No More Flat Coke Zeros Belize

Here is a huge discovery I made last week after enduring months and months of FLAT Coke Zeros in plastic bottles.

I’m not sure if it is a problem at the bottler – not securing the caps properly – or the storage but ooof. When you are craving that hit of ice cold (faux) sweetness, the sharp, crispy carbonation and you open the cap and you hear…nothing. No psssttt…the disappointment is visceral.

If you are a Coke Zero enthusiast (I’ll save the word addict for harsher substances) – you know what I’m taking about. I’m a 2-a-dayer. It’s my thing. I’m okay with that. There are worse things. (Please please please don’t send me a message about the chemicals or the nano plastics or telling me that Coke Zero is flammable. Gracias)

The flat diet Coke was happening to me every other day at least. 1 out of 4? And it is…awful.

I discovered how to pick the good ones. It’s not fiddling with the caps (to see if they are loose and probably flattening even more of the Cokes at the store.)

Just squeeze the lower half of the bottle. If it is FIRM with no give, the Coke will be fresh, sparkling, effervescent. If it has any give – some you can really squeeze! – put it right back in the fridge or on the shelf. It will disappoint.

Belize Coke Zero drinkers unite! We live in a land of very limited diet beverage choices. You can’t be as picky-choosey as Americans – who have dozens of flavors of diet drinks…flavored seltzers…dozens more. Most stores have ONE CHOICE. Coke Zero. Sometimes you can find Diet Coke in cans from the US but blah…those are not as sweet and they just fall flat.

So get squeezing and choose the right ones.

Now on to my next post about a forming tropical storm in our area.