I Can't Stop Watching This Viral Diet Coke Taste Test
Since it was first released in 1982, Diet Coke has developed a devoted fanbase. Celebrities like Tom Hanks have gone on the record as die-hard fans, viral recipes using the soda constantly pop up on social media, and people even rep the soda with branded merch (mini fridge, anyone?). But Delta Work of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 3 may have just been crowned Diet Coke’s biggest fan.
In the most recent episode of her podcast Very Delta, the former Drag Race contestant subjected herself to a blind taste test of five Diet Cokes from five different sources. Delta tried soda from Del Taco, Burger King, and McDonald’s, as well as store-bought Diet Coke from a can and a plastic bottle.
Each soda was poured into identical cups with straws, then obscured from view with a cardboard box. Delta went one by one and tasted each soda. The beloved drag queen may not have known this at the time of filming, but the results of her taste test stunned the internet. Delta correctly identified every single source, without fail.
Her rationale for each choice was measured and nuanced, including identifying a “plasticky” taste from the bottled Diet Coke that “tarnished” the flavor even after it was poured into a cup. Delta even smeared Burger King and Del Taco’s soda fountains, claiming “they have no pride in in the product.”
Drag Race fans have been absolutely mesmerized by the taste test. A TikTok about the taste test has already racked up nearly 40,000 likes in less than 24 hours. “This was my Olympics,” one person wrote on X. Another user on Reddit thinks that “Delta could solve real mystery cases if she were to put her mind to it.”
Do you think you’d be able to do as well as Delta in a blind taste test?
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