve heard (haven’t tried it myself) that you can take the soda and put a drop of it on your test strip. If it is regular it will read out a high level fo sugar and if it’s diet, a low level of sugar. Maybe you gals could try that next time you are wondering.
Love ya! 

Jenny, 6/15/07 at 5:26 pm
That happened to me at Red Robin like a year ago and I was sure it was regular and the waiter swore it was diet and I was really thirtsy so I drank it and got home and was HI. But I found out that you can test the soda on a test strip. If it’s regular itll say HI and if it’s diet I get LO or error. So yeah, try that sometime=)

Jenny, 6/15/07 at 5:27pm
That same sorta thing happened to me at Red Robin like a year ago and I was sure it was regular and the waiter swore it was diet and I was really thirtsy so I drank it and got home and was HI. But I found out that you can test the soda on a test strip. If it’s regular itll say HI and if it’s diet I get LO or error. So yeah, try that sometime=)

BetterCell, 6/20/07 at 1:15 AM
What do you expect from a Pimply/Pubescent/Soda Jerk?