Are you old enough to remember when Coca-Cola introduced the diet soda Tab to America? The year was 1963 and I remember it well. I was a teenager and my family had an old country store with an old-fashion soda cooler. The ones with the soda pops sitting in ice water. Those were the coldest drinks ever, but one's hand got cold filling the cooler. Weight-conscious Americans everywhere were anxious to try Tab. I had no desire to lose weight but of course, I had to taste it. Just thinking about it gives me a chill. I thought it was awful and couldn't believe people actually drank it. It supposedly had a sharp lemony flavor and was sweetened with saccharine and cyclamate. Six years later, a health scare caused Tab to stop using cyclamate, only using saccharine. That caused Tab to have a bitter taste.
By 1982 Coca-Cola produced its' own competing product called Diet Coke which caused the sales of Tab to decline. Eventually Tab was taken off the market in 2020. The 1 crazy calories drink was history.
If you ever drank Tab, leave a comment telling us what you thought of the drink and if you miss it.
