Coca-Sony

Q: What do Sony and Diet Coke have in common?
A: They are both the topic of this trivial blog post.

Below are a couple things I learned over the holidays that I wanted to share...

The first Sony product was a rice cooker, and as the Sony website states, "tasty rice was a rarity." In fact not only would the cooker under and over cook the rice, but it was also rumored to have spontaneously combusted on some occasions, not unlike some of their more recent products.

My good friend Brandon reported to me last week that the 12 ounce, 20 ounce, and 32 ounce varieties of the popular beverage, Diet Coke list the number of calories to be zero. I also discovered that the 64 ounce size (commonly known as a 2 liter bottle) of Diet Coke lists the caloric content per serving to also be zero. However on a single-serving 42 ounce Diet Coke, the caloric content is listed as 5 calories. This seems to be a an incredible feat of Coke's mathematicians or chemists... for the same Diet Coke that is packaged in a 32 or 64 ounce bottle has zero calories, but in a 42 ounce container it has five calories.

A quick look at Wikipedia and explanation is offered -- FDA guidelines allow any serving containing less than five calories to be listed as calorie free. In actuality all Diet Coke contains calories, probably somewhere around 0.10 calories per ounce. However, because the 64 ounce bottle has multiple servings in it, pursuant to FDA guidelines, they can list it as a zero calorie product. And, single serving sizes smaller than 32 ounces also contain less than 5 total calories, and once again, according to the FDA <5=0. Only the 42 ounce king size Diet Coke tops the calorie scales and must report the horrible truth: even diet soda contains calories.